My goal is to renovate one house per month. My contractor and I buy a lot of materials! My contractor gets materials from “the little guy” and tells me Lowes and Home Depot are too expensive. I don’t know. I haven’t checked. What I do know is that I run my own company and a household and I don’t have time to shop around! So, I go to Lowes or Home Depot and grab everything I need.
Typically, what I pick out are light and plumbing fixtures, ceiling fans, the cosmetics. I generally spend about $3000. So, in January, I went to Lowes and spoke to someone in contractor sales. I asked for a discount for large purchases. The manager on duty told me to make a list and he would see if he could discount it. He did. 10%. The next time I went in, he was not there. A woman was on duty and would not even consider discussing a discount with me. I showed her my paperwork from the week before and the fact that, in that very store, I did get a discount. She assured me that she was not going to offer me any discount.
