I have an older neighbor who used to be a dealer mechanic. He retired early about 10 years or so ago but kept most of his tools for home use.
He's no pushing 70 and being pushed to downsize. His box is FULL of nearly all Snap On tools, the box is a top/bottom with two lockers.
I don't think the box has so much as a scratch on it any where.
His daughter has been putting a few things on eBay over the past year or so but has had almost no takers.
She sold his Snap On scanner, which went for under $100. (He got mad at her and gave me his two newer scanners knowing that if he needed them they'd be here). She listed a few of his older 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" ratchets for cheap, starting the bids at $5 and $10 each, she sold most of the 1/4" ratchets, all went for less than $20, but the larger models didn't sell. With a few people emailing telling her her prices were way too high for "Old, non-sealed ratchets". (The way I see it is all have a lifetime warranty and regardless of the type, they'll fix it if it breaks or replace it with a new one).
More recently, around Jan. or early Feb. she listed a super clean 13pc combination wrench set, 1/4 to 1" long profile, Snap On chrome wrenches on fleabay. When I saw she listed them at only $100, I cringed thinking she was going be giving all his stuff away by starting the bid so low. But they didn't sell. Not a single bid. The sale was auction style, with no reserve, and she started it at $99.99. (I dug through his receipts and he paid $720 for that set back in 1995. It was still in its original plastic box and likely never used).
I had actually thought she sold it far more of his tools by now but after talking to them yesterday I found out that almost nothing has sold.
She quit listing things because she wasn't getting any bids. My first thought was that she was pricing them too high but when she showed me her eBay account I was shocked that no one jumped on what she listed. Nearly every item she listed was listed dirt cheap with no reserve.
She listed the last lot back around Feb. But most ran between Sept. and Dec. 2021. She mostly listed things that were still in the original packaging not knowing how to describe and list a lot of the loose or unmarked tools.
She actually called me yesterday to ask if thought $500 was a good price for the tool box itself, which turns out to be a KRL1001 with a matching KRL1201 top box and two KRL1025 lockers in classic Snap On red. After finding his receipts, he paid over $19K for the whole set new in 2000, but he also had traded in an older box for which they knocked him $2,000 for.
I called a local Snap On dealer who I dealt with a few times, and he tells me a similar box today would cost as follows:
Roll cab $11,120
Top box $5,770
Locker $4,555
Locker $4,555
Total $26,000 plus 7% sales tax
(The quote is for the closest new box to his but it is a bit smaller since they no longer make a ful size top box like his in a two bank configuration. The new top is only 2/3rds the size but I wanted him to price out the Master Series not the Epic which is a very different box style and design wise
When I asked the same Snap-On dealer if he was interested he said he doesn't have room for another box right now and politely declined to make any offer.
She's in a panic to get all his 'junk' sold He's not dead or dying but she's got the idea that it all has to go ASAP despite there being no rush other than he's not likely going to use any of it any more.
I'm not his age yet and I've got my own tools from my days working as a tech, I probably have double what he's got so I don't 'need' anything.
I just can't believe that mint clean Snap On tools are a problem to sell unless you give them away for Harbor Freight prices these days.
Cheap tools were always to be had somewhere but not full sets of Snap On anything. I put most of my tool sets together piece by piece at yard sales and flea markets, buying only what I absolutely needed off the tool truck, but somethings you just didn't have a choice.
Because the industry had no retirement or pension most guys counted on the value of their tools as part or all of their retirement.
Making $10/hr or so back then was good money, and but certainly not enough to put much aside for retirement considering what tools cost.
If she insists on selling it for $500, its getting rolled over to my place, for that much I'll take it apart and drag it downstairs and use it to hold my wood working tools. I can't say where she advertised the box at, if at all. She put the hand tools on eBay, but only after not being able to get any takers on CL or FB. She did get one guy who showed up who offered her $1,000 for the whole box and all the tools but he wanted to pay her with some sort of check cards. When she called to ask if that was safe I went next door and ran the guy off and made it clear that he'd have to deal with me if he came back.
I half understand a big box being harder to sell but I really don't understand why the hand tools are such a tough sell.
I also see her point in selling off some stuff but not if it means giving it away for scrap prices. He dad told me he'd rather just give me thebox and all the tools than let her sell it off for nearly nothing. I don't think he wants to get rid of it nearly as bad as she does, but I think he realizes that he'll likely never use those tools again. He was particularly upset about her selling a brand new Snap-on screwdriver set he hadn't even yet opened yet on eBay last fall for a $10 starting bid. He paid $200 for it.
Am I wrong to think a box like that should bring closer to half of what it sold for new? You sure won't touch one off the snap-on truck for anywhere near that amount. The dealer I spoke to said he had a used KRL1023 on the truck in yellow for $8,500, with no top chest or lockers.
He's no pushing 70 and being pushed to downsize. His box is FULL of nearly all Snap On tools, the box is a top/bottom with two lockers.
I don't think the box has so much as a scratch on it any where.
His daughter has been putting a few things on eBay over the past year or so but has had almost no takers.
She sold his Snap On scanner, which went for under $100. (He got mad at her and gave me his two newer scanners knowing that if he needed them they'd be here). She listed a few of his older 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" ratchets for cheap, starting the bids at $5 and $10 each, she sold most of the 1/4" ratchets, all went for less than $20, but the larger models didn't sell. With a few people emailing telling her her prices were way too high for "Old, non-sealed ratchets". (The way I see it is all have a lifetime warranty and regardless of the type, they'll fix it if it breaks or replace it with a new one).
More recently, around Jan. or early Feb. she listed a super clean 13pc combination wrench set, 1/4 to 1" long profile, Snap On chrome wrenches on fleabay. When I saw she listed them at only $100, I cringed thinking she was going be giving all his stuff away by starting the bid so low. But they didn't sell. Not a single bid. The sale was auction style, with no reserve, and she started it at $99.99. (I dug through his receipts and he paid $720 for that set back in 1995. It was still in its original plastic box and likely never used).
I had actually thought she sold it far more of his tools by now but after talking to them yesterday I found out that almost nothing has sold.
She quit listing things because she wasn't getting any bids. My first thought was that she was pricing them too high but when she showed me her eBay account I was shocked that no one jumped on what she listed. Nearly every item she listed was listed dirt cheap with no reserve.
She listed the last lot back around Feb. But most ran between Sept. and Dec. 2021. She mostly listed things that were still in the original packaging not knowing how to describe and list a lot of the loose or unmarked tools.
She actually called me yesterday to ask if thought $500 was a good price for the tool box itself, which turns out to be a KRL1001 with a matching KRL1201 top box and two KRL1025 lockers in classic Snap On red. After finding his receipts, he paid over $19K for the whole set new in 2000, but he also had traded in an older box for which they knocked him $2,000 for.
I called a local Snap On dealer who I dealt with a few times, and he tells me a similar box today would cost as follows:
Roll cab $11,120
Top box $5,770
Locker $4,555
Locker $4,555
Total $26,000 plus 7% sales tax
(The quote is for the closest new box to his but it is a bit smaller since they no longer make a ful size top box like his in a two bank configuration. The new top is only 2/3rds the size but I wanted him to price out the Master Series not the Epic which is a very different box style and design wise
When I asked the same Snap-On dealer if he was interested he said he doesn't have room for another box right now and politely declined to make any offer.
She's in a panic to get all his 'junk' sold He's not dead or dying but she's got the idea that it all has to go ASAP despite there being no rush other than he's not likely going to use any of it any more.
I'm not his age yet and I've got my own tools from my days working as a tech, I probably have double what he's got so I don't 'need' anything.
I just can't believe that mint clean Snap On tools are a problem to sell unless you give them away for Harbor Freight prices these days.
Cheap tools were always to be had somewhere but not full sets of Snap On anything. I put most of my tool sets together piece by piece at yard sales and flea markets, buying only what I absolutely needed off the tool truck, but somethings you just didn't have a choice.
Because the industry had no retirement or pension most guys counted on the value of their tools as part or all of their retirement.
Making $10/hr or so back then was good money, and but certainly not enough to put much aside for retirement considering what tools cost.
If she insists on selling it for $500, its getting rolled over to my place, for that much I'll take it apart and drag it downstairs and use it to hold my wood working tools. I can't say where she advertised the box at, if at all. She put the hand tools on eBay, but only after not being able to get any takers on CL or FB. She did get one guy who showed up who offered her $1,000 for the whole box and all the tools but he wanted to pay her with some sort of check cards. When she called to ask if that was safe I went next door and ran the guy off and made it clear that he'd have to deal with me if he came back.
I half understand a big box being harder to sell but I really don't understand why the hand tools are such a tough sell.
I also see her point in selling off some stuff but not if it means giving it away for scrap prices. He dad told me he'd rather just give me thebox and all the tools than let her sell it off for nearly nothing. I don't think he wants to get rid of it nearly as bad as she does, but I think he realizes that he'll likely never use those tools again. He was particularly upset about her selling a brand new Snap-on screwdriver set he hadn't even yet opened yet on eBay last fall for a $10 starting bid. He paid $200 for it.
Am I wrong to think a box like that should bring closer to half of what it sold for new? You sure won't touch one off the snap-on truck for anywhere near that amount. The dealer I spoke to said he had a used KRL1023 on the truck in yellow for $8,500, with no top chest or lockers.
, please send me some links to their Ebay auctions. If the prices are really that cheap, I'll send you a freebie or two in the mail for your efforts.
