this was down to $12.49 locally, but I missed it.
damn...it's sold out everywhere here but one store has two...
Well, got an interesting story about this one... Two stores in my area showed any at all, 1 at one store (still full price) and
TEN showing at the store closest to me for the $12.49 price. Hmm, I think it may be because they are long gone missing, but I'll order then rush over and check myself. I know this store is notoriously slow to get pick up orders pulled, so I figured I'd get there before they even looked for them.
My wife and I are in the isle looking, and I slide back the overhead cabinet space doors and BAM, a huge pile of them. I get the ladder and get mine down (just ordered one online). Just then, a store employee comes into the isle, and he's looking up and all over around the electrical cords. I turn and ask "are you looking for an online order?" He asks if it's for me, cause "the other guy" he says, "couldn't find em. Where did you get them?" Overhead, I say, not wanting to help him out much, as this store has repeatedly made me find stuff for my own online orders, and cancelled them even though the stuff I ordered was right in the isle. He says "did you know what a great deal that is? Those are $50 normally, that's a really, really great deal, did you know that?" I look at him and nod, ugh, yep, I know. In fact, I'll take 2 more please. I then ask him if I just take it up to the order pickup , can I get the other two at the same time? "Sure". I leave as he excitedly says "yeah, I was told to come back here and make sure and pull all of those, so thanks". I say "oh, did someone else order them too?" He says "No". I'm thinking, hmmmm, ok......
Here's the interesting part. I get to customer service to pick up my online order item, and the guy from the isle is long gone, never to be seen by me again, probably now stashing the rest of the cords. Why do I know this? Because as my wife pulls up the online order on her phone, the checkout guy says "oh, did you know that order had been cancelled already?"
Yep, they were looking all over for them, and had already cancelled my order. Here I thought they were making another attempt to fill my order, and that's why a 2nd guy was back there looking for the cords... nope. I was cancelled and long forgotten. Awesome to see the ganking in action, isn't it?
If I hadn't gotten there right away, I may have not even driven up there, like I have in the past when I get the instant cancellation, or I may have since the online inventory showed 10 which was quite a few and would have been worth looking around for. At least I got the 10% discount from my original online order applied to all 3, so that worked out.
Nice cords by the way- the extra 2 foot bonus extension with 3 way head and circuit breaker on one end is nice too. I wondered why it was listed as a 52 foot extension cord- thought that seemed an odd length. Maybe never showed up on searches since usually standard 25 foot, 50, and 100 foot do, but not 52 foot.