I do a lot of business at the local Lowes. Recently they built a Mennards here so the Lowes is getting a face lift. The store is a mess. Yesterday I was out ordering a door when I saw the general manager and said how nice the store looked.
He said “hey, maybe we can help each other out”. I said sure what do you need. He takes me to an isle with a combination of new vanities, new, returned, floor models, vanity tops, accesory cabinets, mirrors and medicine cabinets. $5-10 each if I took it all. And got rid of it right away. I said I can have truck here in 30 minute, how is that? He said “done!”.
Got a dozen vanities, half a dozen vanity tops, 4 accesory cabinets, 4 medicine cabinets, 2 faucets, a kitchen organizer rack (don’t know how it got there but my son liked it) 6 mirrors, and 4-5 gallon buckets of flat white latex Olympic paint for $191.00 total.
I let the employees look it over and pick something if they wanted it. Kept the paint and new vanities as we can sell them and kept the rest for a rainy day. Nice way to end the week. DanT
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yea, once they decide to get rid of something, I guess it is already written off and you can get a good deal. Here at each of the several Lowes around town they have a mark-down "specials table" for tools. I guess the items are all things they are no longer gonna stock. I found some time ago that if you get the manager, the price any item on the table is negotiable, and the managers just want the stuff gone. They often have have Firestorm or other such c@ap, but if you keep an eye out, occasionally they put out the good stuff like a few Hitachi or PC. I have to be careful though that I don't get sucked into buying stuff I don't really need...
I have to be careful though that I don't get sucked into buying stuff I don't really need...
What? I wouldn't have 12 drills if I thought like that...
Joe H
and I probably have more than 12 if I found them all
That is exactly the mind set that has helped me grow my business. I get that desire to buy new tools, hire another crew and give them a truck and tools and buy new ones of each for me. Fool proof strategy. DanT
Picked up a Red Lion concrete mixer a few years ago at Lowes. Seem to remember paying $50-$60 for it . . . normally sold for around $400. There was a half-dozen of them they were getting rid of. If i'd been thinking clearly, i would've bought another and just left it boxed up in case the first one wore out.
A Menards just inked a deal to open a store at a failed mall site here in Columbus. About 3 miles from my house. i'll start saving my pennies for the Lowes that's within walking distance. :)
Rez
When did you change your name?
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
snorK* I quit, er, slowed way down.
Been in a clean out mode of late but the temptation is always there.
Can't believe the stuff I've been discovering in the sheds. Gotta clean this stuff out and stop it.
be hmmm, noticed I was getting low on culled 2x's the other day...In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.-Thoreau's Walden