Over at Acme Tools, they’re holding a July 4th coupon promo where you can save 10% off select orders.
There are some brand exclusions, but none that haven’t been excluded before. There are also a bunch of specific price-fixed SKUs that are excluded from the promo, but far less than in recent promos.
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You can save 10% on eligible tools, up to a max discount of $150, meaning the discount is fixed to $150 on eligible orders $1500 and up.
Update: The discount has been extended to 7/5/2019.
These promos are a good opportunity to save on brands that don’t normally have promo pricing, and on Milwaukee preorders. For example, the promo code works on the new Milwaukee M12 Fuel Surge driver, as well as the new Milwaukee M18 Fuel rear-handle circular saw. The coupon also works on Milwaukee Packout products.
There are other promos going on right now, such as “save 20% on 3 Dewalt cordless bare tools, or 10% on 2,” and the coupon likely won’t stack with any of those.
Coupon Code: JULY4
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Deal ends 7/4/2019 7/5/2019.
Brand Exclusions:
Abra Equipment, Air-Tow Trailers, Armor All, Barreto Mfg, Billy Goat, Bomag, Campo Equipment, Clemco, Crown Construction Equipment, Diamond C, Digga North America, E-Z Go, Ego, Festool, Fuji, Furukawa Rock Drill USA, Generac, Genie, Honda, Husqvarna Outdoor Power Equipment, Interlake, IQ Power Tools, JLG, Kubota, Laguna, Lawnmaster, Lee Mfg., Magnum, MEC, NiftyLift, Office To Go, Powerboss, Powermatic, Rubi Tools, SawStop, Skyjack, Stihl, Sullair, Supermax, Toro, Vacmaster, Weber, Yeti
John says
I had been thinking of buying another Metabo HPT 36V battery which Acme Tools has had in stock for $99 all last month with zero mention of any special pricing. Now there is a $20 off orders of $100 for M-HPT tools and guess what, that same battery is now $119. Slimy pathetic bullshit.
Stuart says
Not to mince words, that sucks.
The prices could have come from Metabo HPT, not Acme. I have a flyer they sent to me this week, and July 1st pricing indicates $119 for the 4.0/8.0Ah battery and $89 for the 2.5/5.0Ah.
John says
So the charger and 36V was $149 last month, now $169. The charger alone was $49 last month, now $69. See the pattern? I don’t feel that $20 off is even worth it, more like a slap in the face.
Now they have dropped the prices of the impacts and drills as of this week. But let’s show the facts, when Hitachi became M-HPT, all the hand power tool prices essentially doubled for the bare cordless tools, triple hammer went from about $199 to $379, same tool but only capable of using the 36V battery. Same nonsense with the drills, recip saws, grinders and others.
I have a lot of Hitachi tools now (in addition a ton of Makita 18V, Festool corded, Bosch 12V). I use these tools daily. Looking to add tools regularly as needed for building projects so I am aware of what things cost. I do miss the simple days of Hitachi 18V 3ah batteries costing $30 but I guess the private equity firm who owns M-HPT didn’t.
I am concerned about M-HPT. Their tools are overpriced and I think sales may be showing that hence price drops. The 36V table saw has been out for only a month now has dropped $100 in price.
And don’t get me started with that monstrous AC/DC adapter for the M-HPT 36V tools to plug into the wall. No way in hell seasoned engineers built that otherwise someone would have said long before it became public to make the damn thing smaller by several magnitudes.
Aaron says
I too would be interested in Metabo HPT’s sales since the big name change. I can’t imagine they’ve been good since Hitachi always seemed to underperform in the cordless tool market given their name recognition, which has now been torpedoed thanks to the clunkiest, most corporate-sounding name in all of power tools.
Honestly, I don’t know what they were thinking with $399 bare tools. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot before the race begins. Like you said, they should have at least bumped up the specs with the 36v tools instead of being virtually identical to their previous Hitachi-branded counterparts. It really doesn’t look so hot when numerous 18v products spank their 36v equivalents in numerous shootouts and YouTube videos.
rob says
I’m pretty sure Acme is one of the companies I’ve noticed raising their prices during percent off sales.
About Metabo HPT…well… KKR, dude.
Chris says
10% doesn’t get my Americana consumerism going.
fred says
Maybe OK – I was tempted to pre-order a Milwaukee super charger (48-59-1811) – but at $152.10 after the 10% off the $169 price – I decided to wait to see if the MSRP drops after its been out for a while
XRH07 says
Just buy a M12/M18 6 port rapid charger. I wouldn’t touch that supercharger unless it was $75 or less.
The 6 port rapid charger can charge 3 M18 12.0s in 2 hours (18A/hr) It would take the supercharger 3 hours to accomplish the same task. (12A/hr)
Supercharger is only better if you run less than 3 batteries at a time. Which is pretty unlikely for anyone with HO batteries.
+ the supercharger charges pretty hot since the pack gets no active cooling. So I’d wager it does poorly in high ambient heat too.