3 years ago
Re: the Wilmington, NC USIG location. I have rarel...
Re: the Wilmington, NC USIG location. I have rarely seen such disorganization with an installer or a store/installation group partnership as I have experienced with a Home Depot carpet order to be installed by USIG. The original carpet order with HD was placed on 12/20 under the impression that carpet would be installed into the house we bought the week of 12/28 (prior to moving in). USIG contacted me around the 23rd to confirm they had received all the product and would get me on schedule that week of the 28th. Then...nothing. No call about scheduling ever came. So I reached out to them, and they seemed in a state of complete disarray. They kept saying they didn t know when they were going to be able to schedule my install. It could be days, a week, weeks...they just didn t know. They don t have a crew for Wilmington right now. I called Home Depot, who failed to advocate for us at all both locally and at corporate level (so far). The local team instead threw USIG completely under the bus rather than speaking on behalf of their partnership and/or any potentially mismanaged information between the two of them. The message, loud and clear, was We just sell the carpet, the rest is out of our hands. Which may be true, but don t advertise as if you can assist customers with all angles of a project when you can t (or won t) take any actual responsibility for that. I called the HD customer service number to ask for a refund and explain why, and was met with additional excuses, pawning off the entire blame on the installers. Also, they (corporate) refused to refund me by phone even though it was totally fine to *sell me $2k of carpet on a freshly opened HD credit card* by phone only weeks prior, insisting that I must physically go to the store to be refunded. I decided to wait it out. It wasn t until around 3 weeks ago that we finally got on the schedule for today. We d had to move into our house and get somewhat settled, which I made clear to the USIG manager, who told me not to worry, the installers could move some furniture around. The installers (an adult man and possibly two younger teenagers) show up at 1pm, take one look at the place and say Oh no, this is too big of a job for this late in the day. You re not ready. I was dumbfounded. They said they weren t told how big the project was and we had too much stuff in the rooms. 2 out of the 4 rooms were empty! And we said we d move the few personal things in the other rooms as they completed the first two empty rooms. It was very, very little. They said they were going outside to make a call and just...never came back. Now we re back to not knowing when or if this carpet install will ever actually happen. And USIG mgmt seemed equally as dumbfounded as we were, and said there was a miscommunication and they shouldn t have left, but it s too late now! as they drove away. I will NEVER use Home Depot for a project that requires install ever again and I will certainly never rely on USIG again if I can help it. RUN-don t walk-away from this retail/install partnership! There are plenty of smaller vendors who can manage to provide quality service in a reasonable amount of time.