Look carefully at the closeout items on the site. You will not necessarily find the closeout items if you search by the vendor list in the left margin of the page. Yes, you will have to go through the entire list of 1236 items to find the great deals. Like USA Nicholson files at outstanding prices. They also have PEC (Precision Engineering Corp) USA made squares and rulers, etc, that are blems, for killer prices. PEC has always been a close competitor with Starrett, but I prefer the current PEC tools over the current Starrett tools, and the prices are WAY lower. I bought a 12" satin chrome PEC combination square blade on eBay and I honestly cannot see any blem in it other than a half hearted attempt to remove the PEC logo, which is still quite readable and not offensive. The prices of the PEC stuff are outstanding. I also bought a set of 4 PEC machinist solid squares recently (not blems) from KBC tools and they test better than any others I have tried, including Starrett. So, start looking through those closeout items, there are some real deals there on very high quality items. Note that if it does not say USA, then it is not...
I'm on my way back to order a PEC double square blem from HJE...
Edit: Just placed the order. Straightforward, simple, and the standard ground shipping was $4.40 USD which brought the total for the 6" double square to $21.90 USD delivered, they have lots in stock and I even put in my color preference of the three colors on hand (black).