Ripper3785
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Special ordered two CST744S-01 from Lowe's a couple weeks ago and picked them up a week later. Paid around $200 or so, was fine with that. Opened them up, liked how they looked and such and then reboxed them for upcoming remodel.
Walking through Lowe's this evening and notice a lowe's employee in plain clothes and two other plain clothes people around a stack of toilets. After putzing around, we realize that these are the same toilets(3 of them) we just ordered, a special order return marked down to $65. The group of folks took 2 of the toilets and we took the last one(still sealed in original packaging). Seemed like a smoking good deal that we could resell. All the part numbers and such matched up. Unboxed to inspect and something didn't seem the same as the first two so I got them both out side by side to compare. The two we previously picked up were made in Mexico and the one we picked up tonight was made in USA. Here are pictures of both. To my surprise, the Mexico made tank seems nicer. The internals look less cheap. The back of the USA tank has a big notch in the top lip. There is some random orange spray on the walls of the USA tank.
Would you say that there is no appreciable difference in the quality/performance of these two identical tanks?
Edit- Further, the bowls for the first two toilets were also made in Made in Mexico and the bowl for the one picked up tonight was made in China. Haven't had a chance to unpack and look at those side by side yet.
Walking through Lowe's this evening and notice a lowe's employee in plain clothes and two other plain clothes people around a stack of toilets. After putzing around, we realize that these are the same toilets(3 of them) we just ordered, a special order return marked down to $65. The group of folks took 2 of the toilets and we took the last one(still sealed in original packaging). Seemed like a smoking good deal that we could resell. All the part numbers and such matched up. Unboxed to inspect and something didn't seem the same as the first two so I got them both out side by side to compare. The two we previously picked up were made in Mexico and the one we picked up tonight was made in USA. Here are pictures of both. To my surprise, the Mexico made tank seems nicer. The internals look less cheap. The back of the USA tank has a big notch in the top lip. There is some random orange spray on the walls of the USA tank.
Would you say that there is no appreciable difference in the quality/performance of these two identical tanks?
Edit- Further, the bowls for the first two toilets were also made in Made in Mexico and the bowl for the one picked up tonight was made in China. Haven't had a chance to unpack and look at those side by side yet.
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