Lowe’s is idiots? Lowe’s is an idiot? Hmmm… I must be grammatically sound before I go OFF on the annoyances of the past few days. On the one hand, the store’s name is Lowe’s. If you go to one singular store, it says Lowe’s, which I guess must be singular. But Lowe’s is an idiot doesn’t sound right. I guess what I’m really trying to say is the people at Lowe’s are idiots, which works. Okay then.
So Wednesday afternoon I go down and buy the last of my deck materials. I covered this in the last post. So the guy there said that they could totally load up their truck for me to rent and come by Thursday to pick it up, and to just call tomorrow (Thursday which is now yesterday). So I called and of course nobody had heard of anything nor done anything. Not surprising. So they set to work on it and then they call back a little later and say it’s a lot of stuff and would be like 2 or 3 trips / loads so would I rather just pay them $60 to deliver it. So I say okay. They say it would be delivered tomorrow (Friday which is now today).
So I call them up today to see when it might be delivered. After being transferred around several times, STILL nobody has heard of anything; the delivery guy does not have my “ticket”. They’re currently looking into that.
But that is not all; oh no, that is not all. Also on Wednesday (ear-lie in the morning before work) I went into a different Lowe’s to get my carpet. The first step in that is to pay them to come out and measure the area so that I know how much carpet to buy. They put me in the system, I pay the $35 for that, and then they turn me over to a flooring installer who will call me within 48 business hours. Flash forward to today and of course nobody has called me. So I call them up, go through a few people and finally get someone who tells me that they have 48 business hours. And I’m thinking “Lady, I have the timestamped receipt right in front of me and it’s been 50 hours”. She says that they have all day today to do it.
Now normally it wouldn’t be that big of a deal, because we’re actually not ready for the carpet until we paint, so it will be probably a week or so before we can get it installed. But Lowe’s has a promotion going on where for every $1000 you spend, you get $100 in gift cards. Well actually they have 2 similar promotions going on, but one of them expires 4/27. So I really need to pay for this carpet by Saturday (tomorrow) or I lose out on about $200 in gift cards.
So I ask for the name and number of this company that is supposed to call me. I call them, and of course Lowe’s has sent them zip. So she takes my number and calls me back in a few minutes. She had called the store and gotten my order. Then she asks “Can we come by on Tuesday?” I mention how I really need this done by tomorrow and she tells me she’ll see what she can do and will call me back.
In the meantime a lady calls me about renting our current house so I’m talking with her. And like 500 people call me while I’m on the phone with her. So I call back the deck Lowe’s – they don’t know anything and they’re going to look at it. I call back Missy from the flooring company – they called back the store and had them switch it to a different installer so that they could get it done today. What? GOOD customer service? I’m floored!!! Goooooo Pro Flooring of Cincinnati!!
But then Lowe’s calls the house and talks to Carolyn (even though I told them to call my cell) and she doesn’t know what’s going on with anything because I haven’t kept her in the loop. The lady is snippy with her and so then she (Carolyn) calls me (one of the 500). Finally I get that straightened out and someone is coming to measure this afternoon (no thanks to Lowe’s)
Good times!
4 responses to “Lowe’s are idiots”
Good times, indeed. Reminds me of the great customer service experience we had with AT&T a couple of years ago, except that that took months to resolve, thanks to said great customer service. “I know, let’s turn them over to a collections agency, even though we promised them 3 months ago that we would waive the cancellation fee!” The right hand NEVER talks to the left in huge companies, you can never talk to the person you talked to before, and it’s a humongous pain to the customer!!
OOOH and that lady form Lowe’s was so snippy with me. And I didn’t even do anything! I didn’t know what was going on! How rude! If it wasn’t for all the “free” gift cards we’ll be getting, I’d just take my business elsewhere.
Which reminds me, doesn’t Lowe’s have that commercial where all the employees look so friendly and they put their hand over their heart to pledge how they’ll help you or some junk?? What a load of poohy!
I seriously think that sometimes a company will deliberately call a different number (in this case, calling the home number instead of the cell as they’ve been instructed) to try and pull something over on another person. For example, they might have thought that Dan was being difficult (how DARE he hold them to their promise of 48 hours!!) and dialed the home number hoping to talk to his wife and say, oh we’ll get it done on Tuesday. I can just see that. In any case, it bites for Carolyn, and it’s their own fault for not calling the number they’ve been asked to call! I hate hate hate when people get snippy with me. Good customer service is really hard to find these days, and it’s a shame.
Update – the carpet guy did come out, and Lowe’s is working on the estimate and will call me today. Apparently the order has ASAP ASAP all over it, according to some lady there.
Talked to the deck folks a bit ago and they were loading the last bit of decking on to the truck.
So wheels are in motion, so to speak.