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Masters - 10% off for Trade Members or Bunnings Power Pass and Trade Licence Holders
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hawkeye on 09/10/2016 - 21:39 masters.com.au (394 clicks)
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Sick of these Masters closing down shenanigans. I was a supporter of Masters but this closing down sale is pissing me off.
According to this article there should be more to come…
However, the closing down sale is not just stock on the floor at Masters or in distribution centres, it's also understood there are as many as 5000 pallets "on the water" which have not hit Australian ports yet, let alone distribution centres or stores.
sounds about right. i noticed heaps of 2d-cell xenon maglites on the shelf today. and just underneath was a box of about 6 or 7 more. all discounted to $39. there weren't that many at that store a couple of weeks ago (!)
Not true, i'm a sparky and have been buying the 2.5mm twin and earth electrical cable for $57 a 100m roll. This is a bargain!!
Can you trust Master's quality on cabling? They've stuffed up before. After fears of house-fires, Masters had to do a re-call on wires that had been installed inside of people's houses.
Also be careful buying electrical cable from any of these places that are also part of the recall:
Jubart Pty Ltd t/as Advantage Electrical Suppliers
AEW Electrical Wholesalers Pty Ltd
AGM Electrical Supplies Pty Ltd
AKM Electrical Services
Alliance Electrical Wholesalers (Blue Mountains) Pty Ltd
Automation Electrical Controls
Awe-Sim Holdings Pty Ltd t/as Awe-Sim Electrical and Industrial Wholesalers
Taybet Pty Ltd t/as Bowral Electrical Wholesaler
BSD Industries Pty Ltd
Harlech Trading Co Pty Ltd t/as Buckley Bros Lawson
CMI Operations Pty Ltd t/as CMI Electrical Products
Smith & Pearce Pty Ltd t/as Direct Electrical Supplies
ECB Electrical Group Pty Ltd
Energy Electrical Wholesale Pty Ltd
Grange Electrical Suppliers
Hajjar Electrical Contractors Pty Ltd
Herkes Electrical Pty Ltd
Integral Electrical Wholesalers Pty Ltd
Isupply Electrical Pty Ltd
M & E Equipment Traders Pty Ltd
Martin Lighting and Electrical Pty Ltd
Rovert Pty Ltd
Switchgear Commissioning & Maintenance Engineers Pty Ltd
Wilpa Electrical Pty Ltd
Y Y Corp. Pty Ltd
Masters Home Improvement
John Danks & Son
Mitre 10
Pioneer Electrical Supplies
Salmon Bros. Data and Electrical
United Electrical and Data Supplies
Alliance Electrical Wholesalers
Sydney Electrical Wholesalers
Ramax Electrical Wholesalers
Network Electrical Supplies
Go Electrical
Advanced Electrical Wholesalers
EZLEC Trade Supplies & Project Lighting@HunterOfBargains20: And Bunnings isn't on that list.
Since they're closing down, good luck dealing with them coordinating any recalls of this magnitude again with success.
As long as the recall was announced after sparkie completed his job, a recall would become owner's burden. In meantime, sparkie made good profit margin and will most likely get second job to remedy the first. Always need to think like a tradie.
If it caused a house fire, major damage and/or injury/death, you can rest assured that they would hunt down the installer, and everybody else who touched it in some way or another, everybody is on the hit list.
Cheap Chinese stuff is dangerous, remember they lady that died with the cheap USB wall charger
China can build quality just the buyers screw them so hard on the price they cut corners, and this is what happens
Yes I can trust this cable 100%, it is made in Australia by "Advance Cables".
It is the exact same cable that many other electrical wholesalers sell.you can rest assured that they would hunt down the installer …
No. As long as sparkie can prove that he acted in good faith, that is, at the time, the products he installed were known to be without fault and suitable for the task, he is is not liable for corrective action due to manufacturer's fault.
His only professional responsibility is to inform the owner after becoming aware of the recall.
Owner may not like this or think it fair, but that is irrelevant. Owner may sue the manufacturer if he has sufficient resources.
Case in point - asbestos remedial work.
Wow, great price!
I shredded my master's trade card because I tried to use it last Saturday and the checkout person at the Chullora store said it was no longer accepted. When I asked when that started because I was never notified she said (and in the grouchiest tone of voice) it started that very day.
Not sure if mine was faulty, but mine never worked on tools. It seemed, I always got something that was excluded on the trade card.
Pretty sure I've used it on tools during sale events and got the extra 5% off. Normally I'd just go with 10% price-beat where that usually works out better in my favour.
Also used it on garden power tools without any issues a few weeks back.
Used mine yesterday and got the 5% extra after the 10% extra for the weekend was taken off so my purchase was something like $22.00- 20%= 17.60 - 10%= $15.84 -5%=$15.05 total about 32% off original price
On a side note pretty sure i saw stuff at Keysbough at 25% off that was still only 20% off at KnoxfieldToday you need to show the trade card to get 10% off! when they tell you it's not accept anymore few days before, how stupid their team it is.
History repeats, poor Tony and Peter..
Masters have killed 909 tool company, just like Bunnings killed GMC
eh? both GMC and 909 were/are owned by the same parent company
How about other Masters exclusive brands such as Hills and Triton.
Actually don't know what will happen to Hills as WW bought the brand just so they could get exclusivity in Masters instead of entering into an exclusive commercial agreement. Another bone headed Masters Disasters by O'Brien et al.
I think Triton was/is owned by 909 [nee GMC] not a good feeling for them that without Masters they will drop turnover BIG time, and go belly up.
They where going to get raped anyway, Masters where deleting 909 gear and doing a Bunnings and going to import directly from suppliers in China, to make more profit
Alas Masters busted and quit, its shareholders don't thank them…
Wow - where did you do your research?
Triton has been around for a long time. Its been marketed more recently by masters, but has been available through smaller hardware or independants - mitre 10 is one such company which is likely to thrive once they buy the stock at discounted rates ;>
A little history - http://www.tritontools.com/en-AU/Home/AboutInteresting you say that about hills and WW - It is an exclusive commercial agreement.
Woolworths has exclusivity on the marketing and distribution - http://www.woolworthslimited.com.au/page/The_Newsroom/Latest…it also isnt exclusive to masters - its been around a long time and will continue. Consider it an aussie icon - the hills hoist… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist
there are others here that are still non WW associated - http://www.hillshome.com.au/where-to-buy/
Masters can RIH
I went there today … couldn't even find a car park, felt like I was out on boxing day shopping with the mrs. So I went and parked straight in trade and of course some loser parks their car right in the middle of the exit path so no one can get out. The % sale represent the increase in stress level every time I go to Masters.
Masters - 10% off for Trade Members
Does it include sausage sizzles ???
I no longer visit Masters since they started behaving like this.
Do they really think 'tradies' will rush into their store for the 2 days listed above so they can use their cards to gain an 'exclusive' discount (on overpriced 'fire sale' items) ?
There's a reason they're going out of business. They can't even do it properly.
At best, it seems like a marketing experiment. Why would they even bother trying to build goodwill (short term goodwill) with tradies when they are just about to close permanently? It upsets the savvy shoppers that aren't tradies, it upsets other Hardware stores, and it upsets tradies that already threw out their invalid cards that are now valid again. Slimy move Masters.
Guys you forget that Masters are now in the hands of liquidators. These are Accountants who are playing at being retailers.
Accountants work with numbers not people.
So as you indicate with all your comments - they have no idea on how to run retail even when it come to closing down.
In the end they get paid no matter what.
Woolworths had no idea how to run Masters so there you go.
Actually, the sales where going up and up, they had strong sales $900 million+ and climbing, they would have cracked 1 billion dollars if they continued trading into 2016/2017
They just had to get the costs under control, with a decent management/team they could have done that, just copy Bunnings system and/or steal more of its team
They should not have panicked and pulled the pin so soon, wasted opportunity, 100 of millions burnt, and gave the business to Bunnings on a plate.
Problem is institutional shareholders would have pulled their support for Woolies if they let it continue. True they would have almost certainly made a profit within a 10 year period but as they promised they would be in the black after 5 years the Directors had no choice or risk losing their highly paid do nothing meetings all day jobs.
Masters have had their best marketing intern come up with this idea
No! It takes a highly paid executive to bring this to fruition. Luckily, people need to eat, otherwise Woolworth supermarkets would go pear shape too.
Today I went to see the Masters again, compare with yesterday: full of people, hard to park the car, hard to get trolley, 4 x 2 counter fully open, 5 to 10 peoples full of goods long cue waiting for payment. Ttoday, only one counter needed, no waiting time, loos like today the turn over just yesterday's 0.5-2%, and they want to continue this way for tomorrow, for extra 10% off, so they spend only one day to service all people, but spend whole two days for less then 0.25% to 1% of Trade Holder people to come in buy little things, pay same rent, pay same whole teams same wages! and, their location in poorer area than Bunnings, but they selling that A$300 something up finger print door locks, so, they setting the whole business floor but not interesting to serve local people and normal people. Not surprise their business down to bottom and lost billions of investment money.
While I agree with your sentiment, its not masters thats doing it, its the liquidators marketing strategy - GA Australia, a subsidiary of liquidation specialists Great American Group.
They know how to make the most out of these situations - its all a numbers game to get the most out of the stock. They work completely off hype and advertising - throw in an extra 10% to bait a few more that had forgotten. Because you'll notice they don't advertise the actual discounts anywhere except in store (just an up to 50%).
Once you're in there you feel the need to buy so that you haven't wasted your time ;>
Tradies wouldn't piss on Master's