Home Depot Clearance Thread 2016
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PapaGrande
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Am looking for a portable inverter generator (at least 1800 peak watts), but in no hurry. Not a Generac, as they seem to get terrible reviews.
What should I be looking out for?
What should I be looking out for?
PapaGrande
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Didn't know if there were any decent ones getting clearanced.
The Honda is $1000, which is about double what I can spend.
The Honda is $1000, which is about double what I can spend.
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Also looking for a decent pressure washer and a Ridgid shopvac.
Setting up a mobile detailing business.
Setting up a mobile detailing business.
Where are you at?
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Nashville TN, but will be driving to San Diego in a few days to visit my son.
Drive? Wtf?
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Trip will be 2-3 weeks total. San Diego, OC, LA, then Yosemite. Maybe a few more stops. Prius gets 46mpg on the highway,and I can sleep in it with AC running in a pinch.
KristianS
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Sleep in a Prius. Wow
Spn1025
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He's a midget.
Dont do that. If you have a CO2 leak you might never wake up...
A Prius can run the AC off of battery for a short while. The gas engine comes on maybe 20% of the time to recharge batteries.
CO leak...carbon dioxide leak wouldn't be a problem
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It would be a problem if he stopped exhaling CO2.
PapaGrande
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I prefer the term "fun-sized"
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Sleep? I wouldn't drive in it, let alone sleep.
do yall have stores that actually carry the honda inverter generator?
in my stores i typically see a sign that says go find it online at homedepot.com
some stores have the green ryobi. it was $100 off for a while at certain stores, but it has not dropped again since january.
there was a gray ryobi (otherwise identical i believe) which was some kind of special buy.. i think it may have dropped at some pt but i wasnt looking for one when it did.
my limited research points to hondas and yamahas as being the best, but personally i would try a ryobi, generac, briggs&stratton, etc if the price was right. cabelas has run a few deals on them but i believe mostly for generacs. alternatively i have also seen some potentially good deals at local pawnshops and craigslist... i would stick to honda/yamaha if going secondhand
in my stores i typically see a sign that says go find it online at homedepot.com
some stores have the green ryobi. it was $100 off for a while at certain stores, but it has not dropped again since january.
there was a gray ryobi (otherwise identical i believe) which was some kind of special buy.. i think it may have dropped at some pt but i wasnt looking for one when it did.
my limited research points to hondas and yamahas as being the best, but personally i would try a ryobi, generac, briggs&stratton, etc if the price was right. cabelas has run a few deals on them but i believe mostly for generacs. alternatively i have also seen some potentially good deals at local pawnshops and craigslist... i would stick to honda/yamaha if going secondhand
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drwheels
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One of my area stores carry them. On end cap by pro desk.
ghettogarage
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Just cleaned out the Pecos Vegas HD of all martha stewart closet organizer ****. I left the display which was up on the second or 3rd tier. You may be able to negotiate with them for it since they're at .02 pricing. Able to do 4 closets for $500-ish with the stuff I got. Beats oregon pricing.
bow
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I hit up about 8 stores over the weekend. Scored a few nailers and a sprayer. Also found my first penny chainsaw! -- Clearance sections were all a joke. Everything seemed to be cleaned up or junk. Not much new stuff hitting clearance and most of it just getting marked to .00 in my area. I did see a some sporadic .04/.02 prices but no real .06/.03 -- trend?
thats par for the course on semi desireable nailers/drills though...
bow
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I'm pretty sure that .00 items do not drop to a penny, only .02 and .03 automatically go to a penny.
paulsomlo
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Does anybody here actually know how the MET process works? I mean specifics, like:
Do they print out the yellow stickers on the cart or do they get them from a central computer/printer. If they print them out themselves, do they download data from a store computer into a computer on the cart, then print the stickers? What I'm really trying to get at, is exactly when will the price drop appear in the PCA (and at the checkout), as compared to when the MET puts the sticker on it.
Clearance items here are fairly scarce, with two endcaps for the entire store. Between competition from other customers, the MET, and the employees, it's become fairly apparent that the only way to win at this game, is to be 1st on the scene.
I'll watch things in clearance for several weeks, then they disappear. But the quantities are such that they couldn't possibly have sold. Like automotive light bulbs - 50, maybe 100 packages spread across 10 part numbers, they just vanished. MET once told me if I buy something for a penny, they lose their jobs. Whether true or not, they're zealots when it comes to removing penny items around here.
So how do I beat them at their own game? There has to be a window of opportunity between the time prices change and the moment they put the new sticker on. About the only thing I know, is that prices seem to change on Tues/Wed.
Do they print out the yellow stickers on the cart or do they get them from a central computer/printer. If they print them out themselves, do they download data from a store computer into a computer on the cart, then print the stickers? What I'm really trying to get at, is exactly when will the price drop appear in the PCA (and at the checkout), as compared to when the MET puts the sticker on it.
Clearance items here are fairly scarce, with two endcaps for the entire store. Between competition from other customers, the MET, and the employees, it's become fairly apparent that the only way to win at this game, is to be 1st on the scene.
I'll watch things in clearance for several weeks, then they disappear. But the quantities are such that they couldn't possibly have sold. Like automotive light bulbs - 50, maybe 100 packages spread across 10 part numbers, they just vanished. MET once told me if I buy something for a penny, they lose their jobs. Whether true or not, they're zealots when it comes to removing penny items around here.
So how do I beat them at their own game? There has to be a window of opportunity between the time prices change and the moment they put the new sticker on. About the only thing I know, is that prices seem to change on Tues/Wed.
This is based on my store over 10 years ago when I worked there. The cart prints out the stickers. I guess the carts are preloaded with the info. The met comes in grabs carts and go to work.
Like usual it depends on the store on why you might not be finding the deals. Some stores have met teams working pre/post store hours so you might never see the products. Also, a big thing was having family and friends pick up products since if you buy reduced priced products within 24 hours of the price drop. Lastly if it is loose management store there will always be one or several members of met that will scan (semi know what products should drop) for big ticket items right at start of shift. You literally would have 15 minutes of wiggle room for some of those things.
Hope that helps. I can't scroll through your entire post to make sure I answered everything. If you have nay other questions feel free to pm me.
paulsomlo
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A friend who worked at HD a year or so ago, told me the items go into the compactor. He inquired about some items that they were tossing and was denied them. It's possible that he just wasn't part of the "in crowd", but I highly doubt that all penny items get destroyed. Unless there's a manager standing there watching, there's just too much temptation.
Stuff still gets trashed, but that was old school. I would venture to say less than 10% is destroyed now. If you really curious about it go ask your local fire dept. We would have a fire at least once a quarter when destroying stuff. Out store manager took everything for himself. He gave them away as gifts for employee of months, votec school, high school shop class, and also would let all of us employees check out whatever we wanted and use it. He was supposed to destroy it all, but had issues destroying perfectly good stuff. You can't give them to habitat for humanity, goodwill, and such anymore. They now have stores where they sell things so you started seeing returns with no receipts and store bonuses were effected.
jits1980
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Anybody seen a rebate for August yet
paulsomlo
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Thank you CDMD, that does help. I think the only way to crack this nut, is to just appear very naive and ask questions when I'm in my local store. Or pick an item, and check it in the PCA every night, maybe just before closing. What I really need is the holy grail - home access to the PCA.
For the most part, I'm not after penny items; on things that I can really use, last clearance tends to be an absolute bargain.
buy it at .03 or drop it in a random place where no one will find it <and most importantly remember where you dropped it >.
lots of the stuff that shows up as penny in my neck of the woods received a yellow tag, was lost or returned, then placed on a clearance rack w/o anyone checking the price first. 99% of the work in that case is knowing what should be on the clearance rack and checking curious skus in pca before checking out swiftly.
the other common penny find is when the item never leaves the shelf bc its buried, looks like another product, missing sku tag, etc. ...or it was stored in the wrong place forever and no one realized it
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