Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

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?

A few steps too slow… the locust got to most of the 4/4 ecosmarts that i had been circling last week at the 3 price. I knew they would be cleaned up by Friday, but wasn’t able to get there before that. Here are a few penny deals I found at clearance that the locust had missed

this one was from an earlier date. am already using it

I found 3 of these still in the regular bulb section. looks like the newer packagings are in multi-packs instead of these singles.

And found this below the clearance rack… told you guys i been dumpster diving without a care

I found 1 of the “174” bulbs (last 3 digits). It shouldn’t have been a penny, but was. If I remember correctly it’s date was 4/18.
Those other 2 bulbs I am not familiar with.
You are right, those orange locusts have defoliated much of the crop of penny lights. Here’s some other things to look for.

These are items that have been updated with new stock and new stock numbers, but look identical. The older numbers ring up for a penny.
This Black USB 2.1A car charger.
The one on the left with the number on the left top, last 3 digits 832, is a penny. The one on the right, last 3 digits 267, is 11.97 $7.97

Also This White USB 2.1A car charger is a penny. Numbers on the left, last 3 digits 601

Here is stack hanging on a hook. The 3 in the back are penny chargers :slight_smile:
Notice the numbers on the left, the ones in the front are on the right and ring up for full price.

Also this. The one on the left, last 3 digits “894” in my hand is a penny. The one on the right, last 3 digits “878” is $9.97.

You may find the penny knives mixed in the stack hanging on the hook, OR, elsewhere. For example on the floor at the bottom of the rack.
The 2 look almost the same.

Rummaging the knife section is not an option here; they are all locked up. Will try to look through the glass to see if I can find any.

:slight_smile: I walked into a Home Depot yesterday and this display was the first thing I saw at the entrance.

They were wrong, that was not the best deal of the day. The deal of the day was the penny lights I found in clearance. :slight_smile:

radioshaq, this mention of below gave me a great idea. I can’t believe I never thought of this before

How many of these type of clearance displays have we seen?


They are only made of cardboard and that cardboard platform inside is sitting pretty high off the floor………
And the cardboard is pretty flimsy and flexible, easy for stuff to fall through at the edges……….
So I cleared off one so I could remove the platform to see what’s underneath. :stuck_out_tongue:

All kinds of stuff! And a lot of it rang up for a penny. :money_mouth_face: Some other stuff was just stuff, so old it wouldn’t even ring up. And some others rang up for clearance prices or full list.
But there were 3 displays, here’s another.
Lots of lights, and for a penny.

more stuff

The pancake one is too small to do much other than inflate a tire or ball. It would be VERY handy for blowing air to clean, say. your computer etc. Very portable. $15.03 is too cheap to pass up. The included tools are almost worth that.
The other compressor is larger, 8 gallons and is almost too large to be convenient unless it can be rolled into place. On the other hand, it is too small to do any serious work, like run a dual action sander. But then again, at $33, who cares.
Maybe get one of each?

I just reread my post and now realize you meant the 3 gallon compressor with the handle. That one is small enough and light enough to be portable. More powerful than the pancake but not as convenient. Still, maybe get one of each. Both come with a coiled hose and tools

I got a message yesterday from a friend. A friend I just helped out by picking up some of those compressors for him. He was in a Home Depot and just spotted another compressor that has gone on clearance. This is a larger one and it is now at the “4” price. The 4 price is like the “6” price. It means that if it doesn’t sell thru, there is another, even lower, price coming. That next reduction will be a “2” price. The 4 price is usually 50% off list and the 2 price is half the 4 price, for a total of 75%. Then it is pulled and put at a penny.

The stores I have been in are still pricing this at $199.j Something to look out for.
Imagine getting this at $50.02.

Here is something that already is at the 2 price. Previously it was reduced to the “4” price, 50% off

This is a solar powered lantern and you can see it is rather large. $15.04 is half the list price which was $29.95
I was watching this, waiting for it to hit the “2” price, and it did.

There it is, now at $7.52.
Now that it is cheap enough, I bothered to look at it more closely.
The tag says it is 10 Lumens. Isn’t that about what we call firefly mode :confounded:

Since I posted about how to identify the penny USB car chargers I have had pretty good success. In my area, all of the stores have had the orange crews going thru the stock removing penny items and tidying everything up.
Here is a crew of 7 going down this isle, devouring everything in their path.
Count them, there are 7 orange shirts.

These guys were going down this isle,left to right. Luckily I beat them to this penny deal. Penny USB in my hand in front of the $7.97 one.

Scored 7 Black and 2 White ones here. Remember, the penny ones have the numbers on the top left.


I have found many many EcoSmart lights at a penny. Too many to mention. The next date coming up is the 4/18 bulbs. They should start to turn in about a week.

First house I ever bought needed a LOT of work.
So, I was first into electrical work, then plumbing, then painting etc.
It was a joke. A variation of the arrogant Texan who brags to his friend on how much land he has. He tells his friend he can drive all day in his car and never leave his property.
His friend dead pans, “Yeah, I used to have a car like that too.”

Well, around here we just went thru the greatest opportunity ever for finding penny stuff. I can’t give specifics, but it was absolutely outrageous.
Here is a pic of one I missed. Got there just as the items were being carted away. Notice the 1 cent stickers on the boxes.


I will post some other deals I found though.
So far this one store has had these airless sprayers at the “3” price. Other stores have either sold thru or have them at the “6” price of $386.06

I was with a friend and we grabbed them both, one for him and one for another friend of mine.
Notice the 2 “penny” lights I had set on top of the box when I shot this pic :wink:
This one store only had these 25’, 12 gauge generator cords for $7.53. It plugs into the 240V 20A socket on a generator and splits out 2- 120V, 20A circuits. The store had cases and cases of these cords sprinkled throughout the store.

Also in the cart is 3 nightlights that went to a penny well over a year ago. They are so old they do not scan at all, not even for a penny. I convinced the manager to just give them to me for FREE.
I have watched these rapid-power plus power banks go from $29.97 to $23.00 to $15.04 to $7.52


IF you can find them now, they will ring up for a penny.
Haven’t found any yet.
The 64 piece DeWalt bit set came out at $19.88, then went to $17.88 and then to an even $16.00


Yesterday I see it has been reduced again to $8.98

Maybe I should avoid this thread since the penny deals or other major discounts (like the compressors) never appear in my area.

I think they do!
Those compressor deals go fast, if anyone is aware of them they go in minutes. In July I have seen evidence of them in every state I have been in. CT, MA,RI, and NY.
in late June and the first week in July I was in Ohio I searched for and found a few receipts from then and found SOME of the penny deals I found.
Ashtabula, Euclid and Mentor.

These 2 deals came from the Cleveland area. As I mentioned in a previous post, I just happened to be in the right spot for the 36V Makita circular saw. While I was in the store, they brought out 4 and they were grabbed immediately. Had I been in another part of the store at that time I would have never even known about it. I was very lucky to get the one!

Ditto, I have checked frequently at a few stores around me the last few months and in Texas it looks like penny deals basically don’t happen.

I see TONS of clearance items with dates going back as far as a year+ yet they always ring up for the sticker price.

The one and only exception to this were 2 of those dewalt tap holder things, I scanned them and they came up a penny but that is the one and only time I have seen an item even be different from the sticker price much less a penny no matter what the date is.

Funny thing is I actually found those Tap holders a few days before this thread.

I don’t know if the discounts are a regional thing? I will see 6 and even 0 priced items with dates going back well over 6 months and in many cases a year yet they insistently ring up for the stated price.

It is even more random than that in my experience, I pass two different Home Depots on my way to and from work, one of them still has the Energizer lanterns at full price, at least a month after I scored a pair of them for less than $5 a piece at the store closer to work.

I think the deals are out there, it just takes a lot of time, mental organization, and a huge amount of luck to score the really great bargains.

The other thing is to also not be trying to score a GREAT bargain; I just follow this thread and am happy to find anything for a penny even if the full price might have been say 5 bucks.

Don’t get me wrong, I am in no way upset or even annoyed by this thread or anyone by it. I am annoyed that my local home depots do not play by the “rules”. lol

Even the deal prices listed here are rarely the same at my local stores and after a few months I just came to realize it was not worth any special trips as there was virtually never anything on the clearance rack worth buying.