Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread






Man, dcho, you are tearing it up these days.

I think that sometimes you may experience some negativity from some posts when we can’t find the same deals. I just want to let you know that I am very grateful for your finding posts. There have been times when they have saved me big money. Most of times, I can’t find the same deals. But, I still love hearing about your scores and experiences getting them. :slight_smile:

Same here, I can’t get the penny deals but I do get the price drops so when I see something here I want, I know it’s probably going to be on sale when I go to my local store so it saves me money.

Phil

+ 1.

Any negativity that you might get from me is simply sour grapes and jealousy on my part! I really appreciate your everyone’s diligence and time invested in making all of us aware of potential upcoming deals.

Ditto here, exact mine is more directed at the local managers that have the time to keep their stores spotless.

Good point guys, my local HDs are really unlikely to yield penny deals but that doesn’t mean I can’t find a deal of some sort. This past weekend my son and I were at a car show near a HD so after we did that and had a good lunch I told him I wanted to check HD for any clearance items we’d be interested in. Once I explained the process (6’s, 3’s and penny deals) he got really into it. He found a few clearance end caps that I didn’t even see because they weren’t marked very well. We ended up buying my first “03” deal, a Wagner heat gun marked down from just under $30 to $5 and change. There were 2 styles but I just got the smaller one and will check in on the other one to see if it lasts long enough to be a penny deal. These went to the “3” price in June so they’ve been on clearance for a while, if you need or want a heat gun make sure you check for them.

Yes, it’s always nice to get the deals. :slight_smile:
Those heat guns that jf_smm mentions were everywhere at one time. Now I don’t see any.

In the past, I mentioned mops and poles at the “2” price. A couple of weeks ago I was in this store just as the girl was pulling them and marking them at a penny.

I went up to her and remarked that I was just a little late. She told me it wouldn’t have mattered because they will NOT ring up for a penny UNTIL she sets them to a penny with her scanner. A couple of times I have been in a store and have had items in hand that were set to go, but waited until the reaper had done their deed. As it happens, this was the first of 7 stores I visited on my trip from 2 weeks ago. Having seen that clued me into the fact that the mops had turned, but I wasn’t able to find a single one in the other 6 stores. that first store must have been one of the last to tag them at a penny.
A couple of days ago, I was in that same store again and poked around the display to see if I could find any “crumbs”. I found 2. Behind the display a single mop head was on the floor and a mop and pole were back there. I went over to the garden area to get a “helping hand” It’s the thing with the green pole and the jaws at the end. I didn’t buy it, I just borrowed it.

With that tool I was able to reach down and snag both the mop and pole and a loose mop. Both rang up for a penny.
The mops that are a penny have a big red weave at the head of the mop.

And here is a combination mop head and pole. If you ask me this is the better deal. Still a penny, but the pole is included :stuck_out_tongue:
Hard to notice the wooded pole, but it is attached to the mop

At another store I found some more at the bottom of a tall cardboard display. I used that same helping hand tool there to.

The tool is to the right of the scanner

These 80 foot, 16ga extention cords just went from 14.88 to 7.54

Now they are $3.82. In 2 weeks they will be pulled and go to a penny.

These mini worklights have now gone to $1.52

But my local store STILL has them marked at $5.88. They do scan at $1.52, I checked

These 7000lb ball mounts are about $30


They look just like the 6000lb ball mounts they replaced. If you can find any 6000lb ones mixed in, they will likely ring up for a penny.
I found 5

In the cleaning section the longer 9’ telescoping poles are a penny. The shorter 6’ are about $12.
They are easy to tell apart, the 9’ is 3 sections and have 2 white rings. You may find some mixed in with the 6’
I think they are easy to miss when it was time to pull them.

I only saw these generator cords at one store and they were tons of them. Then they got pulled, but they missed 2.

etc, etc.

As encouragement, every week, probably 50 items get pulled and marked at a penny. All departments, plumbing, electrical, housewares, tools etc.
Even if a store is cleaned out, next week there will be more. And more, and more.

Anything you see at a 6 or 3 or 4 or 2 price, will be a penny in the near future. Walk the store and remember what you see. Because if you see it again, and enough time has passed, it could be a penny.

That was a long post, I forgot to include this.
That Ridgid TriPack compressor has gone to $75.03 at most stores around here. Only 2 stores still have stock, and at those stores they are still priced at $299.00

Here is the UPC code. Use it to price check. If it’s $75.03, then go to customer service to check stock

If you’re paranoid and susceptible to believing in conspiracy theories, don’t ask the tool guy.
BTW, stock of 1 could very well mean none. To be the safest, ask a woman with a scanner in housewares to check for stock. She would be so disconnected from what that compressor is that it wouldn’t set off any alarms.
I say that because the other day I traveled 12 miles to an HD that had 7 of the 100 piece socket sets. I knew that because another store checked nearby stores for stock. When I got there, I asked the tool guy to scan the UPC that I had printed out. I could tell by his expression that he knew what it was for BEFORE he even scanned it. When he did, he said he only had 1, even though I saw that his scanner said 7. When I pointed that out to him, he told me he had already been through this. Stock said 7 but they could only find 1.
He had that 1 in a special place and gave it to me. I felt a little bad because I got both the impression that he was telling the truth AND that 1 was put aside for himself. Truth or lie, something was going on at that store.

And, the lithium batteries are marked at 4.20.

FYI that 80’ 16ga cord will not carry any large loads, I’d limit it to 10A or less if it is indeed 16Ga. Many of the “made in china” cords overstate the wire size so personally I’d limit it an 8A load to protect my tools.

I’ll check for the worklights next time round- one cannot have too many portable lights you lnow :smiley:

Phil

Yeah, I have been finding those lithiums here and there for a penny since late May and early June
receipt date June 4

What’s really, really strange about this latest HAUL is that was a local store that I have been to many, many times. I always check the battery section up by the registers and those just popped up lately. I don’t know where they came from.
Only possibility is that they were in storage behind the display and maybe the floor cleaner moved them out and put them there. When I first saw them my biggest fear was that they were too old and wouldn’t scan at all.
The picture above shows that they went to the 6 price and in that case they scanned for a penny also.

LOL, That’s why I passed on them at $3.82. Don’t need no stinking 16ga cords at $3.82 :smiley:

However, at a penny, I might be inclined to indulge. :wink:

Actually, 80’ 16 gauge cords can have some usefulness. for instance I cut and used some 100’ 16 gauge cords and used the wire inside of conduit that I buried to run our LED lights at the end of our driveway. I got those cords a good 20 years ago and I STILL remember that deal. It was Sams Club and they had a 100’ and a 25’ combo on clearance for $2.91. I bought EVERY one, and they had a lot of them.
I ended up using the 25 footers before the 100’s. I think I still have 5 or 6 of the 100’s
We used a lot of extension cords in my business, and as hard as I tried I could never get anyone to wrap one correctly or take care of them. And of course many were lost. You’re right, 16 gauge is not of much use. We used mostly 14 and 12 gauge cords. At home here, I still have a 100’ 10 gauge cord. And you are right about some of the cords have overstated gauge wires in them.

The last time I checked the only TCP connected bulb that had not gone to a penny was about a week ago. It has still been around all this time and it was still 39.97. It was a 65W equiv spot light. I need to see if there is still one to be found.
Here is the UPC of an ordinary TCP connected bulb that IS a penny. I will scan this tomorrow, it would be good if you could also. It would be really interesting how that store handles it. I am hoping that your result is not indicative of how all penny items will be handled in the future.

Today I found a GE Link 60 watt bulb in the clearance section. On the self checkout, it came out as not found… too old to be in the system. So I tried to pull another dchomak trick - I called up the rep and explained the situation; she looked it up online and saw it listed at 14.75 on their website, and offered to give it to me for 9.75. I asked if she could go lower and she said no. She was so surprised when I turned down her offer and just walked away.

I think I just learned something; if you see a lot of items one time and the next time they are all gone, then that means they have probably gone to a penny and you can look for leftovers.

in pseudocode

:smiley:

Heads up guys, a little birdie told me that many HD locations are eliminating 3rd shift (overnight) employees…this includes overnight MET. The regular MET duties will be done by the regular store hour employees. This might give us deal hunters a better chance to snag deals during store hours without interference from overnight MET.

I was in my work HD yesterday and the whole place was swarming with RGIS (I think that was it) uniformed subcontractors. Scanning and keying and putting up inventory sheets on all the racks and shelves. I scowled at every one of them, it felt like they were following me around the store stealing all the deals!

I did see a stack of Kohler faucets that are marked down to 35.03 from 139 with a date of 5/19/16. I gotta check those regularly for the next little bit. It would be sweet to score 3 of them at a penny and have penny faucets throughout the house.

I have seen faucets locally with dates as old as last year, they still ring up for the sticker price though. I keep hoping but it honestly gets tiring to drag it to the front only to drag it back lol.

The HD’s around here have a lot of faucets at an “07” price with the date of 05/19/16. Same date mentioned above. That “07” price is roughly 50% off and is the same 07 price my friend scored on for a penny last month. Dates on his scores were 2 months older, 03/17/16.