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Yesterday I saw the woman at HD that goes around with a printer and actually changes the prices. I went up to her and told her point blank what I was waiting for. That would be the markdown to the “3” price on the Mini Mag Pro combo pack. I gave her my UPC code that I printed out and she looked it up. Priced at $19.06. I asked her if she was going to mark it down that day (Monday) so she looked at her list and said no, then checked Tuesday and Wednesday. Not those days either.
I told her I was afraid I would miss that deal as I know they would disappear the instant they were marked down.
Then she told me not to worry, when she marks them down, she will throw one way in the back, just for me.
She actually said that!
BTW, I went there again last night, after supper. I was going to make some more of the 1S2P adapters for 3C lights that ImA4Wheelr invented. I needed some 3/4” well pump tubing. HD used to sell it in 2 foot lengths cheap. Now all they had was 100 foot rolls. On Sunday I came across those 24 packs of AAA cells for $1.33. I took 16, but left 2 for someone else. Now 24 hours later I was back, and guess what? Those 2 packs were still there! So I bought them too. No guilt
Then when I got into the tool section I came across this. How poetic. I thought these were long gone, 10 lights and 30 AAA cells. Those 24 packs of AAA alkaline cells are beter than the standard type that are included. Perfect replacements.
I grabbed 2 and and headed for the checkout. On the way I ran into the tool guy. Right away, when he noticed the lights, he asked me where I got them. I told him in the tool section, like he wouldn’t know? I told hem there were going to probably ring up for around $4 and he started to tell me that 2 years ago there were 2 packs of that same kind of light on clearance. I cut him off and said they were 2 for $1 right? I told them that one day they were there and then the next they were all gone, as though someone grabbed them all. He said, yeah that was me. I used them for the Boy Scouts. That’s the second time a guy from the Boy Scouts has gotten in the way of me buying flashlights.
After talking to him, I went back and got 2 more. They rang up for $3.83
This morning because it is raining and I can’t do yard work, I went to another nearby store to get those lengths of tubing for the 1s2p adapters. I found them
While I was looking around that store I came across this.
That CREE bulb on the right, hanging without a price tag is a high CRI bulb. I can recognize it from a distance due to the rainbow of colors on the package.
Months and months ago it was cleared out at the “3” price of $4.03 After that it would have gone to a penny.
This was too much time for even that. I brought it up anyway, hoping that it would still be a penny, but no such luck.
So old it’s not even in the system anymore.
Point is, stuff is still out there!
I left the store happy though, I found my precious tubing
Here is what the 1s2p adapter looks like. This allows using 2 - 18650’s in a 3C light. The voltages are about right and everything works really well as is.
I didn’t bother, it would have been taken a lot of time and what would it result in? Even if I got it for a dollar, I did as well at Costco when I got a bunch of high CRI bulbs there for a dollar each. And they were 60W equivalents, not 40’s
BTW, it seems everywhere I go I see bargains. Sunday my wife wanted to go to Target, I dropped here of and went next door to Lowes while she shopped. I finished early and went into Target to find her. Within a minute I’m seeing items marked at 0.00! I shot pics of a couple.
I showed my wife the pics and she asked how I do that. Do what I asked?
How do you make prices drop like that just by walking in the store?
She made me show the checkout girl and she called the manager. Turns out they have a new person putting up the stickers and they screwed up. How bad I don’t know, we left.
very nice, i’ve never seen a high CRI bulb for a good price, they are extremely rare here and when they do pop up cost $15-25 each
I’ve been wanting to get some to experiment with
It’s a rain/freeze sensor that you connect to your irrigation control valve, so that when it is raining or freezing, the controller does not water the plants.
No it isn’t; when I was new to this I was really surprised (and maybe still are) at all the deals dchomak finds, and was wondering whether they were even real, but then I found my first 1¢ items (Light Almond Fan Control Switches) and after that found more 1¢ items… I often found good discounts so recently I started taking pictures of them to keep track of them and post them here for others to enjoy.
You just have to learn the physics of Home Depot’s pricing of clearance items, and over time you will get better and find more stuff.
Wow! awesome - good for you. i checked a fourth home depot today and they also didn’t have any however i did find the energizer pop-up lantern + flashlight deal that dchomak had posted earlier for 5.03
Dchomack the fold out led energizer lantern has a no PWM ramping feature .Just hold down the button and ramp to any brightness .
you need to stop buying so much and read the packaging more .
I saw these in target when they first came out and was ……very impressed .
the 32$ is what stopped me but i’ve always said if the price was right I’d be all over them …
I like the no-glare and the ramping is cool …what was the final .03 price ?
YES!!!
The hunt is on.
That mini Mag Pro is 272 Lumen. That’s real honest to goodness Lumen, not Chinese. What I am finding out recently though is that not all stores go to the “3” price at the same time. That can be good AND bad. Good in that once the “3” price hits it gives people that are late to the party a chance to score. Bad in that the actual date can not be known with absolute certainty.
You are right on both counts! So many lights have gone on clearance at HD and Lowes that I just can’t keep up with it all.
To my credit though, after thinking about my statement above about Energizers claim of 100 hour runtime, I read the instructions and discovered the ramping mode.
How cool is that.
Also last night I cracked open one of the popup lantern, flashlight combos. The popup lantern also has the ramping function. The flashlight is both a mini worklight and a flashlight. The worklight portion does not have the ramping. I am reposting the final “3” price for each.
Both of these lights at these price are impressive deals. In fact when I finally tried out the popup lantern yesterday I went back to my local store and grabbed the last 2. They were unmarked and hanging on a hook by the contractors checkout. They were hard to see and were passed over because no one else other than I knew they were there or what price they would ring up at.
Also while I was there I spotted this Philips 100W equiv bulb. 1500 Lumen. It was down by the floor and there was one of those rolling ladders in front of the whole display. I had to crawl into and under the ladder to photo the price tag.
$4.00, I was ready to get some when after looking at the pic on my phone I realized that price was for some other CFL bulb. I brought one up to scan, looking up the price on my phone as I went up. List price was $9.97. Even though this light was unmarked I wanted to see what it would ring up for. $7.65
That price is approximately 25% off list. I put it back and will wait to see if it comes down more. What kind of a clearance price is $7.65? Strange for a HD
We have one of those up on our roof/gutter. It’s wireless and senses if there’s rain. Our sprinkler system uses that to determine when it doesn’t have to come on, e.g., if there’s a bunch of rain.
I found 4 of the Mini Maglite Pro combos at $6.33
And the Armour MAX 3D went to $7.93
The store only had one, another local store has 17 but they have not yet dropped the price. At that store they are still at the “6” price of $19.06. Every other store in the area is out of stock.
Remember this light was once $31.47
I was all over this, got 14
While getting the Mini Mags above, I came across this.
10 packs of RayOVac Fusions. They are marked at $4.96 but rang up for $1.73
Good replacement batteries for the Lanterns. I however use the “DuraLoops” scored at Target a couple of years ago.
Good to know these are being replaced, they cost $16 here, i have one i got a year ago, its a good bulb, its delisted from the Canadian website, but then again our website has been screwed up since last years overhaul so it actually does not mean anything.
Sometimes you get things on clearance then we do, so thanks for posting it and i will watch this bulb at our stores.
About this ‘ramping feature’… Does this happen with those lights?: press button once, low mode, press button twice, high mode, press button once and then hold, ‘ramping’ feature, hold down button, momentary full brightness.
If so then that is exactly the same behavior as my nightcore tube.
