I will get alot of thumbs down for this but its true…..

Monster large retailers like Home Cheapo, Lowe’s, Sears, Wal Mart and the like have tremendous buying power; The corporate people go to the makers of “X” product and say “we have been buying your ‘X’ for $50 each for many months and have sold many hundred thousand units of your ‘X’ product”. Then they say “if you expect to be able to sell your ‘X’ in our stores world wide, we will now pay you $42.50 each”….

To that, the makers say to themselves: “OK, we will now make a $42.50 product”.

GOTCHA.

On top of that, why would you want to pay two people? Why pay the contractor AND Home Depot?

Contact a Rheem dealer directly… you will get a first quality unit and only have to pay one outfit.

I had an estimate from Home Depot on a Trane system. They gave me a price of $8500. I thought this was high so I looked around to other Trane dealers and got the same unit for $5300.

Their salesman told me that places like Home Depot just contract it out to a local company and tack a hefty profit on for themselves.

I check out who was doing the installs for Home Depot and he was right. It was a local company contracted to Home Depot.

Herb.

Don’t go to Home Depot! I unfortunately went the HD route on my granite countertops installation and it was a nightmare and I ended up having to pay a lot more money than HD quoted me and the job took a whole month longer than quoted. They basically contract out the work to unqualified contractors that will do the work for cheap so HD gets to pocket more of the money and the work quality sucks! When you have to call someone at HD to get some answers no one answers the phone, etc,. etc.. Plus all those people that work at HD really seem to hate their jobs.

When it comes to your central air conditioning please go with a reputable company because it’s terrible to not be able to contact someone when your ac or heat goes out! Plus you want to get it done right and I guarantee you won’t be saving any money in the long run by going with Home Depot!!!

Below is a very reputable HVAC contractor in the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington area of Texas for anyone that needs one.

As I have not purchased a system from home depot. I am know how the deal works.
Trane has a partner ship with homedepot to carry there product line in the homedepot store. Then the person who you talk to at the home depot store about the system does not work for home depot. They are actually employee of the local company that is the preferred contractor for home depot and the installation of the train system. Plus once the person at the store level sells you on the deal you get passed off to someone else to someone else, till basically they have you locked in and are doing the actually installation. They are going to try and add the sun and the moon in extra options to the order “cause thats what you need.”
You would be far better off seeking a direct company NOT though home depot.
The pricing should be much better and a lot cheaper.