I finally got around to ordering the new windows for the house, and my procrastination finally paid off!

Long story short, I saved around $700.00 by taking advantage of a 20% off weekend sale, plus price matching. If Home Depot had fully honored their price matching policy *grumble*, I would have saved 30%.
Short story long: Lowes was having a weekend 20% off sale on doors and windows, so I took my old Home Depot quote to them and got them to give me a quote for the same windows (they carry they same brand and model). Lowes prices were a tiny bit higher than Home Depot, but their delivery fee was $20 cheaper, and the 20% off made a huge difference.
I then took their quote to Home Depot, who was advertising all over the store (even outside), that if a competitor had the same product at a lower price, “we will match the price and beat it by 10%”. This was awesome as it meant that I would now get 30% off!
I went straight to the service desk of Home Depot and showed them both my HD quote and Lowes quote, and said that I wanted to verify that they would meet and beat Lowes price as promised. Immediately they were NOT HAPPY.
The Lowes quote did not have anything about the 20% off on it, and the Lowes manager told me they couldn’t print a quote that reflected the discount, because the discount was taken at the register. Both me and the Lowes guy (who knew what I was planning to do), knew this would be an issue so he stapled his business card to the quote and said to have them call him if they needed to verify that the 20% was legit and should be subtracted from their invoice price.
Basically the Home Depot people didn’t believe me. They didn’t flat out call me a liar, but lets just say they called Lowes several times to verify the price, even after I showed them the picture above that I had on my cellphone. I don’t like how they made me feel like a cheapskate or a scammer for taking advantage of a discount, but lets face facts here…the discount was going to save me hundreds of dollars, so it was well worth the effort!
And, this is a policy that they BOLDLY advertise (see pic..click it for large version), so why should they give me a hard time for taking them up on it? Their policy clearly states that they will meet and beat lower prices,

yet they acted like I was trying to scam them or something. Oh and get this…they were willing to “meet” the price, but they refused to “beat” (give the 10%) it! The manager kept hemming and hawing and obviously making up bullshit like “uhhh yeah, uhh sale prices don’t count”. I said “then why are you even matching the price? And doesn’t the sign say ‘any advertised price’”? He was like “umm well for ’special order’ items we only do the meet but not the beat’, I was like “but just a moment ago you were about to not give me the discount at all because you said you ONLY honor the discount for special order items?”. We went around and around for a bit and they were about to close, and I was tired of arguing, so I gave in. I was glad to at least have my 20% off. I’m sure if I was some grey-haired old guy or lady they would have bent over backwards to kiss my ass (as most stores seem to do for some reason) and give me the 10%.
Ironically, although they refused to give me that 10%, they were oh-so-eager to give me an additional 10% off if I signed up for a Home Depot line of credit! “No thanks” I said.