Which purchase of yours is your most memorable? Have you thought back on orders or purchases of balloons from the past and thought "yeah, that was a really great deal I got on that"? Or can you think of an order where you remember getting your favorite balloons? I remember this time about Q24
There's this food vendor equipment warehouse in my city that also sells Qualatex balloons in bulk. However I usually stay away from Qtex's bc they're rather smaller than rated size and harder to blow by mouth, BTP, or even just tie off. Once though, I decided to just stop by their warehouse because they have a clearance rack that has good deals from time to time. What I saw that day, I couldn't believe my eyes! Bags of 25 ct. Qualatex 24"ers for sale for $2.50. Clearly these people aren't connected to the looner community bc they have no idea how valuable these are to us, and thus wouldn't have priced them so cheaply. I think there was about 20 bags there. A had to ask the lady at the front desk of the warehouse whether there was some mistake. She just said that they've just been surplus and just sitting on the shelf too long. They needed to restock their inventory and we're waiting on a fresh shipment. Holding onto so many balloons was bad for business bc it was just taking up space... they said f-it. We'll just sell these on the cheap.
I was so excited... I could barely hide it from the people in the office as I placed my order. If I remember correctly I bought 13 bags, which came out to be 325 Q24" balloons! What was crazy, was I got it for just $45 after taxes and some other balloons I bought. This was about 3 or 4 years ago, back before I knew about this forum. I was so exited and I just wanted to tell someone. But I knew that nobody around would even care or appreciate the awesome balloon purchase I just had. They'd probably look at me weird for being excited for such a thing. I don't think I'll ever come across such a great buy again. It's hard to believe, but I only have 1 bag of those left and now Qualatex just discontinued Q24's. Now that I think of it, I should probably go back and see if they have any surplus or clearance deals because they'd have to clear out their inventory.
There's this food vendor equipment warehouse in my city that also sells Qualatex balloons in bulk. However I usually stay away from Qtex's bc they're rather smaller than rated size and harder to blow by mouth, BTP, or even just tie off. Once though, I decided to just stop by their warehouse because they have a clearance rack that has good deals from time to time. What I saw that day, I couldn't believe my eyes! Bags of 25 ct. Qualatex 24"ers for sale for $2.50. Clearly these people aren't connected to the looner community bc they have no idea how valuable these are to us, and thus wouldn't have priced them so cheaply. I think there was about 20 bags there. A had to ask the lady at the front desk of the warehouse whether there was some mistake. She just said that they've just been surplus and just sitting on the shelf too long. They needed to restock their inventory and we're waiting on a fresh shipment. Holding onto so many balloons was bad for business bc it was just taking up space... they said f-it. We'll just sell these on the cheap.
I was so excited... I could barely hide it from the people in the office as I placed my order. If I remember correctly I bought 13 bags, which came out to be 325 Q24" balloons! What was crazy, was I got it for just $45 after taxes and some other balloons I bought. This was about 3 or 4 years ago, back before I knew about this forum. I was so exited and I just wanted to tell someone. But I knew that nobody around would even care or appreciate the awesome balloon purchase I just had. They'd probably look at me weird for being excited for such a thing. I don't think I'll ever come across such a great buy again. It's hard to believe, but I only have 1 bag of those left and now Qualatex just discontinued Q24's. Now that I think of it, I should probably go back and see if they have any surplus or clearance deals because they'd have to clear out their inventory.
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