Would you think that Home Depot would publish a price on Online that would different than it's in store price?
We turned on our outside water system this past weekend. The soil is finally warm enough to plant tomaters (about three weeks late this year). We learned that the unusually harsh winter had taken its toll on our outside well pressure tank - which had burst.
One of my fraternal buddies helps us fix these kinds of things and was at the farm yesterday. He calls his usual suppliers and tells me - they are way out of line - look one up on Home Depot's Website to see how much they are charging for it. We found it there for $199 (which was about $50-$75) less than I thought it would be.
Anyway - I go for a drive to Home Depot to pick the tank up today - I had not purchased it online - and there in the store the exact same unit that was $199 online was $239 in the store.
I loaded it up in my cart and went to the service desk and asked them why the unit they had for $199 was $40 more in the store. THe clerk looked it up and without batting an eyelash says to me - "you want to buy it?"
I says, "Yes."
She rings it up and takes $40 off the price.
I haven't done a lot of research on this - but I for one wouldn't purchase anything there again without looking up their published online prices.
It's the nature of the differences in the cost structures.
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It never occurred to me that that the price would be different from their online published price
You can find similar discrepancies at Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, etc.
Consumers are willing to pay a price premium for quicker delivery of the product (like buying it at the store).
The fact that these differences haven't equalized and that not all stores honor other online prices shows that it's not hurting the bottom line much, if at all.
Always good to scan the product code to see if this applies.
I think it's called RedLaser (or something like that).
Nothing nefarious, its just that most online strategies are still in their infancies and the mandate is growth, not consistentcy of message with the physical store. Home Depot almost certainly would have accomodated you had you realized it some reasonable time after your purchase and returned to the store.
Not so if you are an in-store shopper. Most stores will honor their online prices, but you do have to ask for it.
In any matter, we'll always match a price on our own website and I'm glad to hear Home Depot did the same for you.
There are different prices all over the country at Home Depot, Lowes, Etc.
$30 shovel in Cali is on sale in Minn. for $15 and on clearance in Jersey for $8. Happens all the time.
I've had at least a dozen occasions where I'll find it cheaper online, buy, browse the store for 15-30 minutes and then pick up the purchase when the confirmation e-mail comes in.
side to check prices, see whats in stock and what needs to
be ordered. If an item is in stock, it will tell me how many are available
and where its located in the store.
Never encountered a price discrepancy, but thanks for the heads up.
Home Depot's site also lists locations in store for items, but only down to the aisle (no bin location).
which is why i am not shocked that Barnes and Noble stores are closing
Ther profit is probably the same either way.
Lol - thanks Clams - I posted this because I was incredulous and edumacated by this episode myself.
There's apparently a lot of folks much smarter about this, as is evidenced in this thread, than we are
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had no idea.....
Lol - thanks Clams - I posted this because I was incredulous and edumacated by this episode myself.
There's apparently a lot of folks much smarter about this, as is evidenced in this thread, than we are
Maybe they're just more bored than we are to notice these details in life?
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Lowes has an awesome mobile app that will find items down to the aisle and bin. Here in NYC, finding someone in these big box stores that knows where stuff is (and what it is in many cases) can be difficult, this app is pure genius to get around that. Needed 5 relatively obscure items from Lowes this past week (a tee for 3/8" nylon tubing, mosquito dunks, and a few others odds and ends). Quickly searched, found the items and prices, and their locations. In and out in 10 minutes where it would normally take much longer to manually track the stuff down.
Home Depot's site also lists locations in store for items, but only down to the aisle (no bin location).
Thanks Jim - just this morning I checked this out. I didn't know that they had the location info, and (at least in my case) they had both aisle and bay.
Basically find 5 or 6 oldsters, buy them a laptop and a smartphone and force them to use the Internet for all communication, shopping, and entertainment. The only tech support they're alowed to use is what would be available to anyone else. No special help.
Would be incredibly hilarious and entertaining. I think there's a few that would make great participants on this thread.
Basically find 5 or 6 oldsters, buy them a laptop and a smartphone and force them to use the Internet for all communication, shopping, and entertainment. The only tech support they're alowed to use is what would be available to anyone else. No special help.
Would be incredibly hilarious and entertaining. I think there's a few that would make great participants on this thread.
Call my parents. If you find better entertainment than that , I'll sign up for it.
Some dumb bastard gave my mother, who can't copy a file to her desktop, a copy of Photoshop which she intends to use. That's like giving a five year old an arc welder.
Except that's not me....I provide Tier 3 support for enterprise wide web based medical applications....and I don't think I'm "old" yet, although my first connection to the internet was on a 2,400 baud rate modem on an O/S called PCGeos.
I just wasn't aware of this marketing practice...
I, however DO think it's cute when young people with no experience think they know everything.
Savvy!
Savvy!
You definitely are for an old farmer.
Hence the condition, "for an old farmer."
I just wasn't aware of this marketing practice...
I, however DO think it's cute when young people with no experience think they know everything.
that was enlightening, but... i was talking about gidiefor. no idea why you would think that was addressed to you.
gidiefor may be old, but at least his sense of humor still works.
d@mn it jcn.. , you swore that those cups and wire you gave me were going to work