I went to Home Depot for #10-24 3/4 in screws and they had them

[joeglow3]

Last edited Wed Dec 24, 2014, 03:21 AM - Edit history (1)

It was a Festivus miracle.

[former9thward]

1. No miracle.

An American business model.

[upaloopa]

2. Did you get just enough or did you have to buy

more than you need?
I like when you can pick out just what you need.
Home creepo put a lot of small hardware stores out of business. I use to go to a mom and pop store and pick out what I needed and put them in a sack and wrote on it the price per piece and how many.

[PoliticAverse]

3. You went to Home Depot and came back without any grievance to air?. n/t

[joeglow3]

8. Oh I got a lot of problems with those people.

[dissentient]

4. they don't use metric?

I dunno, "24 and 3/4ths" seems awkward to me.

[Fla_Democrat]

11. 10-24

#10 screw (refers to the diameter of the screw)
24 (number of threads per inch)
3/4 (refers to the length of the screw).

[Bandit]

5. one penny for each of those screws goes into the GOP Coffers.

Every penny spent at Home Depot goes to fund the GOP. So have at it....

[adirondacker]

9. Zactly! nt

[joeglow3]

10. They got three cents from me

A choice between that and not fastening down the shower drain when laying the tile and having a leak and I choose to give them 3 cents.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Were they in a box of three scews for $3?

[joeglow3]

7. Yes but only a buck fifty.

Only two for the shower drain though.

[Boreal]

17. A buck fifty for three measley screws?! nt

[joeglow3]

19. Sad, huh?

What am I going to do? Certainly not have my shower potentially leak.

[Boreal]

20. Well, yes, I agree

When you need something like that it's not like you can use something else. You need it, you pay. Still shocked at the price, though. I had no idea screws were so expensive.

*ponders going in the screw business*

lol

[joeglow3]

21. They fuck you, that is for sure

I am guessing they had a 200 pack for $10. Sadly, I don't know what I would do with 198 of them.

[Boreal]

23. That just shows how

they're "screwing" you, lol. 3 @ .50 ea or 200 @ one tenth that! I guess that's sort of the contractor's discount since nobody else wants 200 screws, no matter what great screws they are. I don't know how places like Ace Hardware make any money selling screws, nuts, bolts, nails, etc, a few at a time, though, so I guess I can sort of see the reasoning of Home Depot. They don't want to "screw" around with onesy-twosys.

[MineralMan]

12. I go to my local Ace Hardware for stuff like that.

There, I can buy that size of screw in steel, stainless steel, brass or aluminum, and I can buy as few as one. I can buy any of them in flat head or round head, too. If I need Thom, I can buy nuts and washers in the same metals. Home Depot sucks.

Thinking a little, I realized that I can also get that 10-32 screw in nylon and copper there, and acorn nuts and wingnuts are also available in plated steel, stainless and brass in that size.

[bluesbassman]

13. Well I just went there for a couple of extension cord replacement ends and they were out...

A employee happened to be working in the aisle and I asked him to check to see if they had any stashed somewhere. He checked, said no, they are on order and will be in the store in a couple of weeks as the order had to be "approved". I remarked to him that two weeks was an amazing amount of time for re-stocking something they have in the store all the time. He just shrugged and said he agreed.

So much for the "business model".

[MineralMan]

14. Ace or True Value has those always.

Several types, too.

[bluesbassman]

15. Yes, but not the kind I like and twice the cost for the ones I don't like.

Plus it's twice the distance to the nearest Ace so it's not effective any way you look at it.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

16. I'm not allowed in.

It's a double standard.

When Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a sledgehammer, it's called "art" and "music".
When I do it, they say I'm " wasted" and throw me out of Home Depot.






Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Boreal]

18. lol

Makes me think of "Party Boy" (Jackass) stripping down in the stereo store and dancing.

[rufus dog]

22. Nothing personal joeglow3, but, ............

Your religion, is, ...... a little out there.