Op great question, hope I can answer it for you today.
Back two thousand years ago, well maybe early 1970's we had tool tent sales with their famous guarantee of why yes, it's called the good car warranty, sounds good to me right. What they left off was the moment you drove away in your car NO MORE WARRANTY, period. Back then to a poor kid the tools made in India cost pennies on the dollar, as a matter of fact compared to craftsman it was like the craftsman were the snap-on prices and the tools from India were like for a few dollars you could buy massive tool sets.
So, wrenching on them all you heard was pop,bam,boom,crack,snap, and kaboom with failure after failure and you were left with just plain junk. Now keep in mind that leaves a bad taste in one's mouth to NEVER AGAIN buy that junk. so, when guys my age see anything stamped with made in India it's a no brainer to avoid them.
There are some exceptions and yes Gedore are very good tools and I'm sure the ones made outside of Germany are very good tools, but from my past learning I tend to avoid any tools made from there. Not a day goes by that I see tons of Gedore from India and I get PTSD, from all my busted knuckles and screaming about broken tools coming from all that tool tent garbage.
Hope that gives you a bird's eye view from my old days.
Woody
