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Seeking Help to Price My Snap-On Toolbox
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Gila Monster
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The Icon boxes are nice for the $. Where I'm located you can buy a similar size, like new condition, SO box for about the Icon price. And I'm not a SO booster, but at that point it makes sense to buy the SO; because I'm going to bet that you can get parts for the SO in 5 years, and probably 30, but probably not for the Icon in 5 years- and certainly not without them coming from China/Taiwan at best case. The issue is, as I said in my other post, small detail, paying for the purchase. You can use a CC at HF and make payments on the Icon to your CC company. For a FB type sale, you typically need cash. For the new SO box you can pay your dealer weekly. If people actually had cash to spend, and this is nothing new, SO boxes at 50% list would be gone in a day on FB. But they sit for weeks.
You can get a like new, 73" Snap On box for $2999? That has not been my experience at all. But no argument the Snap On box is better for all the above reasons.
But it's not really a fair comparison to price a used tool box against a new one. What about the discount with a used Icon box?
My point is Snap On has to sell these things "new" against a substantially cheaper alternative that is pretty impressive. I'm not a HF booster, but they do sell replacement parts and my experience with tool boxes (even cheap ones) is they dont require a heavy amount of service. I think 99 out of 100 would get by fine with an Icon and be better not going in debt financing one with Snap On.
Unless the box is physically too big to fit somewhere you want to put it I wouldn't get rid of it. Seems like a lot of screwing around just to make maybe $1000 cash by the time its all said and done to replace it with a smaller but similar quality box...
Of course you can make more money if you get a good deal or go with a cheaper/lesser quality box, but will you be happy with it?
As for prices, this is what I noticed a few months ago when I was looking for a different box....I ended up buying a single bank 68" Epiq (NO top included) for $4k cash. And it's not a pile of junk either. Has some scratches from normal wear but nothing I care about. That was pretty much the low end for prices that I had seen on 68" epiqs. Originally the guy was asking $6k but had moved to a service truck and was trying to sell the box quick for wedding money. I almost felt a little guilty as I handed over the money. I had seen plenty that were closer to the $10k mark but they had been for sale for a long time. I still see some of them for sale months later....no one is buying them for that. Average prices that I observed seemed to be in the 5-7 thousand area.
72" KRL and KTLs I noticed averaged about $4500.
Of course you can make more money if you get a good deal or go with a cheaper/lesser quality box, but will you be happy with it?
As for prices, this is what I noticed a few months ago when I was looking for a different box....I ended up buying a single bank 68" Epiq (NO top included) for $4k cash. And it's not a pile of junk either. Has some scratches from normal wear but nothing I care about. That was pretty much the low end for prices that I had seen on 68" epiqs. Originally the guy was asking $6k but had moved to a service truck and was trying to sell the box quick for wedding money. I almost felt a little guilty as I handed over the money. I had seen plenty that were closer to the $10k mark but they had been for sale for a long time. I still see some of them for sale months later....no one is buying them for that. Average prices that I observed seemed to be in the 5-7 thousand area.
72" KRL and KTLs I noticed averaged about $4500.
Johnny Generic
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I put out 10 craftsman bottom cabinets and 8 top chests. At our community yard sale approx. 20 houses participated, this weekend. Bottoms and tops completely refurbished (completely taken apart, cleaned, painted, polished, lubed). Nice. Sold 4 sets top and bottoms choice of top and bottoms. Hard time selling at $200 a set. WTF.