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Background:
I had never planned on looking for such box, but it's odd size was quite intriguing. In reality I had a line on the same color box, but a kra4813 that my buddy had bought for $1000 brand new and outgrew. He lives 1500 miles away so I had considered the HF 56" but can't stand to spend that much at that place.
I saw a fellow texan post up the marked down clearance price, so off I went to lowes. There are well over 20 stores in the town I live in alone.
I picked the closest one. They didn't have a spot for them and I rolled out immediately.
On to store number 2. The man in the tool isle recalled having them before but was sure they were discontinued and insisted the whole lowes network was out.
On to store number 3. Once again man in charge of tool section simply stated "nope don't carry them". They did have 1 top box marked at $276 clearance though. He goes on to tell me to call kobalt myself. I ask for number and he suggests I read the box. I call, they tell me they are warranty, not retail and I need to have store check. The guy refused. Frustrated, I had customer service do the same check I asked for twice already. She was more than willing and located all of them in this town. A whopping 13 left, located in 2 stores.
4th store, needless to say had what I was looking for, and away I went with a lighter wallet. Only problem was it was $315 and they couldn't price match with other "out of district" lowes stores.
Almost bought the top just for the stupid cd player. Truth of the matter is, I only have a tape deck in my tiny cherokee and have 2 blown speakers. Being that I needed to buy those anyways, it ALMOST made sense to buy that top box for a net price of only about $120. Couldn't do it though.
Of course I had to stop by the plier section and look at those 2pk cobras, but also did not purchase.
Guess the moral is, if you were considering a little extra storage for misc bulk (or needed car audio parts), better hurry up.
I had never planned on looking for such box, but it's odd size was quite intriguing. In reality I had a line on the same color box, but a kra4813 that my buddy had bought for $1000 brand new and outgrew. He lives 1500 miles away so I had considered the HF 56" but can't stand to spend that much at that place.
I saw a fellow texan post up the marked down clearance price, so off I went to lowes. There are well over 20 stores in the town I live in alone.
I picked the closest one. They didn't have a spot for them and I rolled out immediately.
On to store number 2. The man in the tool isle recalled having them before but was sure they were discontinued and insisted the whole lowes network was out.
On to store number 3. Once again man in charge of tool section simply stated "nope don't carry them". They did have 1 top box marked at $276 clearance though. He goes on to tell me to call kobalt myself. I ask for number and he suggests I read the box. I call, they tell me they are warranty, not retail and I need to have store check. The guy refused. Frustrated, I had customer service do the same check I asked for twice already. She was more than willing and located all of them in this town. A whopping 13 left, located in 2 stores.
4th store, needless to say had what I was looking for, and away I went with a lighter wallet. Only problem was it was $315 and they couldn't price match with other "out of district" lowes stores.
Almost bought the top just for the stupid cd player. Truth of the matter is, I only have a tape deck in my tiny cherokee and have 2 blown speakers. Being that I needed to buy those anyways, it ALMOST made sense to buy that top box for a net price of only about $120. Couldn't do it though.
Of course I had to stop by the plier section and look at those 2pk cobras, but also did not purchase.
Guess the moral is, if you were considering a little extra storage for misc bulk (or needed car audio parts), better hurry up.
