Sourcing at SiteOne

[WIPool888]

Random question for all of you that source product through SiteOne. Does the "Act like a pro" gig seem to make a big difference for you? Do you have an account setup, or just tell them you don't have one? I've tried two times to get items from there. Urea last fall and Dimension 0-0-7 this spring. Both times, they convinced me to get other products. In the fall, they talked me into a more traditional winterizer fert. The guy working said he'd recommend that over urea based on his 25 years of golf course maintenance experience... This spring they said they didn't have 0-0-7 Dimension, but they had 13-0-0 which was their "Most popular" choice for a pre emergent.

Just wondering if it's worth trying to keep playing their game, or if I should look elsewhere.

[turf_toes]

You need to have an account set up to buy from them. At least you did when I first started going there, actually back when it was called Lesco.

You don’t need to misrepresent yourself. But just don’t go in there expecting great service and pricing if you ask for a single bag of pre-emergent and then try to haggle over the price of that one bag.

I’ve always gotten decent prices there. But I also tend to buy enough product at once to last a good couple of seasons.

[northeastlawn]

I have bought from my local Site-One without an account, even had them order something for me.

There are different philosophy's for lawn care. I tend to follow the ideas on this forum, because they have always worked well for me, but I do find that landscapers are good at cutting lawns, not necessarily growing them from scratch or keeping them healthy with minimum costs.

If I walk into a big box store I will probably know more from this site, than anyone in the lawn department. The site-one guys are good, but they are dealing with landscapers that are dealing with quantity, and using other peoples money. A landscaper that puts down a lawn could care less if the lawn comes in or not, as long as they cut it weekly for the rest of the year.

Just try to know what you want before you get there, and why you want it, and if they don't want to sell it to you buy somewhere else. I have gotten good info from some landscape and feed places, but overall this forum is a much better source of info.

[WIPool888]

Thanks for the quick replies! I certainly wasn't trying to haggle on price, just thought it was funny that they steered me away from a product. Unless they really didn't have it. To northeastlawn's point, I think it really comes down to knowing what you want and why before you get there.

[kbgfarmer]

I’ve bought from site one as well. They sell to homeowners. They didn’t have the 0-0-7 Dimension my location either a few years ago so I also had to go with the 13-0-0.

[KnickLeDime]

They have products that other guys don't have...I lean more on what I read here but most recently, regardless or what I tried and where I went I couldn't find Milo. Found it there as well as SOP for another poster here which he couldn't find anywhere else locally. They will try to sell you other product, I just ask my SiteOne guy to email me the spec sheets and do some reading when I have time. They have a product for "everything" but the discerning consumer should keep it tight and focused on what the biggest needs are otherwise you'll be throwing everything into the ground.