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Ordered a locker

smalltruckbigcid

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Bought a new side locker from the Mac guy today. They have the small one on sale for 589 this month. Traded my old top box in (paid $475 for it 20 years ago) and got $400 for it on trade. So the locker will cost me $189 plus tax.

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smalltruckbigcid said:
Bought a new side locker from the Mac guy today. They have the small one on sale for 589 this month. Traded my old top box in (paid $475 for it 20 years ago) and got $400 for it on trade. So the locker will cost me $189 plus tax.
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Nice side locker. Is it not crazy what they are giving for trade in's these days. Thats awesome you got $400.00 for your old box.
 
Guys ask me all the time if I am slow. Tool sales haven't slowed down, new toolbox sales have come to a crawl. Used boxes sell right now. So I don't pass up a chance to get a good used box or accessory in trade.
 
Trades are crazy, I asked my MAC guy about a box a couple weeks ago. I have a 3 drawer cart with sliding tops one side opens like a drawer. I paid 700 for it in February and he said he'd give me 950 for it.
 
Yeah used stuff is super hot right now. And to top that off the mac guy told me that mac corporate said they will back him on any new box deal he can make. No one will under cut the corporate price or they will come down to make the deal.

And hows this for a surprise, I ordered the locker on tuesday afternoon about 5. Today around 3 he rolls in with my new locker...pics next week but I'm really liking it so far.
 
MAC is really good that way as long as they have it in stock and can send it to your dealer. I usually get it the next week, unless it is a special order type thing.
 
Yeah, I dont know what the deal is, my Snap-On guy told me he'd give me $1500 for my Clarke box. Which he has never even seen. I thought hard about it considering it only cost $300 like 3 years ago.

I just cant justify spending that kind of money on a box when Im not a mechanic by trade. I dont see myself wearing out my box for a long time either since it had ball bearings in it too.
 
I got $4,000 trade in out of a $2,300 Waterloo a couple of years ago, on a three bank Snap On.

Martin
 
smalltruckbigcid said:
Bought a new side locker from the Mac guy today. They have the small one on sale for 589 this month. Traded my old top box in (paid $475 for it 20 years ago) and got $400 for it on trade. So the locker will cost me $189 plus tax.
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Pretty cool and all but almost $600 for something that cost probably $50 to make. Just doesn't make sense to me. I can understand buying the good tools if that is how you make a living but, really, that much for a something to put the tools in. Out of curiosty, what makes it worth that much moey?
 
A locker from harbor freight is about 275 a few weeks ago. I wanted a locker for a long time most of them go from 1500 and up. And mine at least says assembled in USA with global components. The HF one is totally chinese.
So if you have one for 50 bucks bring out the pics 'cuz I'm all for saving money:wink1:
 
Big Blzn said:
Pretty cool and all but almost $600 for something that cost probably $50 to make. Just doesn't make sense to me. I can understand buying the good tools if that is how you make a living but, really, that much for a something to put the tools in. Out of curiosty, what makes it worth that much moey?
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Well, something's worth what someone will pay for it, no more, no less.

That said, the other thing that comes to mind is that it's like furniture or mattresses. Items that have limited, low frequency demand will tend to be higher priced. The manufacturer needs stupidly high margin on such items because they don't sell very often. You buy a hell of a lot more shoes than you do couches, say, so shoes can have lower margin. What they lose in margin they make up in volume, or vice versa.

This also means the manufacturers can afford to heavily discount such items -- by taking trade-ins near or at retail, for instance -- and still make substantial profit.

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Also all the drawers are on roller bearing slides 4 sets of those at 20 bucks each is 100 bucks there. As a pro I'm in the locker every day and the chinese ones will only take so much use and abuse before they show it.

We've had the cost vs quality argument before, its really a question of are you willing to pay for what you want.
 
Big Blzn said:
Pretty cool and all but almost $600 for something that cost probably $50 to make. Just doesn't make sense to me. I can understand buying the good tools if that is how you make a living but, really, that much for a something to put the tools in. Out of curiosty, what makes it worth that much moey?
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I can only speak for Matco specifically, but I can assure you that there is more than $50 in labor in each one of our tool lockers. Figure it would only take a few hours worth of labor into one locker to hit $50. Mind you that is because it is in made upstate NY and you are paying a real American worker to do a quality job. Let alone the high quality adjustable detent drawer slides that our boxers/lockers use. Those alone cost us $50 for a pair of them. Add in the laser cut Tubar keys and locks, no way $50 covers that kind of security. The aluminum anodized trim pieces to match the box. The engineering and time into designing them.

You aren't just paying for materials. Like buying a car, or lift kit, or gun. Are you really just paying for what the materials cost the company? Of course not. You have to think about the time, energy, and design that goes into that product too.

Also, try and go to Harbor Freight and a pair of drawer slides for a $200 locker. If they don't look at you like you have 3 heads they will at least make you pay for them. Matco stuff is lifetime warranty. I come in and install the slides for you, clean up the drawer and make sure it is all good. Good lucky finding that kind of service and quality for $50.
 
82355 said:
It's a lost cause trying to explain it to people.

Martin
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No lost cause. I get that if I was making a living off turning wrenches I'd probably drop the coin. I have plenty of things I spend too much money on because it is something I either do for a living or really enjoy doing. Since I am a sales rep I do just fine with my Craftsman junk as a weekend wrencher and barely that. (ie, I have a $1000 surfboard that I really enjoy and use quite a bit but I could have bought a nice board for $600 and would do about the same thing.) You guys would probably think I'm nuts to drop that kinda coin on something like that. Preferences.
 
smalltruckbigcid said:
Surfboard for a grand....a 2X12 is what 20 bucks:haha: but your right its all about preferences.
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Yeah, even I think I overpaid a bit for a surfboard about 5 years ago when I bought it. You should have seen the price of the same board a year and a half ago when the price of oil was $300/barrel. those fockers who made the resin took reeeeeeeaaaalll advantage of the increase. Same board then was about $1400.

BTW, I'm fairly large so I'd need atleast a 4X16.:D
 
I've dropped some coin on a toolbox in the past, but I won't do it again. I spent $3000 on a Snap-On 777 95th Anniv Harley Edition box in '98(MSRP was 4299). After having coworkers run sh!t into it many times and having to move it back and forth between 2 different shops every time management told me to, I brought it home. I'm working out of a stainless Costco box now, and it works just fine. It was even damaged so I didn't even pay full price. This way I don't have people break my Lock-n-Roll rails all the time, and I don't care if somebody crashes a tire or cart into it.:D
I still spend the dough for tools, when I find something I really need, but that doesn't happen much any more.
 
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