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Lowe's commercial

I was watching a lowes commercial when a lady slides to water faucet because there was a leak and she I quaternary said " righty tighty" and clearly turned it left

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PersonWhoKnowsTheTruth
San Diego, US
Mar 02, 2012 10:53 pm EST

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Pinakin Patel
IN
Nov 28, 2012 9:00 pm EST

Phone lost

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Tamara
Oct 09, 2008 2:35 pm EDT

Cricket is horrible, ridiculous, and the reps are very confused.

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anne brown
May 06, 2008 2:04 pm EDT

Unauthorized checks drawn on my account causing overdraft fees of 37.95 each.

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Donald J Morton
Apr 30, 2008 10:19 pm EDT

What did i pay for and i want it stop. I don't remember signing up for this. can some one get back to me. Please

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Rizy
Jul 23, 2008 1:18 pm EDT

### call then dont talk.. when you call to inquiree got pooor service n jus get put on some nex machine ..wastees money .

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Judith Miller
Aug 04, 2008 3:22 pm EDT

My husband and I made reservations in late June to stay at the Econolodge motel in Lackawanna for the night of Saturday, August 2nd. We were attending a wedding in the area and received the special wedding rate. However, when we arrived, we were told that we had cancelled our reservations and that the hotel was booked. So we had to hustle to make other arrangements. I believe that the motel was overbooked and we were the chosen scapegoats. Well, that will never happen again as we will never book Econolodge again. Hint: if anyone cancels the confirmation number should be ascertained.

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tom bryant
Aug 22, 2008 12:39 am EDT

you took money out of my account without permission and i want it back 31.98 if i dont recieve in 1 working day i will notify authorities and u will be prosicuted for theft

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Judy Sainsbury
Nov 23, 2008 5:22 pm EST

Herewith please find the content of a scam email just received from me with a google mail return address.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frits Seegers [mailto:frtsseegers913@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, 24 November 2008 11:44 a.m.
To: lowline@casablanca.co.nz
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Friend,

I am Frits Seegers, Chief Executive at Barclays.I will like you to read this email patiently, carefully so you can understand me perfectly. I am sending this email to you from my personal email address and not my official email because i consider it personal. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer William Nathan, and an investment he placed under our banks management.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I am contacting you independently and no one is informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. In 2004, the subject matter came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 2.35 million British Pounds Sterling, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.I was !
the officer assigned to his case, I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private banking sector, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed. I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings and we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation.

In May 2005, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments.He directed that I liquidate the funds and have it deposited with a security firm. I informed him that Barclays would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking of us. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited with a security consultancy firm. This security firm is an especially private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash.

In June last year, we got a call from the security company informing us of the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit at the security company, and I could not understand why our client had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of Barclay. Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our man was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Canne, South of France.

It is quite clear now that our dear fellow died with no known or identifiable family members. This leaves me as the only person with the full picture of what the prevailing situation is in relation to the deposit and the late beneficiary of the deposit. According to practice, the security company will by the end of this year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Barclays, failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit to Barclays. This will result in the money entering the Barclays accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the private banking division.This will not happen if I have my way. What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I want you to understand this, it is only an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who sit upon certain
chairs and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. There is 2, 350, 000.00 deposited in a security company. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track the deceased"s family; they have investigated for months and have found no family. The investigation has come to an end. My proposal; I am prepared to furnish the necessary details to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the
deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half. That is: When the bank simply nominate you as the next of kin and the deposit to you.We share the proceeds 50/50. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions.I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail.I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive.

If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made a tidy sum out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime.I cannot let this chance pass me by.For once I find myself in total control of my destiny.This chance wont pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my plans. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. If you give me positive signals, I will give you the relevant details and initiate this process towards a con!
clusion. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and children.I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.This is the one truth I have learned
from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence.I await your response.
Sincerely,

Frits Seegers

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Nov 25, 2008 4:50 pm EST

Okay I don't want my name used, so here is the info. WebWealthStrategies/IncredibleAdvertising/HigherImpact

I worked customer service there. I found out they really never pay anyone anything because they can prove hits. the web development department is of boys that just play video games all day. they had a complete idiot doing I.T.

The Owners Name is Adrien Pertle and the company is ran by his sister Stephanie Davis. They knowingly rip people off and leave blame on their workers. Please notify the government to get this resolved.

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My husband purchased an item and was double billed for it. He simply tried to have the unauthorized charge remove. The Manager (the Pakistan man) was so nasty we had to contact the corporate office. When my husband told him he was going to complain to the corporate office he told him he was not allowed back in the store. This is the United States and it...

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Lowe's abuses subcontractors

Lowe's treatment of contractors who subcontract service and installation from Lowe's is abominable. These contractors provide services that Lowe's employees are not capable of providing due to lack of training and they turn significant profit for Lowe's HIW Inc.

The contractors are rewarded for this by being forced to satisfy middle managers who have no training in the task at hand, but clearly have been threatened to drive up profit margins or receive consequences. Lowe's managers make every concession to please the customer and pass the costs onto the contractor. These concessions aren't made because the customer was 'right', rather because the manager has minimal experience with the service or installation job in dispute and no idea how to troubleshoot the problem. The contractor is forced to pay or lose details (aka jobs). Losing these details usually means downsizing the company or taking a staggering pay cut, so the contractor obliges and takes a loss. These losses are heart wrenching when you're talking about a small company that's barely staying above water in difficult economic times.

I live 0.5 miles from a Lowe's store and I consider it a last resort for my home improvement needs because the situation outlined above sickens me. It's criminal to siphon money from small contractors rather than properly mediating a dispute. I've seen the stock market and it's quite clear to me that Lowe's has the resources to mediate these disputes, but it's cheap, fast, and quickly shuts up the complaining customer if you just take money out of the laborers' pockets and hand it back to the customer.

I am one person and I can't change Lowe's, but there are a few things I can do. First, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS tell me friends, family, and neighbors who want quality services and installation to purchase directly from small stores and contractors. Stores like Lowe's depend on squeezing the middle man to make a buck, not high quality work, word of mouth, or repeat customers. Second, REFER THE HUSTLERS TO LOWES, if someone wants work done around their house and quality is less important than getting $500 knocked off the estimate because the contractor was 10 minutes late, then Lowe's is where they should be. I hate to see decent tradesmen deal with stupidity like that and Lowe's has teams of barely trained employees who can handle those phone calls. Third, POST THIS ON THE INTERNET, it won't do much because there's already plenty of bad press out there for Lowes. However, Lowe's has already shown us that they have no conscience or ethics, so I guess bad press is my only tool for motivation.

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Lowe's I was completely and totally disgusted with lowe's internet pre-order for pick up service

At 2:30 am, I placed an online order to be picked up in the Lowe's store location in Irvine, California, on Jamboree. I followed the website instructions of copying and printing my email order confirmation.

Upon entering the store and contacting an employee at the store pick up counter/customer service counter. They seemed to nothing of the so-called in store pick up service.

The first employee contacted a second who contacted a third. We stood there for a long time with no one letting us know what was going on. Finally, we were informed that someone was going to pull the items from the shelves for us.

What? The order is supposed to be ready for pick up by 9 am according to Lowes' listed schedule. This is 3:30 pm, and it isn't ready? And no one knows about the service?

We ended up waiting for 30 minutes while the employee looked for my "valance" in the lighting area. I went to help him find the items.

Needless to say I was not impressed with the website's communication with the store and the store's apparent lack of knowledge of a service that they are to provide!

Also, no one apologized at all in anyway for the inconvenience during our 1/2 hour wait. That was a 1/2 hour wait while they were "helping " us... not the time we had to also stand in line to get help.

I'd appreciate a real response and not just excuses please!

They also had me sign for the items and then gave me no receipt. They didn't give me my printed copy of the order... and didn't even offer to put the two items in a bag.

I grabbed a bag from a register on the way out of the store. This was insane.

Word of mouth is the best or worst form of advertising.

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Stuntpuppy
Conroe, US
Jan 18, 2012 7:57 pm EST

How about Lowes just do their job? I got an email stating my item was ready to be picked up and went to the store . I also waited and was told oh your item was cancelled. A employee told me that the item is supposed to be pulled and ready before the pick up email is sent! What a waste of time!

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caiti
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Jun 18, 2011 4:06 am EDT

WHY DON'T YOU GET OFF YOUR LAZY ### AND DO YOUR OWN SHOPPING? People make mistakes and sometimes things are so busy in the store they don't have time to answer the phone let alone find an associate to get the order ready for your laziness... i've worked at lowes for over 4 years and it's the service desks responsiblity to complete internet orders...it is also the service desk responsibility to answer the phones, check out customers, find an associate who is not busy to get merchandise for the customers who were in the store to do their own shopping...next time why don't you try being a little less impatient and a little more understanding?

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Lowe's service protection plan

Misinformation and lies. Bought Bosch Washing Machine at Lowe's in March of 2007 with an extended protection plan. Washer worked fine for first three years but then had to call in for service. Let the nightmare begin. The service technicians gave is a window between 8am and 5pm, and they were all at least two weeks out from when we called. Finally by the time we could get them to come out when we were home it was a month later (without a washing machine). The technicians arrived and told me they had to order a part which took another three weeks (almost two months without a washing machine). Then I got a call from the technician after they did the work that Lowe's refused to pay the labor costs on the bill. They also told the tech that I was informed of this and approved the repair. Both lies, I never knew it and would not have approved it had I known I would have had to pay labor. Now I am stuck with a 100+labor bill on a product that I had a plan on. The salesman told me I had four years of protection, another lie. Don't waste your money on these plans and get screwed like me.

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Lowe's lowes needs to identify its delivery sales tax policy correctly

I was charged a sale tax on product delivery made upon the front check out. I received a printout from the cabinet specialist that gave me a different total of $259.54. The front end manager said Lowes always charges tax on your delivery service.

Is this correct?

If so, then the computer printout at the cabinet desk should state this. My register receipt total was $264.38. What is the correct amount? I could not ask a store manager because both of them are on vacation! At the same time.

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Mar 06, 2011 5:26 am EST
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Most companies charge tax for delivery services.

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Lowe's appliance installation

I purchased a bravo maytag electric dryer from lowes. Because of space limitations I need to have the vent exhaust come out the side, not the back. The seller (Lowes) does not provide installation services for the dryer vent because they do not want to incur the liability. I called whirlpool/maytag - response we do not install the dryer or the dryer vent, period. No guidance. Five hours later I learn after many telephone calls and internet searches that there is a vent kit to install vent in the side and that it comes with instructions. The whirlpool/maytag person I spoke with, at length, knew nothing, offered no help, no guidance. What is the point of asking for a model number and serial number when you can’t take the time to give basic information as to where to find how to do the vent yourself ! Whirlpool/maytag will not install and do not have the sense or simple common sense to tell a customer how to do it themselves. The installation book that comes with the dryer is not helpful! Your customer service stinks! What good is a dryer you can not get installed. Are these people crazy?
If this is so complicated the company can not handle it why are you selling this product. . Surely not for decoration. I had dealing with stupidity and greed. The combination drives me up the wall!

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The only thing that aggravates me about Lowes, is try to get a date/ time (range) when they will call regarding installation. When you purchase something, they give themselves 30 days to install, they often say they will pull the date in-but don't give you a date when purchasing the item. I purchased a new dishwasher at 8am today, and asked on the way out do they know anything about the installation. They have to fax everything over to another company for installation. You basically have to wait, up to two days, to get a call for installation. This doesn't mean you get the item installed, it means they call to give you a date. This has been a Lowes policy for several years. I really wonder how much business they lose because of the installation policy.

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Lowe's used to be a wonderful company and this location used to be a great store to work at. Recently we have had major manager changes and they, including the new HR manager are useless. They take away the ability of Dept. Mgrs to manage their departments, they provide no reasonable soloution to problems that cost the company overtime and money and...

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Lowe's abusive to subcontractors

Lowe's treatment of contractors who subcontract service and installation from Lowe's is abominable. These contractors provide services that Lowe's employees are not capable of providing due to lack of training and they turn significant profit for Lowe's HIW Inc.

The contractors are rewarded for this by being forced to satisfy middle managers who have no training in the task at hand, but clearly have been threatened to drive up profit margins or receive consequences. Lowe's managers make every concession to please the customer and pass the costs onto the contractor. These concessions aren't made because the customer was 'right', rather because the manager has minimal experience with the service or installation job in dispute and no idea how to troubleshoot the problem. The contractor is forced to pay or lose details (aka jobs). Losing these details usually means downsizing the company or taking a staggering pay cut, so the contractor obliges and takes a loss. These losses are heart wrenching when you're talking about a small company that's barely staying above water in difficult economic times.

I live 0.5 miles from a Lowe's store and I consider it a last resort for my home improvement needs because the situation outlined above sickens me. It's criminal to siphon money from small contractors rather than properly mediating a dispute. I've seen the stock market and it's quite clear to me that Lowe's has the resources to mediate these disputes, but it's cheap, fast, and quickly shuts up the complaining customer if you just take money out of the laborers' pockets and hand it back to the customer.

I am one person and I can't change Lowe's, but there are a few things I can do. First, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS tell me friends, family, and neighbors who want quality services and installation to purchase directly from small stores and contractors. Stores like Lowe's depend on squeezing the middle man to make a buck, not high quality work, word of mouth, or repeat customers. Second, REFER THE HUSTLERS TO LOWES, if someone wants work done around their house and quality is less important than getting $500 knocked off the estimate because the contractor was 10 minutes late, then Lowe's is where they should be. I hate to see decent tradesmen deal with stupidity like that and Lowe's has teams of barely trained employees who can handle those phone calls. Third, POST THIS ON THE INTERNET, it won't do much because there's already plenty of bad press out there for Lowes. However, Lowe's has already shown us that they have no conscience or ethics, so I guess bad press is my only tool for motivation.

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Mar 07, 2011 2:09 pm EST

Reply to Monkeyboi Perhaps I didn't make myself clear...or you didn't read beyond the title. I have never used Lowe's installation services and I would not because, as I've outlined above, they have bad business practices. I am upset about and informing people about the fact that the untrained Lowe's staff are mediating disputes between contractors and customers. Because it's cost effective for Lowe's and easy for the unskilled management teams, contractors are always found guilty and the losses contractors are forced to take are bankrupting small business. We see a similar pattern with Walmart's business practices. Please read the whole article and don't be afraid to ask questions if you don't understand.

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Nov 17, 2011 11:12 pm EST

My husband and I run a small business and subcontract through lowes. I think Lowes should face a class action lawsuit. They took us out of rotation because we have asked for payment on work orders issued by the manager and they never paid. The subcontractor gets blamed for their incompetence always. We pay the price when we ask for mileage over 20. Calling the AIM is useless. They never call you back.

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Mar 06, 2011 11:44 pm EST

You have to remember that Lowe's is a retailer, they sell products. They do not have a service department in the store for every single item they sell. Nor do they stock parts for every single item they sell. That would be nearly impossible. This is true for any large retailer. Not every product is infallible, nor will it last forever, and sometimes will break down soon after purchase. That is why most products sold by major retailers like Lowe's have a manufacturer warranty. The retailers don't service the manufacturer warranties. This is usually done by outside, independent, factory certified technicians. Lowe's operates like any other large retailer, and blaming them for individual problems is absurd and misguided; expect that, as with anything you purchase anywhere, you are responsible for what you own.

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Lowe's didnt read the constitution

We just recieved a memo about posting things online such as you tube and twitter and the like. they can kiss my ***. freedom baby freedom. this is what there worried about instead of the slave treatment that they dole out everyday to there employees who are pounding the cement making there 15 billion profit possible. *** you lowes. each employee should unionize or start stealing. there return policy promotes it. rock on red vests. im so sick of hearing about the thousands ready to take my job. that just makes me work hard enough to not get fired. and you wont have to take my job you can have it. i can find another dead end job.

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Mar 03, 2011 1:41 am EST
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Freedom of speech applies to the Government, clown

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Mar 03, 2011 1:39 am EST
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Wow, you are stupid.

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Lowe's Newark de 19711 2000 ogletown road [protected] The overnight manager at lowes "kim mynok" is the cruelest pettiest individual who has ever been in a supervisor position at this company. She picks on her overnight crew if she does not like them and lies to upper management about their work performance in order to get them fired. She is verbally...

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Lowe's Retaliation for calling corporate

On October 29th, 2010 my wife and I went to Lowes at Gordonsville, Va to upgrade 0ur existing cabinets and design to solid oak. At the same time, we were looking for hardwood flooring for the kitchen, hall and living room. Before we left, we left behind almost $10, 000 for Pergo flooring, custom honey oak cabinets with the large matching trim and a counter top w/sink.

In the second week of November, we received a call that our cabinets would be delivered on Nov 22nd. That weekend, we gave our cabinets and carpert to a young couple in our church which
left us with the old counter top and sink on two saw horses and no flooring.

The right cabInets came in but they were too tall. I called the manager at Lowes and he told me, "I am all over it" he assured me over and over again, we would have our cabinets by Christmas. Didn't happen !

We went to the manager in January and he gave us the same song and dance about how he had ordered our cabinets and we should have had them before Christmas. I went outside and called the cabinet people to only be advised that a lady from Lowes had cancelled our order on December 9th. (says a lot for the truth and veracity of the manager.) . We were furious, it seems she was "Going to design something we might like betters !" We ordered what we wanted and had authorized no one to change our order.

I called the corporate office for Lowes in NC and got a lady named Julie and told her about all of this and that I wanted the name and address of the top dog. She told me it was a Robert Niblock.
I sent Mr. Niblock a six page letter which was signed for on January 10th at corporate.

About then, A fellow named Thomas called me and started on me for making the complaint and that the whole thing was our fault for cancelling the order and wanted to argue with me to the point I was ready to hang up on him. I asked him to show me a contract I had signed since the original one with the right cabinets on 10/29 ?
This never happened or anything cancelling our order. If our order was cancelled by us, why did we not get our money back so we could go someplace else ?

Since then, the proper cabinets were ordered but without the trim so the trim and the cabinets were not a match. I guess Mr. Niblock and Thomas did not have enough horsepower to make sure our order was right. We ended up with some trim from I do not know where and it doesen't match . I called Julie and got nowhere other than that Thomas and the store manager would meet with me to "make thing right ?"

Next came almost $5000 worth of Bruce custome flooring in the
gunstock finishe. Of course the flooring was ordered but NOT the matching stair nosing. Of course good old Thomas sent the installer down to Lumber l Liquidaters in Richmond for the stair nosing that doesn't match.

And of course, the delivey of our counter top was screwed up too. All of this was known by corporate who could care less.

We got our counter top we purchased on October 29th installed yesterday, exactly four months later !

Thomas then has the gaul to call and wanted to meet with he and Troy at the store to "Make things right!" I told him I did not want anything from Lowes and how much suffering we went through by missing, Thanks giving and Christmas with our kids and the fact that nothing we had matched and the way he and Lowes had treated us there was nothing to make this right and hung up on him.

Again, we want nothing from Lowes but I would like to take this time to thank Mr. Robert Niblock and Lowes corporate for screwing our lives up. We are not rich but are elderly and we cannot go through this again.

They seemed to think it was funny when my wife was standing in the cabinet section crying.

PT and Diane Spencer
Louisa, Virginia

PS, we have all of the emails, documents and dates and times to back this up.

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watchful eagle
Coeur D Alene, US
Aug 08, 2023 1:22 pm EDT

thanks we will BOYCOTT LOWES

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Jul 28, 2023 8:44 pm EDT
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It is only one question how it is possible what such ugly store as Lowers steel working and not under bancropcy. Stupid laysy staff, ugly menegment. Newr use Lowe's.

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CJ
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Dec 28, 2022 10:42 am EST

I would like to hear from the customer how this was resolved. Reading his last letter does NOT sound like anything was resolved. I am currently going through some delivery issues around a stove and microwave that also screwed up my Christmas cooking plans. I think it is clear that Lowes is incompetent, and they could care less about customer service. SMH

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Jul 07, 2022 12:03 pm EDT

My experience with Lowes is similar. Were it not for one assistant manager doing all she can to help I would have sought legal avenues. I ordered materials to build a deck on August 6, 2021. The Trex boards I ordered were 30 twenty foot decks boards. Of the 30 boards 10 were straight when they were finally delivered in January of this year. 20 boards have a distinctive bend in them making them unusable. They have been reordered and arrived, but then another associate sold them to another customer even though they were marked for me. Now I am told that July 21 of this year is when they are supposed to arrive, nearly ONE YEAR after I ordered the package. It was put on a Lowe's charge and has been paid for months ago. Now I have a deck frame with no decking on it. I am waiting to put the 10 good boards on to see if the color matches. Also, two of the post sleeves I bought that were delivered were returns that someone cut and repackaged and sold to me as new. Those still haven't been fulfilled yet, but I can't use them until the deck boards are delivered.

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walhalla, US
Jun 23, 2022 11:16 am EDT

I am having a similar experience with Lowes. NEVER place an order with them. Ordered blinds in March and no one can give me information as to whether or not the order has been placed. Twice the wrong product was ordered and installer unable to install. I have been corresponding with lowe's customer service and even they cannot get any information from the local store. I have called over 15 times, been disconnected repeatedly, left messages that never reach their destination, spoken to the store assistant manager. I could go on and on but i have never, ever dealt with such incompetence and disregard for customers. Not sure of next step but probably legal action...perhaps a class action is warranted.

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SueB1956
Rock Hill, US
May 09, 2023 2:40 pm EDT
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Since I am a native of Walhalla and am currently having problems completing a cabinet install through Lowe's, what did you end up doing? Ever any restitution?

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Highball
Brunswick, US
Jun 08, 2022 4:17 pm EDT

I need help. I was told I no longer had a job after I was hospitalized for two weeks. I then spent the next four weeks trying to come back on a limited shift. No one at store 2643 has ever taken the time to talk with me in person since I was hospitalized. I tried five times unsuccessfully to talk with staff after my hospitalization. I am a new hire PT associate in the electrical dept. I am a 100% DAV and thought I had a job to come back to albeit limited hours I could work. Because of medicine I have to take since my hospitalization, in the late afternoon I can only work M-F between 8am - 5pm. On the weekend my Dr. wants me to take my meds earlier around 8am. The medicine has side effects that causes dizziness and drowsiness. This is why I need to change my employment hours to M-F 8am - 5pm for availability to work. I previously worked for LOWES [protected] as a PT employee. I am an excellent employee and feel I have a lot to offer knowledge wise and as a customer service rep. As a veteran I need and want this job. Please let me come back in limited PT hours of employment. I would appreciate a call back from someone at corporate. Carl Padgett, moparsrt392@gmail.com [protected] or padgettfamily94@comcast.net [protected]

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CJ
US
May 10, 2023 12:19 pm EDT
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Not sure how long you have worked with Lowes but here is a government link explaining FMLA. You may or may not qualify depending on how long or how much time you worked before you took off.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28-fmla

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Highball
Brunswick, US
Jun 08, 2022 4:10 pm EDT

I need help. I was told I no longer had a job after I was hospitalized for two weeks. I then spent the next four weeks trying to come back on a limited shift. No one at store 2643 has ever taken the time to talk with me in person since I was hospitalized. I tried five times unsuccessfully to talk with staff after my hospitalization. I am a new hire PT associate in the electrical dept. I am a 100% DAV and thought I had a job to come back to albeit limited hours I could work. Because of medicine I have to take since my hospitalization, in the late afternoon I can only work M-F between 8am - 5pm. On the weekend my Dr. want me to take my meds earlier around 8am. The medicine has side effects that causes dizziness and drowsiness. This is why I need to change my employment hours to M-F 8am - 5pm for availability to work. I previously worked for LOWES [protected] as a PT employee. I am an excellent employee and feel I have a lot to offer knowledge wise and as a customer service rep. As a veteran I need and want this job. Please let me come back in limited PT hours of employment. I would appreciate a call back from someone at corporate. Carl Padgett, moparsrt392@gmail.com [protected] or padgettfamily94@comcast.net [protected]

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Peter Collino
US
Jun 05, 2022 2:59 pm EDT

I ordered a ego leaf blower on Wednesday, june1 on lowes.com. It was supposed to arrive Friday. I already paid for this. I got a message it’s delayed. No explanation. I called online customer service to find out when I was supposed to get it. They put me through to four different people. Who couldn’t answer my question. Finally one told me I would get it tomorrow. I checked the tracking app and it hasn’t changed. This is the worst customer service I’ve ever seen.

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Krap11
Mahomet, US
Jan 18, 2021 9:11 pm EST

We had wood flooring installed by Lowe’s and it was installed improperly. Their staff or the contractor won’t do anything about it. I’ve spoken to them and/or tried over 30 times. The floor installation manger never even returned my call even though his message said he would. I called him 6 times. Will never go back to Lowe’s. It is sad.

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EBarricelli
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May 13, 2021 2:21 pm EDT
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This is terrible service... I had windows installed 2-05-21...a part on my triple bedroom window was broken...I've called a total of 5 times so far, and not one call back...I'm totally disgusted, and would never recommend Lowes to anyone...and I indicated this fact in my survey who I believe no one reads, it listened to.
Wish I could get this taken care if...but probably my $3899 window wasn't expensive enough...
My email is babarricelli266@gmail.com...if anyone can help... Thank you.

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mysticmy
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Oct 01, 2020 10:14 pm EDT
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Jan 7th 2020: Had Lowes rep out for a quote on a fence Jan 20th 2020: Received 1st quote May 8th 2020: Revised the quote and signed the contract with Justin, the Lowes associate who gave me the original and updated quote with the assurance my fence would be up within 4-6 weeks. Paid Justin $10655 upfront, in full for the install. June 16th 2020: Emailed Justin as I hadn't heard anything about an ETA or date. Starting in June, I began calling once a week for updates but I find that Justin no longer works there and they can't seem to find my contract even though they have been paid in full. I am contacted by Jeffery who tells me that Justin had not put in my order and now that the pandemic was in full swing, it would be awhile as my pickets had not even been milled yet. September 11th 2020: My wood was delivered after 4 months and I was told construction would start on 14th even though no one from Safe dig had come out to mark. I was assured by Jeff that it would be done over the weekend and they would begin on Monday the 14th. Sept 14th 2020: Safe dig showed up mid afternoon to mark but no call and no construction. Construction began Sept 17th 2020: The construction crew were about ready to start putting pickets up when they noticed half of my order was missing. They reached out to Jeff who said they had accepted the full order so it should be here or in the warehouse. Sept 22nd 2020: Only the skeleton of my fence is up. Not having enough pickets forces my contractors to have to stop work indefinitely because they don't want my pickets weathering differently from the ones that aren't even here yet because we don't know when that will be. I reach out to Lowes who tell me they had accepted the first shipment on good faith and had no idea only half arrived and they would need to reorder more but could not give any eta. Oct 1st 2020: My fence is still not up, Lowes still has my money and I have no ETA on when or if I will ever have my project completed.

The contractors, however, are fantastic, which is the only silver lining in this. Great guys that I have hired independently to redo my porch completely separate from Lowes but we're joking that it will be quoted ripped out and finished before Lowes gets my wood to finish the fence.

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Lowe's not enough cashiers during busy season

Please forward this comment to the regional manager for the bluffton, sc lowes: on thursday, feb. 24, 2011, approximately 12:43 pm I was attempting to purchase a large quanity of bulk outdoor garden supplies for a pending job. There was only one register open in outdoor garden so I proceeded indoors with the large batch of mulch and informed the manager at the front desk that there was only one cashier on duty outside and at this time of year there are a great number of customers. He said he was "doing his best" to correct the problem. I informed him that this has been a problem at this store for years and it's time that "his best" actually resulted in a change for the better. I then proceeded with my large bulky cart to the checkout lane indoors just as a storewide power failure caused the computers to crash. I was unable to proceed with my order and left. I was unable to do the work which I had intended to do with those supplies. Had their been two cashiers on duty in the outdoor garden checkout during this busy early spring season I would have been able to check out prior to the power failure and do my work. This repeated failure to address this critical issue has once again, as it has repeatedly in past years, cost me time and money. I do not want to hear another apology from a store manager. What I do want to hear is a statement from the regional manager explaining to me what steps he is taking to assure that this situation is not repeated again as it has so many times already. I am also posting this complaint at online web sites regarding lowes customer performance.

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Trina
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Jun 01, 2010 2:30 pm EDT

I purchased a tiller at Lowes 2 years ago and it worked well the first year. Last year when I went to use the tiller the tiller ran horribly. I tried to get th tiller repaired, but I had lost my receipt. When I tried at the store, they toldme they did not have the information available any more. I could get the information from my credit card company, but that didn't matter, the repair place wanted to see the receipt. To top things all off, I tried to purchase an air filter for the tiller today and Lowes did not carry the specific air filter, but would have to special order it. Come to find out the tiller was made by MTD and you can only get the filters through them. If Lowes is going to sell something, you would think they would at least carry the maintenance parts for the item, especially if the item was made for them.

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usc_conquest
Lexington, US
Jun 26, 2011 5:52 pm EDT

Hindsight being 20/20, here is my suggestion. You can always fax in an order ahead of time, online, or call ahead and pay for it over the phone, that way it is ready for you when you get there. All you would have to do then is wait for them to get it from where they staged it, and load it for you.

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Mar 08, 2011 12:56 pm EST

UGG Boot ist both comfortable and warm.
It would help you show your beauty and in cold winter und keep you warm.
Online shop http://www.uggbootshop.de/

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va_girl
Norfolk, US
Feb 25, 2011 4:46 pm EST
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Why don't you try Home Depot?

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Lowe's frigidaire freezer

Purchased a $700 upright Frigidaire freezer on 1-1-2011, had it delivered on 1-8-2011, stocked it with over $1000.00 of food and less than 3 weeks later the entire computer system was blown on it! Lowes return policy sucks-now its a 7 day return policy instead of 30 day. We had to contact figidaire for the repair--which we are still waiting for. Lowes does not stand behind their products and has terrible customer service. To top it off, the repair company that Figidaire has sent out is based over 5 hours away and does NOT stay on schedule or call with updates-instead your left to just sit at home and wait. This repair company is called A & E Factory Service, who claims that they can not contact repairmen to ask when their approximate arrival time will be! Just completely APPAULED and severely DISSAPOINTED --Will NEVER purchase appliances again at LOWES and especially FRIGIDAIRE! Warning to all----SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!

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Lowe's overcharged for door installation!

I went to Lowes to purchase and have a cliding glass patio door installed. The door was priced about right and the estimate including install was about $435. but somehow I ended up with a bill for over $1000. I called the store manager and have not heard back. It appears that I was charged almost $700 for an install that was standard and took the two men who came under two hours to complete the replacement. I saw their invoice and it gave them $125 for their work installing the door. Beware of using lowes. I found this prohibitively expensively and would not use them again.

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Lowe's bad machine, bad repair service, no show

The worst service contract ever, the worst repairmen working for Lowe's. had service call today. Finally got ahold of co said they will be here today.The guy called at 245 pm, and said lost how do i get to your place. 5 min away. Its 6:10 pm Not here. I am pissed. Plus had to rescheduled for Tuesday, clothes in washer wet. I am so mad. Didn't have balls to call and say still can't find you. J & M appliances. If they schedule call for them SAY NO.

Now have to try another company..Also no pay to miss work

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I recently purchased a GE appliance from Lowe's. The sign stated that the appliance qualified for a $50.00 rebate, which was part of my purchase decision. The clerk had difficulty getting the rebate form to print, and I had to wait. I submitted the rebate, and now I get a letter that the rebate was only for a pair of appliances. The sign did not say pair...

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Lowe's fail on delivery

From the start to the end of my experience in ordering GE Profile range and range hood, Lowes dropped the ball. I shopped online and ordered those items by phone from our local store; the person in appliances told me I'd get the receipt in the mail; it never came.

If only that were all; the first attempt to deliver the range by the agreed date failed; it was rescheduled for three days later. As a compensation for the missed delivery, the Lowes manager agreed to have the range hood installed for free, which was satisfactory to me.

Two days later the installer arrived. While I was elsewhere, he placed the range hood box on my new range, somehow managed to bump a know that turned a back burner on high, and set the box on fire. I come from the back room to a house full of noxious smoke, ash and embers on my kitchen floor, and a box on fire in my front yard. The house still smelled like an incinerator two days later, and the back burner was ruined with melted waxy material permanently scorched on.

Of course, Lowes agred to replace the range. When I hadn't heard from them about a delivery date for that, and it was time to pay the credit card bill with the charge on it, I worked with my credit card company to do a chargeback. Having their money taken back finally got their attention.

However, here I still sit, 48 days after first ordering this item, waiting fo them to deliver the exchanged range. They said it would come in the morning; at 11;30 I called delivery, to find that a "glitch in the system" kept it from going out.

Despite the individual efforts of some people I worked with there (and you never of course work with the same person) to sincerely make thing right, I believe that LOWES is really the glitch in the system. Shop Menards, shop Home Depot; just please, don't give them your business!

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Teri Tutak
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Sep 20, 2021 12:49 pm EDT

Please never use Lowes, it will become a nightmare. My husband & I wasted 3 days waiting for delivery of new appliances for our new residence . And we still do not know when they will arrive. I honestly have not ever experienced such incompetent assistance dealing with so many different individuals. I feel Lowe's is responsible for the delivery of their products. I want my new appliances, at this point they are being held hostage. Thank you Lowes!

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Lowe's did not honor coupon

Lowes's sent me an email for 10% off on any purchase I made good through 2/24/2011. I printed out the coupon but the barcode would not print. I tried several ways to get the barcode to print but had no success. I took the printed page into the store and requested the manager to authorize my 10% off and explained that my computer would not print the barcode. Every other part of the coupon printed perfectly. The manager, "Amy" told me to either use someone else's computer to try to print the barcode, or go to the public library to try to print the coupon. I found these suggested alternatives to be both insulting and annoying since I have spent several thousand dollars at their store in the last 8 months doing a whole-house remodel of my home. In spite of my attempts to reason with them over this, neither the managers, "John", "Amy", or customer service clerk, "Ashton" would bother to accomodate me, a very good customer in their store. I asked "Amy" to pull up my buying data in the store's data base to see how much I have spent there and she did. She then insulted me further by saying that my records show "various detail items" purchased in the last year. I DO NOT CONSIDER SPENDING OVER TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AT THEIR STORE TO BE "VARIOUS DETAIL ITEMS". I am very upset over this experience today and will plan on making HOME DEPOT my new store of choice for my remaining remodel purchases.

Betty Deutsch
34 Scarlet Drive
Belleville, IL 62220
email: [protected]@sbcglobal.net

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I bought 2 Cobalt Multi drive wrenches w/inte product no.105129 on December 19, 2010 and I was told there were 6 in stock so I bought 2 of them using my Lowes charge card. I called tghe store 1/13/11 and they told me they are still not in stock. Now this was my third call for theses items that were a christmas gift. My was I told they were in stock and not...

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