Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

wow thats the best deal i seen so far on LED bulbs. :slight_smile:

i wish we could get that in canada

Our Home-Depots usually suk for good deals lately.

Yeah, you got ME jealous when you got those DST’s for some crazy price, like $3.53 or something. I think the best we could do in the US was $12

Those were a good deal. I got 7 of them DSTs for under 6 bucks each.

Remember to send your fairy godmother a gift basket when you get a chance.

It has taken me awhile to figure this out. There are exceptions. I was once told that if a clearance item price ends with “.00” then it will not be reduced further, that is a final price until they are gone. There was once an exception to this that had me confused. Remember when the DST was on clearance in the U.S. for $12.00? That WAS supposed to be a final markdown, but at some HD’s those big lights so poorly that even at $12.00 they did not sell. Then for some strange reason it was repriced at $12.06! I now think I know what that was all about.
Another manager once told me, and the other day it was confirmed, that if a clearance item has a price that ends with “.06” then that item will be on the floor at that price for a set amount of time. After that set amount of time, if they do not sell through, they will be marked at an even lower price that ends with “.03” Then the final countdown begins If after that set amount of time, if they do not sell through, they will be set to a penny and removed from the floor, and thrown away. Unlike local store sales, where a manager has the discretion to set a sale price, these .06 and .03 sale prices seems to be done simultaneously across all stores in the U.S. Because the newer prices are set remotely and not at the store, it seems that there are times when a store or stores is caught off guard and do not remove the items in time before someone like me comes along and scoops them up. :slight_smile:
That must be why sometimes when we see a clearance item at an “.06” price, it rings up at an “.03” price. That store wasn’t on the ball and failed to update the price tags. But the new, lower price is already in the system, done remotely by corporate. And by the way, it now seems that the price does not have to end in “03” but rather “something 3”. What to keep in mind is that when you see a clearance item with a price that ends in “3”, the end is near. That’s how I caught this deal, I kept checking certain items that I was interested anytime I passed a store. I would run in, get one, and check the price at the self checkout. This time, most of the big lights were removed already, but a lot was left behind.
Also it is useful to look in weird places for forgotten items, like under shelves, behind other merchandise etc. I swear, I find stuff sometimes that has been squirreled away by an employee for harvesting later. A manager told me that if an employee was caught doing that, it would mean an immediate termination.

I almost forgot, maybe the reason why the DST went on clearance from $12.00 back UP to $12.06. I think they originally were confident that they would sell through at the clearance price of $12.00. When they didn’t, they changed their minds and put in into the spiral of death. “.06” -> “.03” to throwing away.

Damn!

Go buy a MegaMillions Ticket… you are one lucky guy!

Ps. If you do win MM just pay off my truck will ya… :bigsmile:

I'm learning to hate this thread .

I think dchomak needs to change his BLF username to "Homer" and use this as his avatar:

-Garry

a penny? Thats insane.

How about dchomak to dchomer?

Sure, that'll work!

-Garry

Hey dchomer, do you know if you can do the price checking from the Home Depot app to check for the $0.01 price? Or is it handled like when you try to look online - item not found?

-Garry

^ Good question. I think dchomer (you guys are nuts) said if it doesn't pull up, it's a hint it may be on the clearance path to eventual disposal. All ears over here.

Another question for anyone. I don't have a smart phone plan (I'm cheap that way), but my wife has several retired smart phones. Could I load the app on one and when I go to a HD, their WiFi will make the app work?

Yes, using the old phone with the app on wifi should work fine. I use my old iPhones that way around my house / property for streaming music.

-Garry

Cool. Thanks Garry.

dchoman, dchomer, dchomak, etc, etc:

Garry has a good question in Post 68 above.

Why do I even check this thread?? I swear I can not for the life of me understand myself. I must like to be cruel to me. LOL

When the price is .01 the item is supposed to be off the shelves and no longer in stock. That means it should NOT scan with the app. That is a hint that it could price at the self check out at .01. But just because you find an item that does not scan with the app doesn’t mean that it will be .01. That item could be from a different clearance sale and could scan at the regular full price. Don’t forget that I haven’t got this figured out completely, just trends.
BTW, it wasn’t just the LEDs that could could be found for a penny. IMA4 and I found the set of 3 pair women work gloves, I found some of the 2.1A chargers and the digital timers all for a penny.
Here are some pictures of the items I got for .01 on Sunday and how they were displayed in the store. Remember, they all rang up at a penny.

As soon as I walked into this store I came across this empty table with nothing on it except for 5 of the 2.1A chargers and that socket. No signs, prices or anything!!! I scooped up those 5 chargers without even slowing down. :slight_smile: Well, I did stop to shoot the photo. :bigsmile:

This was in with the regular display of lighting, 6 or 7 bulbs.

These next 2 pics were way in the back of the store in a special clearance section,


Now a couple of surprises. I was sure that these flahlights lights would ring up at a penny. Price ended in .03 and the start date was the same as the bulbs. It rang up at 5.33. There were 3, I only took one for a test and ended up buying it.

More of the globes that I got for a penny in another store, this time they rang up for $12.97 so I left them. I am still puzzled over that one.

Obviously it’s due to global warming… everything bad is.