What would you pay for a Snap-on Epiq 68"?

[Waggoner72]

I know my toolbox prices pretty well but Snap-on Epiqs rarely come up and are usually way over priced.
I personally have a 68" epiq with a mini side locker in extreme green. Here it is


I came across another 68" epiq in extreme green, identical to mine. Few scratches, nothing major. I thought it would be awesome to connect it to my box to make a mini Mr. Big. How much is a reasonable price to pay you think? He's asking $6,000, I've got him talked down to $3,700, which is reasonable but not a steal in my opinion like I usually get. B what would y'all would pay....

 

[Hpozzuoli]

I have been looking for a used red 68 epiq. If I could get one for 3k or below I would consider it a steal and buy it. Sadly everyone is in the 3500+ neighborhood here.

 

[90zcar]

There was a black and chrome 68" epiq I seen on Craigslist in my area last month for $3500. Thing was 6 months old. If I didn't already have my black KRL which I got for a steal and if I wasn't getting married in a month I would have already gotten it.
I'd say anything below 4500 is gonna put you way ahead of the truck price game


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[hautpot]

WTF all i have seen in Los Angeles for a used 68 epiq is $6000+.

 

[Skin]

I don't like green and don't have 4k in cash lying around but $3500-$3700 seems pretty darn good to me. I know people will balk at it, mention HF or that its just a tool box, but pictures don't do them justice, thats a huge box.

 

[404]

I would pay 1000. I can get the HF cabinet new for a bit less than that.

Is this cabinet just to store tools, or does owning a brand name one give you a lot of pleasure/satisfaction?

Sure the cabinet is nice. But if one puts the extra money in a no load mutual fund, maybe one can retire early.

Some say I have taken being a miser to an extreme, and they may be right.

 

[larryq]

I would pay 1000. I can get the HF cabinet new for a bit less than that.

Some say I have taken being a miser to an extreme, and they may be right.

You're channeling Milton Friedman for sure!

My understanding is the HF box is great for the price, but Epiqs are as good as they get, a completely different league. Per my wrenching friends if you're opening and closing and packing tools in it for a living, all day every day they're wonderful.

I'm not in the market for anything at that level and $3700 isn't total highway robbery but the OP should ask himself the next time a matching green one will come up for that amount...

 

[404]

You're channeling Milton Friedman for sure!

My understanding is the HF box is great for the price, but Epiqs are as good as they get, a completely different league. Per my wrenching friends if you're opening and closing and packing tools in it for a living, all day every day they're wonderful.

I'm not in the market for anything at that level and $3700 isn't total highway robbery but the OP should ask himself the next time a matching green one will come up for that amount...

Okay, but how many lap dances could one buy for the price delta, and how would the pleasure compare?

 

[454ragtop]

NH CL $4000 for a black one http://nh.craigslist.org/tls/5198373710.html

 

[yellowbox]

Offer 3500 you can't go wrong and you will make your money back no problem if you ever sell
The green is cool

 

[toddoky]

Okay, but how many lap dances could one buy for the price delta, and how would the pleasure compare?

I mean no disrespect, but inless you've amassed the same volume/scope of tools a full-service professional mechanic does over their career and repetitively opened the drawers of a tool box holding said tools day in and day out, you won't understand the value equation here.

 

[Brownsfan]

I mean no disrespect, but inless you've amassed the same volume/scope of tools a full-service professional mechanic does over their career and repetitively opened the drawers of a tool box holding said tools day in and day out, you won't understand the value equation here.

I concur. While I'm not a mechanic I do use my tools and box daily (I do automotive electrical exclusively ) I understand the need for quality. And the people who don't use tools daily for their work won't understand and for so.e reason will fight till the death and shout it from the roof tops. I can't tell you how many times I have asked a tool or box question here and even said PLEASE HF fans don't recommend that stuff and yet they still always make the HF recommendation.

 

[Bellaireroad]

Okay, but how many lap dances could one buy for the price delta, and how would the pleasure compare?

The pleasure would be immeasurable, but unfortunately short-lived.
The toolbox, however, would extend the pleasure for many days to come.
Spoken as one who has had lap dances and Snap on toolboxes.

 

[thegroundpounder99]

I'd think the $3700 is a pretty good deal.


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[Bobioz1]

$3700 is a great deal. I wouldn't sell mine for anywhere near that.

 

[purplezr2]

Paid 4500 for my 84" royal blue. I would pay 3-3.5 with locker

 

[nahuebsch82]

If I was going to spend the money I'd rather get this:

http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/tls/5246221617.html

 

[pi_guy]

I concur. While I'm not a mechanic I do use my tools and box daily (I do automotive electrical exclusively ) I understand the need for quality. And the people who don't use tools daily for their work won't understand and for so.e reason will fight till the death and shout it from the roof tops. I can't tell you how many times I have asked a tool or box question here and even said PLEASE HF fans don't recommend that stuff and yet they still always make the HF recommendation.

I just replaced my black HF tool cart, disassembled it and bringing it to my intern at Lime Rock on Friday. Just did not cut it, drawers were not big enough to hold diagnostic tool set. It was replaced by KRSC43PC1 in black with sliding SS top to match my KRL`s.
My driver looked at the 3 C- clamp drawers in my 1033 and commented never seen anyone pack that much in. If you get a chance to use quality storage you might have a different view. I could only get that many clamps in a larger husky drawer but it distorted easily.
But the primary reason is how many times have a drawer gotten stuck and that final last yank gets it open but all the contents on the shop floor.
To me it comes down to time and time wasted, had two husky boxes & the drawers that fell apart first had the least weight.
The next thing to go will be the HF glass beader, I am tired of fixing things before and during usage.

 

[bobcatdan]

The closest I ever came to getting a 68" epiq was when quoted $4000. That was too much for what I felt I would gain over the 1022 I would trade in. Along with the box, I would get a free stainless steel top, the big SO epiq grill and whatever the best rebate he could do. If he had said $2000, I would have done it. As for a used one, hard for me to say what I would pay. With no room at work for one and my 1022 at home, I'm just not interested in one now.

 

[DodgeMech]

I would pay 1000. I can get the HF cabinet new for a bit less than that.

Is this cabinet just to store tools, or does owning a brand name one give you a lot of pleasure/satisfaction?

Sure the cabinet is nice. But if one puts the extra money in a no load mutual fund, maybe one can retire early.

Some say I have taken being a miser to an extreme, and they may be right.

he's asking about used prices on a specific box, how is your coming here and spouting out hf stuff any help to him? the epiq is literally the best toolbox on the market...hands down, do not compare it to some thing that came over in a shipping container from china...that said, i own and like the **** out of my hf 5 drawer cart, and would never buy one from a truck...but, apples to oranges

 

[L.Cheapo]

WTF all i have seen in Los Angeles for a used 68 epiq is $6000+.

Same here. I wouldn't even haggle @ $3700. My dealer's prices on new boxes are lower than 95% of the decent used stuff on craigslist in this area. The other 5% are too close to bother with used.

 

[purplezr2]

I can touch my epiq, usually a stripper is look no touch policy.

 

[404]

I mean no disrespect, but inless you've amassed the same volume/scope of tools a full-service professional mechanic does over their career and repetitively opened the drawers of a tool box holding said tools day in and day out, you won't understand the value equation here.

No disrespect taken at all. My stuff is mostly in computer punch card cabinet drawers.

Unless a person were to try out the drawers on both cabinets, how would one know how much worse the HF ones are?

Paying more money for more quality is fine. But am wondering how much better the drawer slides can be for 4 times the money.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[404]

he's asking about used prices on a specific box, how is your coming here and spouting out hf stuff any help to him? the epiq is literally the best toolbox on the market...hands down, do not compare it to some thing that came over in a shipping container from china...that said, i own and like the **** out of my hf 5 drawer cart, and would never buy one from a truck...but, apples to oranges

Well even if it did not help him, at least you got to spout off about my useless spouting, rather than just letting your eyes drift down the screen and reading more intelligent posts. So win win. You may thank me later.

 

[404]

I can touch my epiq, usually a stripper is look no touch policy.

Ummm the metal cabinet is cold and dead. The stripper is live and warm. Usually one can feel the radiant heat. Plus they touch you when they sit in your lap.

 

[Two Door]

Ummm the metal cabinet is cold and dead. The stripper is live and warm. Usually one can feel the radiant heat. Plus they touch you when they sit in your lap.

But lap dances don't hold their value well, and are extremely hard to resell when you are through with them.

 

[Smokenarrow]

I've seen it all. Comparing an EPIQ to the HF box....lol

I think high 3k is a darn good deal. That box would sell for upwards of 6k here, used. Snappy dealer would get around 9k for it.

 

[404]

I've seen it all. Comparing an EPIQ to the HF box....lol

I think high 3k is a darn good deal. That box would sell for upwards of 6k here, used. Snappy dealer would get around 9k for it.

So you have gone to the HF store and tried the drawers on the display model. In what way were they inferior?

 

[404]

But lap dances don't hold their value well, and are extremely hard to resell when you are through with them.

Okay you got me there. Lap dances are kind of like going to church. Makes the mind happy.

 

[Brownsfan]

So you have gone to the HF store and tried the drawers on the display model. In what way were they inferior?

I have and they are inferior in every aspect. They rock left to right, They do t hold nearly as much weight. The drawer latching system is plastic. Comparing ANY HF box to any Snap On box let alone an Epiq is silly.

 

[toddoky]

No disrespect taken at all. My stuff is mostly in computer punch card cabinet drawers.

Unless a person were to try out the drawers on both cabinets, how would one know how much worse the HF ones are?

Paying more money for more quality is fine. But am wondering how much better the drawer slides can be for 4 times the money.

Thanks for your reply.

Good point. I myself have worked out of a snap-on KR1000 for 25 years and have been to HF and gave their vaunted 44" and other boxes a once over...the 18" drawer depth of those boxes means they are going to dictate how you will have to organise your tools if you have a large professional selection of them. For the average homeowner, hobbiyest or guy working through his first couple of years in the trade it's not a deal breaker. The 29" deep drawers of my 53" wide KR1000 provide more than double the cu. in. storage of a HF 44 and I can arrange the tools any way I like, even the long/odd shaped ones, which for beating flat rate time is advantages. If I was a fan of the HF 44 and wanted to use them for storing my tools I would need 4 of them, which would be an inefficient use of floor space in a typical service bay. There are good reasons for many professional mechanics to use and buy professional tool boxes, but the casual user or hobbyist will never understand what those are. If you can work out of file drawers then more power to you my friend...for some of us it just wouldn't get the job done. As far as the difference in drawer slides is concerned, the slides in the HF 44 have 14 balls in each of them, the Accuride slides in my box have 80 some odd balls in each except for the bottom drawer, which has around 120.

 

[Waggoner72]

What would you pay for a Snap-on Epiq 68"?

Gees this took off in an unexpected direction while I was gone. Maybe I should continue to stir the pot......

The green box in the picture is my box at home, I am no where near a full time tech, it is used for side jobs and my own stuff (motorcycles, lawn equipment). It is completely filled with snap-on tools only. Not a dime is owed, and I've only stepped on a snap-on truck once for 5 minutes. I am a Snap-on ***** but a tight wad all at the same time.

I love the color green and I can not lie. This is my 14th toolbox in the past year.
The main reason I want another Epiq 68 to add onto my box is because it would look great and it is very hard to find another Epiq box in the same color.

Edit: I also have my first snap-on box in the house that is serving as a cat bed currently.

Did I mention I'm a Snap-on *****?

 

[iajonesy]

I own a 60" Epiq and the box never turns a wheel in my home shop/garage. I bought it new off the truck for $6000 minus my krl722 trade. I have more storage in the 60" box than the krl series boxes and the Epiq is better built IMO. They hold their value better than other Snap On boxes and that's saying a lot. If you can get another 68" for under $4000 and don't mind paying for it go get it. It's your life and your money, don't let others make your decisions for you.

Mike

 

[pi_guy]

Waggoner72
Nice work on your boxes.
Green it is a color you love it or hate it. I went with black and stainless steel tops and looked for a year for a KRL1032. Here on Long Island we do have a fairly large population in the metro area NY, NY and Ct but we not the high tech mechanical area we once were.
So there really is not much on the cheap here, many of the boxes on CL in this area are 10 or 20% below list or they have been in a body shop. The epics were in the 6 to 8k range. I went with krl over epic for two reasons the width of the drawer on 1032 and height of box.
The kart I unpacked today was the 3rd box I have gotten this year and the unwrapping of the drawer liners gives the new box the new car smell.

 

[Waggoner72]

I own a 60" Epiq and the box never turns a wheel in my home shop/garage. I bought it new off the truck for $6000 minus my krl722 trade. I have more storage in the 60" box than the krl series boxes and the Epiq is better built IMO. They hold their value better than other Snap On boxes and that's saying a lot. If you can get another 68" for under $4000 and don't mind paying for it go get it. It's your life and your money, don't let others make your decisions for you.

Mike

Yea just a lot of money to have in a box I don't necessarily need in any way.... Just a want.
I'll make a quick and dirty pros and cons list.
Pros:
-Would look great
-Hard to find matching Epiq boxes
-I am running out of storage and could use the extra room
-would hold it's value and should be able to resell it for close to same price if I needed the money
-may possibly be the youngest Mr. Big owner

What makes a box considered a Mr. Big?????

Cons:
-A lot of money to have in something I don't really need
-would have to rearrange garage
-I do have extra space in my vidmar boxes but I can't put my snap-on tools in a Vidmar (just trolling)
-girlfriend would dog me about it since I'm not flipping it
-could use that money for something else

 

[67King]

I happened to get an epic deal on my Epiq. No pun intended. I paid $2100 for a 2 year old 60. Didn't even realize it was an Epiq until I got there to look at it, but when I did, I didn't negotiate, I just paid the man the money and left. Now that I have it, here are some thoughts:

This thing just "feels" good. If anyone else here is a Peter Egan fan, he described the feeling you get when you first open a drawer to find all of your tools laid out nice and neat when you are getting ready to turn the first wrench on a restoration project. That is kind of how I feel almost every time I open the drawer. Like a nice mechanical watch. Or getting into a nice German luxury sedan. There is a tactile feel to it that is analogous to a luxury item (I'd say a hand made suit, but I wouldn't know!). A filet mignon has the same nutritional value as a hamburger......but tastes a lot better!

I'm not a technician, I'm a DIY-er. But a pretty ********* one. My business shares space with a race shop (owned by my business partner) and an off-road shop (friends, but not business partners). One guy keeps his tools organized, the other guy does not. The guy who does has a big honkin' Epiq, kind of like the OP's with the cabinet on the end. When I have one of my race cars in the shop, or am helping out with one of the race cars, it will take me probably twice as long to do a job if I'm using the unorganized tools as it does when I'm using hte organized tools. WHen I'm at home, the little free time I have is valuable to the point where it is worth the cost to have adequate tool storage for me to pay a premium.

That said, I have some Craftsman toolboxes. My old ones, which I now keep at a lakehouse we own, where I need some tools, but not as many. I will say this, I would never consider going back to a cheap box as my primary box, ever again.

So all that said, how much I would pay would depend on what was driving the question. I would absolutely pay a big premium for the Epiq over say a 1022. New they are what, about 25% more? I'd pay 50% more in a heartbeat. Probably 75% more. A similar Master series would have to be under $2500 if I could get an Epiq for $4000. So the better feel to it is worth that kind of premium to me. Again, that is just the feel. And I'm sure folks think I'm crazy, but honestly, when something feels that good, it gets taken care of better. I'm just more inclined to keep things straight and clean in there. It makes doing a job I otherwise dread almost enjoyable. I'm sure the pros don't feel that way, but as a DIYer, I absolutely do

Now if I needed more storage space, it would drive up how much I'd pay more. Again, that gets back to how valuable my time is. If I truly needed to do something for more space, then I'd probably pay more.

So if I were to go back, I guess I'd say that if I had no box, I'd probably pay $5000 for it, so yeah I'd jump at $3700. If I were to have a chance to replace the Craftsman box at my lakehouse, I'd have to get another crazy deal. I'm not sure where you'd fit with your second box. If this second one you are after is like replacing my Craftsman would be to me, wouldn't pay the $3700. Maybe $2500, but again, that's because I don't need it at all.

 

[fatfillup]

At $3700, its an ok deal. Extreme green is hard to find so if you want it buy it.

 

[Sam'sAutoParts]

You only live once, if you have the cash I say go for it! The two would make a killer setup, so pics of the result will be required. Lol

 

[Waggoner72]

It has some dings in it so I'm somewhat leaning toward no. My Epiq is flawless. If he came down to my 3200 I'd still do it but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

Can also see the scuffs from getting tools out on the top edge

 

[90zcar]

Depends if u want a flawless box. I have a little OCD and when I finally found my KRL on Craigslist I always wanted I bought it really cheap but I spent about 3 weeks getting it to where I wanted it. People say a toolbox is to be used but the one at my house I take really good care of and I'm never in a rush so I don't throw tools at it.

If you can get a much better deal id go for it. You can always refinish that top drawer


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