been going through the reductions at work today for the first halfords sale i've seen that's actually worth having.

the 72 tooth ratchet handles are now obsolete. 1/2" drive ones are down to a fiver, and the 1/4" ones are £3. there should be a 3/8" one too, but we didn't have one left, so i didn't check the price. these were all over £20 originally btw.

don't go to dewsbury hoping to find them, since i've got dibs on all we had left, but you might get lucky.

there's allsorts of other bits from the tool range in there too, and stuff goes on sale on tuesday

tom

Edit : forgot to mention, they're also doing 1kg ABC extinguishers for a quid. they were £27 originally, and water pump pliers for £3.
17cm pioneer components for a fiver for anyone wanting speakers too(there's some others, but again, i only checked what i was after).

[Edited on 13/1/07 by indykid]

Guess where I'll be going on Tuesday
Thanks for the tip

no probs.

another thing i've remembered is there was a mountney boss for a sierra on my list today too. absolutely attrocious quality, but at a fiver, it's definitely locost.

tom

is that happening at all Halfords then ?

as far as i know

everything happens nationally normally

tom

I'll pop in tuesday first thing then !

thanks for the tip off!

anyone got a halfords trade card? they give great discount on tools and car parts.

no trade on clearance.

good try though
tom

i gonna have look tomorrow....there is a halfords on the same retail park where i work.

And you think any of the good stuff is going to be left for the general public ?

The staff will have all the good sh*t for themselves.

so true...thats what we do aswell

When does the sale start.

Certainly nothing on offer today.

tuesday.

read the original post!
tom

Well, went to Halfords at Farnborough Gate...

not a dicky bird.

No tools in the sale at all.

Cheers,
James

Went to a couple of branches and no tools were on sale. However, they did have some useful plastic tool boxes for sale at £1 each, so I got 4! When I got them home there actually more boxes inside, like a china doll. The picture on the front shows what looks like a range of boxes, but you get them all for £1.

I'd be interested to get an update from other people about these tools though. There were several 72 ratchets in stock in both branches.

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Originally posted by indykid
tuesday.

read the original post!
tom

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Nothing at the team valley branch.

nowt in norwich either, although the staff reckoned the sale had been going for days !

[Edited on 16/1/07 by Taz Surfleet]

Well there has been a sale on since the weekend at least, but it was only on the junk they couldn't sell of Christmas from the looks of things.

Went to local store, picked up a 1/4, a 3/8 and a 1/2 and the till rang up with £70 odd, so had to sheepishly ask till girl to take them off.

Explained the situation and she had a look at her sale item list but no mention of the rachets I picked up on there. She reckoned there might be some older design 72 teeth rachets that they may be selling off, but none in the Plymouth store. The new ones have rubber inserts in the handles for anyone wishing to bag a bargain.

The 60 piece Professional socket sets were definately reduced, but of course not a single one in the store!

Zilcho absolutimo in Carlisle too

- racks of tools at usual prices, Xmas tat and over buys of wax polish, son bought some monster furry dice ala Ford Capri last week but each dice was about a cubic foot

Note that the bargain products are not always marked down, depending on how slack the staff are. You can just get it scanned at the till as the database will hold the reduced prices.

Went back in today (Jury Service - time to kill!) and spoke to the man with a list - he reckons the lists are branch specific but if anyone has any code numbers he could sort out right away, to prove point he scanned 3 ratchets and all came up full price, he did say he''d have a look for some Mountney bosses in his own shop.
Ho Hum

well, i apologise to all for a predictably crap effort by the company.

i'd say i'm surprised..............but you know

just to prove to you all that it did happen, i went in today and bought the ratchets, a fire extinguisher, and some pioneer components, all for the grand sum of £11.90.

sorry again,
tom

nothing at park farm, folkestone or the ashford branch

I went to B&Q lasty night, but after reading this thread couldn't be bothered to walk across to halfords!

Ned.

I was at my local Halfords branch at 9.05 am on Tuesday morning. They didn`t even have the sale stock out! I got the lady there to check her sales lists and the ratchets, fire extinguishers, water pump pliers etc did not feature. She very helpfully checked these items on the tills and they were all full price. This sale must be specific to one branch only.

I got a 3/8 72tooth ratchet for £3 a sealy magnetic dish for £1, some spray hand cleaner for the car tool box £1 a tube. They had some Momo steering wheels for £21 each no bosses thisis Leith store in Edinburgh. What was wierd was a large lot of haynes books good stuff like how to build a car Stainforths rally car book etc in the clearance with NOTHING off I asked and they said they'd do a pound or two if i bought a few!!!

Insanity

Caber