My husband and I bought a brand-new, $600 dishwasher at this store. Pete, the salesman, was great! Unfortunately, he was the ONLY great part of this whole ridiculous experience!
We had the dishwasher put in by three Home Depot workers who were Russian and they didn't understand much English. They ran the dishwasher and we noticed a loud, high-pitched whistling noise coming from the appliance. I expressed my concern but the men said the dishwasher needed to "break in".
Two weeks later, our dishwasher is still making the same sound. General Electric sent a tech out to look at it. Apparently it needs a new pump. We refused the new pump because this is a brand-new item. So we called Home Depot, spoke to Mike, one of the assistant managers, and told him the problem and that we wanted a replacement dishwasher.
Mike told us that we had to have the dishwasher brought back before we could even order another new one, so yesterday he sent over two guys that were supposed to uninstall the appliance and take it back to the store. They arrived with no tools, no nothing. They said that they were under the impression that the dishwasher was already uninstalled and that they were just going to pick it up and take it to the store.
While they were using a quarter, a butter knife and a few of my husband's tools, my husband walked in from work and called Mike and told thin that the guys had no tools in order to disconnect the dishwasher. Mike told my husband that he didn't know who was there trying to uninstall the dishwasher. My husband then told Mike, "Look, why don't I just send these guys back to the store, they aren't equipped to do this. We will keep the dishwasher, you order us another new one, and when the new one comes in your guys can just bring it here and exchange one for the other."
Mike agreed. Unfortunately, the guys couldn't hook up a valve properly so, even though we have a brand-new dishwasher, we can't use it.
And today, someone was supposed to come here to replace the valve between 1 and 5 pm. John Rivera showed up at 5, looked at the problem, and told me he couldn't help. He also said that we'd need to pay someone at Home Depot to replace the valve.
Tonight my husband was on the phone with Frank, the store's other assistant manager. He assured him that this was going to be taken care of, but unfortunately we no longer have any faith in the capability of any of Home Depot's management or workers.
We had also left the CEO, Frank Blake, a message. This morning we got a call from Larry, I guess he works for the CEO. We told Larry we want 3 things to happen: Refund my husband's credit card; fix the valve; and uninstall the dishwasher. Lets see if they can do any of that right! We are now buying an appliance from a store that knows what they're doing. And where was the CEO? Why didn't HE call us?
Update: Home Depot offered us the dishwasher for free. We said no and bought one at Lowe's. I am waiting for Home Depot to come uninstall and take away this joke of a dishwasher (hopefuly they won't do any more damage and will bring their tools this time!)
Latest update: Home Depot sent a plumber over to replace the valve that their boys broke. He did a great job, and Home Depot paid for it. And then Frank came and uninstalled the dishwasher. (Took his sweet time coming over, but he finally made it.)
Both the dishwasher and Home Depot are out of our house (and our hair) forever!! GOOD RIDDANCE! My God! All this just over a dishwasher! Pathetic! (I will give the plumber a separate, great review though!! He was a huge help!) read more