Thanks. Guess I'm used to old once-a-year way they did it. Bummer cuz I was just now set to buy the CT36 they had up, but when I got back to it, it's already changed! Had to have been 10 minutes difference. Oh well...saved me $735.Alanbach said:They had a sale of sorts on Black Friday. It’s generally the only time that they put up many different tools at the same time. Normally it’s one tool at a time, the next one comes up when the last one is sold and so on. At Black Friday they probably had 30 different tools at once and as each one sold out it disappeared from the page. Approximately the same level of discount (generally from 15-25%) just more tools at once. Recon sales come with a one year warranty instead of the usual three years. Some come looking like they are brand new and some not so much. Personally I have had very good experiences buying from the recon site.
Michael Kellough said:The current recon sale could hardly be more different than the old recon events.
Some items sell out in seconds. Sometimes there is a large number of the item (SYS3 Starter set) and it remains on the site for a long time.
squall_line said:Since then there is also a notification system that was built by [member=75283]4nthony[/member] that uses the Slack app to let people know when a new item posts. It's quite slick, and I used it a few times when I was looking for something specific to keep a tab and beat out the other hundreds of people who were watching it. Now I mostly use it to lurk and keep tabs on the Recon offerings.
Details available here:
https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/ask-festool/festool-recon-question/msg657855/#msg657855
jon003 said:... I wrote some python to text me ...
jon003 said:If people could just go ahead and buy up those diamond grinders, I'd appreciate moving it up to the CT =)
4nthony said:jon003 said:... I wrote some python to text me ...
Nice!
Which library did you use for sending the text? I've been thinking about adding SMS functionality to my ReconBot but wasn't sure which hoops I needed to jump through to get provider access, etc.