Twice now one of the sales people here, Ross, has tried to pull the wool over my eyes on a sale by saying whatever it takes to make the sale and leaving out anything that might make me think twice or ask more questions, which would leave me INFORMED as a buyer...
I wrote the first time off to just typical Corporate Sales people - who do just that - say whatever they need to to make the sale, no matter if it leaves the customer feeling like they have been taken advantage of.
This time, "Russ The Carefree Salesman", while standing in front of a product and looking at it's price, said, when asked if there was any kind of deal going on, "If you special order it's 15% off". So, naturally I said, "well, let's go save 15%!". He wrote up the order, and it turns out, "Special Orders" cost exactly 15% more, so 15% off just makes it the same price we were looking at. So, "NO" is the answer Ross... "NO, there is no deal that will make it cheaper than the price you are looking at AND WE ARE DISCUSSING here... Sorry."
He handed it to me as if I wouldn't notice that it cost exactly as much as the list price. Either he thinks I'm a complete idiot, or he doesn't understand how numbers & math works.
To make matters worse, when I brought this to the attention of the assistant manager (name unknown - "Alesa" maybe..? Forgettable... "assistant" manager for obvious reasons) she responded by saying, "I think you just misunderstood". No, I did not misunderstand, SCENE: Here we are looking at the product and it's price. Ross says, "you'll save 15% if you special order. (period...)" END SCENE. That would be 15% off of the price we were looking at and discussing, NOT off of some special order markup you didn't mention Ross. (Which is BS anyway because the supplier has those products on hand for shipping. They do batches and runs of the "green" ones. They don't wait for a special order and go paint one item Green and send it on. No, they know how many they need, and they keep them stocked by doing runs at regular intervals. "Bill, run 1000 green ones and put them out for special orders"... It doesn't cost any more or take any more effort to "special order" a product that is already stocked in the store (even if it's a different color). And in any case, maybe storage on the suppliers end, it shouldn't cost 15% more...).
In the final analysis - no joy for "Lies of Omission Ross" and no joy from the "management" who doesn't seem to care about a customer who has been lied to by a salesperson just so the sales person can make a sale.
Neither of those sales ended up being completed because I saw through Ross's BS. He can think I'm an idiot all he wants, but I'm am certain he doesn't know how math works or he would have come back with a price that was 15% less than the list price we were looking at... (I understood that implicitly from the jump...)
Bottom Line - I live in evergreen. I've spent upwards of 20K at the Evergreen store over the last couple of years. I will happily drive the extra 10 minutes to the Golden Home Depot, or just hop on over to Lowes on Wadsworth and take my business elsewhere if dishonest salespeople is something the Evergreen Home Depot thinks is ok. read more