12 February 2013

RE: [DIY] Harbor Freight oscillating thing

The telephone agent was very diligent and polite. She found the items in the main online fulfillment center were all damaged returns. Then she searched the entire United States. It took about 15 minutes. She came back and apologized, saying it was no longer available anywhere.

When Lowe's has these killer sales and they show unavailable on the website, there is a high probability they sold out quickly. I did purchase a Porter Cable planer from them a while back that was on sale for less than half price. I remember I was out of town and discovered it from my hotel room and placed a call to a local lowes to reserve it on my credit card. That item was sold out in three days everywhere.

Bob

From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob Davis
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:16 AM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [DIY] Harbor Freight oscillating thing

I downloaded the lowes checker. It is missing some .dll files. They website offers the .dlls for separate download and a program to add them to the registry. I'm too squeamish to do that in these days of security concerns.

I did contact customer service by email and they said the rockwell sale was still available from their main online fulfillment center and I needed to place the order by telephone. So I am trying that route. The agent understood the issue and is presently searching the entire united states for me. I will be elated if she is successful, but expect disappointment. I will post what happens.

Bob

From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of subprong
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 1:58 AM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DIY] Harbor Freight oscillating thing

There are online inventory checkers for places like Home Depot, Target, Staples and Wal-Mart. You plug in a store number and item/model/product number and it spits out the surrounding stores along with the stock for each store.

http://checkinventory.home.comcast.net/~checkinventory/
http://sd.site88.net/homedepot.html

I believe the only available inventory search for Lowes (outside of their site) is via this downloadable program which I have not tried. You can generate stock for up to 50 store locations.

http://site-check.site88.net/lowescheck.html

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:06 PM, <bob@wrobertdavis.com> wrote:

what is the 3rd party inventory checker?

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From: subprong <subprong@gmail.com>

To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [DIY] Harbor Freight oscillating thing

Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:38:18 -0600

I ordered this for shipment a few weeks ago and received it soon after. A few days ago I don't believe i t was available for shipment but was available for in-store pick up (at least according to their stock in this area).

As for Lowes advertising something that is not available....I guess you could download the 3rd party Lowes inventory checker (I wish there were an online checker like the Home Depot one) to see if there are any available in-store nationally for confirmation on that. It would not surprise me if there very few (if any) left as I thought their stock would have been wiped out weeks ago at that price.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Bob Davis <bob@wrobertdavis.com> wrote:

Lowe's is advertis ing something that is not available. I tried to order one and it showed zero availability.

From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of subprong
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 7:03 PM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DIY] Harbor Freight oscillating thing