Thanks to those that helped!

I found the freezer I wanted at a local store at a good price (21
cf @ $ 388). Manual with the zinc shelves... Hmmm, wonder if I
could fabricate those 2nd barrier doors that I haven't seen in
ages (like the ones they still have in Europe)?

But guess what? Saturday night, after returning home from a mini
pleasure trip to Chicago, we decided to go out to dinner. After
dinner we found ourselves with just enough time to run to Sears
to pick up another bucket of Laundry soap... longer story
shortened, we saw my same freezer on "Sale" for $ 399.99 ...! I
mentioned the salesman that on Sunday, I was going to Sherman's
to buy the exact same freezer for $ 388... Well, what do you
know, if I bought the freezer at Sears THAT night with my Sears
charge they would deduct another 10 % off of the sales price
which would be even better than 'matching' the Sherman's price...
Woo-Hoo! The freezer I wanted ended up only costing $ 359!!
AND... 6 months no payments and no interest! Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Saturday was a great day!

Cyndi
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"Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
news:0IZdb.637228$uu5.101214@sccrnsc04...
>
> Thanks to those that helped!
>
> I found the freezer I wanted at a local store at a good price (21
> cf @ $ 388). Manual with the zinc shelves... Hmmm, wonder if I
> could fabricate those 2nd barrier doors that I haven't seen in
> ages (like the ones they still have in Europe)?
>
> But guess what? Saturday night, after returning home from a mini
> pleasure trip to Chicago, we decided to go out to dinner. After
> dinner we found ourselves with just enough time to run to Sears
> to pick up another bucket of Laundry soap... longer story
> shortened, we saw my same freezer on "Sale" for $ 399.99 ...! I
> mentioned the salesman that on Sunday, I was going to Sherman's
> to buy the exact same freezer for $ 388... Well, what do you
> know, if I bought the freezer at Sears THAT night with my Sears
> charge they would deduct another 10 % off of the sales price
> which would be even better than 'matching' the Sherman's price...
> Woo-Hoo! The freezer I wanted ended up only costing $ 359!!
> AND... 6 months no payments and no interest! Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!
>
> Saturday was a great day!

I would have asked them to match the price, then I would have taken the
additional 10% for charging it!

Our Great Indoors store (which is owned by Sears) is closing. I saw a
ceiling fan that I liked that was 50% off. I had to wait in line for 30
minutes to get to the lighting service desk. They told me that they were
all out of the one that I wanted. I told them I would take the display.
The clerk told me that she was told she couldn't sell any more of the
displays. (There were "sold" tags on dozens of fixtures and they had a sign
posted that said that if you bought a display they would call you in 7 - 10
days when it was ready for pick-up). I found a manager and complained. He
said they changed their policy. I pointed out that the sign was still up
and I expected them to honor the terms that they posted in writing. After
he concluded that I wasn't going to budge he sold it to me and removed the
sign.

"Vox Humana" < & Cyndi"
<snip>:
: I would have asked them to match the price, then I would have
taken the
: additional 10% for charging it!
:
<snip>

I actually talked with 2 of the salespeople (to be Politically
Correct...) and they both presented to me they could "match" the
other store or give the 10 % off the Sear's sales price... I
figured I'd take the 10 % off. It was still ~ $ 30 less than I
would have paid in another 15 hours! And yeah, I probably could
have fought them and tried to get the "match" price plus the 10 %
discount... but I wasn't in a fighting mood and was still so
happy that I did better than I was going to do...

Cyndi
(just not in a fighting mood anymore...)

Rick & Cyndi wrote:
<snipperoo>
> I actually talked with 2 of the salespeople (to be Politically
> Correct...) and they both presented to me they could "match" the
> other store or give the 10 % off the Sear's sales price... I
> figured I'd take the 10 % off. It was still ~ $ 30 less than I
> would have paid in another 15 hours! And yeah, I probably could
> have fought them and tried to get the "match" price plus the 10 %
> discount... but I wasn't in a fighting mood and was still so
> happy that I did better than I was going to do...
>
> Cyndi
> (just not in a fighting mood anymore...)
>

ok... "fall on sword" time. We recently bought a 17' "commercial"
freezer from Sears. They delivered it, put it in the basement, leveled
it, plugged it in and it fired right up so they left. Each time that
evening I went downstairs it was just runnin', no problem.

Next morning, Nancy called me at work and said that just for the heck
of it she checked it and it was still warm inside! I asked if it was
running and sure enough it was. So I checked it when I came home, yup,
warm and still running.

I was about ready to call Sears, and then it struck me.

The basement has a finished side and an unfinished side. When we
bought the house, Nancy took one of the rooms in the finished side for
her craft room. There was a light switch at the top of the stairs
which turned on a stairway light. Well, she'd go into the unfinished
portion for whatever and forget to shut the lights off so I rewired
things so that the light switch at the top of the stairs also shut off
the power in the unfinished side... well... DUH. ;-)

Go up stairs, turn stair light off - *poof*, freezer stopped running
until the light was turned back on.

Boy did I feel kinda stupid. :-)


--
Steve

Steve Calvin wrote:


>
> ok... "fall on sword" time. We recently bought a 17' "commercial"
> freezer from Sears. They delivered it, put it in the basement, leveled
> it, plugged it in and it fired right up so they left. Each time that
> evening I went downstairs it was just runnin', no problem.
>
> Next morning, Nancy called me at work and said that just for the heck
> of it she checked it and it was still warm inside! I asked if it was
> running and sure enough it was. So I checked it when I came home, yup,
> warm and still running.
>
> I was about ready to call Sears, and then it struck me.
>
> The basement has a finished side and an unfinished side. When we
> bought the house, Nancy took one of the rooms in the finished side for
> her craft room. There was a light switch at the top of the stairs
> which turned on a stairway light. Well, she'd go into the unfinished
> portion for whatever and forget to shut the lights off so I rewired
> things so that the light switch at the top of the stairs also shut off
> the power in the unfinished side... well... DUH. ;-)
>
> Go up stairs, turn stair light off - *poof*, freezer stopped running
> until the light was turned back on.
>
> Boy did I feel kinda stupid. :-)
>
> --
> Steve

Ewer! Reminds me of the time we went on holiday, leaving stuff in the
freezer... Then DH turned the electricity off for the duration of the
holiday! To this day I do not know why, except that this was what he
remembered his parents doing back in the 50's, as a fire prevention
thing!

You may be sure I made HIM clean out the freezer when we got back. He's
never turned the electricity off again while we were away! luckily it
was only a 3 CF freezer!

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

"Steve Calvin"
<snip>
:
: ok... "fall on sword" time. We recently bought a 17'
"commercial"
: freezer from Sears. They delivered it, put it in the basement,
leveled
: it, plugged it in and it fired right up so they left. Each
time that
: evening I went downstairs it was just runnin', no problem.
:
<snip>

: Go up stairs, turn stair light off - *poof*, freezer stopped
running
: until the light was turned back on.

<snip>
: --
: Steve
:
: ========

Rut-row! LOL Poor thing. Yeah, we've done similar things too...
Luckily, none of our basement's outlets are wired into ANY
switches. That reduces our idiot factor a little bit.


Cyndi
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"Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
. net...
> "Steve Calvin"
> <snip>
> :
> : ok... "fall on sword" time. We recently bought a 17'
> "commercial"
> : freezer from Sears. They delivered it, put it in the basement,
> leveled
> : it, plugged it in and it fired right up so they left. Each
> time that
> : evening I went downstairs it was just runnin', no problem.
> :
> <snip>
>
> : Go up stairs, turn stair light off - *poof*, freezer stopped
> running
> : until the light was turned back on.
>
> <snip>
> : --
> : Steve
> :
> : ========
>
> Rut-row! LOL Poor thing. Yeah, we've done similar things too...
> Luckily, none of our basement's outlets are wired into ANY
> switches. That reduces our idiot factor a little bit.
>
>
> Cyndi
> <Remove a "b" to reply>
>
>

My freezer is downstairs, too, and we had an outlet added just for it, when
we had some extra wiring put in for all of the computer stuff, too, so it's
not wired into the switches, either.

Did you get the switch rewired?

Dawn

Rick & Cyndi wrote:
>
> Thanks to those that helped!
>
> I found the freezer I wanted at a local store at a good price (21
> cf @ $ 388). Manual with the zinc shelves... Hmmm, wonder if I
> could fabricate those 2nd barrier doors that I haven't seen in
> ages (like the ones they still have in Europe)?
>
> But guess what? Saturday night, after returning home from a mini
> pleasure trip to Chicago, we decided to go out to dinner. After
> dinner we found ourselves with just enough time to run to Sears
> to pick up another bucket of Laundry soap... longer story
> shortened, we saw my same freezer on "Sale" for $ 399.99 ...! I
> mentioned the salesman that on Sunday, I was going to Sherman's
> to buy the exact same freezer for $ 388... Well, what do you
> know, if I bought the freezer at Sears THAT night with my Sears
> charge they would deduct another 10 % off of the sales price
> which would be even better than 'matching' the Sherman's price...
> Woo-Hoo! The freezer I wanted ended up only costing $ 359!!
> AND... 6 months no payments and no interest! Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!
>
> Saturday was a great day!
>
> Cyndi
> <Remove a "b" to reply>

I love it when people get a REAL bargain! Well spotted!
--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

"Kate Dicey" <& Cyndi wrote:
: >
: > Thanks to those that helped!
: >
: > I found the freezer

<snip>

longer story
: > shortened, we saw my same freezer on "Sale" for $ 399.99 ...!
I
: > mentioned the salesman that on Sunday, I was going to
Sherman's
: > to buy the exact same freezer for $ 388... Well, what do you
: > know, if I bought the freezer at Sears THAT night with my
Sears
: > charge they would deduct another 10 % off of the sales price
: > which would be even better than 'matching' the Sherman's
price...
: > Woo-Hoo! The freezer I wanted ended up only costing $ 359!!
: > AND... 6 months no payments and no interest!
Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!
: >

<snip>
:
: I love it when people get a REAL bargain! Well spotted!
: --
: Kate XXXXXX
:=========

Yep. We're pretty excited.

We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!

Cyndi
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Rick & Cyndi wrote:


>
> Yep. We're pretty excited.
>
> We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
>
> Cyndi
> <Remove a "b" to reply>

I had a good one a few years back... had a bunch of family here for
Christmas... Only had the one fridge in those days, a nice big Boche
fridge freezer. It packed up on Christmas Eve, and I had to buy
whatever could be delivered on Boxing Day! AKKK! I hate panic buying
white goods, but they always pack up at the least convenient moment! I
ended up with a slightly smaller Hotpoint Ice Diamond. Nice, works very
well, but is is a tad small, and added to the feeling that I really
NEEDED another fridge in the kitchen! It was also cheap, which eased
the pain somewhat!

--
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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
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"Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
> We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
>
> Cyndi

Pick it up???? How much to deliver it? One reason I buy from the local
dealers is delivery and setup. They are very competitive in price and they
bring the thing in, put it in place and the most I have to do is hold a door
open.

Them things are heavy and I have but one pair of gonads in life so why waste
them hauling a big appliance?

"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
m...
>
> "Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
> > We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
> >
> > Cyndi
>
> Pick it up???? How much to deliver it? One reason I buy from the local
> dealers is delivery and setup. They are very competitive in price and
they
> bring the thing in, put it in place and the most I have to do is hold a
door
> open.
>
> Them things are heavy and I have but one pair of gonads in life so why
waste
> them hauling a big appliance?
>
>

That's why I love my local dealer. They do all the dirty work. All I have
to do is use it. Free delivery AND they extend the warranty out a couple of
years.

Dawn

"DawnK" > wrote in message
...
:
: "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
: m...
: >
: > "Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
: > > We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
: > >
: > > Cyndi
: >
: > Pick it up???? How much to deliver it? One reason I buy from
the local
: > dealers is delivery and setup. They are very competitive in
price and
: they
: > bring the thing in, put it in place and the most I have to do
is hold a
: door
: > open.
: >
: > Them things are heavy and I have but one pair of gonads in
life so why
: waste
: > them hauling a big appliance?
: >
: >
:
: That's why I love my local dealer. They do all the dirty work.
All I have
: to do is use it. Free delivery AND they extend the warranty
out a couple of
: years.
:
: Dawn
:
: ====

Cool. Very nice... and it's obvious that you don't live in
Armpit, Illinois!! LOL

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
> "Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
> > We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
> >
> > Cyndi
>
> Pick it up???? How much to deliver it? One reason I buy from the local
> dealers is delivery and setup. They are very competitive in price and they
> bring the thing in, put it in place and the most I have to do is hold a door
> open.
>
> Them things are heavy and I have but one pair of gonads in life so why waste
> them hauling a big appliance?

I get things like that delivered, coz they then take the old one away
for gas recovery and proper disposal. Doesn't cost anything from my
local store.
--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
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"Kate Dicey" > wrote in message
...
: Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
: >
: > "Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
: > > We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
: > >
: > > Cyndi
: >
: > Pick it up???? How much to deliver it? One reason I buy from
the local
: > dealers is delivery and setup. They are very competitive in
price and they
: > bring the thing in, put it in place and the most I have to do
is hold a door
: > open.
: >
: > Them things are heavy and I have but one pair of gonads in
life so why waste
: > them hauling a big appliance?
:
: I get things like that delivered, coz they then take the old
one away
: for gas recovery and proper disposal. Doesn't cost anything
from my
: local store.
: --
: Kate XXXXXX
======

Must be nice! No such animal here. As far as disposal - not
a problem in this case because my 13 cf works just fine... it
just isn't big enough. Now I have roughly 34 cf plus the one
above the fridge (maybe 7 cf? The fridge is a freezer on top 26
cf).

It's VERY hard to get decent service of ANY type around here!

"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
m...
:
: "Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
: > We're going to pick it up on Thursday. Woo-Hoo!!
: >
: > Cyndi
:
: Pick it up???? How much to deliver it? One reason I buy from
the local
: dealers is delivery and setup. They are very competitive in
price and they
: bring the thing in, put it in place and the most I have to do
is hold a door
: open.
:
: Them things are heavy and I have but one pair of gonads in life
so why waste
: them hauling a big appliance?
:
: =======

About $ 50 to deliver - at "their" (time-wise) convenience.

Local dealers? What's that? Not here. I guess there might be
about 5 within a 30 mile radius but no such thing as free
delivery around here... I take that back, one of them a while
back offered free IF your order was over $ 599.00. Sears is
some-what local. About 25 miles. Rick and a neighbor moved into
the basement without a lot of effort. We had ramps and our own
dolly... If I wasn't getting impatient about getting it - I
might have sprung for the fee... No biggie. It's in the
basement and is probably cold enough to start loading it. I
haven't checked the temperature yet.

Rick & Cyndi wrote:

>
> About $ 50 to deliver - at "their" (time-wise) convenience.
>
> Local dealers? What's that? Not here. I guess there might be
> about 5 within a 30 mile radius but no such thing as free
> delivery around here... I take that back, one of them a while
> back offered free IF your order was over $ 599.00. Sears is
> some-what local. About 25 miles. Rick and a neighbor moved into
> the basement without a lot of effort. We had ramps and our own
> dolly... If I wasn't getting impatient about getting it - I
> might have sprung for the fee... No biggie. It's in the
> basement and is probably cold enough to start loading it. I
> haven't checked the temperature yet.

OOOH, what a swizz! My local (town centre) shop may cost slightly more
than the edge of town warehouse operation (but not always!), but as they
charge for delivery and removal of the old appliance and the town centre
shop doesn't, it works out at about the same price. To keep the local
shop in business, I'll got with them! They are usually quicker and even
delivered my new washer 3 weeks early when the old one went bang ahead
of schedule! I didn't buy the fridge-freezer from them because they
couldn't deliver on Boxing Day and the on-line store could, for the same
price, including taking the old one away.

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!