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Here's a 10% off Grizzly coupon for major powertools or whatever

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
What an interesting thread. I offered a 10% discount Grizzly coupon thinking that someone, likely with a $1,000 to $2,000 purchase could save $100 to $200 off their purchase and buy me lunch for $5 or $10 in return. A small gain for me and a large gain for them. A good deal, right? Its just money.

But please read the responses below. What touchy feely emotions this has evoked. I've never seen such subjective emotions from a group of (uh, grown) men.

We have clafollett below who reports that, due to this tread I started, he saved $168 by getting the same coupon free from blade. That's absolutely great. And I mean it. Had he bought me lunch he would have saved $158 to $163. Now is that a bad deal? The free offer he got was good and my offer was terrible?

Or let's take jasoncarpentry, Jim. He wants to save $130, but $120 or $125 is just not acceptable. So he spends his gas money and his time and drives to Home Depot to BUY the coupon, only to find they have none. And he has fall back plans to spend more time and effort to get a "free" coupon, when he could have just taken me up on a very reasonable offer. Obviously, $5 for $130 savings not good enough for Jim. His emotions must be running high to go to all that trouble. I hope he finds the "free" coupon, or he may learn an expensive lesson to take a good deal when its offered.

Then we have Tim. He would rather give Grizzly $168 than share with me a PENNY. Wow, talking about nothing emotion! There's an old saying that fits this perfectly. He would "cut off his nose to spite his face". And there are a bunch more just like him below. It says a lot about their emotions. I wonder what it says about the wisdom of their financial decisions and financial condition.

What a terrible thing to make available a nice savings to someone in return for a tiny gain. It could result in some people without noses.
 
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#3 ·
Tim
Your response is purely emotional, much as I would expect to get from my wife, not at all businesslike or objective. I assume even your wife would rather you put $90 in your pocket send me $10 for lunch than the pay Grizzly an extra $100 dollars on a $1000 machine. But to each their own. Go figure why someone would want to lose money.
 
#4 ·
Why wouldnt you just give this to a friend or another LJ buddy looking to buy tools. This is the part of our capitolistic society that drives me nuts. I think it would feel really good, much better than a meatball sandwich, to hook up another fellow wood worker with your discount than try and weasel $10 out of them. You're honestly missing out on that good feeling of doing something for someone who wouldnt otherwise expect it.

I wouldnt give you a poke in the eye and a box of donuts for it. +1 Tim. I find it audacious that you would even post this.
 
#6 ·
No emotion at all Ed. Maybe you could collect coupons from the newspapers that people give up for recycling. Most go for 1/20 of a cent. Or wait, you could sell them for 1/2 face value in front of the grocery store. You may have to muscle out the girl scouts selling cookies, but hey, that's business. Let them sell their overpriced cookies on the street corner.
 
#9 ·
WTF….I was given a coupon code for nothing from a fellow LJ member that I don't know or have even met….If anyone who reads my post and wants a coupon, and can't get one through a generous person on LJ, go buy the lastest issue of Woodworkers Journal than pay this guy anything
 
#12 ·
I just GAVE mine to Shelly for her purchase of the 17" Band Saw. And yes it'll come to more than $30.00 savings for her. Come on, haven't you ever heard of "Faith, Hope, ands Charity; but the greatest of these is CHARITY!"?
 
#17 ·
plus if u dont want to spend any money what so ever. Sign up for grizzly's catalog and on the back cover is 5% off good for the whole year. Ive gotten them on the past 3 years catalogs.

But again +1 to everyones comments. Some ppl would rather throw something in the trash then to see someone else gain from it.
 
#19 ·
I just asked for one not long ago… and LJrs were more than willing to share the ones they had with me and a few others that also needed one (Im sure one day I will be able to push the favor forward). I understand that it was on the cover of a recent woodworking magazine, If someone needs one just ask I bet a fellow LJr will come through.
 
#21 · (Edited by Moderator)
Hey I have one of those coupons too, so being a capitalist myself there's no reason for me to make some money too.

Here's my offer; just ask and I'll send you this highly valuable coupon for the low, low price of a…...hmmm, let me see how much I think I can squeeze out of you guys…....I know, for the measly, poultry and low sum of (cheap at twice the price).....a request email.

Damnn, I hope I'm not pricing myself out of the market.

Sold to the gentleman wearing the sawdust. Hey clafollett, don't spend it all in one place…...sorry, you do have to spend it all in one place, oh well.

Sorry Ed, but that's just business and nothing personal, you know.
 
#22 · (Edited by Moderator)
Acal 51 they don't always put those coupons on the catalog. I know because the first Grizzly catalog I received had a 10% off coupon and I'm assuming because I used this coupon on my next purchase, the two catalogs they sent me after had a only a pricing code but no coupon. I wish they did. I just might have to go pick up a woodworker journal. By the way, I have so many Harbor Freight coupons I don't know what to do with them. I get them in the mail every week as I live close by to one.
 
#26 ·
Order has been placed. You just saved me $168! The following are queued for delivery. :)

Items Quantity Price

LIFTGATE - Freight Destination Liftgate Service Add-On 1 $34.00
G0656P - 8" x 72" Jointer 3 HP w/ Mobile Base, Polar Bear Series® 1 $825.00
G0703P - 1-1/2 HP Cyclone Dust Collector - Polar Bear Series® 1 $795.00
P0703P088 - CIRCUIT BOARD 220V 256 CODE 1 $63.00

Thanks blade!!!! I hope to return the favor in the future.
 
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