I Bought A Pallet Of ACE Hardware Returns for $1176.13 

John, I am the store manager of an Ace hardware store. When we do our new planagrams and setup the shelves if the old in-stock products are not on the new planograms, we typically mark the prices down and after a while we skid all the stuff we don't sell and take it to auction. The majority of everything you received never left the store being purchased.

Ace Hardware is the best, only franchise that I know of that gives the owners complete control of what is in the store, that means you can get an Ace hardware/grocery store, or Ace hardware/gun store. It's awesome.

John, I'm also a knife guy. Case is owned by Zippo and they have a Case/Zippo museum in Bedford PA. Fun place to kill a few hours and tons of knives to look at.

Ace Hardware is by far my favorite hardware store. Unlike the orange store they ALWAYS greet me and offer to help me find things. They are SO so nice at all 3 of the Ace Hardwares near me.

Video idea, what tools could you get from a thift shop, secondhand / charity shop, estate sale, pawn shop? If you are just starting out, what should you look for vs avoid?

Hey John! I'm a reseller & woodworker, just south of Baltimore. Now, you're seeing how we flippers actually make our money. We have to be SUPER picky about which pallets we buy, until we're at a scale where the dud pallets don't cut into our profits. Ace liquidation is a great program, & you got a great deal. Congratulations!

Got my preordered shop shades on Friday, wore them all day Saturday during a project, and they are literally the most comfortable safety glasses I’ve ever worn. I’m a safety snob and I will stand behind these. Awesome content as usual, and thanks for the shop shades!

Ace is friendly AF!! People want to be helpful that work there!!! It is my go to for hard to find items for the house......and they are well versed in outdoor cooking!!! Great video! Glad you won one!!

I would like to see John's first time experiencing a Menards store. I always feel like I'm stepping through a time portal to a home improvement store from 1992 when I go to Menards.

I really like these pallet buys and I don’t know why! Keep em coming guys !!!

11:09 the cotton gloves under rubber gloves keeps your hands from getting all gross from sweating in the rubber gloves, wicks the moisture away.

Ace rocks! And evidentially so does their pallets. Always fun to watch you open these pallets.

Would love to see you test the 10-in-1 type tools against single use tools to see if the multi use tools are worth it.

I love Ace Hardware! Go in, grab whatever you need, then usually 5 things you don't. Candy, soda, mine even has BBQ rubs!

Love Ace. Hopefully there are some good returns in the pallet.

I have that Skil belt sander that you didn't go over that was on the table, and I love it. I needed one quick and it was cheaper than the Harbor Freight options at the time, and I don't regret it one bit. I even took it to work and used in our shop there when our big Makita one went out. Solid get

Ace is a great resource for projects. Pricey but usually very helpful.

I'm gonna watch this whole thing but only 15 seconds in and I'm already thinking "Not again, John. Not again..."

Here in Canada, we have ACE Hardware and a similar store called Home Hardware. We also have Canadian tire, which are all of those same things plus hockey equipment, fishing and hunting gear, automotive parts, and tools and tires.

Love Chris so much. Just opens drawer mid unbox 😂😂😂 “yeah it would be really cool if it came with everything”

My Sunday doesn't start until I see a John Malecki video!

ya I love Ace Hardware Store and I spent lots of money in them

When I saw the sawblades I knew this was gonna be a good haul.

I’m loving these videos on the 2nd channel and I think you should buy a pallet of Menards returns.

So I've been binging your episodes lately and absolutely love the floating tables you did a while ago. Any way you can give a floating dining room table a try?

I love my local Ace, they have like, 99% of what I need for projects. My blue/orange big box stores didn't have firebricks, but Ace did. Whenever I can, I use Ace.

There is a hardware here in Australia called Bunnings Warehouse.... they literally sell EVERYTHING. Best part is when you have finished shopping there is a BBQ at the entrance that sells sausage on bread where you can put tomato/BBQ sauce, mustard or onion on it... (literally a delicacy here) if your not from Australia have a look at their website and they sell EVERYTHING!

My nearby Ace had an employee who didn’t know what an impact driver was--we argued about what I was asking for until I had to hang up on him. Times like this make me wish I had one of the old rotary phones. They could take my frustration. I still go there on occasion-ut my expectations are pretty darn low.

6:02 absolutely a gold mine 😮

Didnt even know ace had milwaukee. I've been driving an hour north to the closest home depot all this time instead of just 5min to ace haha.

My initial reaction with the small pallet of stuff, based on just the ice scrapers was seasonal items pulled at the start of spring, and the shovels seem like "recalls", or tools that don't sell well across the company, so they pull them and send them back to the distributor. It's what we do at the auto parts store I work at anyway.

I have a 7 1/4 and the beam saw from Skil saw. Would love to buy it many did half of the tread due to weight, but I love the battery time

Big fan of ace. The ace pallet is one of the best ones you got. besides the Home Depot one. Ace is very nice store. Those Milwaukee packout drawers are very nice and heavy duty. These kind of videos have a good day.

Sounds like Ace Hardware is much like Bunnings over here in AUS! It also has a Cafe, Plants & the infamous sausage sizzle on the weekends

Ace has some truly random shiz in its aisles. That baby pallet was probably a seasonal cleaning the aisles pallet post inventory sort of thing.

I wish I had an Ace that made sense for me to go to. I have a local old school hardware store a few miles away, two Lowe's in two towns similar distance apart and a Home Depot near the one Lowe's. There is an Ace within reasonable driving distance, but its in a part of town I avoid just because of traffic and accessibility.

As someone that works for ace I can 100 percent confirm this video is real, often times when a customer returns a product because they either didn’t like it or used it for what they needed and were done, and the packaging is messed up. We just defective it so it can be sent back, and sometimes when we receive stuff, like in this case and it happens to have some slight damage. We just defective it and send it back. And finallyyyyy, if there’s a product we rarely sell, we will either mark it for free or just send it back.

As some who works at one of the RSC. We do alot of close outs which go to auction. Or "damaged" aka unsellable, or surplus. Unfortunately we used to get those pallets cheap cheap as tms and now they auction them.

Price is right rules dictate that the grill cover is now his. Congrats!

Not sure if you have it over in the US but here I the UK we got B&Q and Halfords which one is tools and the other is construction

I love kerosene heaters. I have one just in case of power loss in the winter.

Those pack outs would look nice in my trunk

have a huge garage sale at the shop I'd drive down from the fingerlakes for that

5:22 I have the exact same one. I can't stand Makita, but it was free. Works great. Took a chunk out of my leg, but that was my fault.

Ace pallets are usually a win. They tend to carry better quality products overall.

I work at an Ace Hardware and while I don’t speak for all franchises if we get a return or when we reset an aisle and we have items that are not on the planogram we just mark them down or put them on the shelf.

I use to work at the place that made those black and yellow totes

Yeah, I'm gonna need a gif of John putting that glove on

Do you have a Menards? You'll get some crazy stuff on that pallet.

You should definitely get a blackstone!! I have one and it’s the best grill I’ve ever had lol

Gotta love Case pocket knives man. Fantastic to carry!

That was awesome

So just sayin, RecTec makes one heck of an amazing pellet grill! No disrespect to Traeger but RecTec just does it all elevated. I've got the RT 700 and couldn't be happier! If you know stainless, there's the good stainless and the meh stainless, this grill's got the good stuff. The hopper is in the back making it a lot bigger and it holds a whole 40lb bag of pellets. The auger and burner is in the middle making it heat up very evenly and reliably. I've never had a clog and the perks just keep coming.

We have something like that in Australia. It’s called Bunnings 😁

Ace would definitely bring in the better items. ❤

I feel you on the pocket knife problem. Spyderco makes one out of Maxamet steel, which is basically the toughest steel out there. You have to baby it against rust, but I mean come on you can't have everything

Here at the Rural King, we'll getcha all those things and fix your tractor.

I just bought skill tools could use that fast charger

Tractor Supply or Farm and Fleet pallets...I bet those would be fun if they have them 😆

The Milwaukee packouts are like 80 bucks more in Canada than they are the America and the batteries are 400 bucks for the two that John got. Makes it tough needing to buy tools

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I Love Your Videos Dude 💟☮️

Milwaukee just released there new forge batteries, whick are the stacked lithium, just like the powerstack.

If there is any 4H or gardening or agricultural youth/kids Charity around, you should donate all the hand tools!

This was very entertaining! Ace is one of the last hardware brands/stores where you can smell fertilizer when you walk in - the mark of authentic small-town hardware stores. More Harbor Freight pallets please! (Harbor Fright?) My Shop Shades arrived yesterday... PERFECT!

If you need to get ride of the packout stuff send it my way … I would be very appreciative

If you enjoy the variety of Ace, you need to venture to the Midwest and check out Menards lol

Our local Ace is in a Food City grocery store. lol. Literally half the store.

Love your videos, glad you got a good one. Most of the pallets you buy seems to be not so great but good to see you get some wins every now and then. Just a thought, I'm new to woodworking and if you ever do a tool giveaway I would love the router bit set 😂😂. Seriously though, nice win on the pallet. Keep up the great work.😁

Great video

What was the website you used to buy this at the auction

I really want that dewalt organiser case now 😢

You should definitely try tractor supply. Chainsaws and welding equipment on the last one I heard go

where do you get these pallets? i want to buy some

John you gotta do an Amazon pallet of tools that'd be interesting or see if you can get a random tool ebay pallet. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

The Juice finally got squeezed.

Where do you get your return pallets from?

Where did you buy this

If all the tools from the pallets are just sitting around, that might be a good oportunity for a give away. Like make little packs with some starter gear, then people can write you and precent their work space and tell you why they deserve a tool pack (video idea). Also, the cotton under gloves are there to make it easier to change gloves. If you wear rubber gloves for a little while your hands get sweatty, and it makes it hard to change them quickly.

The traeger covers that come with the grill suck but the ones you buy separate are normally decent

Does Northern Tool do pallets? Acme, Menards, True Value. Maybe someday John goes to a tool/equipment auction in person.

12:40 I thought this was camera trickery at first and it was just John twice. I was wondering if it was a collab with the Corridor Crew guys or something.

Wait until he goes to Menards... coming in Uniontown & Greensburg... someday maybe haha

Do you have site where you sell this stuff?

Eloy make great hose

Where can i buy those pallets?

If you're getting rid of those packouts I've got some use for them ;)

Tractor supply or menards pallet for sure!

this didn't seem to have a whole lot of returns but i would consider this mostly shelf pulled items for box damage, out/end of season, last ones/design change, minor flaws, etc. i tend to stay away from returns but i like to buy shelf pull pallets though. i am taking a couple of months off and then we can be enemies again on the liquidation site. On a long vacation and then when i get back i need to get a few things changed up here before more pallets show up. i noticed it too about pallet prices too, all depends who handles the logistics on it. how can i get pallets from ca. to Wi. for only $132 and that is after they added 14% surcharge for fuel but i try to get a pallet from Tn. and it is over $600 for shipping? shipping is all over the board right now, depends on who handles it.

You needed a win with these pallets.

Pricing things up is totally different to selling things Reminds me of the Storage Wars logic

I also have a traeger, they basically sent me a whole other grill during the warranty period and it never worked more than 6 hours straight. Luckily we had a severe thunderstorm with 100mph winds come through and it got blown off the porch, ripped shingles off, blew down the fence, broke windows and all kinds of damage. So insurance bought my traeger, lol. Literally one of the worst products I have ever purchased, bought a yoder and I'll never go back for anything traeger.

The best part about the trager scene he did is my dad got one and in their app he named it “Happy Grillmore”

Ripper pick up 👍🔥

Looks like someone might be getting some weekend double time pay 😎

You can get a pizza oven, grill, candy, and cleaner at HD and Lowes....

is ace hardware like the american quivalent to canadian tire

I ordered a pair of shop shades back on April 24. Any idea when I can expect them?

As an ace warehouse employee I'm almost positive that's a closeout from a warehouse or what we call B stock that's damaged out in the warehouse

Those are returns John, those are items that they no longer stock. They probably tried to sell them at an extreme discount in store and after period of time, They just sell them at auction because they’re tired of them taking up floor space. That’s why you have large numbers of the same item unused.