10-25-2019, 09:30 AM
(10-24-2019, 11:13 PM)Vinny Wrote: They explained to me that steel prices fluctuate too much to constantly update the website, the website is also more of a convenience thing.
That makes sense I guess. Funny that McMaster seems to be able to keep up with the prices on the zillions of items they have on their web site though.
(10-24-2019, 11:13 PM)Vinny Wrote: One thing I noticed, there is a speedy not far from a place I use when I buy metal locally. Their prices are also different from both the website and when you call in the order due to local buy prices. What pissed me off, and I haven't dealt with them since, I got two different prices for the same metal from two different people there. Their mail server went down after I inquired and I didn't get the price before going there. I got there and paid for the metal. Got home and saw the price the other person sent me, it was about $5 less than what I was charged. Grrrrr.
Same thing for me when I tried dealing with a local Metal Supermarkets here. Prices at the store were always higher that what was shown on the web site. I priced a sheet of 1/4" x 4' x 8' steel on their web site and then drove to the store to pick it up. They charged me nearly DOUBLE the price shown on the web site. After I got home I sat down at the computer again to see what the total would be if I had just ordered it off of the web site. The total cost with shipping it to my door was exactly what they charged me for picking it up myself at the store!
Never went back there again and will never order from them in the future. Roughly a year or so later the local store was no longer there. Gee, I wonder why?
Good riddance.
Willie