The only reason I give this store a one star rating is because there's no option to give it minus ratings....and that's a statement about ALL of Lumber Liquidators employees, but specifically to the ones in the Claymont location. I've dealt with these low intelligence troglodytes three times, and all three times they've managed to screw things up royally. The first time was when I bought flooring for my house. I had to drive all the way down to Dover, DE to get my order or wait four weeks. When I got down there, my order was loaded onto my truck after I counted the boxes to make sure it was all there, which it was. Before I left, the guy who loaded the truck stuffed one of the vapor barrier bundles into the bands that was wrapped around my flooring. Unbeknownst to me, this made the bands loose, so when I was driving home, one of the boxes of flooring fell out of the truck somewhere along the way. When I got home and unloaded the boxes, I noticed that one was missing. I called the store and explained to them that the package was on the truck when I left the Dover store, and that the guy had put one of the vapor barrier bundles inside the banding. There was nothing they could do to reimburse me, so I had to buy a new package AND drive all the way back down to Dover from Philadelphia to get it.
The second time, one of my customers chose a particular style of hardwood and I had them call the store and order it. We waited a couple of weeks for it, but when it got to the store, it was the wrong flooring. So either the employee at the Claymont store screwed it up, or the employee at the distribution center screwed it up. Either way, we had to wait two more weeks to get the flooring, which completely destroyed my income for that period of time.
You're not even going to believe this next one. I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt one more time with another customer, hoping that the employees that messed up before were no longer with the company. I was wrong. The employee at the Claymont store (AL) was not only still there, but actually lost IQ points between now and then. After spending hours helping my customers pick out a floor using the LL website, I call the Claymont store and Al answers. He tells me that they don't have it in stock at their store, and I tell him that the website doesn't say that. He explains that you have to put the dimensions of the floor into the calculator and hit the enter button before the page alerts you to that. So I tell him that we weren't using the website's calculator, we were using our own, and he says that it should be pretty obvious to a person that using the calculator on their website would tell them how much the store has in stock. WTF????
Okay, so we pick out another style and call him back. He says that it will be 2-4 weeks to get the product, so I ask him where it's located, to which he responds that it's located in Sandston, VA. That's a four and half hour drive from Philadelphia, but instead of waiting on the flooring, I decide that I'll go get it. He says okay and puts it into the computer that the customer is picking up. Al then says that they need half paid up front, but the customer wants to pay all of it. He says that they can only pay half on the phone, but they have to come into the store to pay the rest. Again, WTF??? My customer reluctantly agrees, so I meet him up there the next evening. I want to find out exactly where this place is that I have to go to get the flooring. When we get there, Al is busy with other unsuspecting customers, so another guy is behind the sales desk. My customer gives him the order number and he checks it out, and says "Yes, it says here that the customer is picking up". The customer pays for it, and the guy behind the counter hands me a piece of paper with the address for the Sandston, VA location on it.
I drive down there the next day, which was the day before yesterday (Saturday, Dec 20). I get down there late because traffic is horrendous, so I want to call the store to see if they're still open. Maybe I can one of them to stay a little later so I can get it loaded up and return home. A person answers and I explain to him who I am and what I need, and he says, "You do realize that this is a distribution center, don't you"? I tell him that no, I didn't realize that, and ask him if there's another LL store in Sandston. He replies in typical LL fashion "We have locations all up and down the east coast..." As stupid as that answer was, it did make me finally understand that the ignorance is company wide, not just specific to the ones I'm dealing with. I tell him my situation and he says that it's not possible for a customer to pick up an order from that location.
So I drove all the way down there for nothing. This is what you get when dealing with Lumber Liquidators, so think twice before buying from them. read more