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Home Depot Wrong Price Policy
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Most bodies accumulate their money beneath the floorboards, but one adeptness client managed to save added than $4200 by affairs them.
Sheila Laird couldn't accept her luck back Oak flooring, commonly bartering at $65 per case, was bargain to an absurd $2.97 per box on Home Depot's website.
Fearing she would absence out on the deal, Laird printed the ad and took it to a adjacent aperture area she bought 22 boxes.
Opportunist: Sheila Laird took advantage of a appraisement absurdity on the Home Depot website to buy floorboards for her home at aloof $3 a aboveboard foot
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Error: Sheila Laird ordered 72 boxes of balk from Home Depot which was afield advertised for $2.97 per box instead of aboveboard foot
She additionally paid for addition 50 boxes at a altered area to attic her 1500 aboveboard bottom address in Calgary, Canada.
The angle specialist paid aloof $213.84 for 72 boxes of hardwood.
But Global News appear that back she went to aces up the flooring, Home Depot annulled the order.
The low, listed amount was a aberration that should accept apprehend $2.97 per aboveboard bottom - not box - which would accept amount $4455.
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'They said, ‘no sorry, it was an accessory error, we can’t let you accept it, we’ll accord you a chargeless case if you buy the added 52 cases at 65 dollars a case',' Laird said.
'I'm like, ‘yeah, but I accept a receipt. You guys absolutely put it through the system'.'
Prepared: Stunned at the bargain price, Sheila Laird printed a archetype of the action from the Home Depot website
Good chump service: Home Depot agreed to account the abatement rate, acknowledging it had fabricated an online error
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Laird believes the abundance shouldn’t be accustomed to abate on the deal.
'My adage is it never hurts to ask, so I asked, I went in and I accustomed it and I paid for it. So I haven’t done annihilation amiss as far as I’m concerned,' she said.
Home Depot agreed to account the auction afterwards actuality contacted by Global News.
'We accept there was an absurdity fabricated at one of our stores. Our chump account aggregation has contacted Mrs Laird and apologized for the misunderstanding. She will accept her attic and it should be delivered to her home over the abutting few days,' the aggregation said in a account to the media outlet.
Consumer experts say there is no law in Canada acute that Home Depot account the ad, as food accept a appropriate to debris a auction if there's been a mistake.
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