John Pollman
01-11-2006, 4:40 PM
Hi folks,
A few years ago I made a promise to myself to quit buying CHEAP tools. But today I broke it. I'm currently replacing ALL of the flooring in a pretty good sized home. Some of you may have seen my post about the jig I made for cutting laminate flooring. That worked welll but now I've got to put base shoe everywhere. I do have a DW708 which is sweet but again it's just too darn big for small work. I went in search of a small miter saw for cutting base shoe and stuff like that. I went to the HF web site and clicked on their "Clearance" link. There were several pages there but on the third click there it was.... An 8-1/4" miter saw by Chicago Electric. Now I know that this is a "throw away" type tool but it was marked down from $89.99 to $39.99. The nice thing about it is that it's small and light. I can have it right there where I'm working and it'll make the job of installing all that shoe molding much quicker and easier. I really wanted to use it tomorrow so I didn't want to wait a week to order and ship one. I called customer service to see if that was an internet only sale or if I could get one for that price in the store. She said that all I had to do was print the page from the web site and take it to the store and they'd honor the price. Now I've got a new HF store that just opened about 20 minutes from me so I headed over there. The ones they had in stock there were in fact $89.99 but I just showed them the printout and they adjusted the price. Too cool ! Believe me I fully understand what I bought here and don't expect it to last for years but for occasional light use just cutting small moldings and such I'm sure I'll get $40 worth of use out of it. ;)
So if you've got a HF store near you check the web site FIRST before you head over there. If you see a special on the web site just print out the page and they'll honor the web price at the store.
Just a heads up.
John
A few years ago I made a promise to myself to quit buying CHEAP tools. But today I broke it. I'm currently replacing ALL of the flooring in a pretty good sized home. Some of you may have seen my post about the jig I made for cutting laminate flooring. That worked welll but now I've got to put base shoe everywhere. I do have a DW708 which is sweet but again it's just too darn big for small work. I went in search of a small miter saw for cutting base shoe and stuff like that. I went to the HF web site and clicked on their "Clearance" link. There were several pages there but on the third click there it was.... An 8-1/4" miter saw by Chicago Electric. Now I know that this is a "throw away" type tool but it was marked down from $89.99 to $39.99. The nice thing about it is that it's small and light. I can have it right there where I'm working and it'll make the job of installing all that shoe molding much quicker and easier. I really wanted to use it tomorrow so I didn't want to wait a week to order and ship one. I called customer service to see if that was an internet only sale or if I could get one for that price in the store. She said that all I had to do was print the page from the web site and take it to the store and they'd honor the price. Now I've got a new HF store that just opened about 20 minutes from me so I headed over there. The ones they had in stock there were in fact $89.99 but I just showed them the printout and they adjusted the price. Too cool ! Believe me I fully understand what I bought here and don't expect it to last for years but for occasional light use just cutting small moldings and such I'm sure I'll get $40 worth of use out of it. ;)
So if you've got a HF store near you check the web site FIRST before you head over there. If you see a special on the web site just print out the page and they'll honor the web price at the store.
Just a heads up.
John