Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

it is dead, this is just a dead cat bounce before rigor mortis sets in

indeed :smiley:

Yes, but we must hope it dies humanely…

haha - i was talking about the mouse discussion thread, and was in response to

unless you were also talking about the same thing :slight_smile: in which case - long live (or short death) the mouse thread!

indeed

So was i, i guess the pun did not translate well

You guys are really are lucky, our local HD doesn’t have stock of any of the deals in this thread.

Remember those LED work lights that were discussed a few pages back? Turns out I missed them by a couple of days, guy in lighting told me they either went into the crusher out back or were returned to the vendor.

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Into the CRUSHER? WHAT?! They crush pulled products??!

Thats what the guy told me. In disbelief I asked a lady that usually helps me as I was on my way out, she said the same thing.

Also said that if you are a charity organization and speak with the manager that sometimes they’ll donate the items that are to be crushed.

Reason the crusher thing came up is after he said they were “tossed out back” I jokingly said “I guess that would have been a good day to dumpster dive”, he said “wouldn’t have done you any good, it goes into a crusher”.

Thats the reason I asked the lady up front, makes no sense to crush merchandise, old or not.

Edit: At the risk of going to jail for trespassing, I should drive around back and see if they actually have a crusher lol. I’d be sick if it was full of LED work lights, its the only thing our store had on clearance that was even remotely interesting.

Oh my god I cannot believe they would crush merchandise!
You can drive behind the store, just like any store, can’t you?

Yeah, I used to work at a store in the same strip, we used the road behind there as a shortcut all the time. Usually a few employees out there smoking, but I don’t remember anything else. I’ll drive through there in the next couple of days and look.

There’s no way they would be that dumb. They’d literally be throwing away potentially millions of dollars in revenue annually if all stores crushed their pulled items. Surely they resell the pulled items to some company at a deep discount, by tonnage or at least for scrap?

famous last words?

You would think. But I guess if they write it off as a loss in doesn’t matter one way or anther? And then there would be the problem of someone else selling their store branded stuff, IDK if they’d allow that? Theres a company in Florida that sells containers full of that type of merchandise, mixed returns and old or pulled stock, so that does happen.

I will add this though, when I was in college I worked in management for a national retail store that was bought out by another entity, and when our re-branding was done we were ordered to toss a lot of perfectly useable stuff. Not everything, and it was a one time deal of course, but I guess it can happen. On a regular basis, I have my doubts. Maybe he was full of it and she wasn’t sure and just agreed instead of saying so.

I’m not sure honestly, but thats what they told me.

Last night there was another one of those fat mice making a huge racket… I put a trap and caught it.

Today I rescued a bunch of stuff from going to the crusher…………….

was it a mouse?

Tell us, tell us… I’m going behind mine and look on Saturday. What did the crusher look like?

No, they weren’t mice!
Before I present the refugee’s from the crusher, I thought I would show some of the other stuff I saw.
First of all, here is why the older 800 lumen LED work light is on clearance. It is being replaced with a 1000 lumen one,

BTW, the 800 lumen work lights sold thru quickly at the 3 price. They were everywhere, and then all of a sudden there were none. Up until today I had passed on them as I thought I had enough work lights already. Besides with the light coming from just one emitter I thought the light might have too much glare. It wasn’t until I saw that they had a BridgeLux emitter and the thought of battery operation that I decided I just had to have one. Trouble is, they are extremely hard to find now.
Someone mentioned that they had been pennyied out at his HD. Could be, but just because they suddenly dissappear doesn’t mean they went to a penny. On the other hand, it could be that they did. That’s why my heart jumped when I saw these old 800 lumen worklights on this rack. They are stuck in sideways with no price. Easy to miss, they could have gone for a penny but they didn’t. At least I got one for $9.23. The newer models are sprinkled around it,

Here is why the posted prices can not be trusted. Here is a picture of the 1750 lumen LED worklight and stand that is on clearance.

Sorry for the large pics, but there is a lot of detail to show.
The middle blue arrow point to the original clearance price of $49.00. The original price was $79.95!
The top red arrow points to a second clearance price of $46.00.
The bottom blue arrow points to the “6” price of $45.06, but none of those prices are current. This worklight rings up for $20.03. I knew it would, here is how.
Some times you have to look UP. These were in the overhead of another store.


Another of the NiMH chargers has gone on clearance. This one comes with 4 cells.

I missed out on this deal. A Bernz O Matic swivel torch head

Some WINK stuff. Wink hub is required and is not included.

I got 2 of these, this is a great deal!

I also picked up one of these 1/2 HP models, I got the last one.

I think we have seen this deal before some months ago, but here they still are. I called and picked up 10 packs of 2 for him.

He’s talking about his penny deals.

No, no, no.
I was more humane than that. I didn’t snatch them out of the jaws of the crusher.
I spared them that horror, I rescued them while they were still in the store on the shelves. :slight_smile: