spotco2
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So I finally decided to go pic up one of these beast and thought I would add the side cabinet to it just for giggles.
I stopped by the closest Harbor Freight store to me (about 70 miles one way) yesterday while out visiting customers. They had one sitting in the front of the store to fondle and play with, and I did. It was what I was expecting and made the decision to come back today with the truck and pick one up.
I asked if they had more in stock and the nice guy behind the counter checked and assured me that they had several.
Load up the truck this morning and head down. Geeze I didn't know they were having their black friday weekend sale and it was a madhouse. I picked up 10 or 12 other items, stood in line for about 30 minutes and finally got to the cashier. Gave her my stack of coupons and told her I needed the boxes and cabinet also. She radio'd back to get someone to pull them from the warehouse for me, rang me up and about $1500 later I drove around back to get loaded.
The kids in the back loaded the boxes in the truck for me after checking my receipt and even offered to tie it down for me, so I let them. Something didn't look right when they were finished. I've got a short bed Silverado and only had half a bed full of tool boxes. Yeah, they loaded the 44" box instead. Honest mistake right? I checked my receipt that the girl loading the truck checked off on to make sure I actually bought the 56" and I did.
When I pointed out that the wrong box was loaded, she said they didn't have anything bigger than what she loaded. Got the store manager back there and sure enough, he said they did not stock the 56". I offered to buy the display and he flat refused. At this point, the two that originally loaded the truck still had the receipt. I told the manager to just unload everything and give me a full refund since they had supposedly checked yesterday and assured me that they had the boxes in stock.
I asked the store manager if they could just order me the correct box and have it shipped to my shop for free, trying to save them the sale. He was pretty fast to say no.
He was pleasant and unloaded the boxes from my truck and then asked for the receipt so they could go up front to do the refund. Oddly, nobody could find it.
Long story short, the girl that checked the receipt and loaded the wrong box anyways turned out to be a manager also.
About an hour later, I finally left empty handed with a very bad taste in my mouth for that store.
I did call another that was 50 miles away and they verified that they did in deed have multiple boxes in stock and are holding one for me until tomorrow morning.
I'm starting to think this was an omen that I really was not meant to have this box for some reason.
I might just go buy a new laptop tomorrow instead.
I stopped by the closest Harbor Freight store to me (about 70 miles one way) yesterday while out visiting customers. They had one sitting in the front of the store to fondle and play with, and I did. It was what I was expecting and made the decision to come back today with the truck and pick one up.
I asked if they had more in stock and the nice guy behind the counter checked and assured me that they had several.
Load up the truck this morning and head down. Geeze I didn't know they were having their black friday weekend sale and it was a madhouse. I picked up 10 or 12 other items, stood in line for about 30 minutes and finally got to the cashier. Gave her my stack of coupons and told her I needed the boxes and cabinet also. She radio'd back to get someone to pull them from the warehouse for me, rang me up and about $1500 later I drove around back to get loaded.
The kids in the back loaded the boxes in the truck for me after checking my receipt and even offered to tie it down for me, so I let them. Something didn't look right when they were finished. I've got a short bed Silverado and only had half a bed full of tool boxes. Yeah, they loaded the 44" box instead. Honest mistake right? I checked my receipt that the girl loading the truck checked off on to make sure I actually bought the 56" and I did.
When I pointed out that the wrong box was loaded, she said they didn't have anything bigger than what she loaded. Got the store manager back there and sure enough, he said they did not stock the 56". I offered to buy the display and he flat refused. At this point, the two that originally loaded the truck still had the receipt. I told the manager to just unload everything and give me a full refund since they had supposedly checked yesterday and assured me that they had the boxes in stock.
I asked the store manager if they could just order me the correct box and have it shipped to my shop for free, trying to save them the sale. He was pretty fast to say no.
He was pleasant and unloaded the boxes from my truck and then asked for the receipt so they could go up front to do the refund. Oddly, nobody could find it.
Long story short, the girl that checked the receipt and loaded the wrong box anyways turned out to be a manager also.
About an hour later, I finally left empty handed with a very bad taste in my mouth for that store.
I did call another that was 50 miles away and they verified that they did in deed have multiple boxes in stock and are holding one for me until tomorrow morning.
I'm starting to think this was an omen that I really was not meant to have this box for some reason.
I might just go buy a new laptop tomorrow instead.
