Home Depot vs Amazon vs Professional Plumbing Fixtures

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I don't think my fear is that a fixture I bought for cheap turns out to be cheap. I mean, you get what you pay for. My fear is that I pay top dollar for a fixture that I think will be top quality, and it turns out to be just as cheap.

Don't tell me what to do.

What he says in the beginning makes no sense. He says that by cutting out the distributor and contractor you will get eventually get higher prices and less product selection. Nonsense. What happens with the distributor and contractor is each of them adds a markup so the product cost significantly more to the end user than buying it direct. On product selection, with a contractor you get much less selection, because they don't go into every possible option (as I can on line) and usually end up with only a very few choices of the products that contractor is familiar with. Also, because people can look at more products online to fit their individual tastes, companies will have to offer more variety, not less, than if distributors and contractors were involved.

I don't really get it. There are "tens of thousands" of other products at...places. Where? I don't see that when I look online.

The first cut produce alot of sparks so there is metal in that one, however I don't see sparks in the second cut which indicates it's not metal

From the title (HD vs Amz vs Pro), I thought you were going to compare build materials and quality of the same model faucets purchased from different suppliers, but you didn't do that. You only compared cheap level of faucet vs higher level of faucet. You had two of the Adler units but didn't open the second one. I guess you are assuming those would be the same.

I have an observation I want to share.

I went to visit my local plumbing supply store (Fergusons) and I see these two garbage disposals:
1. Insinkerator Pro 750 (3/4 hp)
2. Insinkerator Pro 880LT (7/8 hp)

I do not see these listed on the manufacture's website or at any of the local home improvement box stores.
Question: Is the quality of these any better than what is being sold at the retail stores or about the same?

I love your channel and thank you for all you do to help an average family try make a better life for themselves and avoid getter ripped off.
Question: Did you by chance check to see what the pricing would be for the Moen faucet at a local plumbing supply store?
I have always wondered if there was some special secret handshake and code phrase between the sales counter guys and the contractors to get good pricing. 😉
Yea, I know I am paranoid.

Great post!❤

Does anybody have a good brand for can lights? Or what I understand they have something called a wafer lights as well..?

Thank you in advance!❤

Lmao Pontiac improved themselves out of business 😂😂🤣🤣

water pressure: Watts LFN45 Copper 3/4-in Fnpt Pressure Reducing Valve i have one and took my pressure up for the showers. 15+ years laters the fauces all drip, even the ceramic ones. They just are not built to handle 80 psi for a long time. Shower if fine, BTW

Don't use 3/4 oak anymore, use LVP, it is awesome, waterproof, animal resistance, repairable, fast to install, enviro friendly ..... ++++

Ferguson?

Omen is junk.

Pipe in a Pressure Reducing Valve on the main water service between the water meter and the house, or in the house upstream from all fixtures. Some people like to put it downstream from their 1st hose bib to have more pressure @ that hose bib. I always love your show and have learned a lot. Former Local #38 UA journeyman plumber, S.F. CA, now living in Oregon..

Riobel Pro

Home depo sells crap…my father only dealt with plumbing supply and always went brass..

I ❤ your channel’s frankness

is it different with Hot water heaters? i was reading you get a higher quality unit from a plumber than a big box store

Wow! Thank you for this! I’m a homeowner who struggles with value.

I’m calling my local plumber.

Sorry, You are wrong about MSRP. It is illegal for a manufacturer or distributor to set the price at which their product is sold. What they can do is prevent any distributor or retailer from Advertising the sale of their product below MSRP. The Supreme Court case is Robinson VS Patman and it has been settle law for at least 30 years. This is why you will see products been offered with email or call for pricing, because this is not advertising. As a Manufacturer selling through distribution I had to deal with this everyday. The rest of your presentation is spot on.

I’ve seen the same item at Costco on sale for $99. Dollars

Thumbs down, way, way too much talk. We clicked in to see a comparison in quality between the same product. He never gets to it, if he ever did got lost in all the jabber blabber.

Your MSRP on the board should be called MAP (Minimum Advertised Price). That's how MFGs control Uniform pricing with all retailers. List = MSRP = RRP = SRP, meaning that's the highest price a product can be sold at. However, most retailers sell at a discount from List price. That's where MAP comes in.

Wikipedia:
The list price, also known as the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), or the recommended retail price (RRP), or the suggested retail price (SRP) of a product is the price at which its manufacturer notionally recommends that a retailer sell the product.

I could have sworn i blocked this trash channel before. This video is an hour of wasted time. He never actually compared the items bought from different distributors to see if they are different. He compares a cheap $50 faucet to a $150 one and could barely use a grinder to cut them.

He only cuts open the spout tube, and doesn't compare anything else.

He also said some bs about plastic nuts and calls them compression, which they aren't, and falsely says they always come loose. From experience, of all the faucets i repair, not installed by me, the goose neck faucets get loose more often the the ones designed like the "cheap" example.

This guy is not a plumber and has no clue what he's talking about. For all other construction topics I've seen of his videos, he's one of the most lost, worst building contractors in the country. He's always getting blasted in the comments by pros in the trade.

That's suspect. I've never bought a faucet from a plumbing distributor that has retail style boxes. They are always the no frills nearly plain cardboard box with just their logo and a sketch of the product or just word description, no pictures.

A tip for all of you out there: DO NOT use those flexible supply tubes that have a braided nylon outer wrap that mimicks stainless steel. My sister bought an LG dishwasher that had one of these. I installed the dishwasher, and in the middle of the night a couple of days later, my better half and i were awakend to a smoke alarm going off from hot water and steam in the basement. I changed the supply to a stainless wrapped supply line. And i set two mouse traps. I caught the two mice that had chewed through that nylon braided supply line. My Dad built the house, and i was refurbishing the whole house. New kitchen, 2 new bathrooms, everything. I think the mice got in through a hole in the foundation my Dad made to run a well pump line in. The ecologists like the moron AOC have forced manufacturers to make wire insulation and nylon braid out of protein based materials. Guess what? Mice eat protein based plastic.😮

It is ALWAYS better to buy from a small local store that has been in business for many years. Support your local retailers. Just the support is worth it.

The problem with most people is that they do not know how to compute "value". Value is cost divided by time. My 1994 F150 cost around 15,000 dollars. It still runs like a watch. So, it has cost me $517.00 a year. New brakes and clutch at around 2015 were around 400 bucks. Yes, i do my own work. This truck was paid off in 1999. I bet most of you have a car payment thats at least $517.00 a month. Whats in your wallet?

So which part of China should we get our parts from? And the morons that voted for Clinton, and Biden are the first ones to complain when the outdoor hose bib they had installed 2 years ago has failed when the original USA made one lasted 50 years.

Too much of erratic moves and not enough of the basic safety. One day you will cut a finger with the way you use the grinder, simply silly and dangerous show off

I just bought all Kohler direct because I didn't want to get it from Amazon or whatever and get junk. I for sure paid list. It was in the $$$$ range for sure. Very informative video as always.

This may be a bad take on my part, but I have been hosed too many times with third party nonsense online these days or nothing being available because people scoop up direct products and resell for more and scalp because of scarcity THEY created. So to some extent I would pay more to actually have the product I want when I want it, because someone out there is just going to not need it and sell it too me for extortion prices anyway.

Thanks

This is exactly what is happing at the Outlet Malls, they are bypassing the retail stores and selling direct to the consumer. Unfortunately, the quality at the outlet malls is inferior.

As far as advertising, 3 decades ago a retail salesman told me big box stores have products made specifically for them so that they can lower prices when they want. Over those 3 decades I have found out this to be the absolute truth. Try it yourself. Not every product of course but many.

Absurd. You can make the quality argument about everything we buy as consumers. Who can really afford the best of everything other than a very wealthy person. People buy food, clothes, cars, gas, even homes at lower prices. Quality is very expensive and the truth is most of the time as consumers were paying for marketing.

why is this an hr long?....

I only use Hans Grohe ....AXOR Collection.....the very end of the Luxury line for top Quality.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need more videos of Jeff just breaking things for science.. I need more videos of Jeff just breaking things for science..

This is why I’m anti-globalization. The globalist argument is that people get left poor & destitute (they say it more rosy) when their town industry up & leaves for China BUT you get the benefit of purchasing less expensive products. They are less expensive but cheaply made!! So there’s no advantage to the consumer bc you have to replace the cheaply made stuff more often & that’s work!! Time you could have used for something else. I’ve bought bathroom fixtures & saw rust after 2 weeks. I’m old enough to remember when things were made in the USA & were well made. They cost & arm & leg but you sucked it up. There was such a thing as Layaway. I have old tools like USA made Craftsman vs the Chinese stuff & you can visually see the difference, let alone performance.

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Question: Isn't Tin much heavier than either Zinc or Copper (the two components of brass)?

I'm afraid to change my kitchen sink. I wish I could do it myself but I have a shoulder injury. I changed my own kitchen sink over 10 years ago. But things are getting cheaper every year and more expensive.

$80 bucks on ebay for the same moen adler faucet

Bottom line folks more distribution channels = competition. Usually good for the customer. The renovation contractor we worked with was flexible. Some fixtures we found. Some fixtures they found after shopping plumbing supplier, HD and Amazon.

I have the same faucet I bought at costco on sale/clearance for 62 bucks

One big advantage of buying directly from manufacturer is that most likely will be authentic, not an imitation. Home Depot also IMO is likely to be authentic. Other places my confidence is very low especially you know who.

excellent demo!