Since Mark and I have been married we have debated 'the real tree' vs 'the fake tree' for Christmas--luckily we have never really had to worry about it because we have never spent a holiday season at our home. Until now we have always put up our 3 ft fake tree at the beginning of Dec and then gone on our way when school got out to his parents house (with a fake tree) or my parents location (with a real tree).
Somewhere along the way, we stopped discussing it and Mark somehow won (that doesn't happen very often) and ordered a fake tree from Home Depot on Black Friday. Well 4 days later we get an email saying that our order is canceled due to the tree being out of stock. We were annoyed but somewhat understood that it had been a great deal and it was a crazy day. After talking to customer service they agreed to give us 15% off of our next tree. A few days later we order another tree online (after checking the stores and not loving what we saw), Mark had them check to make sure it was in stock...4 days later our order is canceled due to the tree not being in stock! This time they offer us 10% off (no not a total of 25% just 10%), Mark gets upset and the call ends badly. Meanwhile I am annoyed that it is mid-December and that we don't have our tree up AND that Sarah got a free real tree up at my parent's house during Thanksgiving. We are not sure what to do.
A couple hours later a manager calls Mark and says he is sorry for our trouble and that he put a gift card for $150 in the mail for us to go to the store and buy a tree. The store is pretty much cleaned out but they did have an unlit tree with pine cones and berries on it (it took me an hour to cut them all off) that I liked so we bought it along with some lights (all for free!!!), and brought it home.
And here it is...
Merry Christmas Home Depot
Somewhere along the way, we stopped discussing it and Mark somehow won (that doesn't happen very often) and ordered a fake tree from Home Depot on Black Friday. Well 4 days later we get an email saying that our order is canceled due to the tree being out of stock. We were annoyed but somewhat understood that it had been a great deal and it was a crazy day. After talking to customer service they agreed to give us 15% off of our next tree. A few days later we order another tree online (after checking the stores and not loving what we saw), Mark had them check to make sure it was in stock...4 days later our order is canceled due to the tree not being in stock! This time they offer us 10% off (no not a total of 25% just 10%), Mark gets upset and the call ends badly. Meanwhile I am annoyed that it is mid-December and that we don't have our tree up AND that Sarah got a free real tree up at my parent's house during Thanksgiving. We are not sure what to do.
A couple hours later a manager calls Mark and says he is sorry for our trouble and that he put a gift card for $150 in the mail for us to go to the store and buy a tree. The store is pretty much cleaned out but they did have an unlit tree with pine cones and berries on it (it took me an hour to cut them all off) that I liked so we bought it along with some lights (all for free!!!), and brought it home.
And here it is...
Merry Christmas Home Depot
1 comment:
Not to shabby!! But, I'm disappointed you gave in. Real tree all the way. Come on, Dalia. :):)
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