I love the way Home Depot sucks!

I needed some wood screen doors for my cabin. After shopping around, and finding all sorts of things from $160 to $600 per, I was overwhelmed.

One day I'm in Home Depot. I had gotten the price of $160 each there, and wifey says, "Put the damn things up."

So...............

We get ahold of the door guy. Takes him about 15 minutes to appear. We ask about wood screen doors, and HOLY SMOKE, BATMAN! here's a guy that knows something about doors. Takes us straight to them.

He takes us to two 1 1/8" ash frame doors with extruded aluminum inserts with screen. He says they are $89 each, but one is damaged, and not for sale. I said to check with the manager and I'd take it if he made me a deal. The screen had pulled out on one corner. A two minute no cost repair

He disappears and comes back. He says we can have it for $50, a $39 discount. Hey, we're still under the price we got before for ONE, so we say okay. He puts them on a cart for us and scribbles something on a paper and says to give it to the cashier.

We do so. She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye contact, but don't say a word. We pay the girl, and then run like hell.

$320 worth of doors for $78 plus tax.

Home Depot does suck, but sometimes their stupidity and ineptness works towards my side of the fence.

Man, those doors look good on my cabin. And the price was right, too.

Steve

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Steve B
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Your honesty was tested. And you flunked.

lee

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lee houston

Yeah. I remember all those times when, if I hadn't pointed it out to the cashier that they would have OVER charged me on many items. Funny why that isn't a two way street.

As to your sermon on honesty:

paraphrasing ...........

watch out for a man who says he's honest. he'll probably lie about other things as well.

mark twain or will rogers or someone. not me. HONEST!

Steve

Reply to
Steve B

You are either honest or you aren't. It doesn't matter what anybody else does.

CWM

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Charlie Morgan

Reply to
Sacramento Dave

We don't know what the "door guy" wrote on the ticket. Perhaps he saw damage to the second door and amended the ticket price without the OP's knowledge.

-- Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

Reply to
Oren

Doesn't matter. The "test" was flunked when he thought he was undercharged and didn't say anything. The fact that he might have been incorrect doesn't enter into it.

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Rick Brandt

Oren wrote: ...

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We do, otoh, know what OP _thought_ was on the ticket. :(

Reply to
dpb

When they ran like hell is enough indicator the OP "felt" like he got away. Had he questioned the ticket and the cashier he may have seen a reduced price or paid the correct price.

-- Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

Reply to
Oren

Look dude if you wanna take advantage of a store's stupidity, go ahead. But don't pretend it's a 2 way street. You DID point it out and you DIDN'T get overcharged.

Reply to
jeffc

Just tell me how we know. Add a comment on his thought other than getting away with something.

-- Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

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Oren

if HD cannot hire someone that (see previous post also"Home Depot Sucks") can't understand a purchase slip(or has not been trained properly) or can take the time to call for a clarification if its not clear, I say way to go Steve-o

Reply to
John H.

The way HD works on discounts is that department leaders (and maybe individual clerks) have an allowance they can use for customer goodwill.

Here we have an employee who the OP praised as knowledgeable and helpful. Because of a mistake by the check-out clerk, not corrected by the OP, this helpful employee may have exceeded his quota and have some sort of black mark on his record.

Over and above out-and-out theft, it's a shameful abuse of honor. Pitiful, really.

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HeyBub

"Steve B" wrote

Gosh Steve, I'll bet you and your wife are real proud.

Running out of a box store after knowingly cheating them. Can you trust each other, or are you constantly on your toes wondering if the other one is cheating?

You two deserve each other.

Reply to
Johnny V.

And the rest of us pay in the long run. "Getting away with it" does not make it right.

Reply to
Edwin Pawlowski

Absolutely.

Dishonest and stupid too if you can't see the difference.

And someone who says he's dishonest, like you diD, I'm certain lies and cheats other times too. The reason you're telling the truth is you know that no one from here is going to go after you here.

If you were honest you would have told the cashier what you and the clerk had agreed upon for the price.

You already said you told them when they were going to overcharge you. They didn't owe you any money.

BTW, neither Lee nor I said we were honest. We said you were dishonest. Your attempt to attack those who point out the truth failed because you don't read carefully or you're stupid.

Reply to
mm

Fuck you asshole.

I didn't go in there to steal anything.

We didn't cheat anyone.

We did what the people said to do.

We let them do their own math.

We paid what they asked.

And the rest of you sanctimonious pious assholes that act like you're honest and haven't done anything shady in your lives and still pontificate on the actions of others can kiss my sorry dishonest ass, too. Too bad you don't have the honesty to share your stories. Like you wouldn't or haven't done the same thing. Yeah, right.

Steve

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Steve B

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Don't have to add a comment, can use his own words...

''... they are $89 each, but ... I'd take it if he made me a deal. ...He says we can have it for $50, a $39 discount. ... She rings up two doors at $39 each. My wife and I make eye contact, but don't say a word. "

Very clearly he (and the wife, too, for that matter) thought they were buying one door at $89 and another at $50. Whether the slip was miswritten rather than misinterpreted isn't the point I was making, it was clear to him that what was rung up wasn't what was intended and he/they chose to take advantage of the mistake, whoever actually made it.

Reply to
dpb

What I think you're saying is that if someone makes a mistake, it's ok to steal from him.

Absolutely.

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Reply to
mm

You're sounding a lot like a politician. If you didn't expect comment, and you had to know it was coming, you shouldn't have posted it. :-)

Cheri

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Cheri

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