Thread: Masters no more

Originally Posted by Geebung

Where do you get your fixings from Bebbo?

Ozbuild. Brisbane fasteners, bayside fasteners, tradetools.

Tradetools nails are great. 50% off senco/airco nails at masters was still more expensive then tradetools brand

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Seen at the West Gosford Masters today. Private security guards checking women's' hand bags. Things must be getting bad.

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Looking for terrorists more like it. Fools! I'll tell you something after I've got my bargains it'll be the last time I ever go near anything owned by Woolworths. I hope the whole lot go down the drain with the thousands of poker machines they blight our landscape with.

I was in the Masters at North Mead earlier this week and the prices at the so called 10, 20,% etc off were more than the shelf price when they were "in business". Anyone buying at Masters at the moment has rocks in their head and this was confirmed by the savvy shoppers (lookers) that I spoke to.

Hey, you've plagiarised my motto mate. Prepare to be sued. What tools do you have in your shed? 🤔

Originally Posted by rwbuild

I was in the Masters at North Mead earlier this week and the prices at the so called 10, 20,% etc off were more than the shelf price when they were "in business". Anyone buying at Masters at the moment has rocks in their head and this was confirmed by the savvy shoppers (lookers) that I spoke to.

Always wise to check what other people are selling it for. That's what I did with almost everything I've picked up from Masters in the last few weeks which has been almost a couple of $Gorillas worth.

As an example, I needed four rolls of 900mm x 30m birdwire for the vege garden. Masters starting price was less than anywhere I could find, including Gumtree & eBay, so I was happy to take it at 10% off. There were only five rolls left, so I wasn't going to take a risk on waiting for 20% or more. Just saw it at the local Home Hardware this week for a much higher starting price (like 25-30% more).

Seems to me that (under normal circumstances) all these retailers are more expensive on some lines, and less on others. Promote the cheap stuff in the hope of catching people out on other stuff, so they make up the lost profit, or at a minimum bank on people not being bothered to go to other places once they are in the shop ("might as well get it here for a few dollars more now that I'm here").

Called "Loss Leader". Get you in on a cheap price and make it up on other items.
One hardware store proclaims "Lower prices are the beginning", but they are not always the cheapest, and they need to actually stock the item you want. The idea is to get you in the store and relieve you of as much hard earned as possible.
Most people do not have the desire to spend a day trying to price items to work out where it is cheapest to perhaps save a couple of dollars. For me convenience can save me time which equals dollars.

Still plenty of bargains to be had at Masters if you look carefully.

Originally Posted by Pearo

Still plenty of bargains to be had at Masters if you look carefully.

Was at one store at 7am on Saturdayfor no other reason than I am an early riser. There were people lined up at the front door which I thought was unusual. Turns out the were starting to sell their display kitchens at bargain prices. I saw a $21000 kitchen sell for just over $5000. A number of the kitchens sold in the half an hour that I was there.

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Originally Posted by Tools

Was at one store at 7am on Saturdayfor no other reason than I am an early riser. There were people lined up at the front door which I thought was unusual. Turns out the were starting to sell their display kitchens at bargain prices. I saw a $21000 kitchen sell for just over $5000. A number of the kitchens sold in the half an hour that I was there.

Tools

The electrical stuff was well priced, but the good stuff is gone now. I picked up a battery powered blue bosch saw cheaper than I could elsewhere and even got a further 10% off when they did an extra round of discounting last week. Not sure about the price of tightbond 3, but I picked up a big bottle of that also based on convenience ( I am sure it was cheaper than carbatec regardless).

I had to buy some pine cover strip today, but all sold out. I noticed that some stuff has been further discounted by 5 or 10% as I was wandering around.

picked up some new secaters for 4.50 each.
No price on the shelf.

They had a huge amount of the plastic garden picnic table folded chairs.
While I was looking some older gentleman was writing a price on them.

He was writing something like:
the original price of 39.99 on it and a 20% discount.
On the back row of the exact same chair there was a sign of:
the original price of 19.99 and 10% discount.
LOL

I had my phone up and camera starting when he removed the back sign.
Missed that opportunity.

Just be careful.

I went in to the garden area 90% mulch was gone.
Plenty of the straw looks like they trying to take advantage of the sell out.
10 bails for $8 each.

Gotta write it felt like I was picking at the carcass of an old friend.

My gardener thought she read an article that woolworths? was going to pay all Masters debts and keep them open.
She claimed it was just a few days ago.
No so sure about that one.

I bought a Triton router, A Hitachi cordless jigsaw and cordless drill driver once the discount dropped to 20% and these items were the last ones on the shelves.
I bought the last 4 Bessey clamps and a litre of Titebond.
I was going to buy these things anyway and a I trust those manufacturers' warranties.

I also bought some FJ pine, a flat board, a power cord and 2 power boards that I need for a project anyway.
I also bought 2 small brackets I needed. The cashier charged me for those but once I got home I found that he didn't put the brackets in the bag. Grrr!! (I can't really blame him. I've been under the cloud of redundancy before and it sucks. Pretty hard to concentrate at the end of a long day in a job that literally has no future. I'll let it go.)

I had a good look at a number of other things but they are not metric so the only extras I bought were the last 2 metric forstner bits.

Probably if they had bigger discounts I would have bought a CSMS and a whole bunch of other things but given that it's not much of a sale I think I'll go elsewhere and get exactly what I want, when I want, with the security of being able to return it.

In fact I've already been back to Bunnings twice because time was short and I needed to know they would have what I was looking for.

I will go back to Masters within the next week or two to buy some moulding that I need to finish a renovation. They have 50% off mouldings.
I'm not in a hurry to rush back to Masters because it isn't really that good a deal.

My big regret is really that Bunnings will have little competition.

Talking of prices and the Masters shutdown I was in Bunnings yesterday to buy some new style LED downlights. We bought some of the HPM branded version a few weeks ago at $33 each and they are awesome, sunglasses needed and they run on 10.5 watts so the mission was to get some more. The price has now risen to $53 each so that put a stop to that. $20 rise in two weeks, really???? I wonder if Masters shutting down has had anything to do with price levels like this. The Osram version is $25 so they got the nod instead. These things are seriously good lights....

https://www.bunnings.com.au/osram-24...light_p4371080

Where we had 5 lights running in the living area now we need two.

grrrr. went in to get auto retractable power reel.
Had 50% off signs everywhere.
Went to purchase and nope.
Not 50% off.
Showed them a pic of the item and the 50% off sign.
Nope not 50% off.

Bait n switch.

Just happened to look at deck lights.
$169 for 10 then 30% off.
No samples so needed to see what they were and how big.

Huge signs everywhere
DO NOT OPEN MERCHANDISE

Quick look anyway.
Super small like a pocket flashlight.
More like a toy.
Another miss.

Don't think I'll be returning.
But all the best in putting a good friend to bed.