[Shop-talk] Eastwood vs Harbor Freight

[Bob Kegel]

On Friday, October 05, 2007, at 08:21, Michael Lye wrote:

> Note that it's not just with knock-offs that this happens. Home  
> despot will often ask/force their vendors to take an existing 
> product  and make it cheaper to meet a price point

This came up when I was bs'ing with the plumbers while they put in a new
drain for me a while back. They were grousing that HD was selling toilets
for less than they paid their wholesaler. Said they'd looked at the HD
merchandise and concluded they were seconds.

Bob Kegel
Aberdeen, WA