They have a few good deals at the moment, a set of combi ratchet spanners are down from £70 to £25, and the little 1/4" drive socket set it £15 reduced from £35..... I went in yesterday to buy a £6 bottle of anti-mist, and ended up spending £100 on tools as well

lots of other kits have loads off as well, going to stock up when I get paid!

 

Helps if you can get a trade card too

 

DONT use your trade card with any of the deals above!

If you do, you could end up paying more money as a result.

If an item is 70 quid retail and 50 quid trade, and they reduce the retail price to 30 quid, the trade price is still set at 50 quid, as the two are seperate price lists within their store computer.

 

trade cards are good on normal price but u dont get much knocked off the price if its in the sale!!!

They do have good deals on thou will pop in and see, the combi racket spanner set sounds good!!

The other half got me their industrial bottom roller cab last year which came with about £200 worth of tools!! tray of 3/8" and 1/4" sockets and a spanner set and screwdriver set!!

They had the top cab for £150 till recently was gonna buy it but its now on offer as buy the bottom and get the top cab free doh

 

Sometimes the price goes UP from the retail sale price I have found, I queried this with the manager, and hence now know about the fact that sale prices are only applied to the retail price list and dont effect the trade price list, as I mentioned above.

 

cheap as chips. Shame i dont need any. Ive got my tool box in my dads garage that i hardly use cause my job supplys my tools.

 

What? their selling the staff?










Ill get my coat

 

Ill join you

 

ah right cool, i posted just before you wrote that lol, been in a few times and they always say they dont apply a disc on sale stuff so never bothered.

Went to buy their super bright bulbs and they were buy1 get 1 free for £20, worked out with the trade card as the BOGOF didnt work it would cost more than the offer price as chip said!

 

I know a lad at my local halfords, he works out which is the cheapest route to take

 

if you go upto the parts desk they'll normally scan it for u with ur card to see if its cheaper or not best to do it there rather than a main till! bit of a pain in the arse but its the only way to find out how much of a discount you'll get!

 

I wish I bought this set when it was on sale for £100 before christmas

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165572

 

Just bought a 55 piece toolkit.
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...dkey=ClickInfo

110 quid retail
50 quid in sale
I handed over my trade card and asked how much, 87 quid, so I bought it retail.

So definately you need to be careful when you buy things trade or not!

 

I bought a couple of them very recently, those are 97 on trade.

so just get someone with a tradecard to buy it for you

 

The basic rule is use the trade card on full price stuff, pay sale price on the offers. I bought a set of wipers for £8 with the trade card yesterday, were £18.99 retail

 

they used to do a massive set ion a case was £200 i bought it half price int he sale 18 months ago, been briliant they have replaced a few torx sockets etc for free so all good, shame though dont think they do the set no more

 

Thats the one mentioned in the post above mate, 199.99 retail, 97 quid trade

 

na the one i have is betetr than that one more in it

 

They changed it very slightly when it went from the "professional" set to the "advanced professional" set, its laid out slightly different, but its more or less the same contents
Only slightly annoying thing is that a lot more of the sockets are now 3/8" instead of 1/2"

 

My mate has a lot of snap-on stuff but he's a professional mechanic and I can't justify the expense for a bit of DIY.

He has a tray in his drawer that holds his sockets on spikes with the sizes marked on the top of each - anyone know what these are called or whether anyone else makes/sells them at non-snap-on prices?

 

LOL, just looked on ebay, and loads of people selling "unwanted gift" socket sets at a little over half retail price:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/halfords-profe...item35a5f757dc

22 quid plus postage instead of 35 quid retail, bargain!
Well it would be if it wasnt 15 quid in the sale at the moment

 

socket rail mate!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOCKET-RAIL-TR...item56385143f5

 

Oh, I need to find someone local to me with a halfords trade card now!

If they bought it, for me, using their trade card would there be any problems caused if I returned the set if something broke to get it replaced under the guarantee?

 

Shouldnt be, I've never been asked for a receipt anyway when ive had tools replaced by them when Ive broken them through misuse, i mean when they have failed under guarentee

you really have to be a fecking animal to break anything other than the rathet mechanisms TBH, and those arent covered anyway, so if you just use them normally, it wont be an issue.

 

I am gutted dont have halfords where we are

 

Nah, I've got socket rails, but he has these racks that the sockets just slips over a spike and the spike stands up through the middle with the size printed on the top.

I'm getting old and the eyesight is making it harder to read the sizes stamped on the sockets!!!

 

You mean these? CLICKY

I use these at work in my box for all my sockets (1/2", 1/4" and 3/8"). Be warned though, you will be hard pushed to find a set of 1/4" drive sockets where they all fit over the peg. According to our Snap on man its a common problem. My Sockets are signet and snap on. The signet one needed 'persuaded' to slide all the way down the peg.

 

You can buy direct from thier online store

 

Perfect. Thanks for the link.
He has 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 drive racks but I don't have many 1/4 drive sockets anyway so I'm sorted!

 

i recently bought a halfords industrial top chest, reducued from £229 to £150 plus another 10% off when i ordered online, got to the shop and they all had some damage of some kind, found the one with least damage which is not noticble unless u look underneath and it doent affect the drawers and got another £20 off so got it for £110 oh and they said the 5 sockets worth £25 i was also buying i could have free

was going to go buy the industrial 6 drawer bottom chest for £229 on boxing day but they have put the prices back up to £299 for it

 

should have got the bottom chest last xmas, was £235 with £200 odd worth of free tools as i said above

sayin that i should have bought the top chest for 150 before it went back up again doh

 

lol wasnt in the market for a cabinet last year, will wait till easter and im sure they will come back down in price by then

 

really, thats worth knowing, mate of mine wanted one and I told him to wait as it often goes to £99, but I can just get it on my card for him then. I am half tempted to get one for when I go to work on other peoples cars, or to the scrappy.

 

Dont suppose you have a item no mate? My local 1 didnt know anything about it

 

This is closest match I can see for that description:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...dkey=ClickInfo


ive just bought one of them today too, great bit of kit for the money.
Didnt have it in stock at my local one, so rung and reserved it and my old man is collecting it at the one near him.

 

Don't worry it will be £100 at Easter, that's when I bought one, 2 years ago, after missing the Xmas deal.
And it was an extra 5% discount if ordered online for store pickup. So only £95


.

 

sweet i'll need to pop in tomorow and see what I can blag !!

 

how do you get a trade card?

 

I just took wage slip in with me showing where i work

 

Just reserved this set http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165572

looks like a good kit for the money oh and will get back back an extra 4.5% with quidco