mjeff87 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Every once in awhile, God smiles at me and lets me cash in some Karma coupons.... I was at Lowe's yesterday buying some hardware and wandered into the small little towing/pickup truck section for no good reason. I saw a box holding a Reese adjustable hitch kit sitting in an odd place so I checked it out. It was complete, but for some reason it had a yellow discount tag on it. I looked twice to make sure I wasn't seeing things, then scooped it up and proceeded to checkout. Even the checkout girl said WTH when she saw it, but said "you hit the jackpot here". It scanned in at $9.00 for some reason, and I said that wasn't a problem and I'd gladly pay that. No, she said, and did a manual price override to what the discount sticker had on it. Made my day. I "think" it was supposed to have a hitch ball included, which now looking at it I see is not present. That's not an issue at all, I have spares. Maybe that's why it was marked down, but I still think whoever did it screwed up a bit..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 90% off?! not too shabby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMO413 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Nice buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maveric Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Ok I work for one of the other big box stores but if its anything like ours... It looks appears to be a clearance tag (you'd have to check to see if that item is still regularly stocked on the shelf) it is still on the website but that means little. Why a store will clearance an item like that is because corporate in their wise wisdon realizes that that item at that location doesnt sell and is replacing it with what they hope will sell. Its totally automatic the price drops and no one inserts the price in a machine to do it... So no one screwed up per se. The other thing it could be is a reduced tag (i don't know what theirs looks like) and those auctomatically knock a percentage off regular retail price, usually 25%, and it automatically will drop after so much time to the next tier... When it drops out of the system (99% off) it gets destroyed, same with clearance items when they drop to a penny. Now what I think is it was clearance, the local system sticker says 4.78 yet the register rang it up at 9, I've seen this a few times on clearance items... The two systems didnt update at the same time... Local market is lower were district/regional price is slightly higher for some reason... So it gets marked to sticker price. Anyway thats my educated guess and two cents... Great deal though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjeff87 Posted September 3, 2020 Author Share Posted September 3, 2020 I didn't see any more of them anywhere...I assumed it was a closeout type of a deal. I got a nice pair of work shoes there once in the tool department, they were on closeout and markdown. I was looking at them, I wear a size 11-ish and the smallest they had was a half size too big but still fit me reasonably well enough. The lady in the tool department saw me looking, came over and hand-wrote $8.00 and her initials on the sticker (they were like $75 shoes, marked down to $30 or something). She said she had to get all of them out of there as she needed shelf space for new items. It was one of those "right place at the right time" moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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