If you are a Veteran or Active Duty Military Member do not shop here. They do not support you, or at least not all of their employees appreciate your service.
I have been a home depot fan and customer for years and years. I have purchased flooring, paint, building supplies, deck packages, kitchen appliances, tools, parts, fence material, and the list goes on. I venture to say I have spent huge sums of money there.
I have often felt that Home Depot Silverdale customer service was far better than Lowes Silverdale. That has changed over the past year. I have noticed a significant decline in customer service at Home Depot.
Yesterday sealed the deal for us. We will no longer shop Home Depot and we encourage you all especially if you are a Veteran or Active Duty Service Member in the Kitsap County area. I will explain why.
Two days ago my wife and I went to home Depot to purchase a washer and dryer set. We were kind of in a hurry it took a little longer to get someone to help us in appliances. We knew the units we wanted and promptly told the Home Depot employee what we wanted. She was not thrilled to help us and treated us like we were the last person in a bar at 1:45 AM asking for a beer. We are pretty mellow people so we just stood by as she rung up the order. And when asked about the military discount she said it did not apply to this washer and dryer sale (it sure did at Lowes)
We walked out of the store not really paying attention to the receipt and hurring to get our daughter to her appointment. When we got home my wife took a close look at the receipt and realized the store had added hoses and cords to the order that we did not need, and the price of the units were off too. No big deal right!!! Wrong, we went back the next day and went to customer service, we talked to the young man who was very professional and helpful. It appeared he was new at his job and asked his supervisor for help. We were simply asking to take the unnecessary stuff off the order so we would not have to pay for stuff we did not need.
The supervisor(Manager) looked at the young man helping us and said tell them they will have to wait until the stuff is delivered and then return it. We said hmmm well I am surprised you cannot fix this. So I looked at the young man and said we will just return the entire set and go to Lowes. That seemed to be fine with the Manager too.
It is hard to get a tone off of email, let me just say we were not being shitty. We were being very nice, I was now frustrated.
We left Home Depot a little frustrated and headed to Lowes. I will keep this short....They took very good care of us. We got a washer and dryer set that was a step up from the unit at Home Depot. We got our military discount and a thank you for your service and we saved $300. Not to mention when we asked Home Depot if they would put our new set on our existing pedestal they said no it was a liability, Lowes said absolutely. Not only that the sales person was knowledgeable enough about her appliances she said the pedestals are the same size and totally compatible.
The funny thing is a couple of customers who were behind us in line at Home Depot were also at Lowes and talked to us about what they observed, they also said that would be the last time they shop at Home Depot.
Okay so the take away is, Lowes goes the extra mile, their employee are professional, nice, knowledgeable, and willing to go the extra mile. And for you Active Service or Vets they appreciate your service unlike Home Depot in Silverdale.
We know Home Depot is a huge corporation and the $2,000 dollars they lost on our washer and dryer do not mean a thing to them. That is the point that gets to me, they just do not care about one sale. Maybe if the rest of us military families just started shopping at Lowes in Silverdale they would get the point and do a little training of their employees on customer service to include the Service Center Managers.....
All I can say is go to Lowes. read more