|
View Poll Results: Which sucks worse, Lowes or Home Depot? | |
Lowes
|     | 19 | 25.33% | |
Home Depot
|    | 54 | 72.00% | |
Neither, I go to Plywood Ranch
|    | 2 | 2.67% |
 | | 
08-28-06, 02:43 PM
|
 #1 (permalink)
| | Rollin‘ on 33s...
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Brooklyn, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs
Posts: 3,873
| Which sucks worse, Lowes or Home Depot?
Or would that be trying to determine the lesser of two evils?
Both stores here suck and blow at the same time.
__________________ 1981 FJ60 - 210K, OME, 33" BFG ATs, Surco Safari Roof Rack with custom Rod Racks, MAF header, Flowmaster Super 44 muffler. 2002 UZJ100 - 50K, OME 865, OME T-Bars, Slee Diff Drop, TJM T-15 AL, TJM RB8, TJM Rear Tyre Carrier, Toyo OC ATs, Warn Winch, AO Roof Rack, IPF 900s, PIAA 520s and 510s, Borla CAT back with SLP muffler. Gotham City Land Cruisers
Yankee Toys
Bay to Blue Ridge Cruisers | 
|  |
|
08-28-06, 02:50 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lago Vista, TX
Posts: 356
| No issues with the lowes here, Home Depot is a 30 minute wait minimum if you need to find an employee for a specfic dept.
__________________
Cruiserless....at the moment.
__________________
Sold - '71 40, '93 80, '96 80, '84 60, '82 60, 69 40
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 02:50 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Site Addict
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Building 6, Row H, Cube 8a
Posts: 1,029
| Depot suckage is in a whole different dimension. I really liked Lowes until they installed the self checkout crap. But at least they still have enough humans working the register.
I avoid Depot like the plague.
__________________
'97 Locked FZJ80 - ARB Front, Dual Batteries, 2kW Inverter MallCruiser
2 Mid 70's Simplicity Garden Tractors
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 02:52 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | bring me my uniform
Join Date: May 2005 Location: hey, did you lose my arial photographs?
Posts: 975
| lowes' kobalt mechanics tools are made in the USA. home depots stuff is all chinese...
ummm... stock wise, lowes is a better pick but both are trading lower than they should. ripples from the housing scare i understand. not sure thats fixable by management. not sure when to buy 'em, but id guess, not right now.
__________________
"a true Land Cruiser owner wouldnt delete a thread he is getting bashed in. He would take it and love it....."
NoaH
"reading threads in chat days later is like walking into a bar at 2am and realizing all your friends are fucking drunk retards."
steves on a roll
"men are dumb when it comes to free pussy."
The God of Fire.
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 02:53 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: earth
Posts: 458
| lesser of two evils... I prefer dealing with local businesses.
But, if I have to go to either, I have had better results as far as staff intelligence at HD in my area... and a little better ratio of help to customers. Lowes (around here) has very few employees, let alone ones that even have any kind of clue as to what they continue to ramble on about. Most, at either store, whether knowledgeable or not, are more than happy to give you their opinion and just keep talking and talking and talking. If they are talking, they do not have to ‘work’. If I am going to have to listen to someone talk - I prefer they have a clue as to what they are talking about.
I have talked enuf. But, you do need that fourth category for your poll. LOCAL BIZ!
__________________ SR+ steven d philbrick Happy Now?
srplus @ hotmail.com (remove spaces)  '86FJ60 - 'BlueBird' . '69 fj40 SOA - 'Piney Woods Rooter' . "nothin' but the best for my hawgs." - the great santini | |
| | |
08-28-06, 02:55 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Forum Regular
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 10th Circuit
Posts: 170
| About the same. Our Lowes and HD are accross the street from each other. Difference is HD has all these old grandfatherly types and Lowes hires Mexican street gang members. They are helpful, but it's weird.
Excuse me.
Wha chu want esse.
I'm looking for drywall screws.
Aisle nueve
Thanks, aisle nine right?
Si mon. | 
| | |
08-28-06, 02:57 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 305
| Here the HD guys are more helpful (but can be hard to find), and the Lowe's guys (90% of the time) are just f--ing clueless.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by IronYuppy  Anything that somehow curtails the incessant bleating by iPhone users about how fucking marvelous and life-affirming their phones are is fine by me.
Where's the "shut the fuck up" app, and why haven't you downloaded it yet? | | |
| | |
08-28-06, 02:58 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Posts: 580
| I blame Lowes for trying to be a home decor 'one stop shop' and dragging home depot in that direction. I just want a great selection of wood, tools and hardware. I'll go to sears if I need a refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, food processor, etc
__________________ Jason D
'75 FJ40 2F, SM420, FC Fabrication Roll Cage
'70 FJ40 in pieces TLCA #12850 | |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:00 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
|
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Dis shits about to blow up...
Posts: 816
| Lowes employees suck ass, but lowes has more to choose from. HD has less chit, but the employees have more knowledge...... | |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:04 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Forum Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the garage
Posts: 5,113
| lowes sell 10 lbs rolls of flux core welding wire
hd does not
lowes sells a better cut of wheels
hd does not
hd sells a good chop box blade
lowes is twice as much
hd is in my home town
lowes is on its way 
lowes has more employees who ask if i need help
hd ones walk right on by 
my family ouned true value is quiting the buisness 
i cant find my fuel line spacers i need at lowes or hd for the smokin deal i got tv. | |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:29 PM
|
#11 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago
Posts: 339
| HD employees have been hit or miss as far as knowledge, assuming I can a hold of one long enough to ask a question. Usually I know what I want I just can't find it in the store, so Lowes is better since they have more people to help me find things.
__________________
Gary Hill
Locked Stock '97 LX
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:30 PM
|
#12 (permalink)
| | Site Addict
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Springfield, Mo
Posts: 2,210
| My 2CW is that Lowes if for retail and HD is for contractors. If you know what you want and can find it on you own then HD. If you need help and dont know what your doing then Lowes. Less choice but more help
__________________
Thad Brown/ Rogersville Mo
TLCA #13816
84 FJ 60 Free bumper from GCC and Locker from LSCR/
93 FJ80 Locked and loaded
07 FJ/ wife's
08 Tundra Rocket ship
Green Country Cruisers
Ozark Mountain Cruisers
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:32 PM
|
#13 (permalink)
| | still solving problems...
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: uhhhh...duh...Northern CA
Posts: 5,421
| Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cube Dweller Depot suckage is in a whole different dimension. I really liked Lowes until they installed the self checkout crap. But at least they still have enough humans working the register.
I avoid Depot like the plague. | x2 x100
I hate the self checkout crap as well...if I'm going to do the work that their employees used to do, I expect to be paid for it...
I won't use it unless they start giving out discounts for self checkout.
__________________ a couple pairs of pink panties...
Another convert to the Church of Latter Day Swank, a sub-cult of Shahrislam
"...Opportunity doesn't knock, you have to kick the fuckin door in and drag the bitch out screamin." -- Ullr
"I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't." - Michael Crichton | |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:34 PM
|
#14 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: CA Bay Area
Posts: 523
| Lowe's fully sucks around here. Employee's are clueless, and their lines take forever.
I prefer United Rentals, White Cap, & mom & pop Electrical, Plumbing, & Welding supply outfits. As far as hardware stores are concerned, Pacific Hardware (Ace hardware) for nicknack's & patty whacks. All of these know what they are doing. Of course as a contractor I know what I want & when I go in I want it quick.
Home Depot if I must. Lowe's if I failed to mention sucks!!!
__________________
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -Thomas Jefferson
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:34 PM
|
#15 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: New Albany, Ohio
Posts: 464
| Those self check out things are a trip here. I had to hit a local HD not too long ago and the only lines open were the self check outs. Some poor dude in front of me had to physically scan 5 3/4" 4x8 sheets of plywood.
__________________
1981 HJ47 2H-T H55f
2002 Lexus Ls430
2008 Honda FIT sport
TLCA 5372
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:35 PM
|
#16 (permalink)
| | bring me my uniform
Join Date: May 2005 Location: hey, did you lose my arial photographs?
Posts: 975
| self checkout is nice with one or two items when a guy buying a a house thats not assembled yet, is in the normal aile.
__________________
"a true Land Cruiser owner wouldnt delete a thread he is getting bashed in. He would take it and love it....."
NoaH
"reading threads in chat days later is like walking into a bar at 2am and realizing all your friends are fucking drunk retards."
steves on a roll
"men are dumb when it comes to free pussy."
The God of Fire.
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:36 PM
|
#17 (permalink)
| | Supreme Lurker
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maine
Posts: 58
| I hate Home Depot and will not go there anymore. I drive 15 extra miles to go to lowes. Have had many things purchased at HD be returns that were used and repackaged. used and broken. Had a guy at home depot help us look for hardwood flooring once. He just walked around for half an hour telling people he was helping us though he just walked around, after the half hour, paged a guy who told him immediately where it was. At that time someone else called him and he couldn't help because it was time to go. He had killed his last 30 min at work doing nothing.
Anyway I can rant on more and more but prefer lowes.
John
__________________
Currently: 1997 FZJ80 150k, 2005 UZJ100 60K
1999 peg perego gaucho grande For the boys
Previously: 1971 fj55 1979 fj55 1974 fj40 1988 fj62
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:54 PM
|
#18 (permalink)
| | 250+ Club
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mt. Pleasant, SC
Posts: 383
| Ah hell. I devoted a whole thread to how much Home Depot sucks. Home Depot Sucks!!!
They can suck the sweat from inbetween my thigh and testicles during a long car ride.
Case in point: I want to get a Weber grill during a Labor Day sale. Lowes doesn't carry many. Home Depot carries a bunch. I've got to keep looking cause Home Shit-po ain't gettin' a penny from me ever again.  (without the smiley)
"Home Depot. You can do it. We can don't care."
__________________
'88 FJ62 140K
'96 FZJ80 Locked 204K
"I don't believe in hypothetical situations...that's like lying to your brain."
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 03:56 PM
|
#19 (permalink)
| | Merchant of Death
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Gig Harbor WA
Posts: 12,101
| actaully the local HD is a pretty dang good place, very helpfull(now) good stock(normaly) and really close to me.
__________________
Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it. Always be true to your work, your word, & your friends, & you will never live a day without peace
| |
| | |
08-28-06, 04:02 PM
|
#20 (permalink)
| | Site Addict
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: One of Four Presidential Flying Saucers
Posts: 1,468
| Home Depot has the worst customer service in the retail industry. Some marketing company has been doing a TOP 10 Worst for retail service and HD is #1 pretty much every year. If they don't fix it, Lowes is going to take a huge chunk of their business.
I go to Lowes, usually. Mostly because I grew up back in VA and Lowes was there for years and years. I think they're based out of N. Carolina.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by OZCAL …I think we need Swank 60 on this case. He knows irony… | | |
| | | |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
| | |
macneill
Cube Dweller
