So, if you have read any of my other reviews you shall know that I typically follow a three strike…read morepolicy before I write a negative review.
Amigo's Carpet Warehouse, you have made the cut (the bad one).
We get there. It was easy enough to find. We walk in and are greeted by a man, who was with a customer, but he was pleasant enough to say hello and invite us to look around while he finished with his prior customer. And so we do. He finishes with his client and makes his way over to us. We explain a little about what we are looking for, and the size we need - he responds with some sales-y line like "let me guess, someone you *think* you trusted gave you that size and told you that was what you needed?" - Which, it wasn't so much what he said, but how he said it, as if it were his salesman approach to getting on our good side. My husband repsonds with "no, I am a contractor, I know my way around a tape measure". I wont give him a strike for that, but it was cheesy as hell, and made me giggle... he backtracked after that one... (awkward)...
Anyhoo, moving on: The first srange thing we notice is that the name of this company is not what the Craigslist ad said. We look it up again to make sure we are in the right place, and we were, only the ad called itself Eco Carpet Warehouse... When outside the building looking at the signage there is a big ol' banner with Amigo's name on it covering the Eco Carpet sign... No big deal, but why does the CL ad say the Eco name ? That ad was placed that day... Again, no strike for that, but so far this place is strange...
So he starts calling prices out to us and they are pretty dang high. Kinda surprising actually since we went to this place because his Craiglist Ad said he had swatches in the $0.40 cents per square foot range. We told him that was what the online ad said and he said he was out of that carpet... Interesting.
He and Hubby begin to walk off as they try to find something that will speak to us... So far nothing does. Nothing reasonably priced, anyways. As they are off doing their thing I sort of putts around the warehouse. I figured if there was a carpet I really liked I was pretty sure I could talk Hubby into it even if it is out of our price range. So, I begin folding over carpet swatches (they have them rolled up so that I can only see the under-parts, and you have to flip over the corner to see the carpet). So I open one. Stare at it for a little...think to myself 'hmm, I'll come back to that one"...I make my way to another, do the same thing...I un-flap the corner. Stare for a bit, tell myself I'll come back to that one too... I do this to about three more swatches...
It takes me a few minutes to notice, but I finally realize I am being followed around by one of his Office gals... She is folding each swatch back over the moment I walk away. So I test the waters... I unfold one more. This time she sighs and walks right over and folds it closed, ecept this time it was AS I was looking at it. I say "Excuse me, I am still looking at this one" She says "Well you need to pt them BACK!". I said "I planned to when I was done, but I am pondering....you know...being pensive....as in trying to decide..." She says "You can only look at one at a time!!!" ...WTF? Really? Honestly, we are talking about five swatches, and I'd hardly made a mess at all... Whatever, I've chosen to not spend my money here.
I went and told Hubby, who was still talking to Corny Sale-sy Mike, "lets go, they dont want our business..." He and Mike both look at me strange...Mike asks what happened, and I told him I was followed and scolded by a woman with bright blue glasses and massive headphones on. He apologized and said "that's just how she is, she's....she's...." I said "Don't worry, no need to make excuses for her... take care" and we left...
Ok, so, all of the above is really just my rant outlining my experience there, but it doesn't really speak about what this warehouse offers as a business... So here goes:
-Their Inventory is small.
-The inventory they do have is for smaller rooms (12x15 max). If you have a larger room you wont find much here.
-Mike is nice enough, but his staff is rude as hell... In this day and age there is tons of competition in every industry...if I were he, I'd have my staff in check to ensure I was the go-to for carpet....
- I was turned off by the fact that their CL ad was misleading, and pretty much a downright lie simply to get us in the door. We ended up finding our carpet about a block East of his shop who had GREAT selection and inventory (darn, i cant remember his company name! Sorry!).
^^ That being said... I'd simply go to all the carpet places... being a distributor of swatches means from time to time they just might have exactly what you are looking for. It's all going to depend on chance and timing.
Happy Carpeting!