BAIT AND SWITCH AND PRICE GOUGING. My husband and I wanted to purchase some paint here and was given the run around. We wanted a five-gallon drum of a builder's grade flat interior wall color, normally five-gallon drums are cheaper than buying it by the gallon. This is not the case here, the price they quote is the same whether you buy five one-gallon paint tins or a five -gallon drum of paint. We were told that the paint costs $30 a gallon and if we wanted five gallons it would cost $150. $150 for off-brand cheap flat wall paint? We said that we would take two gallons instead and we presented the 25%off coupon that I received for opening a Sherwin Williams account. The associate said the price just jumped to over $40 a gallon for the paint. He said the coupon was for 25% off the 'list price" of paint which did not say that on the coupon, nor did he say that the price he quoted was a discounted price. Apparently there are several different pricing schemes for the same product which is very shifty and the actual price is something different for each customer. If they like a customer, the price mysteriously is reduced. A person who ordered the same paint was quoted a price of $67 for five gallons, what a price reduction! My father-in-law is a contractor and he gets discounts at the big box stores for large orders, but the price remains the same on the items he buys, he just gets a percent-off is total order. read more