Home Depot is having a “Spring Cyber Monday” online-only sale today. As part of their sale, Home Depot is selling Ryobi’s Auto Hammer for an obscenely low $20. We reviewed the Auto Hammer a few months ago, and had some mixed feelings about.
At $20 (plus shipping), the Auto Hammer now costs less than a good manual framing hammer, which makes me wonder… why is Home Depot unloading these tools now well ahead of Father’s Day?
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Ryobi Auto Hammer via Home Depot
IndyEngineer says
May 17, 2010 at 12:56 pmWell, that deal didn’t last. Online only, and it’s no longer available as of 12:55pm.
James says
May 17, 2010 at 1:01 pmThanks Stuart for the heads up, unfortunately its already sold out.
uthscsaedu says
May 17, 2010 at 8:49 pmIIRC at my local store they were selling a combo that included the auto hammer and a drill using the same 12V system. I think it was $60 and I thought it was a good deal. I didn’t buy it, however.
That’s too bad it’s already sold out. I checked much earlier this morning; it was still in stock and I was able to add it to my cart, but I still didn’t end up buying it.
Stuart says
May 18, 2010 at 12:11 amSorry about that. I posted as early as I could, but it looks like it sold out very quickly before lunchtime. Perhaps Home Depot capped the number of units that could be sold at that price?
$59 isn’t a bad price, especially compared to the Craftsman version, but for $20-30 shipped Ryobi 12V tool users probably bought one or two sets each just for the extra batteries.
I do remember the special driver+hammer promo from a few weeks ago, but I think that was short lived as well.
Rascally says
May 26, 2010 at 4:44 pmDon’t feel bad…. I responded to this offer as soon as it came out, and had a confirmed order number. Today, I received an email that all orders were canceled!!! And it doesn’t appear on their website! Why offer a deal you don’t intend to fill???
Stuart says
May 26, 2010 at 4:54 pmAll orders were cancelled? Why would they do that? Unless they fulfilled some orders and then ran out of stock/their allotment.
Home Depot has also been known to fill orders in a random order. Back when there were Dewalt power tools on clearance at HD, some early orders were cancelled while later ones were fulfilled.
I hope that this was just a matter of poor inventory management. If Home Depot instead cancelled orders in hopes that they can sell the tools at a higher price to Father’s Day shoppers, then that’s a very crummy move.
uthscsaedu says
Jun 10, 2010 at 11:21 pmI got an email from Home Depot. The combo kit, including the hammer and drill is $69 (with free shipping over $249)
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=202053764
Stuart says
Jun 10, 2010 at 11:31 pmThey had that kit available for the same price exactly two months ago. As I said at the time, $69 is a heck of a good price for what you’re getting, but bear in mind that the drill/driver is grossly underpowered. Going by specs alone, it looks to provide one third of the torque Bosch’s new PS21 can output.