Seems to me that Masters and the liquidator have got rocks in their heads. I can confirm Pac Man's assessment of almost uniformly 10% and no customers in sight.
This is ludicrous: they are now paying for security guards, and the longer the sale goes on the longer they will be paying wages to the staff. If we assume that the liquidator is getting 10% of all sales, then Masters could have put the sale on themselves at 20% off and had a helluva lot more stock go out the door sooner and made the same amount of margin, but raised a lot more money. (obviously the discounts will increase in the coming months).
Had it been 20% I'd have purchased up to $1800 less discount, but as it was I only took out what I have a need for right now to the tune of about $500 (and $300 of that was just for four rolls of Bird Wire for the new massive vege garden).
I made the point to the 'merican store visitor that if it had been a decent discount right from the get-go then a simple post on the various fora could be seen by maybe 10,000 people. As it is, it's business (or lack of) as usual. I mean - think about it - a thread titled "Masters 25% off" is going to get a lot of views translating to feet through the door.
Fixings are 30% off and I have a need for 5 boxes of screws so that was really only what bumped it into "worth the 90 minute return trip". Other than that, check back in 4-5 weeks to see if they've woken up.
Didn't even see any snow shovels at a decent price (hey, we're coming into summer so they should be on display by now :D).
