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I work at Lowes full time…ugh….I seriously cant wait to go full time ebay but for now I am making the best of it. It is so tempting to buy inventory here but I have to be really careful because it is actually againts policy for me as an employee to do this. I can at other stores as long as I dont use my discount.
We have 2 scavengers who I have no idea if they sell on ebay or not. One comes every day multiple times and knows all the managers and gets usually appliances. Another guy we call “the junk man” is actually who managers call and give him a BUNCH of stuff. They do this once our clearance bays start getting full and cluttered and give him 90% off everything. The deal they have with him is we will give you everything for 90% off but you have to buy whatever we give you whether is broken or out of the box or whatever. So there is usually a mix of new still in box stuff to broken appliances to broken tiles lol.
Its actually really interesting how it works. They also throw away a lot of stuff which i try to catch (like when they put out appliance displays some throw away mountomg hardware or other stuff) If you habe they money and make friends with managers you can get some good deals
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You say “broken tiles”, I say “¡Trencadís!”. The only pottery you can ship without bothering to pack it properly 🙂
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@Jay I asked him he actually owns a thrift store that I will check out as soon as Im settled in my new place
@Antique Frog….yeah it would actually be cool if Lowes had all different type of colors of tile but they are all gray, tan or white.He gets a lot of good stuff as well as crap lol
The other scavenger is picky of what he buys and he will usually get 50% to 80% off. He is a jack of all trades. He can install anything you ask of him and he usually sells his stuff but not on an online platform. He wouldnt tell me who he sells to which is weird but he hates computers I know that much.
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Interesting. If your manager didnt sell to these guys, what wold happen with all the broken items and returns?
Does Lowes have a policy to ship it all to a main hub to be auctioned off? Or just thrown in the dumpster?
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They do not send stuff back to be actioned off. I have been part of the process to get all the stuff scanned for the “junk man”. There has been talk of eventually doing that but for now all the stores sell it off. In fact this guy buys from more than one store. Sometimes we do give good deals to random customers before giving it to the junk man. Its easy to tell because the price sticker will have a small “N” on the bottom. That means its nonstock which means discontinued
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Yeah I thought the same thing but we got a new CEO that came from home depot and thats how they handle returns so we think we might be headed that way. As of now anyone can come to get 50% to 80% depending on what it is. Now to get the 90% off deal you would need to have really good relationship with the manager and be ready to buy anything and everything they give you.
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In my area there is two retail stores that just deal in returned, damaged, or unsold items.
The one store is basically full of stuff from Costco – bins of anything you can think of from clothing to electronics to personal care products. No huge deals, but OK for finding the odd item for personal use.
The second store I went to this weekend – it use to be all stuff from Sears (before it went bankrupt in Canada), now it seems to be stuff from Home Depot and Sears/K-Mart from the U.S. I went through one bin this weekend and it had K-Mart price tags on it, but it was all new MLB, NASCAR, NBA, and NHL shirts for $2. I bought over 40 shirts that were size 4XL to 6XL for $2 each. Being a big guy myself, I know these shirts are very hard to find outside of the team’s home city and fans of those teams/drivers would be happy to pay $20 for a shirt there size (they are usually $40 to $60 at places like DestinationXL).
The stores are very unlikely to have any good deals (they tend to almost charge close to full retail for a returned/damaged item) – I just happened upon some inventory they had difficulty moving locally that I know I can move easier online.
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This has been going on forever. I managed Lumber / Millwork at Lowes from 1999 to 2004 and we had guys we would call too. We would get alot of custom doors that were either ordered wrong or come in the wrong size etc. We would make some calls and sell tham at .10 on the dollar to get rid of them. i sold a bunch to family members that were replacing things, sold a $4,000 therma tru classic craft door with 2 sidelites and transom to my best friend for $400. Then we would call the contractors we knew next, and finally the junk man. We would mark down all the opened storm doors to 5 bucks. didnt matter if it was 50 retail or 500 retail. Garage doors were $20 fron doors $20 etc. we would dump 100 doors a month this way.
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