NAPA/Carlyle CrAzY Pricing!?!
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American Locomotive
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That's within spitting distance of Snap-On prices. Gotta be an error... right?
Try changing your Napa store to a different one. I checked the prices on one store and the R1290 lists for $69.99 and the R1490 for $33.49. Then when I tried another store that used to list Carlyle tools cheaper than other stores around it the R1290 lists for $130.69 and the R1490 for $63.89. At a third store I get the same prices you posted. I'm not sure why the price difference is so great this time around. Usually there is some variation between stores, but not this much.
Buckgnarly
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I get the cheaper prices when using my Prolink account too.
Napa has some weird price strategies. Twice lately I have placed items in my cart and come back a day later and they give you message that the price has gone up but only show the message once. It makes you think that they monitor trends that once people put things in the cart and don't purchase immediately, that they come back later to buy. Why not mark up the price and they might not notice.
Clutchsmoke
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The only way I buy Carlyle tools is on sale or through Amazon UK. I don't know why they're much cheaper on Amazon UK but they are. I know for a fact that they're not losing money when they're selling their tools on special. For instance, they used to sell the locking flex head for a good price when it was on sale.
bwringer
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Maybe they're planning a sale soon?
Raise prices, then the discounts will look better...
Raise prices, then the discounts will look better...
Clutchsmoke
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Here's an example where the micro screwdrivers are almost half price ordered from Amazon UK.
Moose-LandTran
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Amazon do or did a similar thing. Put it in the cart, leave it a couple days and the price goes down a little to encourage you to buy it.
I don't know if they still do it, but they have before.
No different to eBay sellers sending you an offer i guess.
Buckgnarly
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They have one going right now, but it's through the Prolink accounts. Both those ratchets are included.
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NFH2740
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Carlyle has always been over priced.
Professional Tool User
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If Napa wants to play the algorithm game, then there's plenty of other made in Taiwan tools brands with similar tools. The locking mechanism for Carlyle's locking flex head ratchets can be found on Princess auto ratchets.
Harbor Freight Icon likely rolls off the same assembly line as well.
I like NAPA, but the people managing the Carlyle brand need to step aside and have someone else come in who knows what they’re doing.
Terrible marketing, terrible social media footprint, terrible store displays and advertisement and in a few personal instances, terrible communication with the general public. I don’t understand how they can sell such a great product but hide it away like it’s the red headed step child.
Imagine if all SnapOn trucks were rusty, white, windowless vans without any advertisement on the vehicle. That’s pretty much how NAPA treats their Carlyle brand. “We have some cool stuff up in this *****, but we don’t want anyone to know about it”.
dnschmidt
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Carlyle is now a joke. Prior to Tekton, Capri, and now IKON they were one of the few sources of QUALITY Taiwanese tools considering how hard TOPTUL and KABO are to get here in the USA. With Tekton, Capri and IKON being equivalent and far cheaper I see no purpose for them. Leave it to NAPA to kill the golden goose. Wall street greed at it's very best.
demarpaint
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That price makes buying Snap On a no brainer.Anyone notice the 50-70% markup of certain Carlyle tools? The 1/4” ratchet was $31.99 and that 1/2” was always $82.99. I get there’s inflation, but dang… I hope they’re not for real.
Rabid Badger
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Seems like they're trying to use their parts delivery trucks to fill a similar "convenience" niche as Snap-On (and charging for it).
Need a particular tool for a job? Add it to your NAPA order and get it delivered the same time as the parts.
Need a particular tool for a job? Add it to your NAPA order and get it delivered the same time as the parts.
Jarhead0408
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Might be a little more to it then that.
I sell on Amazon and have an auto-pricer setup to adjust my prices based on whether I have the Buy Box (when you click buy it now.) as well as other factors based on what my competitors are doing.
So you’re right, and wrong in a way. We ARE trying to increase sales by being competitive, but we’re not actually trying to capture YOUR sale with a lower price per se. We’re trying to remain competitive at any price point. Your prices coming down are likely a result of the repricer starting it’s downward cycle. Throw in few more repricers and it’ll happen more often. When the repricer hits the minimum sale price as set by the individual seller it’ll bounce back to the highest price set by the seller.
One of the big Craftsman sellers on eBay used to do (and probably still does) that ****. I’d put something on my watch list, come back the next day to buy it and the price went up.
Always a deal breaker. If I didn’t buy it right then and there and decided to “watch” it and think about it for a day or so, hiking the price certainly isn’t going to motivate me to press that button. You can almost always keep it.
Always a deal breaker. If I didn’t buy it right then and there and decided to “watch” it and think about it for a day or so, hiking the price certainly isn’t going to motivate me to press that button. You can almost always keep it.