Lowes Home Improvement ~ Other: My letter to LOWES.. Ladies please read..

[riffparker]

9/5/2006

To Whom It May Concern:

Yesterday afternoon, my fiancé visited your Lowes store in Delmar, NY to look for some flooring. The salesman in the flooring department must have been psychic since he knew her nickname! (It’s “little lady”, as in “Hey there, little lady!”).

Anyway I really appreciate the good service they are giving at your Lowes store in Delmar!

He would not really discuss the flooring with her, because he wanted to know if she had her husband’s permission to make decisions regarding home improvements before he would sell her anything.

This letter should serve as my written consent that she does in fact have my permission to make purchases for home improvement regarding the home she owns, and paid for with her own money. Don’t ask me how she got a job without my permission! We are still very upset that she has learned how to read. Thank god for small miracles though, I still had to drive her to the store. Can you imagine what would happen to this world if we let women drive someday? Next thing you know they will be voting, and then it’s all over for us, huh?

Keep up the good work over there!


P.S. This letter is SARCASTIC, as in we will be shopping at HOME DEPOT from now on.

[mshopper]

[hotcouponmama]

My husband almost never makes big ticket item purchases. It isn't cause he can't or won't, he just chooses not to since he knows I am going to get the best deal on an item we are looking for. When I bought our flooring for the last house, I saved about $700 on it - he would have just paid whatever the price on the tag says. It was the same with our last car - I did all the prelim stuff and he came in from the office and signed with me - saved him several hours and several grand. And then I basically bought our current home. And while my husband doesn't need my permission to buy anything, he usually runs it by me for coupons, special financing deals, or PM opportunities before he does buy large ticket items.

If some person had said that to me, I would have come unhinged right then and there in the store.

[cutenirish]

GEEZ! I Think my favorite shopping experiance was actually at Home Depot (don't go there unless we have too). We were looking at kitchen sinks. I asked the man in the sink section what the difference was in the gauges of stainless steal with the sinks. The man told me "there is no difference" i know damn well there is. So I said " Then why do the three sinks that look identical have different prices on them? and have different gauge info on them". He said "They do make different gauge's but they don't mean much". The woman is the washer/dryer dept spoke up and said "there is a difference she is right". The whole time my DH just stood there (he knew I knew what I was talking about). Some PEOPLE ugh!

Good luck at Home Depot (I know it's all in the employee themselves we shop at Lowes now).

[MissChele]

Too funny! Please let us know if they reply...


MissChele

[DianeScraps]

I LOVE it!

Tooo many times I have been treated this way, and my husband doesn't make any major buying decisions (except TVs cause if it were my choice it would just be small and cheap, I don't watch it!)


Sorry to hear about the Lowes experience though :-(

Diane

[jujubee]

You just made me choke on a peanut butter cookie (that my HUSBAND BAKED last night)!!

[kurlisola]

I am absolutely astonished! Very curious to hear their response.

[esperanza]

Lowes customer service has declined significantly. When I was 8 month pg, i sat on a chair that had been incorrectly assembled and fell to the floor flat on my back.

The employee working in the dept didn't even apologize or find me somewhere to sit and "recover" They sure got a letter about that.

Did she catch the guys name? Maybe you add the time so that they can identify who the employee was. Good letter.

[BzyBee]

You did a wonderful job on that letter!!
I am sorry they treated her that way...and I know just how she feels. We lived on the border and DH was working in Mexico, I was working 2 blocks from the builder. DH told him if he had any questions, he should call me during the day...because DH was not available. So the builder would call me and I would go in...talk about the windows, ask me what brick color we chose, ask what kind of handrail and balusters for the front porch...etc. So I would tell him, we want the white windows, the darker brick and the turned spindles..."OK Mrs. Bee. As soon as we hear from Mr. Bee we will go ahead and place the order." :confused: "Uh...you just did hear from Mr. Bee...we talked about each of these things....this is what WE want." "OK Mrs. Bee...that is great....when can Mr. Bee give us a call?" :Anrgy13:
Mr. Bee tried very hard to convince them that I could speak for both of us. Although they tolerated me...they always found reason to call and talk to Mr. Bee...

Good for you for standing up for your fiance.
:yourock: