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Bedman
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Home Depot Ensenada
Boy, I can't tell you all the problems I've been having.
Just trying to find out from our local Home Depot if the Ensenada HD has the same products available as here in OC.
2 weeks ago I walked into our local HD and asked them that question. No one there could answer the question. Finally they found the Asst manager and
he assured me he would find out and get back to me.
Since then I have visited their website several times. Even the Mexico web site. By the way, they don't have an English version!! All US stores have
spanish versions, but not the Mexico sites, Go Figur!!
Finally I get a call last Friday. The asst manager says they don't have a HD in Ensenada. But they do have one in Mexicali and Tijuana!! I tell him
in no uncertain terms that there is One in Ensenada. He says he'll have to check into it.
Fast forward to today, Tuesday. I get another call from the guy. Now he says that the Home office in Atlanta says they dont have one in Ensenada!!
Geezzz. am I hallucinating every time I drive through Ensenada?
The Asst Manager says he'll keep trying and that he has the phone number of the one in TJ, but he can't get the call to go through. So I ask hime if
he has dialed 011 52 and the area code followed by the phone # ............... Long pause on the phone..."You have to dail all those numbers??" By
the way, he speaks spanish fluently and has a hispanic name.
I'm waiting for the latest developements.
Any one seen the Home Depot in Ensenada? Any one shop there yet? Am I having Hallucinations??
Inquiring minds want to know
Bedman
PS. Excuse the typos, soft ware won't let me delete or spell check.
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comitan
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Bedman
Just as a guess I would say 75% US goods 25% other. Have at it guys use your own percentages, by the way I believe its Home Depot Mexico affiliated
only.
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Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
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Debra
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No Steve, you are not hallucinating it is there........now, if you would like to send me the $1200 for gas that it will cost me I wil be happy to go
down and check everthing out and report back to you. 
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Debra
No Steve, you are not hallucinating it is there........now, if you would like to send me the $1200 for gas that it will cost me I wil be happy to go
down and check everthing out and report back to you.
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Yes, it's there and I will do the trip and report back for $1000 !
Sorry Debra 
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Debra
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Diver, where are you getting gas that cheap?
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sylens
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home depot
is here close to costco in ensenada and it looks like the ones on the usa side, but there the resemblance ends. i think.
we had some cabinets made recently and were looking at handles for drawers. our carpenter suggested we find them at a little mom and pop hardware
store. i suggested we try home depot. he said he'd dropped in and that everything he priced (variety off carpentry-related materials and supplies)
cost MORE at home depot than at his favorite little store. i was incredulous, but we went and made the comparisons. the (polished nickel modern)
drawer handles we selected were 15 pesos each at mom and pop's and 45 pesos each at home depot.
not used to that.
don't have any idea why. 
lili
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Debra
Diver, where are you getting gas that cheap? |
Debra,
I didn't want to accuse you of inflationary tactics but a quick calculation approximating 2600 miles/15 mpg X $3.10/gallon equals $537.33 round trip !
The rest is for chips and beer !!
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cathart
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Sylens, and Hose A, since we are starting to build just south of Rosarito, we will be needing a lot of stuff soon. We would love to know where you do
your local shopping--for things like hardware, and drawer handles, etc. You both seem to know the "Mom & Pop" type places, and we like to shop
locally anyway.
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bajalera
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Aha! Another Baja mystery--The Lost Enasenada Home Depot joins the Lost Mission Isabel.
Bernie, could this be another book?
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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Bob and Susan
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i too contacted home depot headquarters last year...ha ha
they're not much help...they just don't know
the prices at the home depot in tj were very near the prices in the US for items i checked.
Costco across the srteet is about the same too....
easy shopping...i know i'll have an empty trailer when i cross and fill it in ensenada
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Debra
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Diver......I was planning some side trips, you blew it for me! I have a 12yr. old boy in tow........and you know how they eat!
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Bedman
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Comi, Thanks for the %'s
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Debra, the check is in the mail.
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Diver, your check is also in the mail.
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Hose, your check is also in the mail. and Thanks for the phone #. I'll call my friendly Asst. Mgr. and give it to him. I'm sure he'll know what to do
with it!
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Hose A and Sylens,
I have a kind of large list. Can all of these items be purchased at the same Mom and Pop?
3 steel doors, knobs and locks, 3 light fixtures, 3 light switches, 5 ea. 120 wall plugs, kitchen sink and faucet, bathroom sink and faucet, shower
head, shower mixer valve,stove top and oven, toilet and tank and all the plumbing to the wall for all of the above.
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And Thanks for the responses, one and all.
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David K
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Last year, I was shopping for 3" corrugated or coex (smooth-wall) drain pipe to use in the proposed Mision Santa Maria drain solution at the Tijuana
Home Depot... Something that is very common in the Home Depots here to control rain and overflow water or to connet to roof gutters to take the rain
water out to the street or low area.
No such thing in Mexico it seems, only the heavy wall, expensive sewer pipe. No drain fittings like catch basins or smaller grates either.
I bought some on this side to use, but the project was cancelled at the very last minute by INAH.
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4baja
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hey steve, what time do you arrive at the bed store? tried to call you today around noon. will try tomorrow.
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Bob and Susan
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well...i'll have a list to compare NEXT time...
maybe you haven't shopped in california stores latley
prices are GOING up....
Bedman
120 wall plugs??? are you building a apt complex????
Hey can you get us BEDS????
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bajalou
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HD and Costco Mexicali - way higher than the same ones in El Centro
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JESSE
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I believe Home Depot Ensenada is a Chinese copy.
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Desertbull
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Debra
No Steve, you are not hallucinating it is there........now, if you would like to send me the $1200 for gas that it will cost me I wil be happy to go
down and check everthing out and report back to you.
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Yes, it's there and I will do the trip and report back for $1000 !
Sorry Debra |
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Desertbull
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bedman
Boy, I can't tell you all the problems I've been having.
Just trying to find out from our local Home Depot if the Ensenada HD has the same products available as here in OC.
2 weeks ago I walked into our local HD and asked them that question. No one there could answer the question. Finally they found the Asst manager and
he assured me he would find out and get back to me.
Since then I have visited their website several times. Even the Mexico web site. By the way, they don't have an English version!! All US stores have
spanish versions, but not the Mexico sites, Go Figur!!
Finally I get a call last Friday. The asst manager says they don't have a HD in Ensenada. But they do have one in Mexicali and Tijuana!! I tell him
in no uncertain terms that there is One in Ensenada. He says he'll have to check into it.
Fast forward to today, Tuesday. I get another call from the guy. Now he says that the Home office in Atlanta says they dont have one in Ensenada!!
Geezzz. am I hallucinating every time I drive through Ensenada?
The Asst Manager says he'll keep trying and that he has the phone number of the one in TJ, but he can't get the call to go through. So I ask hime if
he has dialed 011 52 and the area code followed by the phone # ............... Long pause on the phone..."You have to dail all those numbers??" By
the way, he speaks spanish fluently and has a hispanic name.
I'm waiting for the latest developements.
Any one seen the Home Depot in Ensenada? Any one shop there yet? Am I having Hallucinations??
Inquiring minds want to know
Bedman
PS. Excuse the typos, soft ware won't let me delete or spell check. |
Home Depot in Ensenada? Steve---what are you talking about. Let's meet for dinner this week and give me some of those **^%$&...
Thank goodness your wife is around to take care of you...
This coming from the same guy who scraped the road to Alphonsina's with a device dragging behind his MOHO---what was that trip again ??? 7 hours!
Yes it's there and open for biz...has everything you could ever want. And in downtown Ensenada their is a french delicatessan named "Paris De Noche,"
rumor has it a number of racers have been hanging out there.
Photos on the way----
DREAM IT! PLAN IT! LIVE IT!
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sylens
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small hardware stores
are everywhere. the one i referred to is actually more a carpenter's shop. i agree with hose a that home depot may be the only place you could find
everything on your list. in addition to the small mom and pop stores, though, there is proconsa on reforma (a true value mexican style) and on
fourth just 2 or 3 blocks west of reforma there is ace hardware (again, mexican style)
i'm leaving town for 2 weeks tomorrow, but if you want addresses, u2u me and i'll send the info (two weeks from now)
lili
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