Icon Tool Storage Has Huge Price Drop

[unslow1]

Professional wrestling used to be called WWF.

 

[JP Chestnut]

You lost me on WWF. Could you please explain the acronym? Thanks.

 

[acer66]

On the other hand, I understand that there are a lot of people that think WWF is real, so........

Wait?!?
What?!?
Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

 

[Ton ton]

Nice pic. JP Chestnut.

 

[Steve_P]

In that same vein, I'm not even sure that the early Japanese vehicles sold here were "low quality" necessarily. It wasn't so much an increase in quality that directly correlated to an increase in sales - it was more acceptance by American buyers.

In the 70s Americans didn't want to accept that anything other than an American car could be high quality, so it took some time to change that perception. If the early models were low quality like expected, there wouldn't have even been a chance for them to grow quality over time.

The first Japanese vehicles sold in the US were poorly suited to the US market: tiny cars and tiny underpowered engines. IIRC Subaru had a 2 cylinder, and the first "civic" was 600 cc. But they figured it out by the mid to late 1970s.

And except for things like cameras, made in Japan was a joke in the US - until about the same time the cars caught on. We were lazy and complacent. They were recovering from WWII and willing to bust ***.

 

[slackdaddy1]

I know a hand full of pros (mechanics),, they don't rely on financing gimmicks to purchase their tools.
As I am a general contractor (for 28 years), I don't rely on financing gimmicks from my subs. In other words not going to hire a roofer who jacks the price up 300%, then offers "get 1/2 the roof free"

No one supplier can supply the tools and equipment I need. I regularly purchase from over 20 suppliers/vendors,, I am not going to buy just what ever the "door-to-door" salesman has.

Until HF gets tool trucks and offers financing, I doubt you will see many pros use them, but their market may be more the DIYer who wants to look like a pro.