Grab the items and receipt(s) and go talk to their customer service.
Yup....worst they can say, is NO.
Yep, I plan to, I was just wondering if they had a formal policy or if anyone had actually done it themself...
If they say no, tell them you'd like to return them for refund, and that you'd like to immediately repurchase them at the current price.
I'm just hoping not to have to deal with that sort of scenario. I have done that before at other stores, but returns and purchases are done at separate areas at Home Depot, so I'd have to make sure the returns cashier would actually hand them (back) over to me to go-rebuy them at checkout rather than being a-hole-ish and insisting on throwing them in the bin for official restocking... (The way the occasional employee at huge chains like Home Depot takes things like this as some sort of "personal affront" never ceases to amaze me, but it does happen from time to time. People can be
so weird.)
Used to love leathermen, but then swapped to gerber for the better plier action. Both are good "just in case" tools to have on you.
The Gerber pliers are better? Hmm... How do the other tools and overall construction compare? About a week ago, I actually returned a full-size Gerber EVO that I'd also bought before Christmas, but I didn't open that package either, so didn't get the chance to check it out myself. (And somewhat oddly, I no longer see it listed on their website, just the mini ones on clearance that no store around here seems to have in stock despite the inventories on the website still showing it as allegedly available.) It was the same price the Skeletool is now on sale for ($20) but at the time, I figured if I were going to end up keeping one for myself, I might as well "splurge" on the the Leatherman... But this is the first I'm hearing about the pliers, which I expect I'd end up using at least as much as all the other tools combined... The Leatherman does seem to have the added flexibility of being able to take a range of hex nut attachments, but realistically, I'm not sure how much I'd use a multitool for that purpose anyway...