Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

I’ve been watching the clearance shelf at my work Home Depot and was happy to see the Energizer lanterns show up there recently. A couple trips back and forth to the self service price check and today I scored the last two of them for $4.53 each! Thanks.

Lets see if I’m smart enough to post a picture…


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On my way home I stopped into another HD, still 6 on the shelves at the original price, tool one up to check, no dice.

Is there any chance that someone who understands the sequence of markdowns could post a decoder ring?
Something along the lines of:

Price ends in 6, date older than x months - likely to ring up at 1/2 the marked price.
Price ends in 3, date older than x months - likely to ring up for a penny.

Maybe this already exists and I missed it?

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It would be freaking awesome to have a price scanner… it’ll be like that cream where you put it in your right eye and you can see all treasures, but don’t put it in the left eye or you will be blind…
One way to get the price scanner is to work for HD. What is it like to work for HD? Do the employees get to collect these deals for themselves?

This is what it looks like. It’s funny, I stopped by my HD this morning. That’s where I snapped the pictures above about the Brass Lantern. I had been keeping and eye on the Weather light. This morning it was still tagged at $15.06. Sometime today it was tagged at $4.83
I went back this afternoon on my way home because of Lazy-R-us post. He was the one who alerted us

This lantern can run on either 3 - AA or 3 D cells.
I would have brought one of these up to scan for price this morning but for weeks now the self checkouts have been closed!

Lazy-R-us, the 6 price is usually about 25% of the original price and the 3 price is usually 75% off. In the case of this WeatherReady light, the original price of $18.97, take 75% off that and you get $4.74. Hence the 3 price of $4.83

I wonder if those Energizer lanterns are any good… I kinda have a lot of lanterns already but they are very useful.

Those spiral colored CFL’s are $1.33 around here :stuck_out_tongue:

And soon to go to a penny.

The prices are often wrong and you often miss gold right under your nose! Hence why a price checker gun would be…. useful

I have been laughing to myself the last few days every time i remember this priceless quote from dchomak - maybe should go to my signature :slight_smile:

Dchomak does provide good signature material :wink:

There was something he posted that I wanted to put in my signature but I forgot :\

totally agree! and it is there now

Those colored CFL’s are 1.33 at my store too. I’m trying to find a use for them but can’t.

You can use them for special occasions, and maybe sometime you’d find a permanent use for it; no need to force yourself to use them :stuck_out_tongue:

The yellow one is good as a bug light. I have never seen a yellow LED bug light. Although some LED bulbs seem not to attract as many bugs

I saw one once but it was some crappy reflector-style thing with 5mm LEDs.

Too bad there aren’t many LED debuggers.

Here is a couple of gems I found today while I was on the prowl. They were hidden in a clearance box in the Mailbox isle. Someone stuffed them down into the display box. I was looking through the box and I saw a corner of the plastic wedged between the two pieces of cardboard that make up the side of the display. Yanked them out, and low and behold it was quite the deal. Im pretty sure someone hid them hoping for a secret penny deal later on.

Now that I’m wise to the clearance game I’m finding that alot of people locally try to hide the clearance stuff at HD.

Brings me back to my days of working in a Sears hardware. On the night before black friday we all had to stay late and “unhide” all the merchandise that people hid. Took like an hour. We would find stuff in the bathrooms, hidden in the toolboxes, in the drawers where we kept the extra sockets, Some people would do anything to get their hands on the doorbusters. You literally had to tear the store apart.

anything to save a buck.

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There was something he posted that I wanted to put in my signature but I forgot :\/quote]
Sounds like a good signature

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Yes, I have seen some DeWalt hand tools at the 6 price. I didn’t know they had gone to the 3

A couple of days ago I got these Milwaukee hand tools. They too had gone to the 3 price. For the most part I had missed the Milwaukee clearance. HD still carries the Milwaukee line of hand tools, they just updated the model numbers.
The hex jaw on the left was $5.03 and the “vise grip” on the right was $2.83

The item #’s are in the upper right corner of each

The V-Jaw pliers are 12” and is quite a nice tool.

BTW, I have never seen any of the Milwaukee stuff at the 3 price. Though these rang up at the 3 price, they were still marked at the 6.

Some penny stuff.

We know the Maglites had gone to a penny. In the upper right hand corner are the replacement bulbs for the Xenon 2D. They were $1.03 but went to a penny also. I picked those up for a member that can use them for a project. Those are stainless steel wire brushes. There were a couple of cases of them, but how many can I use? Also I found 2 packs of the EveryReady “Fusion AA cells that were previously $1.73
Here are 3 types of in wall digital timers and 2 plugins.

These PostIT notes were a penny also. Can you imagine people would pay the list price of $4 a pack?

On these 2 telescoping painting poles I got lazy. I was way in back of the store with one of them in my hand when an employee walked by. I was hoping they would now be at the 3 price and asked her to scan for price. She did and told me that it was a penny and could not sell it to me. She said she would like to sell it to me, but she couldn’t. I told her that was OK and I would put it back. I knew where they came from, so I raced back to where they were and put it back, and took the other 2 that were there! :smiley: