Some years ago I got $1000s worth of those costly aluminum hurricane panels for $0.01/each when they changed vendors to a slightly different hole spacing. They didn't have any of the matching brackets that were spaced to fit, so I suppose the markdown manager figured the prior inventory was useless. Then I just used the sliding rails for 1/4-20 bolts that take any spacing.
This was great! Thanks, Scott. If you also shop at Lowe's, frequently or not, a video on savings there would be appreciated, too. I use both, but Lowe's more often. Both are near me and both carry things the other doesn't and their store brands have common and uncommon items of varying qualities, too.
Items ending in 3 is the last salable clearance price. After that, it goes down to a penny and "should" be pulled from the shelf and destroyed, donated or shipped to the vendor. From one who knows.
I always check this end caps out when I’m there. I found some little USB-rechargeable Ryobi batteries on clearance for something crazy ike $6 (originally $40) and I bought them thinking they’d fit in my old Ryobi drill because they looked very similar to the original drill batteries. Got home, absolutely destroyed the clam shell to get them out because I was so confident they’d work, then they didn’t fit the drill. I figured for $6 it was easier to just add two decent 18650 cells and two usb C charging circuits, that could be used for some future diy project, to my parts bin rather than trying to return them. But, I got curious and looked up which Ryobi tools use the similar-looking-but-just-slightly-different batteries and one of the cheaper tools to utilize them is a little clamp fan, that comes with one battery and cable, for $40. Then, about a year later (around this past May/June) HD had a sale/promotion that knocked the price of the fan down to $25-30, if I remember right, so I grabbed one. Either way, they kind of got me. But, the fan is actually pretty cool (no pun intended) and now that it’s summer and hot, I actually use it all the time and have three batteries to cycle through it. But, I’m definitely going to pay a lot more attention to those stickers from now on, though.
Your video is a good argument for using self check. That way an employee won't see it to do the sale. I bought a Multimeter that way recently. It was originally about $99, i got it for $35. It wasn't marked for clearance, but it was in an odd location. I adjed the price and bought it on the spot!
@electronicsNmore good to know that was not a unique experience. I agree with you that I get better clearance at HD than other stores, but I've gotten fantastic deals at WalMart. Used to find great deals at Lowe's, but it's been several years. Mostly, they are deflating their attempts at inflation and saying new low price, LOL!
I really had my hopes up when I found a sun faded pressure washer on clearance for $399 but from January. Sadly it still hasn’t dropped, the employee said it can take a long time
@@electronicsNmore there are 5 receipt apps I use ...receipt pal... receipt hog...coin opp...fetch.....and receipt jar.....fetch... scan receipts from any store....and you can just set up for emails and stores... Amazon Walmart Kroger's.....ern gift cards...and some will send you a check
Question. I bought a shark vacuum for a penny (which at the moment was a great surprise (a penny?!!!)) Unfortunately when I opened the box 3 crucial tools were missing. Should I go to home depot to ask for the missing items? I reached out to Shark and they asked me to return the vacuum to home depot. Please advise.
That's great information, but the Rayovac batteries really bug me. I haven't had good experiences with Rayovac batteries recently. They leaked or didn't last long. 😒 I wouldn't even buy them for a penny. What a great deal you got on the other items though. I usually run into time constraints when I need something pretty quickly, but I can see that with some planning and patience, you can get some terrific give away deals. Thank you, I really appreciate this video, sir! 👍👍👍
After all the core value of the Home Depot associate is number one he made a sale number two he makes the customer. Satisfied customers are always right. I was the regional district top associate for five years, straight employee of the month for three and all star two times out of the 11 years, I was a platinum award winner two times I always cared about my customers more than the associates because a lot of as
Are you serious I often buy clearance I have gotten lots of great deals from the home depot like one of the high torque Milwaukee impacts for $55 and a (silent) air compressor for like $80 or something like that it was half off
Yep, that is true. I worked in the Home Depot. I am the master behind it I was forced to destroy products.😂😂 Instead, we know that the customer if the customer finds it before the associate, the customer gets it for the penny, but if the associate finds it, he hast to throw it away, so instead, I’ll make a few phone calls😂 whoever wants it, gets it for a penny, and if I find any customer they want it for penny, they’ll keep it for a penny I’m satisfied that they’re satisfied
I bought a shark vacuum for a penny (which at the moment was a great surprise (a penny?!!!)) Unfortunately when I opened the box 3 crucial tools were missing. Should I go to home depot to ask for the missing items? I reached out to Shark and they asked me to return the vacuum to home depot. Since you worked at HD can I go back and ask for the missing parts?
Are you up for some constructive criticism? Your audio could use some improvement. You will get better engagement and probably more subscriptions and views. Your audio is echoey. Either talk more closely into the mic or add some sound proofing to the room or both. Maybe a better mic also. Here's why it's so important: (I can't put links in comments) Google this study: "The quality of audio influences whether you believe what you hear" Here's a quote from the article: "Next time you are recorded, make sure you have good sound quality, [the researchers] wrote. Your credibility depends on it." I'm going to roam Home Depot this Sunday looking for clearance items. Thanks!!
I've seen some pretty bad videos on TH-cam with horrible audio that got hundreds of thousands or even millions of views, so in my opinion it's irrelevant. What matters is the information supplied to the viewer. I was brought up differently, I was taught never to complain when a person is helping you or does something for you for free. The audio in this video is more than acceptable. Thanks for watching
Never had a self check out question the item that was scanned. The employees that take the item are just pissed off that they aren't getting that deal. Always ask for the manager and nicely say what I told you in the video.
Fantastic information that will save me money!! Thanks!!
Glad you found the information helpful! Heading over to your channel now to check out your latest video. :-)
Lol yeah you but lots of tools for testing must get expensive appreciate what you do tho
My favorite color is "Clearance Yellow".
Some years ago I got $1000s worth of those costly aluminum hurricane panels for $0.01/each when they changed vendors to a slightly different hole spacing. They didn't have any of the matching brackets that were spaced to fit, so I suppose the markdown manager figured the prior inventory was useless. Then I just used the sliding rails for 1/4-20 bolts that take any spacing.
This was great! Thanks, Scott. If you also shop at Lowe's, frequently or not, a video on savings there would be appreciated, too. I use both, but Lowe's more often. Both are near me and both carry things the other doesn't and their store brands have common and uncommon items of varying qualities, too.
Wow... information is power! Thanks for the great tips👍
Items ending in 3 is the last salable clearance price. After that, it goes down to a penny and "should" be pulled from the shelf and destroyed, donated or shipped to the vendor. From one who knows.
I always check this end caps out when I’m there. I found some little USB-rechargeable Ryobi batteries on clearance for something crazy ike $6 (originally $40) and I bought them thinking they’d fit in my old Ryobi drill because they looked very similar to the original drill batteries. Got home, absolutely destroyed the clam shell to get them out because I was so confident they’d work, then they didn’t fit the drill. I figured for $6 it was easier to just add two decent 18650 cells and two usb C charging circuits, that could be used for some future diy project, to my parts bin rather than trying to return them. But, I got curious and looked up which Ryobi tools use the similar-looking-but-just-slightly-different batteries and one of the cheaper tools to utilize them is a little clamp fan, that comes with one battery and cable, for $40. Then, about a year later (around this past May/June) HD had a sale/promotion that knocked the price of the fan down to $25-30, if I remember right, so I grabbed one. Either way, they kind of got me. But, the fan is actually pretty cool (no pun intended) and now that it’s summer and hot, I actually use it all the time and have three batteries to cycle through it. But, I’m definitely going to pay a lot more attention to those stickers from now on, though.
Great information thanks for sharing.
That is awesome! You definitely got this extreme couponers attention! Thank you so much!😊
10:36 a.m.(thank you this info is gold 🥇❤
You're welcome, and thank you very much for watching!
Nice tip for hard store manager , thanks
Wonderful video and great info. Best regards from Texas!
Glad it was helpful!
Your video is a good argument for using self check. That way an employee won't see it to do the sale. I bought a Multimeter that way recently. It was originally about $99, i got it for $35. It wasn't marked for clearance, but it was in an odd location. I adjed the price and bought it on the spot!
Many items that are on clearance don't have yellow clearance labels on them
@electronicsNmore good to know that was not a unique experience. I agree with you that I get better clearance at HD than other stores, but I've gotten fantastic deals at WalMart. Used to find great deals at Lowe's, but it's been several years. Mostly, they are deflating their attempts at inflation and saying new low price, LOL!
Never tell the employees. They'll buy it themselves. I have had a few even go on to tell me they do not clearance out certain items. Bs
Great video thanks👍
You're welcome! I'm glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for watching
can you use the hd app scanner as the same as the store?
No
I really had my hopes up when I found a sun faded pressure washer on clearance for $399 but from January. Sadly it still hasn’t dropped, the employee said it can take a long time
Nice, thanks
You're welcome!
Let's just say, you'll find a use for a shower door if it's only a penny! 👍
Thanks a lot.
I hope you're scanning those coupons into either fetch or coin-op or any of the money from scanning all those receipts and getting gift
Sadly I have not.
@@electronicsNmore there are 5 receipt apps I use ...receipt pal... receipt hog...coin opp...fetch.....and receipt jar.....fetch... scan receipts from any store....and you can just set up for emails and stores... Amazon Walmart Kroger's.....ern gift cards...and some will send you a check
Question. I bought a shark vacuum for a penny (which at the moment was a great surprise (a penny?!!!)) Unfortunately when I opened the box 3 crucial tools were missing. Should I go to home depot to ask for the missing items? I reached out to Shark and they asked me to return the vacuum to home depot. Please advise.
That's great information, but the Rayovac batteries really bug me. I haven't had good experiences with Rayovac batteries recently. They leaked or didn't last long. 😒 I wouldn't even buy them for a penny. What a great deal you got on the other items though. I usually run into time constraints when I need something pretty quickly, but I can see that with some planning and patience, you can get some terrific give away deals. Thank you, I really appreciate this video, sir! 👍👍👍
Yes, just like Energizer, the Rayovacs leak.
@@electronicsNmore A lot of times those clearance items are on clearance for a reason. Choose wisely even for a penny.
I'd just put them in something else that costs pennies, problem solved.
I go to self checkout so I don't deal with the worker at the register.
After all the core value of the Home Depot associate is number one he made a sale number two he makes the customer. Satisfied customers are always right. I was the regional district top associate for five years, straight employee of the month for three and all star two times out of the 11 years, I was a platinum award winner two times I always cared about my customers more than the associates because a lot of as
wheres the homedepot link
Check now. Thanks for watching!
I had never bought clearance items before. I assumed they were defective items. I'll be looking more closely in the future.
You definitely want to take a closer look at those prices.
Are you serious I often buy clearance I have gotten lots of great deals from the home depot like one of the high torque Milwaukee impacts for $55 and a (silent) air compressor for like $80 or something like that it was half off
Yep, that is true. I worked in the Home Depot. I am the master behind it I was forced to destroy products.😂😂 Instead, we know that the customer if the customer finds it before the associate, the customer gets it for the penny, but if the associate finds it, he hast to throw it away, so instead, I’ll make a few phone calls😂 whoever wants it, gets it for a penny, and if I find any customer they want it for penny, they’ll keep it for a penny I’m satisfied that they’re satisfied
I bought a shark vacuum for a penny (which at the moment was a great surprise (a penny?!!!)) Unfortunately when I opened the box 3 crucial tools were missing. Should I go to home depot to ask for the missing items? I reached out to Shark and they asked me to return the vacuum to home depot. Since you worked at HD can I go back and ask for the missing parts?
Does anyone in this chat know if this the same for Home Depot in Canada?
Not sure about Canada, but more than likely the same clearance procedure.
Are you up for some constructive criticism? Your audio could use some improvement. You will get better engagement and probably more subscriptions and views.
Your audio is echoey. Either talk more closely into the mic or add some sound proofing to the room or both. Maybe a better mic also.
Here's why it's so important: (I can't put links in comments)
Google this study: "The quality of audio influences whether you believe what you hear"
Here's a quote from the article:
"Next time you are recorded, make sure you have good sound quality, [the researchers] wrote. Your credibility depends on it."
I'm going to roam Home Depot this Sunday looking for clearance items. Thanks!!
I've seen some pretty bad videos on TH-cam with horrible audio that got hundreds of thousands or even millions of views, so in my opinion it's irrelevant. What matters is the information supplied to the viewer. I was brought up differently, I was taught never to complain when a person is helping you or does something for you for free. The audio in this video is more than acceptable. Thanks for watching
@@electronicsNmore I wasn't complaining, I was offering constructive criticism (as I mentioned). You can take it or leave it.
good to know
For sure. I've saved a lot of money with those clearance tags.
Hd programmers will close this down. 😢
Have you seen how poorly their computers and apps work? They have low salaries for their tech people, nobody competent works there haha
I have had the employees take .01 items away and some have let me keep the free item. Self check out still alerts the staff
Never had a self check out question the item that was scanned. The employees that take the item are just pissed off that they aren't getting that deal. Always ask for the manager and nicely say what I told you in the video.
you are a penny, make so long video for this?