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Stuey
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Maybe the 3rd not-shown drawer contains solid gold bricks!!
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TheToolMan
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What? The Blue Pionts are not the percision ones?
petty4243
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for 3000 there should be double the tools and a nixce roll box lmao
Diesel_Crawler
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Blacknwhitepit
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Rick James said it best....
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LGMechanical
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You can't blame the OP for trying, right?
I think a lot of "just bought and don't need" Snap-on ads are coming from UTI kids; apparently they get some massive (50%?) discount off list price while they're in school. I imagine some of them are buying stuff up thinking they'll be able to turn around and sell it at list (or in this case, over list).
Diesel_Crawler
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I wish when i was going to school i got a 50% discount
I would have been buying lots to keep just for me!
That would be correct. I use almost everything I bought at work, except for a couple car specialty things and my cordless 1/2" impact.
In my expirience, Ive seen more ads on CL from kids who bought full kits from other companies (seen quite a few double bay Matco 4 series boxes with the school specific kits they sell).
The nice thing about UTI is that they provide the tools. If you later on decide you dont like being a mechanic, you dont have a bunch of tools you bought for school on your hands.
M5 LiTE
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All UTI / NTI / MMI students receive a 50% discount on most Snap-on tools while in school, and they also receive a $1000 (retail) starter kit of tools when they graduate school.
Most kids who go to school don't have massive amounts of money to even try to use their discount, much less abuse it. There are some kids that I talk to that have the financial resources to buy lots of stuff during school, but they will probably end up keeping the tools for themselves (either that, or Dad is getting adding some very nice tools to his collection).
nate379
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I offered that discount to all the members on here and I only had 4-5 guys interested. They did end up with some nice tools though.... had me drooling over a few of them 
I bought a lot of Snap-On tools when I was in school for auto body. The set I got was $1000, and retail was $3300. I am glad I did it because I used everything that I was sold, because my instructor "created" the set with our dealer. I think it is nice that they are helping out the new comers like myself to get into a great set of tools, because now I have a great set that I will use for the rest of my life, while adding to the collection of course.
Art From De Leon
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I offered that discount to all the members on here and I only had 4-5 guys interested. They did end up with some nice tools though.... had me drooling over a few of them
I am assuming you were a truck dealer. How much more were your prices than those in the lower 48?
How were the majority of your tools shipped to Alaska, airfreight for high priority, and land/sea for normal restock?
TIA
Art
Diesel_Crawler
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It's really nice when the person teaching you can put together a set, It eliminates alot of the stuff you do not use with master sets.
I still wish i got all these deal's when i was in school.
We had a MAC guy who did no stock very much (what a surprise) And there we no deals at all for students.
By "starter kit" do you mean that tool voucher that doesnt buy much of anything?
"Living expenses" student loans are the way to go
I went to school with a guy that was buying tools for different people back home. He spent $90,000 with our SO guy. Lots of toolboxes....
fordracing200
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its actually 55% off, the discount, I got 1100 in tools shipped to my door step tax and all for $495.
fordracing200
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By "starter kit" do you mean that tool voucher that doesnt buy much of anything?
"Living expenses" student loans are the way to go
I went to school with a guy that was buying tools for different people back home. He spent $90,000 with our SO guy. Lots of toolboxes....
really? Snap on has a 1 top box, one bottom box, one tool cart, one hand box limit, with a $7500 limit, so someones lying....I've still got the sheet.
nate379
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No not a truck dealer, just a purchaser. I was in charge of the tool room and were I work we buy ALOT of tools. Was not out of the ordinary for us to spent $10-15k on a toolbox set... and buy 3 or 4 of them every couple years.
M5 LiTE
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By "starter kit" do you mean that tool voucher that doesnt buy much of anything?
"Living expenses" student loans are the way to go
I went to school with a guy that was buying tools for different people back home. He spent $90,000 with our SO guy. Lots of toolboxes....
Like I said, $1000 retail of Snap-On tools.
I don't think any student can get away with spending $90K, especially on tool boxes - SO keeps quite the eagle eye on stuff like that for abuse.
With our SO school discount we could get one of every tool basically while we were in school. No limit, but just limited to one of each item. All of the different "professional" tool companies came one day and we got to see prices for all of them. Although usually higher priced, Snap On prices were the same price as craftsman, and I even pointed that out to them, but they didnt really care to hear what we had to say. Anyhow, I have had the best luck with Snap On and Matco, but always willing to try anything.