It was almost no effort to go to Sears and look at their garbage
disposals.

Plainly they are made by In-sink-erator. The second cheapest, the
half-horsepower is 75 at Sears but it was on sale for 65. (All this
is Baltimore)

The same size at HD was 70 dollars regular price, and at Lowes 68
dollars regular price.

It wasn't true that the reversing feature was found on cheaper models
at Sears. It was only on the second most expensive, something like
178 dollars (and maybe the most expensive, but I didn't check.)
This is just the way it was with In-Sink at HD and Lowes. The models
there totally matched the models at Sears.


I thought I recalled the HD price and on sale, Sears was 5 dollars
cheaper so I was going to buy that one, but first the cashier wanted
my phone number and then he wanted my name and address. I didn't want
to give them and he said they were needed if there were a recall and
for the guarantee** I know I could have made up the number and
address, but then I had images of them writing to my phony address,
and I got annoyed, so I told him I wasn't giving him all that info,
and I put the thing back, and left.

I ended up paying 3 dollars more at Lowes, where they didn't ask my
name, phone number, or address.



**BTW, the In-Sink guarantee is 2 years on the 2nd cheapest model. I
think at sears it was one year. I'm sure it won't break during the
second year, but still. Apparently if it breaks during the warranty
In-Sink will come to yoru housse to fix it!