I hate to admit I do. I mean, I could go all the way downtown to our contractor supply district, but since there's like 10 HD's in the metro, there's always one closer. My biggest problem with them is that they offer virtually no incentives for contractors to shop there. I read somewhere that they project the average homeowner will spend 80K in their lifetime. I've easily spent that on materials in 6 months... They know they're super convenient though, and they can usually beat most specialty retailers' prices.Who shops at Home Depot?????
But, if you have the cash, charge it anyway and pay off the balance every month, you have a nice organized record of where the money was spent and the bank carried the material costs interest free for 30 days. Credit cards don't bury people in debt, irresponsible use of them does.:thumbsup:There’s an old saying “if you can’t afford it paying cash, you can’t afford it”
There’s an old saying “if you can’t afford it paying cash, you can’t afford it”
How do you think these companies are making billions in profits during a recession? This has been going on for a few months now. Just another prime example of corporate greed.Haven't posted in a while but I just wanted to come on here and tell everyone to be sure to watch their Home Depot credit card bill. I just opened my bill and was shocked to say the least. 29.99% APR !!!!!! I have racked my Home Depot bill up and paid it off when the job is complete or the house is sold on more than one occasion.
I figured this is a good place to vent on this... Let me know your thought's
Home Depot are the worlds greatest rapists. Unfortunatly sometimes they are the only kid in town since they have put most lumber yards out of business just the same as Walmart put all the small businesses out.
How did Walmart put Joe's hardware store out of business? Joe's shoe store? Kat's cloths store? John's pet store? Dan's mini mart? All those little stores give superior customer service, customers can be in and out quicker, have easy parking....and you know the store owner by name. All these traits are superior to Walmart. So how did Walmart kill the competition?How do they put most lumberyards out of business?
Higher prices?
Inconvenient hours?
Out of the way locations?
Crappy service?
Insufficient amounts of particular items?
Lack of parking?
Not being a "one place for most of your needs store"
They beat competitors prices?
Don`t all the other lumberyards operate in the same enviroment , affording them to grow and pass along same benefits to their customers?
Why didn`t they?
Seriously...Grasshopper confused.
As for lumber yards, the average consumer is more comfortable going to HD for wood because they are too embarrassed to ask the guy at the lumber yard a question because Mr customer sees the lumber yard guy as smarter then HD employee and Mr customer knows he is a dope and does not want to be embarrassed. In HD Mr customer can walk around without anyone asking if they need help.
