As a long-time Sears employee now stationed at the company HeadQuarters, I
feel qualified to comment on this.
More than likely, Allan has stumbled across an item that has been in the
store's inventory for an extraneous amount of time. Extra markdown money is
allocated to clear the store of this inventory, thus allowing the slow
selling merchandise to be cleared to make room for items that will sell. I
find it doubtful that the ones that didn't sell (as if they are any) will be
trashed, more likely someone misunderstood or took a comment out of context.
Regardless, enjoy your early Christmas toy. Maybe there is a Santa Claus?
Thomas James Pokrefke, III (the victim of a hit and run only a hour ago)
1970 MGB (luckily, NOT the victim of a hit and run an hour ago)
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In a message dated 10/27/2000 5:51:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dmeadow@juno.com writes:
<< My local (Houston) Sears store hadn't even heard of these. Must be a
regional thing? I assume you are in Philadelphia from your signature. >>
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Yes. In Abington, just north of Philly.
The model # is 919.165060 and BTW, it is a 25 gal. tank, not 30 as I
originally posted. (I still like it.) My son said that they were tired of
looking at them in the warehouse, so they decided to crush the ones that
didn't sell. It does sound like it could be regional, but I have to think
that this sort of thing happens more frequently then most of us know about.
Maybe that's why prices are so high these days. (DUH!) It may be a good
idea to befriend an employee in the local Sears hardware department! That's
what my son did.
Allen Hefner
Philly Region SCCA Rally Steward
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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