Ryobi Hobby Station + Select Rotary Tool (Factory Blemished)
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Direct Tools Factory Outlet has Ryobi Hobby Station + Select Rotary Tool (Factory Blemished) on sale for $99.99 Now-> $69.99. Shipping is $14.99 flat rate.
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The hobby station was $63 plus tax shipped in one of the recent deals. It actually works with other brands of rotary tools like Dremel that have much better quality than Ryobi ones. So the bundle is not very hot.
It is brand new. DTO sells factory blemished in order to have direct sales because everything new is supposed to be sold by Home Depot.
Factory blemished MAY come with a very slight amount of damage or marks on the outside box, but it comes still in the original packaging and all.
Good explanation and thorough but completely wrong.
DTO is the factory outlet for techtronic tools. The owners of ryobi and milwakee etc. they have an exclusive deal on ryobi to sell new at home depot. Hence the factory blemished …which are new …om DTO
Full warranty.
So no- DTO is not unauthorized. In fact they couldnt be more authorized as they are the manufacturers. Been discussed many threads on SD
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115 for 170 value so like 30% off
The hobby station was $63 plus tax shipped in one of the recent deals. It actually works with other brands of rotary tools like Dremel that have much better quality than Ryobi ones. So the bundle is not very hot.
The hobby station was $63 plus tax shipped in one of the recent deals. It actually works with other brands of rotary tools like Dremel that have much better quality than Ryobi ones. So the bundle is not very hot.
Its brand new, Home Depot buys more than they need for their own sales from Ryobi, sells the extra to DTO as "blemished" and a smaller margin, while protecting their larger in-store margin and yet still making money on all of it, its called product diversion. Manufacturer's often hate it, but turn the other cheek to ensure their very large relationship with the mass retailer.
Source? I feel like DTO is run by TTI, and it has nothing to do with HD.
Source? I feel like DTO is run by TTI, and it has nothing to do with HD.
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Source? I feel like DTO is run by TTI, and it has nothing to do with HD.
HD doesn't "run" DTO, HD simply sells purposely over purchased inventory to DTO. HD buys products from RYOBI, more than they need to sell in their stores and then sells the excess to DTO, this excess is marked as "blemished" to get around the agreements HD has with RYOBI. Being such a large purchaser of product from RYOBI, HD gets the best pricing from RYOBI, what HD sells to DTO makes a smaller margin, but is still profit and allows them to continue to sell at a much higher price point in store.
For example HD buys a tool from RYOBI at $25, consumer A is willing to buy it for $100 from HD netting $75 in profit. Consumer B is not willing to purchase the tool at that price. HD takes advantage of its pricing agreement with RYOBI and buys more than it needs for its own sales, sells the rest to DTO for $50 per unit netting additional $25 per unit profit, now DTO sells it for $60 where consumer B is now a buyer. HD is now making more profit than it could on its own by picking up both customers A and B at the higher and lower price points.
There is no "source", it's simply product diversion which is when an unauthorized party is found to be selling a brand's products without permission, often in a different geographical market or through a different sales channel than was intended.
The unauthorized party in this case is DTO as they have no selling agreement with RYOBI and in this case it's not geographical but a different sales channel than intended. RYOBI would much prefer to sell to DTO directly, in the example above a tool they sell to HD for $25 they could potentially sell to DTO directly at that $50 price. It's why HD insists on the "exclusivity" and why the products are new, but marked "blemished". RYOBI is probably willing to look the other way because HD is such a huge customer.
HD doesn't "run" DTO, HD simply sells purposely over purchased inventory to DTO. HD buys products from RYOBI, more than they need to sell in their stores and then sells the excess to DTO, this excess is marked as "refurbished" to get around the agreements HD has with RYOBI. Being such a large purchaser of product from RYOBI, HD gets the best pricing from RYOBI, what HD sells to DTO makes a smaller margin, but is still profit and allows them to continue to sell at a much higher price point in store.
For example HD buys a tool from RYOBI at $25, consumer A is willing to buy it for $100 from HD netting $75 in profit. Consumer B is not willing to purchase the tool at that price. HD takes advantage of its pricing agreement with RYOBI and buys more than it needs for its own sales, sells the rest to DTO for $50 per unit netting additional $25 per unit profit, now DTO sells it for $60 where consumer B is now a buyer. HD is now making more profit than it could on its own by picking up both customers A and B at the higher and lower price points.
There is no "source", it's simply product diversion which is when an unauthorized party is found to be selling a brand's products without permission, often in a different geographical market or through a different sales channel than was intended.
The unauthorized party in this case is DTO as they have no selling agreement with RYOBI and in this case it's not geographical but a different sales channel than intended. RYOBI would much prefer to sell to DTO directly, in the example above a tool they sell to HD for $25 they could potentially sell to DTO directly at that $50 price. It's why HD insists on the "exclusivity" and why the products are new, but marked "refurbished". RYOBI is probably willing to look the other way because HD is such a huge customer.
I call bs. Refurbished items from DTO are not used they are refurb. Very clearly can see how used they are in most cases.
I call bs. Refurbished items from DTO are not used they are refurb. Very clearly can see how used they are in most cases.
You are correct they are not used, it's brand new stock that's purposely over purchased by HD. I meant the items listed as "blemished", I wouldn't touch the "refurbished with a 10ft pole. DTO must have as part of their arrangement with HD to take all of the returns. All my point was the "blemished" is brand new and how DTO gets it.
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Factory blemished MAY come with a very slight amount of damage or marks on the outside box, but it comes still in the original packaging and all.
DTO is the factory outlet for techtronic tools. The owners of ryobi and milwakee etc. they have an exclusive deal on ryobi to sell new at home depot. Hence the factory blemished …which are new …om DTO
Full warranty.
So no- DTO is not unauthorized. In fact they couldnt be more authorized as they are the manufacturers. Been discussed many threads on SD
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It is brand new. DTO sells factory blemished in order to have direct sales because everything new is supposed to be sold by Home Depot.
Factory blemished MAY come with a very slight amount of damage or marks on the outside box, but it comes still in the original packaging and all.
Usually means brand new in box but not sold at HomeDepot.
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The hobby station was $63 plus tax shipped in one of the recent deals. It actually works with other brands of rotary tools like Dremel that have much better quality than Ryobi ones. So the bundle is not very hot.
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It was from DTO. No hack.
Source? I feel like DTO is run by TTI, and it has nothing to do with HD.
For example HD buys a tool from RYOBI at $25, consumer A is willing to buy it for $100 from HD netting $75 in profit. Consumer B is not willing to purchase the tool at that price. HD takes advantage of its pricing agreement with RYOBI and buys more than it needs for its own sales, sells the rest to DTO for $50 per unit netting additional $25 per unit profit, now DTO sells it for $60 where consumer B is now a buyer. HD is now making more profit than it could on its own by picking up both customers A and B at the higher and lower price points.
There is no "source", it's simply product diversion which is when an unauthorized party is found to be selling a brand's products without permission, often in a different geographical market or through a different sales channel than was intended.
The unauthorized party in this case is DTO as they have no selling agreement with RYOBI and in this case it's not geographical but a different sales channel than intended. RYOBI would much prefer to sell to DTO directly, in the example above a tool they sell to HD for $25 they could potentially sell to DTO directly at that $50 price. It's why HD insists on the "exclusivity" and why the products are new, but marked "blemished". RYOBI is probably willing to look the other way because HD is such a huge customer.
For example HD buys a tool from RYOBI at $25, consumer A is willing to buy it for $100 from HD netting $75 in profit. Consumer B is not willing to purchase the tool at that price. HD takes advantage of its pricing agreement with RYOBI and buys more than it needs for its own sales, sells the rest to DTO for $50 per unit netting additional $25 per unit profit, now DTO sells it for $60 where consumer B is now a buyer. HD is now making more profit than it could on its own by picking up both customers A and B at the higher and lower price points.
There is no "source", it's simply product diversion which is when an unauthorized party is found to be selling a brand's products without permission, often in a different geographical market or through a different sales channel than was intended.
The unauthorized party in this case is DTO as they have no selling agreement with RYOBI and in this case it's not geographical but a different sales channel than intended. RYOBI would much prefer to sell to DTO directly, in the example above a tool they sell to HD for $25 they could potentially sell to DTO directly at that $50 price. It's why HD insists on the "exclusivity" and why the products are new, but marked "refurbished". RYOBI is probably willing to look the other way because HD is such a huge customer.
I call bs. Refurbished items from DTO are not used they are refurb. Very clearly can see how used they are in most cases.