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Interesting story; it’s amazing how many people out there are wrong or mistaken. :weary:
Amazing deal :money_mouth_face: 
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well - am i disappointed… i checked the 3 home depots around here, and NONE of them even had the mag combos. so no waiting for the “3” price for me…
My local HD doesn’t have much in the way of good clearance unless you need door knobs and light fixtures… products rarely go below the .06 price.
My HD the next town over is much better… I was able to get 4 tubs of 96ct Tide washing detergent pods for $11 each, regularly about $18. I’ll keep on eye on if they drop more.
Dchomak, how often do you visit each HD in your area? Once per day? Every other? Once per week? I’ve been going about once per week, but sometimes feel I should go more often. It’s hard though, sciatic nerve damage/pain makes it hard to walk through each aisle in that big store… clearance is not always in the front, nor back of the store.
My work puts me in a HD or Lowes almost everyday. I have already be to Lowes this morning looking for plain white bathroom tile. They didn’t have enough pieces on hand for me. In fact there was another guy there loading up a cart with the 250 pieces of tile that he needed. Had already cleaned another store out of the 50 they had in stock. He needs a total of 1000 to do the job! And people wonder why contractors charge so much. Sometimes they spend all their time hunting down supplies.
All I am looking for is standard white 4 x 4 ceramic wall tiles. If I go to a tile store, chances are I will have to order them anyway, BUT if I were to need more…… That is one benefit of Lowes or HD, they are everywhere and open late and weekends.
On the way out Lowes I spotted a 4 pack of the same AAA cells that I got for $1.33 at HD. A 24 pack
Lowes has a 4 pack for $2.97
I had wondered about that too, i thought it might be a hobby or you work next door or something
poiiy, of your pics, this is the one that caught my eye.
This is the Defiant 3C, Pro Series. It is finally at the “3” price. But most importantly look at the DOB!
02/08/16!
Maybe the Mag Pro 2 pack goes to the “3” price tomorrow.
It’s DOB is 1 day later, 02/09/16
Wouldn’t it be nice to get this for around $5?
what does this device do?
I finally found where the deals are kept at my Home Depot, on shelves by the back door to the garden center. Was I excited! Sunday they had the Defiant triple AAA flashlight for the “6” price and they had about 4 units. It was about half of the $17.99. I made a mental note. On Monday after work I went in and sure enough the price had gone to the “3” price $4.53. But, there were none. I wondered how dchomak had made it here (OKC) from the northeast! They also had had some Defiant headlights
Apparently, when you see things you want at the .06 mark, you need to hide them from dchomak under a bunch of bags of fertilizer or something for 9 weeks, then come back to retrieve them and buy them for a penny!
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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.
Did you try and talk them into selling it to you?
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
You have “the knack” :sunglasses:
It’s all a hoax. You print your own stickers and go around town creating havoc in the stores.
You can’t prove that!
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.
darn, not what i need
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.