Sears club for good tools for cheap

I know it's been mentioned that sears is going under. I joined there sears club a couple months ago, and every few days they send me an email for what they call freecash. First it was $15 of free cash towards any tool, so I went and bought a set of portable shop lights that were on sale from $35 to $25. After my freecash u paid $10. A few days later they sent me a $16 free cash, so I bought a very nice 3 pack set of metal hand trimmers. They were asking $18 for those. Cost me $2, then they sent me $17 free cash. Lol, for a $1 I got craftsmen wire strippers. Lol, not too bad of a deal. They also send every time free cash deals for apparel, ladies gear, etc. So it's a great reason to take the wife along. She gets stuff she wants, clothes for the kids. And we are getting $50, $60, $70 of stuff for $5-$10. I know it's a way for them to get buyers in the store with hoped they will spend more. But hey, if you pay attention and look for items that are already on sale, and stick to a budget it's a great way to get stuff for the whole family for pennies on the dollar.

They should have done that up here...might have saved the stores a bit longer.

Every time I go there, they have crazy 60% off or more sales. Plus I noticed that as inventory sells they aren' replenishing alot of it. I hope they can pull through this in our location. I'm thinking their members club freecash deals may be falling into the too little too late category. I will continue to go there and enjoy the deals and hope they can pull it off. Last night when the wife and I were there we were literally two out of maybe a half dozen there. They easily had 3 times as many employees there than customers. Sadly the entire mall outlet they are part of was very short of customers. Also, the members deals can be had in store or on their online site.

Penstarpurist said:

Last night when the wife and I were there we were literally two out of maybe a half dozen there. They easily had 3 times as many employees there than customers. Sadly the entire mall outlet they are part of was very short of customers.

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Welcome to the world of online buying.

I went in on black friday and there was nobody there. The employees were all standing around. They had a killer deal on a dewalt set of battery operated tools: drill, driver, sawzall, skill saw and flash light. On sale for $249 and if you got their credit card you saved another $100 instantly. Pretty wild.

We are guilty of doing lots of online buying ourselves as well, especially our teenaged kids. And while great prices and availablity online are abundant to no end, my inner and old grey outer still loves to actually go in a store and hands on look, touch and inspect them in person. That being said, I am equally as guilty as the next guy that in a quest for better deals has bought many online items and have helped in the death of some great American stores. Curse you Amazon online monster and your awesome prices!!!!

Looking back as a kid, my parents had Sears & Roebuck catalog wall paper from the early days, in Dads office. Sears is like apple pie and Chrysler. Sounds like they are done. Sad

The CEO of the seras corp wants the company to fail, he and his hedge fund will make more and easier money renting out the property and selling real estate off. he does not care about the customers or employees.

I have a friend who is a real old man, and used to do the old sears catalogs that went out. He had saved for years the last catalog he was part of putting together for sears and roebuck. In pristine condition and I would have to look at it to verify the year if it, as he gave it to me for my old soul son that loves anything antique. I think it's a late 1930's catalog. Some of the old school snake oil style medications. Lol, I remember reading an ad in there selling some skin salve to remove freckles off of ugly women. Omg, nowadays that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. Haha.

I was a Sears loyalist forever, as were my grandparents, until they sold out Craftsman to that cheap Chinese ****. I don't even return broken Craftsman stuff now (not that the USA made stuff needed it all that often).

I haven't been in a Sears since they sold out, but one time, and that was so sad and disappointing I don't feel bad about not going back.

**** em. They put profit ahead of product and got exactly what they deserved. I'll miss the old Sears, but not the one that sold out.