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Oh yeah, the guy also told me \"we don't use contractors, every guy on the job will be a Home Depot employee\". One of the other contractors who bid the job then told me that HD subs jobs to him all the time. Bastards.
Oh yeah, the guy also told me \"we don't use contractors, every guy on the job will be a Home Depot employee\". One of the other contractors who bid the job then told me that HD subs jobs to him all the time. Bastards.
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Take a look at the video on the TV station web site.
I think the 'cue card' part was amusing, although not surprising.
If the stories are true this is a pretty huge fck-up!
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Thank god I inherited the \"handyman\" gene and can do most of this stuff on my own. I dread having to risk getting scammed by a contractor.
This is what we gt for having the schools drop shop class. A society who is easily dupped becuase they no longer have any idea of the value of the labor. I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that Home Depot and Lowes-esque stores originally petitioned the schools to drop this form of education
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The good news is: Home Depot is offering to make good with ANY customer who contacts them through KNBC. Nationwide. If Home Depot's contractors have ripped you off,
Now we just have to tell the entire country about it. Not just the greater Los Angeles area.
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LoL I live in LA and we just redid our Kitchen. Just for kicks I got a estimate from HD. Double what the other Contractors wanted and when we took thier estimate of supplies to the store everything was marked up by at least 50% over what the actual retail cost was. Pretty hefty profit without even touching the job yet.. And of course we did it ourselved for about a 1/10th of what the lowest contractor quoted us.
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@Troy F.: I don't think it is all that necessary to inherit any sort of handyman gene, Troy F. There is a lot of this stuff that can easily be taught. Go find your local ACE Hardware (or something similar that is small and has people who actually know what they are talking about) and get the advice of someone who knows exactly what he or she is talking about. There is an ACE Hardware franchise location that is owned by a local guy close to my home. I have gone there for several things and gotten perfect advice and instructions on how to do things, even after the guys at Home Depot were totally befuddled by my questions.
Or, simply get references from friends, aquaintences, co-workers or anyone else you trust. This is the best way to get a good contractor. Not everyone has the skills and temperment to be a do-it-yourselfer. And I for one don't want to spend my time that way.I'd rather pay someone skilled to do it and spend my free time doing things I enjoy. I realize many people obtain enjoyment from DIY, but for me, it often just ends in frustration.
wow, that is pretty shady. I am sure home depot had nothing to with this..NOTTTT.
Stupid coopreratings that think they can do anything.
you know if any of us went to home depot, filled a cart and payed with photocopied money, we'd go to jail. yet when any corporation repeatedly robs people, it was just a terrible misunderstanding, they're happy to \"fix\" the problem, and their only punishment is self-administered in paying a little extra to the pr dept to make it go away.
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How much more money does Home Depot need? At least they've got a competitor in Lowes. Thank god for Lowes. Not that I give a damn but I appreciate a little competition.
Mike Holmes is a spokesman for Home Depot in Canada. Holmes on Homes is a show that regularily rips people about shady contractors like those. I think he'd be ashamed to stay with Home Depot if he heard about it.
Yeah, this is old news. It has been well-known for some time that Home Depot is a sleazy outfit. I went into my local HD a few weeks back and I think I was the only one there! It was like a ghost town.
We to HD a couple years ago for an estimate on a ceramic tile kitchen floor. They said they would charge $75 PER APPLIANCE (!!!) to slide the stove, refrigerator, and dishwasher to the next room (about 15 feet). But we would have to hire our own contractor to actually disconnect and reconnect the appliances - they couldn't do that! I laughed in his face, told him he had wasted my time, and left.
I got a local guy to do it. He charged about one third the price for better tile, and when I asked him if he would disconnect/move/reconnect the appliances, he looked at me like I was nuts. Of course he would!
Home Depot was destroyed by Robert Nardelli, the crook who was hired to run it after the original owners sold it. He's a typical Dick Cheney type of corporate scumbag.
I had Home Depot come and give an estamate on
vinyl siding. The salesman was very polite and
seemed to know his product. Then came the
price!!! $28,500 for the select and $26,000 for
there basic. I was told that the select had
styrofoam insulation in the corner cap moldings
and a heaver vinyl. I am having an independant
do the job with certained monogram which is a
premium siding, with gutters for $16,295.Thats
a savings of $12,205. We can do it! We can help
our selves! Sears was even worse the salesman
was obnochise and they would do it for $29,999!
That was the special only for that day! Why
don't we just make it $30,000 your just too
kind!
We had some tile flooring put in our upstairs bathrooms. After the job was done I inspected the calculated square footage of the installation area (by one of the detail contractors) to the actual square footage of the floor covered in tile and discovered they used the wall dimensions of the room in their calculation.
In essence, across two bathrooms they were charging me installation for the area that includes a single and double sink vanity, two bathtubs, and a shower.
By the time I was done fighting with them, I ended up getting almost 50% of the installation refunded. Other factors included broken promises on scheduling, tile adhesive on the carpet, incorrect threshold, and plain ol' incompetence.
Last year I called Home Depot, among other contractors, to estimate a reroof job for my townhome complex. HD's bid came in more than double the next highest, thanks to a claim that in addition to replacing the roof, they would need to replace the soffiting (the ventilated decking underneath the lower edge of the roof) in order for the shingle manufacturer to warranty the materials. Every other contractor who made a bid said our soffiting was fine.