Blue Marples at Costco

Hmm. Must be a local store thing. Mine has all sorts of inkjet cartridge, lots of watersoftner salt. No tootsie rolls, I'm still waiting for them to bring those back

Saw the pickeled asparagus on the shelf on Wednesday - Portland, OR.

Usually the difference is the ticking or stitching. Maybe a custom tag sewn onto the foot of the thing or something. It happens all the time.

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In the case of CostCo, their standard markup is 14% (they will tell you that if you ask). This tells you their cost fairly accurately.

What? No herring in sour cream?

That's almost heresy.

Must not be any Scandinavians in the area.

Lew

No, it wasn't like that, at all. And looking at the current draw on the motor lable confirmed this.

In the end I wound up getting the 1hp enclosed stand delta model rather than the 3/4 open stand. Also interesting with the 3/4 vs 1/2 bandsaws, other things were the same, just different motors. Same table and throat depth.

WD wrote:

Probably as good as what advice I can get at the local Rockler.

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:27:45 GMT, the inscrutable Lew Hodgett spake:

I'll miss the Sumatran Coffee, my favorite in all the world.

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I once snatched a Porter Cable 14.4-VOLT drill at Costco for $89 plus tax. It was the very same model number and packaging as the local Pro Seller was featuring for over $250...

All they've ever carried since are DeWalt.

To answer some questions here:

I just saw them at a Costco in the Atlanta area. $30, regularly $40 (both less 2 or 3 cents) Says "Sheffield England" right on the back of the blade. I don't remember if it said "Hand Forged", as my 5-year-old set does.

I was at Costco today and there were the Marples. 6 chisels (1/8th to

Dave Hall

Hell, at that price, and if you hate sharpening as much as I do, you could use them once, then pass 'em out to family members and neighbors as screw drivers, lid openers, and pry bars so they'll leave your good ones alone..

Hell, these will BE my good ones. Now I can open paint cans with my scary sharp Stanleys.

Dave Hall

|>Hell, at that price, and if you hate sharpening as much as I do, you could |>use them once, then pass 'em out to family members and neighbors as screw |>drivers, lid openers, and pry bars so they'll leave your good ones alone.. | |Hell, these will BE my good ones. Now I can open paint cans with my scary sharp |Stanleys.

Tried Costco in Tucson today. The man (and his computer) says "Discontinued", which translated says, "All gone and no more to follow."

David Hall wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m07.news.cs.com:

I had a set of those, but they wouldn't hold an edge. I just bought an old set of nine Stanley 750's about a month ago and got rid of the Blue Chips on eBay. I hate sharpening too, and it seemed like that was all I was doing when using the Marples chisels. The Stanleys are in a different league altogether.

I was in a Woodcraft store in Manchester, CT a month ago, and they had "the chisels formerly known as Marples Blue Chip" renamed as Irwins. I don't know the exact corporate history, but the company that owned the Marples brand got bought out by the Irwin brand owner. I think these chisels are the last of the Marples-branded products, and you'll see Irwin from now on.

England."

Cool.. In that case you probably got a great deal.