HOTBINS — Local services in Tamarac

Hotbins is a chain of stores that recently opened in Florida. They buy up pallets of Amazon returns and overstock from Target, Walmart and Kohl's and then they sell the items in their stores. The sell a little bit of everything from linens, fragrance, appliances, home decor, candy, toys, and clothing. They could possibly have anything you can order from Amazon.

This Hotbins recently opened in Sunrise in a former Salvation Army store. Depending on the day you visit affects the price you pay. The store is closed on Thursday. On Friday it is full of freshly stocked merchandise for $12. On Saturday the price drops to $10. Sunday $8 and so on. By Wednesday what is left is $2. They also have some kitchen appliances that are priced at a discount. All sales are final so buyer beware.

This was my first time in a Hotbins so I took me a little while to get up to speed. I was confused because a lot of the items didn't look they were worth $10 they were charging that day. I saw books, a box of tissues, and other random cheap items. I asked an employee why they were charging $10 for a box of tissues and she explained that those items would sell on the $2 day. So you have a mish mash of items at all price points and it is up to you to discern if you think it is worth the price they are charging that day. On the Saturday night I visited I was hard pressed to find anything I wanted to purchase that I thought was worth $10 even though the salesperson assured me almost everything in the bins was worth more. One other important thing to note is that many of the items are in brown boxes. Most likely these are the more expensive items. You are not allowed to open the boxes. You have to take them to a corner of the store where an employee will open the box for you. It is very frustrating to look at a box and have no idea what is in it and have to go through a process to open it. No thanks.

I was not impressed with Hotbins on this visit but the next time I have a Friday off I may give them another chance. According to an employee people line up early before the store opens to be the first to get the fresh merchandise. If it is too crowded it doesn't sound like it would be enjoyable. Also according to employee Hotbins has giving out phones and possibly a laptop in a raffle on Fridays as an incentive for coming in. If you like a treasure hunt this may be a store for you to try but I left...

Just left disgusted and very unhappy from here. I picked up this walkie talkie set with no sticker price on it so its suppose to be $12 today. Ther are 2 rechargeable batteries 2 usb cables missing. There's a piece that's was forced open on the side that's supposed to be closed water tight because it's a waterproof not resistant wakie. The Manager refused to give it to me at $12. He told me $20 dollars. So he forsed the open peice back into place and said it's fixed. So a little upset , I was still going to purchase it for $20 dollars. It dosen't matter if it cost $500. New or used. A deal is a deal. So now he wanted to open it to see if it had batteries in it and I told him it did because I tried it out at the service station. So no he said "since it has batteries in them , I have to charge you $50 dollars because I'll loose money ". I explained to him that the box says there are supposed to be 2 extra batteries aside from the 2 inside the walkies. It shows it on the box. He said " it doesn't matter, I have to sell it for $50 dollars ". I found that so unperfetional. Don't let his mellow and nice talking fool you. He won't do the rite thing as a business. I was thinking of buying furniture there this coming month and now I'm totally not going to do that. I rather pay more money than to deal with customer service like this. It's not worth it to me. I encourage people not to shop here. Maybe other places like this one is more personal and fair. But I don't like dealing with managers (owner) like this. I will take my money elsewhere. Won't recommend, mention or take anyone...

This place used to be really good, but it's changed lately.

When I first heard about this discount store, I thought it was great. The concept of the store is to offer returns and overstock items from other stores (mostly Amazon, but also including Target and other big name stores) at an incredible price. Each item is $12 starting on Fridays, and the price is periodically reduced as the days of the week go by until it reaches $2 on Wednesdays. A few months ago, you could still find plenty of items, but now there is less and less merchandise available for Wednesday customers. It even seems like they are sorting through the merchandise in the warehouse to price it higher. So, no matter what day of the week you visit the store, there will be plenty of items that will cost you more than $12. I often visit this place on Wednesdays when everything is supposed to be marked down to $2, but for the past 2 months or so there has been a very low amount of merchandise available in their bins (tables) regardless of what time of day I go to the store. It wasn't like this before, during the morning and even during the afternoon there were just too many items to choose from. I don't know if they are saving the merchandise for the "most expensive" days, are selecting everything to sell at the best possible price (over $12)... or they just don't have any good merchandise to sell on Wednesdays anymore... I don't know what happened.

I really hope I can find many, many good items for...