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Date:         Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:18:35 +0000
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Sound deading material...and sources of same...early Friday
              post,              LVC...
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <CAHTkEu+oUtQ5C1GVbVzByi-A=iD4W6ubEx10C7u5qJsqQyDQwA@mail.gmail.com>
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Will save my reply for Friday.

On Thursday, August 6, 2015 3:13 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

  I know it isn't Friday quite yet, but I'm going off this weekend with no Net contact so I thought I'd send this along a little early...

  When everyone mentions Home Depot as a (the only?) good source for stuff we use in our Vanagons (there, a little van content)  be aware that Home Depot is no longer always "the" automatic bargain place to source products...rather the opposite is what I have been finding.

In the past, they used to sell building materials, tools, hardware, etc etc.... for less than most other places.  Sometimes. it was worthwhile to put up with slightly less quality and somewhat limited supply/selection because of the lower prices they were selling stuff for.....

This summer I've been working for a client who's a real "Home Depot" Guy...and he's been quick to go to the HD about 14 miles away, getting hardware and building materials for  projects we've been doing...but we also have a couple of local building supplys in our close town, some lumber yards and hardware stores that Home Depot has not succeed in putting out of business...So he sometimes has swung by there, too,  after not finding the proper materials available at HD...and not only is the quality and selection better, the materials were significantly less expensive..We both were surprised...consistently better quality at significantly less money..

  Probably not a big deal, price-wise,  on something like stick-on sound deadening materials, though I frequently find products like that from Home Depot have been miss-stored, gotten wet, bent or damaged in shipping, or are in some other way not 100% usable...causing a trip to return the crap or a second trip to another source...not convenient...

  They've succeeded in becoming almost a household word...Everyone automatically goes..."....go to Home Depot, they got it.... "    Well, yes, they probably do have "it"...but it may cost more now, there, than it does in  other places and may often be of inferior quality, too.  Don't just automatically think stuff is cheapest there anymore because it's often not...


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