The stores here use ‘rolling stairs’ to get their employees to the high shelves. If one is hndy and no employees are in sight I grab it and use it similarly. Or I ask a passing employee to grab from the top shelf for me because the bottom shelf was empty. They give the bottom a quick look for it and not seeing it and go right up for me. “How many did you want?” And no climbing antics on my part either (though that’s been known to happen too).
What ya need to do is find one of theor store hand scanners for sale for a penny! Then you can check merchandise all day long yourself. Get the price, location, etc. Lol
I can’t believe dch got a pic of the guy holding the scanner! What did you tell the guy - “Hang on, I need to get a pic to post online on a flashlight forum”?
So THAT’S what they did too me!
It’s comforting to know it has a clinical name, now I feel a little better.
You can’t tell from the picture, but as I wrestled him to the ground and had him pinned on the floor, I managed to get off this shot.
When I came to my senses, I quickly exited the store.
I’m OK now, really.
But enough of the penny stuff.
This mediore 4 - cell charger with 2 - AA NiMH cells first caught my eye when it was reduced from $9.97 to $6.10
I knew that eventually it would go to the “6” price and then the “3”. With a supposed 3 price of $2.53 it would be a good catch for gifting. Some electronics take 4 - AA NiMH cells and a 2 cell charger just doesn’t cut it. Besides this charger can also charge 4 - AAA cells also. AND this charger with 2 other AAA cells is THE perfect companion for the Mag mini combo which I had already been watching and waiting. Now that I had gotten the Mags, I was waiting for this charger. Once the charger went to the “6” price, I noticed something strange. Different stores had different “6” prices
When they finally hit the “3” price, any store that still had them rang up for $2.53. All stores that had correctly tagged them at 2.53 were sold out. Only stores that had not tagged them at the correct price of $2.53 had stock. So far I have found a total of 6.
Went by my ‘usual’ HD today (#1104) and cruised the whole store, only to find nothing. Hardly anything marked down and not a single “6” or “3” price. So that’s it, I’ll not be going back to that one. 2 more HD’s nearby just about as close so they’re me from now on. I’ve seen “6” deals at one of those so I’ll try them first.
Just left my local home depot. Lots of “6” deals, some “3”, and a bunch of oddball markdowns (like 50% off). Picked up a black light bulb (A19 incand.) sticker priced at $1.03 with a D.O.B. of 2/09/2016 and it rang up $1.03! Saw tons of Rust Oleum special concrete paint gallons marked down to $13.03 (reg. over $50).
so at the self checkout i am nervously scanning my second armormax 3D at a penny, when the home depot employee sounded like she said something close to “that doesn’t seem right” and went over to find a supervisor. she comes back to me, and i realize she was talking about my armormax! she says “you can’t buy that” and my heart sinks, and she continues “just take them for free” free!! must have been a noob and probably didn’t find the supervisor. i walked out with 5 - all that they had.
for anyone close by staten island, i saw two of the locations still had stashes of these when i was there last week. so go get them, before i add to my armormax 3D penny collection
FREE!!!
First the Maglites for a penny and now this? AMAZING, Who are you?
Getting stopped and then getting it for free has happened to me and some others here before. Never with flashlights though.
A theory I have other than a noob is that they decided to protect the person responsible for pulling those flashlights from the shelves. They were probably already removed from inventory and if they are not rung up for a penny, nobody would know that they were missed and not pulled. Just another theory.
If you had broken into a sprint before with the Maglites, you are flying high now!
BTW, there IS a downside to getting them for free, you don’t get a receipt as proof to your score. :partying_face: