They get 2 stars because they did compensate us half of our purchase price of the CubCadet commercial grade zero turn mower we purchased through Home Depot for their mismanagement and communication. In the end the CEO, escalations director, higher senior management, and Cub Cadet themselves had to be involved to resolve.
Long story short, Took 2 months to get a commercial grade zero turn mower that we ended up having to retrieve ourselves and unpack.
After speaking with 14 Home Depot employees from entry level, middle management ,store managers, to directors, I had enough of the run around and miscommunication. I personally emailed the CEO, COO, and Northern Division president. Told them I would be embarrassed of how their company is run, how incompetent they were for lack of communication, how shameful it was they operated how they were, and that my 4 year Olds preschool class could communication better than they all did.
We purchased a Cub Cadet commercial grade 60in zero turn mower, in a 70in crate. We were advised by CubCadet to go through our nearest dealer and they told us Home Depot. We order it early April 2021 and did not receive the mower till end of May 2021.
Mower was supposed to be FREE shipping, unwrapped and off a palet so it could be driven onto a trailer. We had to personally go retrieve the mower in its crate. Someone at some point set it onto of another pallet because the crate broke. Took us 2.5 hours to get out of the packaging at our home.
It arrived at XPO logistics in Fort Wayne. After two reschedules by XPO, they realized they don't have the means to deliver.This should have been known when Conway delivered the mower to XPO logistics! The manager at XPO logistics did not do her part I reporting this to HomeDepot.
We call HomeDepot to explain the situation. We don't have a trailer. We went through Home Depot because they offered free shipping to our home.
After the 14th Home Depot employee I talked to on the phone for an hour and a half, no exaggeration, I had enough. It is then I emailed the CEO, COO, And Northern President and asked them to step in and fix the mess. At this point over a month had gone by.
The CEO gets a escalations director to take over my case.
Eventually the director tells me a Carrier has already picked it up.
The weekend approaches and my husband gets a call from a different carrier than what the escalations director told us. This new company tells us the same thing!!
For the second time I email the CEO and I tell him to fix.I tell him we updated his own employees and we don't even work there.
After the weekend, senior management in the company personally calls me on his cell phone. He apologizes and he states he doesn't even understand how it got this far and to this point. He mentioned it was last years model so it was harder to track but agree it was unacceptable how it all happened.
I told him we deserve to be compensated for our trouble considering they made us loose two days of wages for waiting around for it 2 months ago. The senior buyer for CubCadet got wind of the whole mess and was upset for us. He said it was a mistake on CubCadets part for recommending HomeDepot as an authorized dealer.
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