The Ariston 4 gallon water heaters have hit a penny.
Found one, purchased it at SCO, and after the receipt printed the SCO cashier noticed it rang up for a penny and said she needed to call the mgr. Since I already had the receipt in hand I figured I'd be nice and wait for the mgr to come over. Big mistake! Long story short he took the item away and kept trying to get my personal information "so we could work something out" and he kept saying that I must work for or had previously worked for HD because I knew too much about their store operations if I was able to find an item that rang up at a penny. I asked him to call HD corporate to discuss the issue but he refused and said he didn't have to do what corporate said anyway. The whole time I was very courteous and never raised my voice but made it known that I was not going to leave without the item that I had paid the current price for and I was holding the receipt for. At this point he threatened to call the police on me for trespassing! During this time since he wouldn't call corp, I did (only the 2nd time I've ever done so) and the corp rep called the store to tell him that he needed to let me leave with the item. After the call he kept stonewalling and telling me he doesn't have to do what corp says but while I was still talking with the corporate rep he spoke with someone else on his phone and then ended up relenting and letting me leave with the heater.
While I agree that we shouldn't be calling HD corp every time we get denied the opportunity to purchase a penny item because it's definitely going to limit our chances to find these deals in the future, in this case where the mgr literally took an item out of my hands that I'd already paid for and then threatened to call the police on me for trespassing, I do think that corporate needs to hear about that type of behavior from their store employees.
