Hi Ed,
I understand what you are talking about. I will even agree that the
saws may not be made by the same company, never implied that they
were. But I bet you that the price to HF & to Homier are with-in a
few cents of each other. These saws are a cheap in for the home shop
hobbist. Not running them down but they are the low end, entry level
machines and if there was that much of a difference in the costs to
the Wholesalers, then doesn't it stand to reason that all the tool
sellers would be buying from the same company. The basis was on
comparitability. As Clint pointed out in his post, both saws are the
same except for their decals etc.
One other thing about useing Homiers flyer to get a better price
from HF, is that HF would have to ship the item to me at their cost.
I was in the store so there were NO shipping fees for them to pay.
When you edit out the shipping costs HFs price starts getting down
inline with Homiers price. I wouldn't call up the store manager of
the HF store and ask him to send me the item at Homiers price with
HF paying the shipping.
If you will look through Homiers site and HFs site you will see
several items( Mill/drills, Sand Blasting Cabinets etc) that are
the same but the price is far apart, thats because of HFs policy of
free shipping with any purchase over $50. I feel that when I am
standing there in the store that the shipping should be discounted
from the price.
Best Regards to All!!
BK
--- In 4x6bandsaw@..., Ed Beers <sreeb@b...> wrote:
Hi BK,
I don't have a problem with you doing it. I just don't think
everyone
on the web should expect their local HF to cut them a deal like
this.
If they want to price match fine, but I have seen some customers
go a
little overboard in this respect...
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:47, bkfan2001 wrote:
I checked all the specs that were sent
to me about the Homier saw and they were equivelant to the HF.
The
speed rates, table size, weight, motor type etc. Every thing
either
matched or was really close.
You could say this about most of the HF tools and say a Makita.
We all
know that, even though the appearance and hype are the same, the
tools
are not the same.
There are plenty of past posts on how parts interchangeability
between
the various saws is not good.
I think I recall reading that Homier was made in the PRC while my
HF
unit was made in Taiwan. I could be wrong about this though as I
have
never seen a Homier in the flesh.
Ed
