Just got this awesome deal for my pops, plan to give it to him on Father's Day. Craftsman tool have lifetime warranty, if they crack or break they will replace even if it's 20 years later!
Just got this awesome deal for my pops, plan to give it to him on Father's Day. Craftsman tool have lifetime warranty, if they crack or break they will replace even if it's 20 years later!
^ Stanley bought Craftsman, says they're going to honor the warranty. Not sure how that's going to be implemented yet, in the past many people have reported they just contacted stanley and a new tool was shipped to them, no hassle mailing the broken one in.
In some cases it might not be as handy as driving to the local Home Depot or Harbor Freight to get a replacement, but I also wonder if those companies will continue to offer a lifetime warranty once Sears is gone, or at least be less liberal about it and put a hoop or two in place that you have to jump through to get warranty fulfillment.
Frankly I always buy more based on value and design instead of warranty. Decent tools seldom break unless being misused, or used so often that they wear out and then it doesn't seem a bad value to buy a new item if you use it that often. If it's defective new out of the box, anybody's warranty covers that except a one-off purchase "as is".
I'd be more worried if I owned $10K+ in Snap-On tools, I don't see them being able to sustain their business model for much longer either, but it'd be cool if Stanley bough them too, if they dropped prices to 1/3rd of what they are now but retained the same quality.
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Are you kidding?!? Be very careful about purchasing anything at Sears that has a warranty. It's generally now acknowledged that Sears is a "dead man walking": https://www.thestreet.com/story/14054951/1/sears-has-finally-admitted-that-it-s-almost-dead.html
In some cases it might not be as handy as driving to the local Home Depot or Harbor Freight to get a replacement, but I also wonder if those companies will continue to offer a lifetime warranty once Sears is gone, or at least be less liberal about it and put a hoop or two in place that you have to jump through to get warranty fulfillment.
Frankly I always buy more based on value and design instead of warranty. Decent tools seldom break unless being misused, or used so often that they wear out and then it doesn't seem a bad value to buy a new item if you use it that often. If it's defective new out of the box, anybody's warranty covers that except a one-off purchase "as is".
I'd be more worried if I owned $10K+ in Snap-On tools, I don't see them being able to sustain their business model for much longer either, but it'd be cool if Stanley bough them too, if they dropped prices to 1/3rd of what they are now but retained the same quality.
Thank you!