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The Lowes Conspiracy
Jul/25/08 08:09 AM
Most people who shop Lowes for their weekend project
think of them as having reasonable prices. But for
those of us who shop there on a weekly basis, we know
that they are way overpriced. Especially us seasoned
veterans that are used to working on our house with
an extremely tight budget. We tend to get creative
with our shopping an sourcing. It is my belief that
Lowes is also aware of this fact, AND that they feel
guilty about gouging us, their lifeblood.
My wife works in advertising, and in her early years in this profession helped companies run special promotions and such. She is in awe of the apparent promotional blunders that Lowes makes on a pretty regular basis. It's not to say they make mistakes, so much as maybe they underestimate our ability to exploit such opportunities.
One such example is the Visa/Lowe's Coupon. All you needed was an email address and BAM! you had a handful of $10 off a $25 dollar purchase coupons. Tell me, those of you who knew about this promotion, how many times did you buy something and use the coupon and then once you loaded it in the car, went right back in and used another? A lot of you I'd bet.
Another example is the Home Depot 20% off coupon on ebay, $5 lands you a handful of competitor coupons that you can use at Lowes. You would think that they would have taken measures against it, but then again if you are feeling guilty then I guess letting a few of them slide eases the conscience a bit. (This didn't work at all Lowes stores)
But my favorite promotion of ALL time was the kitchen and bath remodel. All you had to do was sign up for it and go online and enter your receipt number for the items that you purchased for your "Kitchen and Bath" remodel. For every $1000 you spent they would send you a $100 gift card when the promotion ended. The beauty of it was that they weren't very picky about what you purchased as it was ambiguous as to what could be used for a K&B remodel. According to the receipts that I entered, I must have the strangest looking Kitchen in all of Arkansas. That being said, now that the promotion ended, I can't remember the last time I went to Lowes and DIDN'T use a gift card.
There, was one instance I went to Lowes and used a $10 off $25 coupon for a bucket of mastic I think, and I got one of those $10 off of a $50 purchase receipts. While standing in line I'd noticed they were having a promotion for a $20 rebate on all ceiling fans over $100. So I went to the car and dropped off the mastic. I went back inside and picked up the ceiling fan that my wife and I had been drooling over. I went to the same cashier, handed her a $10 off $25 coupon and paid for the fan, when she printed the receipt, it printed out the $20 rebate and another $10 off a $50. So essentially I got $45 dollars off the ceiling fan and left with 2 $10 off $50 purchase coupons.
Sometimes it's a lot to wrap your head around but if you pay attention to their promotions, you too can help ease their conscience. I would love to hear any comments about your Lowes story.
My wife works in advertising, and in her early years in this profession helped companies run special promotions and such. She is in awe of the apparent promotional blunders that Lowes makes on a pretty regular basis. It's not to say they make mistakes, so much as maybe they underestimate our ability to exploit such opportunities.
One such example is the Visa/Lowe's Coupon. All you needed was an email address and BAM! you had a handful of $10 off a $25 dollar purchase coupons. Tell me, those of you who knew about this promotion, how many times did you buy something and use the coupon and then once you loaded it in the car, went right back in and used another? A lot of you I'd bet.
Another example is the Home Depot 20% off coupon on ebay, $5 lands you a handful of competitor coupons that you can use at Lowes. You would think that they would have taken measures against it, but then again if you are feeling guilty then I guess letting a few of them slide eases the conscience a bit. (This didn't work at all Lowes stores)
But my favorite promotion of ALL time was the kitchen and bath remodel. All you had to do was sign up for it and go online and enter your receipt number for the items that you purchased for your "Kitchen and Bath" remodel. For every $1000 you spent they would send you a $100 gift card when the promotion ended. The beauty of it was that they weren't very picky about what you purchased as it was ambiguous as to what could be used for a K&B remodel. According to the receipts that I entered, I must have the strangest looking Kitchen in all of Arkansas. That being said, now that the promotion ended, I can't remember the last time I went to Lowes and DIDN'T use a gift card.
There, was one instance I went to Lowes and used a $10 off $25 coupon for a bucket of mastic I think, and I got one of those $10 off of a $50 purchase receipts. While standing in line I'd noticed they were having a promotion for a $20 rebate on all ceiling fans over $100. So I went to the car and dropped off the mastic. I went back inside and picked up the ceiling fan that my wife and I had been drooling over. I went to the same cashier, handed her a $10 off $25 coupon and paid for the fan, when she printed the receipt, it printed out the $20 rebate and another $10 off a $50. So essentially I got $45 dollars off the ceiling fan and left with 2 $10 off $50 purchase coupons.
Sometimes it's a lot to wrap your head around but if you pay attention to their promotions, you too can help ease their conscience. I would love to hear any comments about your Lowes story.
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