Home Depot Delivers Broken Lawnmower and Fails to Issue Refund
A customer received a defective lawnmower from Home Depot with a missing safety switch, and after multiple follow-up calls over two weeks, neither a replacement nor a refund was provided. This is a retail fulfillment and customer service complaint with no software market relevance.
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