Remember when?

[Fish]

18 months ago I bought a kitchen sink faucet at Home Depot. Glacier Bay made in China for $50 bucks.Yes, I know, but every thing they offered was made in China. So now it is dripping pretty good. Went back down to HD to get new seals. Didn't have them. Didn't have cartrages, stems or any replacement parts for GB. They had to order them for me. They told me they would be free for my inconvenience and would be delivered to my house in five days. This didn't happen, back to HD two more times to "fix" the order. If you ever tried to call someone at these stores you know why it is quicker to drive to take care of a problem. I live 3.6 miles always and including my purchase have driven almost 29 miles not to mention the time finding and standing there while figure out what is going on. Here it is almost four weeks after the first order and I still don't have the leak fixed. Part were promised here by Tomorrow. And to think ill get to do this all over again in another 18 months. This should have been a hour job including going to the local hardware store.

PS, I did go by my local hardware store and an Ace. Neither carried complete faucets or parts for the GB one I got at HD.
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[cdennisg]

^^^ Glacier Bay is a HD brand. You likely won't find parts anywhere else.

That said, I have an old GB sink faucet that has to be 17 years old now. It has always worked perfectly. Maybe the old stuff was better, or I just got lucky.
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[GeorgeL]

"Captive" brands are the bane of big-box stores. If I'm buying something I can throw away later I'll take the risk, but if it's a durable item like faucets I buy Pfister or Moen.

The problem with big box stores is that they actually sold the good stuff for a reasonable price (probably at a loss) until they ran the local hardware stores out of business, then switched to cheaply-made crap that they have made in the third world. That's about as predatory as you can get.

RIP Newhall Hardware

[TDCTDI]

Much like Walmart has done to businesses in every small town they have opened a store in.
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An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[KTPhil]

[mark tucker]

pisfister and moaning arent what they used to be either.
As far as remember when...it's getten hard to remember where mush less when. and every day seems to be another day when that guy in the time machine comes by and eff's with me hiding stuff.

[cdennisg]

[TDCTDI]

Then your town is a rarity, or the Walmart hasn't been there long enough. I watched a small town's main street go from a thriving business community to 80% vacancy inside of 8 months after a Walmart moved to the outskirts of town. Ironically, Ace hardware is one of the few surviving businesses.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[cdennisg]

[VOLKSWAGNUT]

We sure miss our local hardware stores..
I can remember riding my bike 2 miles to get supplies..
I could juts put it on our families account "tab"
The smell was all its own..

[KTPhil]

[mark tucker]

but wallmart isant a hardware store ...hmm now that I think of it. our supperwallmart has been hear for 20+ years...and...now our mall have very few stores open..... they were gonna build a new walmart closer to me this comming year but some morons pisses and moaned it would hurt thier home values........thier homes are poop to start with...and...I think it was headed by publicks as there 1/2 mile down the road. I would love to have one closer than the 12 miles I have to drive every other day to get fresh produce....and check out the babes of wally world just kidden Im not there quite that often. but I do get all my oil there& food too. I went into windicksie yester day with the wife...the prices were 30% higher on everything I saw. Im not paying $2 more per gallon for dam milk, the same dam milk. and the meat....same dam thing way over on the same brand. how effing stupid.

[TDCTDI]

Demolition derbies, with all the classics shooting up in value & the newer cars being all plastic, I doubt the younger generations will get to enjoy such mechanical destruction. I guess it'll be replaced by robot wars.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[cdennisg]

[Zundfolge1432]

So I was sitting around thinking ......... Do you remember when guys had better things to do than complain about things? I guess it’s as old as time, they’ve always been commiserating about life. Case in point the movie
Grumpy old men and it was quite popular.

[iowegian]

[Zundfolge1432]

Thank you that is a very good point.

[TDCTDI]

[VOLKSWAGNUT]

This was a great topic.. I actually went back and reread it..

RW ..... this topic was fresh and new .

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