Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

LOL,
It’s true, sometimes I feel as though I have just stepped into the twilight zone when I enter a Home Depot. :smiley:
For example this morning I figured I would travel the 13 miles to the other store that had stock on those 2 new compressors that went to the 3 price. When I got there I found that they were STILL at the “6” price of 91.06 and 41.06. BUT when I looked UP at the overhead I saw this!

As there were 6 “Orange Locusts” as I call them (a private company HD hires to occasionally go through the store and cull outdated, damaged and penny items)
It’s hard to see all 6 workers, but here they are.

I asked one of them to bring down 1 of those compressors. I could see from the floor that there were 9 of the 3 gallon, 1HP compressors that were $33 2 weeks ago. This store was out of stock back then, where did these 9 come from? and how much would they scan for? There is no posted price.
Brought one up to self checkout not knowing if it would scan for a penny, full list price or what. I was actually hoping for $33.00 and I got my wish.
I made a couple of phone calls to friends and picked up 4 more.
This is today, July 12 at 9:40AM

All I am saying is do not give up!!!
Then this afternoon I had an appointment with my accountant 15 miles north of our home. After that I decided to travel another 10 miles due north to check out another HD just over the Massachusetts State Line.
Wouldn’t you know, looking UP once again in the overhead I found the 2 newer compressors at the “3” price!!!
Here are 6 of the pancake compressors at $15.03

and there were 4 of the bigger 8 Gallon, 1 1/2 HP model at $33.03

The other 2 I left there elsewhere on the overhead, some distance from these 2.

So I grabbed what I could fit in the back seat of the car, 2 - 8 Gallon and 4 pancake compressors.
Sales slip from today, July 12 at 3:06PM

Of course later I went back in and found some penny deals.
My first 4/4/2016 EcoSmart bulbs.
Found 2 of these

And 3 of these. The 3 flood lights on the right were a penny.

All other 4/4/2016 bulbs had been pulled.

I found some screws, GRK, packs of 20, bit included, for 58¢ discounted from about $1. I wanted to get more but the next time I could not find them.
One of these days I need to take a picture…

Also today I found 100’ medium-duty orange swan garden hoses, for $12.00, discounted from about $15. I found them in two stores so you’ll probably find them.

Also I discovered a “bath clearance” in one Home Depot and right there in my face was a handheld shower for about $6 discounted from about $26 (though package was messed up). I grabbed it and ran off :smiley:

Sometimes HD makes it too easy. Once in a great while I see something like this.

There is only 1 bulb here and the package had been opened, so I figured it was intentional. But in another place in the store I found more on an upper shelf, just above eye level.


On the same clearance endcap another item was actually marked at a penny. This is a valve key for a recessed gas line for a fireplace. We have one installed so it’s good to a couple of spare keys.

Home Depot is now carrying the “Pop Drop” This is a mini bluetooth speaker that really is nice. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket, yet really packs a punch. It actually has a sealed enclosure with a bass port.
An EDC bluetooth speaker! It doubles as a handsfree for your cellphone as it also contains a microphone.
I first came across these at Radio Shack when they were in clearance mode while shutting down a lot of stores. Their regular price was 24.97, had them on clearance for 7.97 and had special promotions that netted out to $4. I bought quite a lot a gifted most of them. If Home Depot ever clears these out, the “3” price would probably be $5.03. An awesome deal if it ever happens. To find 1 at a penny, well that would be just fine with me!

HD seems to only be carrying black. Here is a red one from Radio Shack

#852-955, The 3D Max Defiant light is still up there. The date of the newspaper is yesterday, July 14.
Looks like someone just couldn’t restrain themselves any longer and went up and grabbed 1. :innocent:
Those lights at a penny is what is called an “attractive nuisance”

I posted about these last week. I brought one up because, date wise, it should have gone from $6.04” to $3.02 but it hadn’t. Yesterday I tried again. This time a penny. :slight_smile:

Today I found an “Evaporative Cooler Valve” in the box of what was supposed to be boiler drain valves but was mostly lots of other random valves. It had a clearance sticker that said $1.83 but it was actually 1¢.

It’s a weird valve, it has a female hose input, and it has a threaded hole on the side. I don’t know how I can use this, especially with the hole.
I know nothing about its intended “Evaporative Cooler” application so I’ll need to discover that.
Edit: Ok I discovered what this valve is for; you connect it on your hose bibb and the small hole is used to attach a needle valve to connect a small tube to an evaporative cooler, and it has a valve and male hose thread so you can still use your water outlet.

I was traveling today, as I often do, stopping in Home Depots along the way. Any one who has been to a Home Depot knows that most of the stores look like something like this.

Well today I must have found, as SawMaster would describe it, “God’s own Home Depot”. In fact just after I took these pictures I dropped to my knees and crawled on my belly all the way thru the entrance.
Of course once inside I came to my senses and immediately started scouting for penny deals. I found some too. :wink:
My question though is this.
IF I find and purchase penny items in “God’s own Home Depot”, am I damned for life?

God’s Depot needs some parking lot maintenance :smiley:

I think it’s from the rumblings from “down below”

And speaking of God’s own Home Depot, poiihy, I notice you seem to be preoccupied with all things that have to do with water
When an infant, did you happen to have a traumatic experience during Baptism? :smiley:

I thought you might appreciate this deal. I got the last one. It’s called a “Green and Grow” 50’ medium duty garden hose.

well played

I was looking this weekend to get one of those, do you resell your finds?

Some times I give a penny deal away. Trouble with this light is that it is HUGE, more expensive to ship that what it cost when it was at the “3” price, which was $6.33.
There are still some TCP connected floods on the floors, at the full price of $39.97. All other TCP connected stuff was pulled though.
I suppose there is still a chance that last bulb could go on clearance. Also, radioshaq reports that the WINK bulbs are still at the 3 price in his area.

LOL I was referring to the Wifi Router :person_facepalming: Was that on sale?

oop’s
This being a light forum and all, I just assumed you were referring to the flood lights.
Silly me :laughing:
No, the router was full price, $99 I think.

previously it was electricity
Last year I was into electrics and this year I’m into plumbing :stuck_out_tongue:

just don’t mix the two :smiley:

So today I found another one of those evaporative cooler valves at the same place, but this one was an old one that didn’t have a tag on it but it had the number written on it.
Pressing the button for an item with no barcode at self-checkout rings up the attendant so I just left it.

What’s with Home Depot selling used stuff? Sometimes I find a fitting or something that looks old and/or even used, and they dont have a tag so they write the number on it with a marker. At the place where I got the 1¢ evaporative cooler valve, the box for the 3/4 boiler drains had only two of the boiler drains, which were both old and had a manky tag, they seemed like they were on the shelves for 20 years :stuck_out_tongue:
I once saw a bunch of 1” Sharkbite elbows that were obviously used for a while, but they were for sale with the other elbows :confounded:

Also I found an old hose bibb that someone left there; I think what happened is they had a hose bibb that was leaking from the stem packing so they brought the device with them to the store to get a replacement, and left the old one there. So I took it.
What most people don’t know is if you have a valve leaking from the stem, all you need to do is tighten the packing nut. It’s typical for the stems to leak after a while and all you have to do is tighten it a little. If it’s tightened in all the way and there’s no more squish left in the packing, you can just add new packing. Most people don’t know any of this so when they have a hose bibb leaking from the handle, they go out and buy a new one. A new crappy not-lead-free Mueller one from Home Depot, when the old one was a good quality Arrowhead Brass lead free bibb.

I use electrical conduit straps on PW pipe :smiley:

Yeah, I know it is…………

We used to have a house like that :laughing:

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I have no use for compressors, but I finally gave in and went looking today after having seen you get so many. I found 2 of the 3 liters at one of the local HDs. Now if I were to get one, would you suggest I get this one or go looking for the pancake?