Mosh (thank you!) tipped me off about this Craftsman 24pc screwdriver bit set (model CMAF1224) that’s on sale for $3 at Amazon.
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What’s going on here? Maybe Lowe’s has clearanced out leftover holiday season inventory (this would be an 80% discount) and Amazon is price matching them?
Tim B.
Seems to be dead already … now shows as $9.22…. Shortest post AND shortest deal! =)
Aaron
Lowes clearance is correct. Depends on
stock at your store. httpss://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/t/14742737
As far as I know this is the first that Amazon price matched.
After holiday clearance is my favorite season at lowes
Steve
$3 was worth it just for the case.
Aaron
They had a kit for$2.40 the other day so I’m about 30 cases deep into this deal…
Maybe 50 deep since black Friday if you include large and medium that have gone clearance?
I have a tote full of the garbage bits, a few cases where I replaced them with dewalt and Milwaukee bits, and I’m sorting all sorts of crap into the other cases.
Steve
Same here, I bought the Dewalt set with 4 of the cases for $19 at Lowes on Black Friday 2019 among others I have, I have a little box full of the cheapo bits. I still am trying to find the largest one on clearance in Dewalt form. Good things never get to clearance around me.
MoogleMan3
I’m watching this one now too. I have that case in dewalt colors and like them a lot. As Steve said, worth it for the case alone.
Carl J
Why even post this? Seen a few of your deals posted lately that have expired even before the email hits my inbox. Clickbait?
Aaron
all deals expire at some point, its hard to gauge sometimes what to share or not. The nailer deal ran for a couple hours but was an amazing deal. Versions of this deal have been running for a couple weeks and its a case that is worth being a little geeky about.
If either of these had stayed up for 8hrs then you would be overjoyed that Stuart had posted, but since they got taken down it must be clickbait?
How should he assess that risk? Sometimes he’ll post something and we can hop on while its live but wouldn’t have noticed otherwise. Should he wait 6 hours before posting a deal knowing that it will mean some people can’t take advantage of it?
Stuart
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Stuart
Clickbait? The title is as descriptive as humanly positive.
I posted about the deal because there are always readers on the website who could benefit from it.
And if they’re not on the site, they might see it on our Facebook, Twitter, or RSS feeds.
I can’t just delete a post when the deal expires, but I can add an “expired” tag when I’m made aware that a deal has ended early to help prevent frustration.
For some deals, I might push an early newsletter notification, but not every potentially time-sensitive deal is deserving of this.
Lastly, I have no way of knowing which deals will sell out early. This price could have been valid another hour, day, month after posting about it – there is simply no way for me to know this.
I kept the post short and fast just in case quantities were very limited, but I assumed they had enough quantities for the deal to last a decent amount of time. But here, supplies didn’t run out, Amazons imply turned the off-switch on the price-matching sale price.
If I thought it would expire quickly, it wouldn’t have warranted a post.
A deal that ends unexpectedly after 30 minutes doesn’t help anyone.
Tim B.
Hey, I missed out on the deal too, but I’m still glad you posted it … as an avid reader of the site, that sort of thing is always relative to my interests! Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose…
Keep up the good work, Stuart!
Matt
Our local Lowe’s (Austin TX suburb) had these last week for $1.06. I bought the only 5 they had…don’t need the bits but the case alone is worth that. Agreed that Amazon must be price-matching.
Gordon
Lowe’s did a big markdown on Craftsman tools last week. I picked up a 2800psi pressure washer for $36. They also had a 2stroke handheld blower for $9. I thought about mentioning these deals, but by the time I left the store everything was gone. The woman doing markdowns didn’t even waste a sticker on them. But, had I not talked to her, she would not have checked the price and pushed it to the register system. According to brickseek, there were only 8 of the pressure washers within 20 miles of me.
That’s just the nature of these sorts of deals. Half the time I suspect employees grab all of these anyway. A few months ago I got a tip that a local Home Depot had a Makita 18v x2, 10in compound sliding miter saw for $100. I found it, behind the counter in the rental shop. It was less than 15min between getting the tip and it being snagged by an employee.
I understand other reader’s frustration about “missing out” but the real truth is that you have to be pretty lucky in the first place. Your store needs to have stock, employees need to not know about it, and you need to be there at a specific time.