Home Depot Reviews and Complaints
The Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States, ahead of rival Lowe's, and the second-largest general retailer in the United States, behind only Wal-Mart.
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Can't Find Help at Fairfield Township, OH Home Depot
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
On MANY MANY MANY occasions I have gone to the Home Depot for various home improvement projects. You used to be able to find service from knowledgeable employees, but not anymore. You can hardly find an employee to help you as they have a single employee helping customers in three or more other departments. Since the new management team entered this store, this store has gone downhill. I believe the manager is "Kevin". The older employees who used to work there have been "pushed out" for cheaper and unexperienced employees. Right across the street is Manards and still...
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Flotec 4'' Submersable Pump,
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Pump fell apart after installing at 75 feet,no problems with dropping pump in.Hooked pump up,felt pipe for vibration,seem motor was running fine,hopeing to see water next,let pump run 15 minutes ,still no water.Started pullimg pump back up,to my suprise when i reached the top,there was only the top half of the pump.Now half the pump stuck in my well,no water for 3 months now and prolbly be a lot longer,because homedpot and flotec.Im 82 diasbled and no water.VDP
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(Miscellaneous)
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PayPal order and Your Online System
Home Depot Support Ticket 
Please update your transaction for the air conditioner I purchased online with Paypal. At an unreasonable time in California on Sunday morning before 9am a Home Depot gal named Kirby (ID 55340) from Lousianna called. She woke me up and then provided terrible customer service and said her boss Craig told her that is what to do. She was telling me to cancel the order and order again. Told her it would most likely be resolved by Tuesday and to call me back then. I had to insist she do so. Please have someone else from your company call me back and tell me this is resolved.
I ordered this...
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(Miscellaneous)
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Oneonta NY Hiring
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
So I got a phone from the hiring staff at Home depot....after the phone call they set me up for an interview at the Oneonta NY store... My interview was on March 30 2012 at 8:30 in the morning...I went in to the interview very excited and had no problems answering the questions that were asked of me...After everything was done Kris the manager of the store told me I was hired and he told me it was for seasonal for the garden center. Had me sign papers for them to run a background check and drug screen. He had me go into Rodney the HR person so he could set up the appointment for the drug...
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Wont post a negative review
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I wrote an honest two star review of their top line garage door. They have twice refused to post it saying "Some type of content that did not conform to our guidelines" but it did as far as I can tell. Here is what I said:
I installed two of these about 6 weeks ago. They are very thin steel and scratch/dent easily. Be warned that many of the in stock boxes have damaged panels. Either from mishandling (not packed very well) or from people damaging them during install and returning them. HD customer service seemed clueless on warranty issues.
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Excellent Sales Staff!!!!
Home Depot Consumer Review 
I bought a hot water heater over the weekend, and I can't tell you how helpful the sales staff were. I wish that the installation/delivery process were easier and not as expensive (lots of hidden costs and inflated prices), but the floor staff can not be beat. I doubt I would purchase an appliance there again just because of the cost of delivery and install, but I will always use HD as my neighborhood hardware store.
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Pro desk is a sham
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I went to Home Depot with my first major rehab project. I wanted to get a discount plus have some financing (at least 6 months so I could make draws on the loan). Two guys told me that would not be a problem but I have to get open a Home Depot card for the financing, which I didn't really want. The guy was helpful in helping me get product I will give him that, but when the bid from the bid room came back he said he could get 10% off everything except the custom sized windows which were already discounted 15%. I was fine with that. I understand you can't double dip on...
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Employee going above and beyond
Home Depot Consumer Review 
Hi we visited your Leavenworth, KS store last evening and want you to know about an employee that went out of her way to help us although I'm sure she had other things to do.
we downsized our home and bought a home in need of major repairs but last evening we were looking for light and ceiling fan fixtures. We were very confused and being on a fixed income could not afford the high end fans but Pam from the Service desk area came by ask if we needed help and led us to affordable ceiling fans helped with showing us what they looked like hanging as there were so many we couldn't...
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Failure to uphold service plan
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I purchased a 3 year extended service plan for the wall to wall carpet that was installed. This was a GREAT plan ... in concept ... it allowed for 1 free carpet cleaning a year for 3 years. If I had kept my receipt (or been told it was necessary) it MIGHT have worked. I did not keep the receipt (let's get real ... keeping a receipt for 3 years just isn't going to happen.) I paid for the service, but got NOTHING except a TREMENDOUS headache!! Transfer upon transfer until I was in tears. It is just cheaper to pay to have it done than to fight this battle.
Lesson to learn?...
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Flooring Issue
Home Depot Support Ticket 
In Feb. 2011 we bought 6 cases of trafficmaster carpet tile through the Home Depot's online store and installed them in our dining room, with the thought that if one got stained, we'd be able to swap it out. It looked good initially, but started to show wear really fast, and then the corners of the tiles started coming up when vacuuming. Also, whenever we had a spill, that section of tile would no longer stay stuck down. We had extra tiles, so we swapped out about 12 tiles, but after a bit of time, even these these tiles started coming up.
Here's a link to what the...
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Flooring Debacle, Runaround, Manager's Attitude
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
In Feb. 2011 we bought 6 cases of trafficmaster carpet tile through the Home Depot's online store and installed them in our dining room, with the thought that if one got stained, we'd be able to swap it out. It looked good initially, but started to show wear really fast, and then the corners of the tiles started coming up when vacuuming. Also, whenever we had a spill, that section of tile would no longer stay stuck down. We had extra tiles, so we swapped out about 12 tiles, but after a bit of time, even these these tiles started coming up.
Here's a link to what the...
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Don't rely on HD product reviews - they don't accept critical reviews
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I bought a Danco plumbing product at HD (a HD exclusive brand) and spent 3 hours and 3 phone calls to the manufacturer's tech service people trying to install it before giving up.
I found another product (Moen - a national brand) for about the same price and had it installed in 6 minutes using it's simple instructions.
I wrote a product review critical of the HD brand and critical of HD for carrying only this brand. It was rejected. I wrote another review, carefully constructed to avoid another rejection, but still calling a spade a spade. It was rejected again.
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Applicance delivery
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Never order you appliances from Home Depot. They out source the delivery to another company who puts zero effort into the installation. Despite the fact that I told the salesman the exact model and measurments of my fridge their service refused to haul it away or install the new fridge as per our agreement. When I contacted the store manager i was told it is something I need to deal with on my own now. I incurred $700 of costs for the services that home depot agreed upon but didn't perform. Buyer beware!
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Compliment
Home Depot Support Ticket 
I dropped a check that I had endorsed already, in the millwood department at Home Depot in Kenner LA. Please give a big commendation to Maurice Jones the employee who found the check and took time to track me down. It was made out to "cash" and it was endorsed - anyone could have legally cashed it. But Maurice was honest and helpful. I hope that you are glad to have him as your employee.
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Cabinets are Horrible
Home Depot Support Ticket 
We recently purchased cabinets from Home Depot. When we received them, we were in shock in how bad they looked & how poorly the workmanship was. There were four of us adults who had looked at the sample in the showroom, but none of us were prepared for what we received. I cried..
The sales person from Home Depot & the cabinet company representative came to our home to look at the cabinets. They agreed that we did not receive the product that we were shown in the showroom...but they are not going to do anything about it. I would understand if we had been shown what we would be...
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Home Depot Cabinets
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
We recently purchased cabinets from Home Depot. When we received them, we were in shock in how bad they looked & how poorly the workmanship was. There were four of us adults who had looked at the sample in the showroom, but none of us were prepared for what we received. I cried..
The sales person from Home Depot & the cabinet company representative came to our home to look at the cabinets. They agreed that we did not receive the product that we were shown in the showroom...but they are not going to do anything about it. I would understand if we had been shown what we would be...
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Beyond Myself with Disbelief
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. I've been reading others experiences with the return policy at Home Depot and decided to share my own disbelief.
Late October 2011 I purchase two LG300 Vacuum Cleaners, one for myself and another for a family member using up store credit and gift cards. I did not know at the time of purchase that the vacuum is a discontinued item but it was on sale for $194ish plus tax (I'd have to pull my receipt to see the exact amount) so I bought them.
A week later I went to visit my daughter in northern California taking her birthday gift, the vacuum, with me. While I was there I found...
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Veterans Benefits
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Being a new home owner and having spent about 5 grand in the past 4 months,bad customer service and all, the store is close to home. I go in this past week to make yet another purchase and they inform me that my DD214 is no longer accepted as proof of military service. Now they want me to go apply for a veterans ID card, which by the way is verified through the DD214. The only TRUE proof of service.Look out LOWES I`ve money to spend and I`m headed your way!!!Harrahan store,elmwood location,La.
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(Miscellaneous)
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Rude customer service
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I am in the process of dealing with this issue, but I have a feeling it is going to go badly. We had a salesman come to our home to help us order a window. He sat in our living room, looked at what we currently had (wood interior Anderson) and then turned around and ordered us a vinyl interior window. There is no indication on the paperwork that I was given that I would not be getting the wood interior window. When I called him to ask him how this happened, he lied then just got incredibly rude. He basically gave me the "oh well" attitude. So, we have been talking to different...
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worker review
Home Depot Consumer Review 
i have been purchasing from the home depot and i met ryan, he knows all coners of the store.i wanted different type of materials and this guy knows his stuff.when i come to home depot i look for ryan.he could simplfy everthing for me he would even get a marker and draw digrams to make my job easy. i give him 2 thumbs up .home depot need more like him and because of him i would continue to make purchases from the home depot.
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Customer Service
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
First Issue. I bought a Honda Generator in 1999. Customer service said they would contact me when the generator arrived in the store. I stopped at the store in early 2000 asking about the generator. They said there was no record of it, so I was out the money.
Second issue. I bought a patio set (table, chairs, umbrella). I had customer service assist in the sale hoping they would get it right. I stopped the following Saturday for pickup and they had no record of it. I had my receipt, but they had to compare the number of items in stock with the inventory counts. After a two hour wait and...
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Lifetime Warranty at HD
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. This is the review at I tried to post with Home Depot:
Pump is great - Home Depot Warranty Sucks
I purchased this pump at Home Depot in 2002 primarily because of the lifetime warranty. I was pleased with he performance until it final failed. I contacted Flotec and, since I still had the original Home Depot receipt ($148), they told me to go to Home Depot and all would be taken care of there. After much screwing around as no one at the Ypsilanti, MI HD had a clue as how to resolve the issue, the manager finally offered a store credit for the original purchase price of $148 plus tax....
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Appliance Delivery
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. I purchased a Maytag stove through Home Depot.com and made the mistake of accepting delivery of a defective unit. Temco, the delivery agent, told me it was only missing a rubber foot and that they could bring it to me the next day. They didn't bring it for a week, and when they did they discovered that the frame was bent and the original foot was there, just unserviceable. At that point I was outside the 48 hour return policy. Temco then put it on me to resolve the issue. I've been back and forth with Maytag, with HomeDepot.com, with Maytag again, but no one is giving me a...
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Appliance price not honored
Home Depot Support Ticket 
I am building a new home. On Black Friday I ordered an LG 31 Cubic Refrigerator at the Home Depot store in Festus MO. The price was $2198.00 down from $3100.00. I thought the refrigerator was on order. The paper work stated that the Home Builder would pay for and pick up the refrigerator when the house was ready.
What I thought was an order was instead written up was a "Quote" that expired in 7 days. I did not realize this, and the builder obviously did not know there was an expiration date. Nowhere on the Quote was it stated that it would expire and the purchase price would...
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Home Depot will not honor original price
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I am building a new home. On Black Friday I ordered an LG 31 Cubic Refrigerator at the Home Depot store in Festus MO. The price was $2198.00 down from $3100.00. I thought the refrigerator was on order. The paper work stated that the Home Builder would pay for and pick up the refrigerator when the house was ready.
What I thought was an order was instead written up was a "Quote" that expired in 7 days. I did not realize this, and the builder obviously did not know there was an expiration date. Nowhere on the Quote was it stated that it would expire and the purchase price would...
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Bad Advice by so called experts
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Been a home owner for 20 years and have spent at least 1000 dollars a year at home improvement stores. Decided to change all my 40 yr old interior doors. Not being an expert I went to Home Depot and sat down with a millwork "Expert". Told him I didn't know whether my doors were left handed or right handed. But drew a picture for him. He tells me those are left handed doors. We order them and when the come in and I go to install them I find out I have all right handed doors. Went down to the store and was told I can't return special orders. Told them their employee gave...
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Appliance rpelacement under warranty
Home Depot Support Ticket 
i purchased a double door refrigerator just as Home Depot was introducing their own inhouse warranty plan. They have since sold that service and outsourced it to local repair companies that are either incompetent or have no incentive to fix the appliance. My refrig has been down three weeks--including the holidays with the local store in Huntington Beach a complete failure in follwing up. They state they are not the warranty people and cannot replace my refrig as it was a :fix or replace" warranty. A case study in how not to cultivate customer loyalty. Repair company only schedules 5...
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WARRANTY SCAM
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
i purchased a double door refrigerator just as Home Depot was introducing their own inhouse warranty plan. They have since sold that service and outsourced it to local repair companies that are either incompetent or have no incentive to fix the appliance. My refrig has been down three weeks--including the holidays with the local store in Huntington Beach a complete failure in follwing up. They state they are not the warranty people and cannot replace my refrig as it was a :fix or replace" warranty. A case study in how not to cultivate customer loyalty. Repair company only schedules 5...
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Another Loyal Customer Bites the Dust
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. Loved going to HD. Loved how friendly the employees were. Loved just browsing and finding new ideas for the garden and around the home. Then it happened!! :O( An employee made an error. In an attempt to fix it, the managers gave me store credit for the huge overcharge (three cards totally $1,200). I used the credit to purchase various items for my landlord, daughter, myself and mom. When the items didn't fit, were defective or wasn't what they wanted, I merely returned them WITH RECEIPT in hand. No problem they told me. THEN I WAS FROZEN AND FORBIDDEN TO RETURN ANYTHING FOR 90...
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(Home Improvement)
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bad customer service
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. Purchased a double range at a good price 11/20/2011. Was told will be installed on 12/27/2011. Home Depot charged to my Credit card when I made the purchase and my credit card company already billed me.
Home depot called me on 12/21/2011 and told me that the range is now back ordered and I might get it 1/14/2012. Might!
I felt I should have been told up front that the range was back ordered and Home depot was estimating delivery. I would have tried another store. They should not have charged me for an item that was back ordered and not positive of delivery.
Home Depot keeps...
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What a Joke
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Having Shutter's installed in my house by Home Depot, which use a company called 3D. Installer came and did install but noticed that shutters for one window were incorrect. I spot with 3D while the installer was there and we decided that 3D would call me on Monday with a suitable solution. Seeing as this room is also part of my office, and needs to be dark at all times. It is now Wednesday and I had to call 3D to find out it would be another week until they get the new shutters, which takes us a couple of days before Christmas, so I'm sure this will not be done now till the new...
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(Home Improvement)
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Please stop the chasing of customers
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. Hello, I have always loved Home Depot - like a kid going to a candy store. Over the past 10 months I have completely rehabbed a house in Rancho Bernardo, CA shopping at Home Depot on Carmel Mountain Rd., and spent approx. $28,000 there. Several of the folks there recognize me when I come in and say hello because they have helped with projects, and I can name you the nice, helpful people by name - love that! Over the past few months, there is a strange rude solicitation of customers in the store by H.D. personnel. They have "literally chased me down the isles" to ask me if I...
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Warranty?????
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I bought a hot water heater from Home Depot on 11-08-05 and today it went out!! My husband went to home depot to check on this and was told, "sorry, but you are 18 days to late, because that is when your warranty expired!!" This is bull and I want them to correct this situtation!!
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(Miscellaneous)
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Home Depot censors unfavorable reviews
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Home Depot customers should be aware that Home Depot is censoring negative reviews of products purchased from them, and therefore customer ratings published on their website may not be true. I recently posted a 3-star review of a $2500 LG refrigerator due to a failure within the first week of use and LG Cust.Svc's inability to fix the problem within two weeks of reporting. I also expressed an opinion that Home Depot, as the retailer, should assume some responsibility for infancy failures of the appliances they sell and install, and should help customers in quickly addressing those....
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Contract &credit card
Home Depot Support Ticket 
failure to honor contract to install a new roof and charged credit card 8K dollars when they were surpossed to do 2K as a 25% down payment. Credit caused me to go over credit limit and my credit score to drop 18 points. Home Depot cancelled contract and did not even put new roof on. I want this issue correct with the credit reporting agencies and my credit card charges removes. I have received a complete run a round by employees, being dishonest is not a way to do business, I feel that the representatives saw that they were dealing with a female and tried to take advantage. I hope that...
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Sale prices
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. I signed a contract with HD at home services to put a roof on my house on 22 Oct 11, the area rep came by for final measurement aorund 12 Nov 11, on 13 Nov, I received a call fro the original sales rep stating that the price was not 8K dollars as stated in the contract, but would be 12K dollars. I told him that I had a legal and binding contract and expected them to honor it. A Mr. Helms called and said tht they could put the roof on for 8K if I signed a new contract with a two year waranty. I told him that the waranty information was on the spec sheet and not the contract (I know spec...
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nhance cabinet
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. Had this done 12 months ago and already had to be redone because of extensive chipping. Really disappointing. Went with cheaper method to spruce up cabinets and got what I paid for. May have been due to person that didn work versus method itself because he really didn't seem too experienced. Broke and lost lots of hinges when he removed cabinets. Might be okay if person knows what he/she is doing but didn't work out for us.
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Messed Up Kitchen Reno
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. Kitchen reno had begun over a year ago. The tiled floor grout came out in three colors and we were permitted to get our own contractor to fix this after at least 4 failed attempts. Signed off on it to get money back at store. Cabinets were falling and hit me in the head so Home Depot fixed what they could but one is still scratched up. Granite countertop stains could not be rectified. Leaking sink had to be done by our own plumber. Window that would not lock was addressed by a manager. All monies had been paid off. Finally the frig purchased separately failed and looked at 5 times...
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Dont believe the product reviews
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I purchased a Homelite generator hgca3000 after hurricane Irene for stand by power. The generator was ok but had a problem with the digital readout ( it was unreadable ). This was a nice feature and the generator had very good reviews. I wrote a review criticizing the generator and the way Home Depot handled the problem. They refused to post my review of the generator on their website because it was critical of Home Depot. I guess they only accept rave reviews. If you criticize Home Depot or their products they will not post your review.
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Incompetence and Arrogance
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
I have a credit account with Home Depot, which when I logged onto their web site at the end of September 2011 showed a zero balance. I attempted to use the card on October 8, 2011 and the charge was dec lined due to a past due balance. Home Depot has apparently changed my account number and failed to bill me online or through the mail. This is not only irresponsible and incompetent; it violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act
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flooring
Home Depot Support Ticket 
Had Home Depot measure for carpet in late August for my disabled mother who had a flood from Hurricane Irene. After 3 trips to the store and a total of 3 hours wasted with the clerk, placed order on 9/2/11. Paid extra to move the little bit of furniture in rooms. Find out days later that some of the carpet was backordered. Weeks later received a call that carpet was finally in. When installer came to house, he spoke very little English and said he only had some of the carpet. No help from him. Store said a mistake was made and would call when rest came in. Carpet came in and scheduled...
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Home Depot Flooring/Us Installation
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
Had Home Depot measure for carpet in late August for my disabled mother who had a flood from Hurricane Irene. After 3 trips to the store and a total of 3 hours wasted with the clerk, placed order on 9/2/11. Paid extra to move the little bit of furniture in rooms. Find out days later that some of the carpet was backordered. Weeks later received a call that carpet was finally in. When installer came to house, he spoke very little English and said he only had some of the carpet. No help from him. Store said a mistake was made and would call when rest came in. Carpet came in and scheduled...
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Censoring Product Reviews
Home Depot Support Ticket 
Two different times (several months apart) you rejected my negative online reviews of a product I purchased from you. My reviews weren't hostile, threatening or vulgar. They merely stated the facts and my bad experience with the product I purchased. By censoring your product reviews, your are corrupting the process and deliberately misleading your customers about the suitability of your products.
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HD Censors Their Product Reviews
Home Depot Consumer Complaint 
This review has been resolved or replied to by this company. I purchased a Chamberlain garage door opener at the Centerville, UT Home Depot. The opener had two significant problems. I had to modify it to make it work. I went to the Home Depot website and wrote a negative product review that explained the problems and the poor response from Chamberlain's customer service. The review wasn't hostile, threatening or vulgar. Home Depot rejected the review. They refused to post it on their website. I called their customer service to complain about them refusing to post a negative review. They would do nothing. Several months later I tried again...
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