I ordered a patio door online, requested it to be delivered to the patio, as it does weigh a lot and my wife are elderly and we can maneuver it we can't carry.
So we paid the extra $99 for the delivery. The day they were to deliver it we happened to be home. It came with one driver saying he knew nothing about taking it to the patio that, his notes just said drop it off and of course he alone couldn't do it!
Well, with no way for my wife and I to move it around the house I couldn't accept it. Then I called the store to try to get it worked out and was more or less told they don't deliver like that...after he was done I guess I was to feel bad for expecting something be delivered where I requested it be. Their "team" didn't have the people... a "team" is more than 1! I also learned the delivery is by a third party, they trust them so well they could start the refund till the truck comes back...
Let me be clear, I was not a happy customer when I called and spoke to this person, I was not irate, not cussing, but certainly upset and far more upset by this persons tone and the attitude that I shouldn't even expect them to deliver it to the patio. This person then told me I had to contact online, that's where I bought it... Home Depot, the local store delivering but didn't get credit for the sale so they treat me like a turd.
I contacted online they also thought it of course should have been delivered as requested, and apparently when they offered first refund the delivery fee, drop the door and I could get a couple of kids to move it! I was paying for professionals to deliver this for a reason! Not interested in making myself liable for a couple of kids!
Then I get an email saying they had delivered it. Again with online chat to be told they have started the refund, but there was an electrical box with the order that the driver did not give me still on the order and I should again contact the store. I explained I have no intent to deal with that store again. They knew they got it all back and just trying to make have to come to the store... I don't see that in my future!
Shame, we loved the door we had picked out and we had found several other items there we liked better than the local major competitors we had intended to source there, I don't see that in our future now.
To the Home Depot Manager of the day, 4/29. Yes, you do need some customer service training. Your customer experience skills are lacking in several ways. Yes I do know, you had several opportunities to have solved this in a respectful manner, but you chose the low road.
Oh and I also know this will impact me directly in another way, don't care. Respect is what customers deserve for bothering to shop at your store! As a manager you should be the one seeking solutions not causing them with poor planning. read more