Time to unleash the awesome power of the WBF!!!

[Mrleft8]

I've tried every google combo I can think of. I need to find the Home Depot vendor for my area... His name is Mark (Marc?) Hartman (Hardtmann, Hartmann, Hertman...?) The person at HD that I've been working with is continuing to not return calls or E-mails, but the few times I have button holed her assures me that HD is going to send everything I have asked for, for the Tobago project...... I was supposed to have everything on a boat a month ago... I have (Thanks to the generosity of several forum members) purchased a substantial collection of safety gear, and other stuff I forgot to put on my HD request list.

[Mrleft8]

OH C'MON GUYS! I KNOW ONE OF YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!

[Donn]

What do you mean by "Home Depot vendor?"

[Hwyl]

Give us more to go on. I put all my synapses in series and the old brain still won't start.

[Meerkat]

Sounds like you need strong coffee! ;)

[crawdaddyjim50]

Home Depot Customer Care
The Home Depot is dedicated to providing our customers with excellent customer service. If you would like to contact us with a comment or complaint, please call our Customer Care Department where one of our specialists will be able to speak with you personally. The Customer Care Department is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. ET, and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET. We are always appreciative of our customer's input and will work with you to provide the information you require or a solution to your problem. Call 1-800-553-3199.

Hope this number helps.

[Mrleft8]

Originally posted by Donn:
What do you mean by "Home Depot vendor?"As I understand it, Donn, HD has independent suppliers that stock their stores. Not as in DeWALT brings stock and puts it on the shelf, But as in Mark Hartman runs a company that tracks what certain HD stores that he is the vendor for, are selling, and stocks the stores independently from the HD hq in Atlanta... Not sure if I have it completely right....But that's the gist of it.

[Donn]

Does he represent specific manufacturers, or product lines? I know, in the past at least, HD used wholesalers known as "rack jobbers," who would stock fast moving product lines in regional warehouses, for re-stocking the stores, but I thought they had gone over to their own regional distribution centers.

[Hwyl]

Doug' it looks to me that you are being sent off down a dead end street.

You should be talking to "Ringmaster not the clowns"

[Popeye]

is he about this tall and funny looking ..

[Mrleft8]

Originally posted by Hwyl:
Doug' it looks to me that you are being sent off down a dead end street.

You should be talking to "Ringmaster not the clowns"Got ringmaster's number? :(

[Katherine]

Look up who the Home Depot VP of marketing is and drop him a polite line.

[Mrleft8]

Originally posted by Katherine:
Look up who the Home Depot VP of marketing is and drop him a polite line.Tom Taylor.... Hmmmmm Now how to word it...

[ 12-10-2005, 09:17 AM: Message edited by: Mrleft8 ]

[Katherine]

What ever you do be polite and be extra polite to his secretary. Explain your plan, what's been promised by whom from home depot, and graciously praise their stores and service.

[Mrleft8]

Originally posted by Katherine:
What ever you do be polite and be extra polite to his secretary. Explain your plan, what's been promised by whom from home depot, and graciously praise their stores and service.Of course I will... Much to the amazment of most of my friends, and aquaintainces, I'm the complete diplomat...... When called for....

[Mrleft8]

But I'm still P!ssed off that they don't respond to phone calls, or E-mails! :mad:

[Hwyl]

We know you're pretty good at persistence. Show em your mettle.

(resisted the urge to post stupid motivational poster here, you're one the few who would have "got it").

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Tell them their motto should be ...

You can do it.... We don't help.

[Mrleft8]

Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine:
Tell them their motto should be ...

You can do it.... We don't help.Ooooh! That'll make 'em wanna help me!

[Mrleft8]

Found him... Mark Hartman works for TTI... IE: Ryobi, RIDGID, etc..... Talked to him. Got an E-mail adress. (Doesn't work) Called him back to check adress.... 5 times.... No call backs.... :rolleyes: