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Same here. There was a small print stating that additional discounts may apply, but I saw none in the total.

hholmberg; sometimes I do not know where I am going with something until it gets posted...earlier I meant to write: Buy American, the job you save may be an illegal immigrant's! I have bought maybe 80 Snappy tools over the past 30 years, and most of them were not new. I like them, but cannot...

Outsourcing is everywhere. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/report_many_u_s_parents

I don't think anyone will disagree about Snap on becoming way too expensive. I only shell out the bucks for them when I need/want something that Craftsman or S&K does not make, and even then I usually manage find them used.

This thread has become filled with unintentional hilarity. "Snap on has a plant in China." "OMG, I'll never buy from them again, all of their tools must be imported!" "Why I'll bet they even lie on their packaging about where their tools are made, and if you don't believe that you are blinded by...

Absolutely correct. I have seen what I thought were American made tools that only revealed foreign manufacture upon reading the entire package. It pays to read the fine print...at least until the FTC succumbs and allows retailers to print whatever they please on the packaging.

Best of the worst? lol

The point is that Snap on already has production in other countries, primarily for the markets in those countries. No doubt some here will remember when Snap on opposed the FTC when it proposed changes in labeling regulations would allow for fudging on products carrying the Made in USA label...

Snap on has been in China for some time now. From their website: Does anyone really think that all Snap on products sold world wide absolutely HAVE to be made in the USA?

Gotta have depth on the bench for unexpected contingencies. All tools may not always be available either. Craftsman dropped their mid depth sockets which come in very handy at times, as well as their branded angled socket wrenches which were made in France. (Facom?) I am good to go with spare...