Nightmare. I wish giving a fraction of star was an option.
After trying for 1.5 hours to make a $700 lumber order online I gave up and went the the Home Depot on 43rd and Camelback to make the order in person. The Customer Service desk had one person at the desk but she was on the phone helping another customer. After 20 minutes (sounds like an exaggeration, but it isn't) I flagged down another employee to help me make an order.
He got the order entered, which took some time since he didn't work at that desk but was happy to "get some training", and the site crashed so he had to reenter the order. He was nice and helpful, it wasn't his fault, but after my online experience this was bad.
My deliver was suppose to arrive on Friday 6/22. I approved for the delivery to be dropped off if I wasn't home but asked for the delivery guy to call me when he was dropping off in case I could come home from work and move the items to my backyard and return to work.
As it happened, I worked from home on 6/22 so I could be here for the delivery. The driver called me in the morning and left a message to say he was picking up the materials at Home Depot and I would be the second stop.
After several hours I called the driver, he said he had been at my house and that no one answered the door so he called the manager, Kevin, who told him to return the delivery to Home Depot - clearly not reading the order that approved the drop-off without me being present. As far as the driver actually even having come to my house... I worked in the front room by my front door all morning and no one ever knocked.
I called, Kevin, who seemed agitated, saying I didn't answer so he had the delivery returned. I told him to look at the order to see that it was to be dropped off without me. He had never looked at the order and discovered the note while I was on the phone with him. After a lengthy discussion where he said he couldn't redeliver it until the next day (I had some builders coming in the next morning to use the materials), he said he would get some guys from his Pro-Team to deliver the $700 order to me that afternoon and that he would have them call me when they were leaving. I asked him to call me when it was set up and he said, "I said I will take care of it!" and hung up.
By 4pm I had received no call. I called Home Depot again and spoke to another manager, Izzy, who knew nothing about the delivery and had no drivers since they had all gone home. He couldn't check with Kevin because Kevin was now on a plane traveling back east for his vacation. Izzy said the best he could do would be to get my order on a truck at 7am the next day and that he would leave all the instructions with a third manager, Kat. This was so frustrating because after I didn't receive the order the first time there was no way I was going to just let them drop off "something" on my front lawn, so I stayed home and wasted the rest of the day waiting for nothing.
The next morning, at 6:40am I called Kat to ensure my delivery was schedule and on its way by 7am. She assured me it was. By 8:30am I called her and she said the order still had not been picked up by her delivery service and that she would check to see what was happening. At 9:18 I called her back and she was still trying to find out where the delivery drivers where.
Kat called me back a few minutes later to tell me the delivery guys would not be picking the order up until 1pm and would drop it off at my home after that (time unknown), but then she asked if I knew that the 20 2x4s I ordered were not carried by their store in those lengths and were on back order. NO ONE HAD EVER SAID THIS TO ME BEFORE THIS! I asked how my order was to have been delivered the day before with these items missing, and how did Kevin not even mention it to me? She said she would see if she could have her team cut down some lumber by the time the delivery guys showed up to pick up my order by 1pm.
So now I am home, wasting another whole day (a Saturday) waiting for an order that may or may not come and may may or may not include what I ordered.
So this is where I am. If this Home Depot can't do a simple task like drop off materials on someone's front lawn they should stop offering delivery from their store. Worst customer service experience ever. I will update this post if I ever get this order, but even if it is THIS IS NOT HOW A CUSTOMER SHOULD BE TREATED. read more