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Astouffer512

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Since this is my first year around serious auto detailing supplies I have the rookie question

Do any companies such as The Autopia site, Auto Geek, Detailed Image do an actual Black Friday type of sale? Also if they do does anything big like steamers, extractors, buffers, vacuums and blowers go on sale?

Do the manufacturers offer any big sales?


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I don’t recall about large equipment products, but yes, there are Black Friday, Cyber Monday and numerous sales in December leading up to Xmas.
 
They had a sale a few days after where their was I believe 20% off of machines (polishers extractors). Rupes and griots single polishers we’re exempt.

They threw in a 50$ gift card with purchases over $300. With buying my boss, polished and pads it was a great deal. No gaurantee they’ll do again.

25% of product was biggest I remember. The also had door buster sales.


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Autogeek & Autopia moving into their big sale season; I`d imagine the VERY RARE gift certificate discount sale will happen once or twice this Holiday Season.

Buy gift cert at 25% off, use to pay for items at subsequent %off sales, stacking the discounts. Can also use gift certs to buy things that never go on sale like Rupes polishers.

Sign up for the newsletters at link on (bottom) of their home pages to get notified of other unpublished sales.
 
With being new and getting the detaiing bug, of course I`m overwhelmed with the amount of products out there....I also know I`ve spent a lot already. What I`m really considering for a big purchase, so to speak, is a steamer. I`d like to find something serviceable for both home and auto use. I`d also like to stay around $125 or less. Is that possible? That`s why I was asking about good sales around this time of year

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Play your cards right and you can save a ton of $$$. I picked up my Mytee HP60 a few years ago for about $850 out of pocket after some creative shopping with gift gards, sales, reward points etc.
 
Hell has officially frozen over, it took 20 years but Zaino is actually having a sale now that no one uses it anymore.
 
Dan said:
Hell has officially frozen over, it took 20 years but Zaino is actually having a sale now that no one uses it anymore.
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You got the e-mail today too, eh?

I do miss spending $129 each Spring for their complete kits...and then spending no more $$ on car care until next Spring.
 
Dan said:
Hell has officially frozen over, it took 20 years but Zaino is actually having a sale now that no one uses it anymore.
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Almost no one ;) I`m tempted to get more ZAIO but I suspect it`d just sit.

Astouffer512 said:
What I`m really considering for a big purchase, so to speak, is a steamer. I`d like to find something serviceable for both home and auto use. I`d also like to stay around $125 or less. Is that possible?
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Not IME :(

*IMO/IME* (and I`ve had maybe a half-dozen steamers), the affordable ones are ineffective at best, dangerous at worst. I got scalded but GOOD by a cheapie hand-held with a major-brandname on it (forget which that one was) when it sprang a steam-leak. I found that the really affordable ones just whetted my appetite for something more potent that could truly do the work I`d hoped the cheapie could do.

But hey, that was a while ago...maybe decent ones are more affordable now. That could be worth a separate thread where it might get more direct attention.

But just FWIW, I find that I hardly ever use my steamer for Detailing stuff. Ya know those internet videos showing how you can do so much with one? Never worked out that way for me. Sure I`ve done some good work with my Daimer, but only on some Initial Big Cleanups, then it just sits most of the time. All I really use it for in the shop is cleaning the pedals in the winter (which a little cheapie could probably do just fine...hmm, justification for one? Maybe!)

For Household work you can *sometimes* get by with less power than my Daimer has, but we`re still talking much bigger $ than you`re looking to spend.

BUT...maybe your Household messes that need steaming aren`t as nasty as ours :D I just don`t want you to waste money on something ineffective.

EDIt: Heh heh...so many "But"s in the above!
 
BudgetPlan1 said:
Autogeek & Autopia moving into their big sale season; I`d imagine the VERY RARE gift certificate discount sale will happen once or twice this Holiday Season.

Buy gift cert at 25% off, use to pay for items at subsequent %off sales, stacking the discounts. Can also use gift certs to buy things that never go on sale like Rupes polishers.

Sign up for the newsletters at link on (bottom) of their home pages to get notified of other unpublished sales.
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I always buy gift certificates when they’re on sale. Only way to save on a Rupes machine. I still have a 300.00 gift certificate that I bought last a Christmas. Usually the gift certificates come up on the cyber busters so they’re only up for 4 or 5 hours. If you want to catch all the deals you need to check the new cyber buster deals every 4 hours, that’s the way it is on AG anyway. Just so you know if you want to purchase something on a cyber buster you have to complete the purchase before it’s taken down. You can’t put it in your cart and wait til you’re done shopping at the end of the weekend to pay, it will go back to regular price. I really wish they would change that but I can see where that would cause some issues.
 
Gift Certificates are the best deal going and they never expire. I buy a couple and then save them for the after SEMA releases of new stuff. This year SEMA was not too exciting, but there are a few items I want to try out.
 
Will it get better than 25%? This is my first year with a big buy and have been waiting until now to pull the trigger.
 
bcgreen said:
Will it get better than 25%? This is my first year with a big buy and have been waiting until now to pull the trigger.
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25% is really about the best sale you will see. The was a 1 day sale with 30% off certain coatings at one point but not something I would count on or wait for.

The 20-25% off sales have become fairly common and regular now.

But as others have said the thing to do is wait till they have a Gift Certificate sale at 15-25% off and buy as many as you need. Then wait till there is another 20-25% off sale and use your gift certificates then. So you are stacking the discounts.
 
bcgreen said:
Will it get better than 25%? This is my first year with a big buy and have been waiting until now to pull the trigger.
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25% is the best its gonna get-- they do have some things now and then-- individually at higher rate. They also had a couple of weeks ago a 25% on vets day with a additional 5% for vets. I called my contact @Autopia and asked him about gift cards applying and he said no-- so I would not hold my breath on those, but there is always hope around Christmas. I also contacted a VERY prominent and influential person @ PBMG and asked him why discounts dont apply on polishers ( and other bigger tooling) and his reply was typical business mgmt BS. We dont discount tools because we DONT MAKE ANY MONEY ON THEM-- yeah right. Sounds like a car salesman telling you that they will sell you a car @ ""invoice". If anyone EVER believes that I have some OCEANFRONT property in Nebraske I will sell you.
 
I’m always curious about how much they’re really pulling in on high ticket items like tools. Must be healthy enough otherwise they wouldn’t sell then.
 
Often it`s the manufactures that has a low limit and a high limit on what their products can be sold for. So even if they could have haveing a sale on polishers. They maybe are not allowed to have it cause of the manufactures and distributor. Just like some brands don`t allow them to sell outside of the US. I wondered why Angelwax had half of the price of their products in the UK exept some of the waxes. And it would be worth it to me to ordering from a UK webshop. But nope it clearly says don`t ship international. I think that Chemical Guys has this too. And also think that they have stopped distribute to certain chains if it where Walmart or something like that. Cause they broke the contract and sold their products for less than they where suposed to be doing. Think also that the new Turtle Wax Hybrid Solution line of products has something like this. So you will not see these products go for like $5. But maybe down to $10-$12 a very few times a year where it`s sold.

Found some great deals on my loved Bilt Hamber Auto-Foam and Surfex HD in 5L jugs with a 30% sale on them. And some other products where down to 70% sale at most. Carpro Sweden had 30% sale on the whole webshop which where nice. But not so high volume in stock but got some things from them. Also a little over a week ago I was at a big shop. That just has this shop in place in Sweden so the whole family whent there. They have all you can think of to very low prices as clothes and toys and anything for the home when it comes to products and a little detailing and car equipment supplies. Got Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus 5L for $70 and Sonax BSD for $10 and that`s theirs ordinary prices on these so no sale on them LOL. Will put up my hauls from BF in the Unboxing thread. Or it could be fun if we had a thread for just the BF hauls 2019
 
SWETM said:
Often it`s the manufactures that has a low limit and a high limit on what their products can be sold for. So even if they could have haveing a sale on polishers. They maybe are not allowed to have it cause of the manufactures and distributor. Just like some brands don`t allow them to sell outside of the US. I wondered why Angelwax had half of the price of their products in the UK exept some of the waxes. And it would be worth it to me to ordering from a UK webshop. But nope it clearly says don`t ship international. I think that Chemical Guys has this too. And also think that they have stopped distribute to certain chains if it where Walmart or something like that. Cause they broke the contract and sold their products for less than they where suposed to be doing. Think also that the new Turtle Wax Hybrid Solution line of products has something like this. So you will not see these products go for like $5. But maybe down to $10-$12 a very few times a year where it`s sold.

Found some great deals on my loved Bilt Hamber Auto-Foam and Surfex HD in 5L jugs with a 30% sale on them. And some other products where down to 70% sale at most. Carpro Sweden had 30% sale on the whole webshop which where nice. But not so high volume in stock but got some things from them. Also a little over a week ago I was at a big shop. That just has this shop in place in Sweden so the whole family whent there. They have all you can think of to very low prices as clothes and toys and anything for the home when it comes to products and a little detailing and car equipment supplies. Got Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus 5L for $70 and Sonax BSD for $10 and that`s theirs ordinary prices on these so no sale on them LOL. Will put up my hauls from BF in the Unboxing thread. Or it could be fun if we had a thread for just the BF hauls 2019
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Ive been waiting for Sonax to clear out their old stock of wheel cleaner since they now have a new 20% better formulation. Right now Detailing dot com has the old formulation on sale, but AG and Autopia are still running it at full price, which imho is way too high.
 
re-tired said:
25% is the best its gonna get-- they do have some things now and then-- individually at higher rate. They also had a couple of weeks ago a 25% on vets day with a additional 5% for vets. I called my contact @Autopia and asked him about gift cards applying and he said no-- so I would not hold my breath on those, but there is always hope around Christmas. I also contacted a VERY prominent and influential person @ PBMG and asked him why discounts dont apply on polishers ( and other bigger tooling) and his reply was typical business mgmt BS. We dont discount tools because we DONT MAKE ANY MONEY ON THEM-- yeah right. Sounds like a car salesman telling you that they will sell you a car @ ""invoice". If anyone EVER believes that I have some OCEANFRONT property in Nebraske I will sell you.
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Detailed Image is the only retailer that will discount polishers, but you have to be in their wholesale program. Not hard to get into the program, you just have to reach a dollar purchase level and the polisher alone gets you close to the dollar amount.
 
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