Dchomak wrote:
. . . ImA4 may be right, I did find out my power doesn’t work in Rhode Island.
Don't talk that way. You're just having a temporary slump. I was wrong to say that. Some jerk probably sprinkled kryptonite or something in the store. Stay strong, we need the dchomizer!
Actually my plan to take over the world is based on my accumulating a stock pile of FREE Harbor Freight DVM’s.
Because when I get enough, resistance will be futile :bigsmile:
And i thought it was based on buying out Home Depot’s entire stock then opening a competing retailer who will win the franchise wars and will control the world’s supply of lighting and other hardware supplies, using artificial shortages and super pac donations to bring the masses to their knees 
That’s plan B
an excellent plan if i do say so myself 
In post 91 OL mentioned that his HD had brought out the Holiday lights. My HD just set up the displays yesterday, here are the pics.
I just saw those in a HD here, too. You beat nme to posting photos. The 51 LED light seems slightly redesigned, bigger button and a more curved head. I picked up a 2-pk of the 3AA lights, they're much brighter than last year's 3AA Utilitech's from Lowes. They have no driver, just a resistor mounted on the star with a contact plate on the other end of the hollow pill.I don' recognize the LED, XP-e size but not Cree, I think. It as a forward clicky, seems pretty serviceable for the average consumer, good to throw in the car for emergencies. The 18500's fit fine with a sleeve. Unprotected 18650's barely fit but the tailcap doesn't close completely. It has large springs on the tailcap and contact plate, though. If replaced with short springs I think protected 18650's might fit. The plastic lens seems to snap into a recess in the head so I don't know if a good replacement can be had. Other than the lens and pill it would make a nice $5 host, the body is nice but just painted I think.
Looks like they put a 579 sticker on them?
Model is PolySteel 600
Maybe the ANSI cops busted them 
Anyway, remind me of a Solarforce with rubber coating.
Their web site says 3 mode, so that is good.
4 AA’s for power so they say;
Just noticed it is a zoomy 
Got too many zoomers. Oh, hell, who am I kidding?, I have too many everything!!
Thanks for all the pics, looking forward to the after holidays markdowns.
Already told the wife I want HD gift cards for Christmas.
Later,
Keith
I saw this on slickdeals. To sum it up for you, you have to spam the promotion code with some hexadecimal version of the coupon code and you might get lucky enough to snag a 6-pack of the now old version cree 2700K 60W equiv bulbs for around $20 shipped in the US. Code starts CREE6XXXX and then 4 values of something. They only work once and don’t transfer, so only try if you want to buy. In theory you are probably taking a unique code entered into the system that belongs to some target customer of theirs.
I’m do not condone the ethics of this, or know if it will be cancelled, just passing it along.
http://slickdeals.net/f/7325172-ymmv-6-pack-cree-60w-soft-white-led-bulbs-16-82-fs-home-depot
A 4AA zoomie, huh? That may have to end up in my stocking this Christmas.
HD got back to me on the bulbs that the employee had refused to sell for a penny.
They didn't give much details on the process. What they did say was consistent with what dchomak has reported to us in the past. They basically said that the product market to a penny is supposed to be pulled off the shelf, but it can be purchased at a penny if it is on the shelf.
They were mostly concerned about getting me matched up with some of the product they currently sell that would meet my lighting needs.
So you are saying that they should have allowed you to purchase those lights? If so, is there anything they can do for you now?
Yes, they should have sold it at a penny according to their own words. In their defense, they told me the store manager has been trying to reach me by phone. I gave them a land line number that I keep for power outages and don't monitor. So maybe they are wanting to offer something in person. By email, they have not offered me anything that would make me want to be a loyal HD customer.
Actually some displays have more that 1 light, so this year HD is going really big of the flashlights, Here are the extra 3 displays that I forgot to post.
LOL, letting hackers have their way with your info tends not to inspire loyalty …
I am really starting to understand how the clearance pricing works. On this one I first must first quote myself from post #116
Well I was in that same store again today figuring (correctly) that this light should have gone to a penny by now. Remember it scanned last week at $5.03 and it could go to a penny at anytime. If there are still any on the shelf, I could possibly get them for a penny each.
Here are the last 3 sitting in my shopping cart in the parking lot. Paid 3 cents for the 3 of them.
I remember you predicting that they might do that. Those look like pretty decent lights too. Nice score.
I don’t live in the US, but this is one of the reason I’d like to,
There is something I don’t understand… their pricing system is pretty much fixed and the customer can crack the code and get $0.01 stuff just that easily?
Incredible. 
America, Land of the free 0.01 and home of the brave
