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Is there anyone out there who actually pays over retail for “rare” Snap On? I’ve always found these types of eBay listings strange.

I’ve bought lots of “limited edition” or “rare” color Snap On for a fraction of the new price…and I use them like any other color tool.
 
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Pinne said:
Is there anyone out there who actually pays over retail for “rare” Snap On? I’ve always found these types of eBay listings strange.

I’ve bought lots of “limited edition” or “rare” color Snap On for a fraction of the new price…and I use them like any other color tool.
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People pay over retail for hard to get stuff all the time
 
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Pinne said:
Is there anyone out there who actually pays over retail for “rare” Snap On? I’ve always found these types of eBay listings strange.

I’ve bought lots of “limited edition” or “rare” color Snap On for a fraction of the new price…and I use them like any other color tool.
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I've seen high end mtbs on ebay for 3-4 years. It's weird.....either they are scamming or sitting on things waiting for some rich dude who doesn't know (or care) that the bike is WAY overpriced to come along and pay up. There's a guy about a 100 miles from me that has been trying to sell the same railroad memorabilia on craigslist for 6-7 years lol. Way overpriced yet he keeps re upping his ad.
 
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It averages out to $418.60 a ratchet and the sellers part numbers don't show in SO's online catalog. But yeah he's just a bit over retail on all of those.
 
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autobon7 said:
I've seen high end mtbs on ebay for 3-4 years. It's weird.....either they are scamming or sitting on things waiting for some rich dude who doesn't know (or care) that the bike is WAY overpriced to come along and pay up. There's a guy about a 100 miles from me that has been trying to sell the same railroad memorabilia on craigslist for 6-7 years lol. Way overpriced yet he keeps re upping his ad.
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I see the same sort of thing - never really clicked to me. $500 now is better than $600 in 3 years...or nothing, ever.

Seller near me declined a very reasonable offer on a pair of Lista cabinets. Well, now they have sat outside all winter and are worth nothing. But he re-lists them every few weeks.
 
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If I was the richest I wouldn't pay that much. Wonder if its a typo? Probably not. Not only they would have to be for show only and on display, what if you dropped one or hit it? You would loose so much, not worth the headache.
What about some of the large Snap On roll away or that Cloud 9 thing, you open a drawer and chip the paint? I'd be on the ground rolling and weeping. Actually I'll never have that expensive of items, so I wont be weeping.
 
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@CoThG if these were orange you would on your way to the bank this morning. :ROFLMAO:
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No need for most of those, as I already have 33 Snap-On ratchets, most hard handle. Pretty good for starting collecting Snap-On ratchets just 3 months ago, I'd say.

If I find a hard handled ratchet I want that's not already in orange, I have the factory Snap-On SPP1710 handle replacement machine, so I remove the non-orange hard handle and trade it for a factory new orange hard handle with my dealer.
 
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txvwnut said:
It averages out to $418.60 a ratchet and the sellers part numbers don't show in SO's online catalog. But yeah he's just a bit over retail on all of those.
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The vast majority of those ratchets are no longer in production and definitely not in teal.
 
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I won't get too specific on what I think the total cost of my two drawers of entirely Power Blue, Pearl Blue, and Teal ratchets and torque wrenches was, but I've done the math and it's more than $10k. And I *know* I don't have the most expensive or expansive collection by any means, especially on this forum. Snap-On ratchets are expensive, discontinued colors are more expensive. Just is what it is.
Snap-On refuses to make blue consistently or keep it in stock, despite obviously high demand. My dealer says he sells more blue tools than anything else but red, even more than hi-viz or green. He barely sells any orange at all. The demand for blue is voracious, but Snap-On resists for whatever reason.
 
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drokihazan said:
I won't get too specific on what I think the total cost of my two drawers of entirely Power Blue, Pearl Blue, and Teal ratchets and torque wrenches was, but I've done the math and it's more than $10k. And I *know* I don't have the most expensive or expansive collection by any means, especially on this forum. Snap-On ratchets are expensive, discontinued colors are more expensive. Just is what it is.
Snap-On refuses to make blue consistently or keep it in stock, despite obviously high demand. My dealer says he sells more blue tools than anything else but red, even more than hi-viz or green. He barely sells any orange at all. The demand for blue is voracious, but Snap-On resists for whatever reason.
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Scarcity marketing. I can understand having that many ratchets if someone is a collector. However, I see some of these guys that are wrenching for a living and they have thousands and thousands of dollars in ratchets in their toolbox. It’s their money so they can do as they choose, but to me I don’t see the need to have 30 ratchets of each drive size. One long, one short, maybe a flex-head or two, and you’re good to tackle anything.
 
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If we travelled back in time 3-400 yrs, we’d find tradesmen decorated their tools.

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Sometimes, even the simplest tools were ornately decorated, suggesting an instrument-like complexity underlies the simplicity of the form.

It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution, and some way into it, when tool forms became simplified, and utilitarian. Our sense that tools are nothing more than, ….well tools, and as such are consumable, disposable, is new and a fairly recent esthetic choice.

I’m not at all surprised there are people who value tools to the degree they want them to be decorative, beautifully arranged, etc. And we shouldn’t assume this means that such individuals do not value work. Beautiful tools and beautiful work are not now, nor have they ever been, mutually exclusive. In fact the opposite has been true. Fine tools demonstrate a reverence for the work they do, an honoring of the work we do with them.

My guess is there are many who feel any form of ornamentation on a tool is superfluous by definition. That’s very possibly a vestige of a religious ideology (decoration is boastful to the eyes of God). It is by no means a mere matter of practicality, or how it’s always been done. The opposite is more true. Tools have had decorative elements from the origins of our use of tools.

Therefore, while I personally wouldn’t pay more than MSRP for a mass produced tool, I get why some others might choose to pay a bit more for the esthetic they are after. That’s not weird or wasteful or confusing to me. There are lots and lots of things we spend WAY more money on for esthetic reasons alone (personal vehicles is one example).
 
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Scarcity marketing. I can understand having that many ratchets if someone is a collector. However, I see some of these guys that are wrenching for a living and they have thousands and thousands of dollars in ratchets in their toolbox. It’s their money so they can do as they choose, but to me I don’t see the need to have 30 ratchets of each drive size. One long, one short, maybe a flex-head or two, and you’re good to tackle anything.
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Just as there are those who "don't see" whatever it is that you are into for a hobby or what you might like to collect.
 
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AEAdam said:
I’m not at all surprised there are people who value tools to the degree they want them to be decorative, beautifully arranged, etc. And we shouldn’t assume this means that such individuals do not value work. Beautiful tools and beautiful work are not now, nor have they ever been, mutually exclusive. In fact the opposite has been true. Fine tools demonstrate a reverence for the work they do, an honoring of the work we do with them.
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I remember when I was little my Mom using a breaker bar to push a dog turd off the deck next to the garage. She didn’t clean it off and put it back on top of my Dads project car. He didn’t appreciate that kinda “decorative” touch.
 
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Just as there are those who "don't see" whatever it is that you are into for a hobby or what you might like to collect.
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I totally get it from a collector’s point of view. I even mentioned that in the first sentence of the post. I’m absolutely guilty of buying complete sets of tools that I may really only need one or two sizes of. I consider tools a hobby and I enjoy searching for the tools needed to complete my sets. I got into buying them when I used to use them for work, now it’s just basic home/auto maintenance. I have tons of tools that I don’t really need or use anymore, but I like them, so that led me to the collector side of things. Totally not knocking it at all. I think it’s a really neat hobby. What I intended to say was that from a utilitarian point of view, no one really “needs” that many different sized ratchets, no matter what you’re working on. I spent almost 20 years of wrenching on trucks with one 1/4” drive, three 3/8” drives, two 1/2” drive, and one 3/4” drive ratchets in my work box. Granted an auto mechanic might need a few more to get into tighter spaces. I’ll even go one step further…other than specialty tools, most of my nice Snap-On stuff stayed at home. I used mostly Craftsman stuff that I’d had since being a teenager. Mostly because I worked with some scum bags and I didn’t want stuff getting ripped off, but also because I take a lot of pride in my tools and wanted to keep my nice stuff nice. I bought nice stuff to use for work, but kept it at home and used my cheaper stuff in my work box. Dumb logic, sure. But I guarantee I’m not the only one on GJ that has done that.
 
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oscarsnapkin said:
I totally get it from a collector’s point of view. I even mentioned that in the first sentence of the post. I’m absolutely guilty of buying complete sets of tools that I may really only need one or two sizes of. I consider tools a hobby and I enjoy searching for the tools needed to complete my sets. I got into buying them when I used to use them for work, now it’s just basic home/auto maintenance. I have tons of tools that I don’t really need or use anymore, but I like them, so that led me to the collector side of things. Totally not knocking it at all. I think it’s a really neat hobby. What I intended to say was that from a utilitarian point of view, no one really “needs” that many different sized ratchets, no matter what you’re working on. I spent almost 20 years of wrenching on trucks with one 1/4” drive, three 3/8” drives, two 1/2” drive, and one 3/4” drive ratchets in my work box. Granted an auto mechanic might need a few more to get into tighter spaces. I’ll even go one step further…other than specialty tools, most of my nice Snap-On stuff stayed at home. I used mostly Craftsman stuff that I’d had since being a teenager. Mostly because I worked with some scum bags and I didn’t want stuff getting ripped off, but also because I take a lot of pride in my tools and wanted to keep my nice stuff nice. I bought nice stuff to use for work, but kept it at home and used my cheaper stuff in my work box. Dumb logic, sure. But I guarantee I’m not the only one on GJ that has done that.
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How would they steal your tools? Pilfer your box while you aren't looking or just break into it when you aren't there?
 
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How would they steal your tools? Pilfer your box while you aren't looking or just break into it when you aren't there?
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The idea that you can’t buy nice tools because the people you work with will steal or damage them really *****.

I loaned carpentry tools to the crew who helped me finish my exterior sheathing and they were pretty rough on whatever they touched. But I wouldn‘t change what I bought based on that.
 
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The idea that you can’t buy nice tools because the people you work with will steal or damage them really *****.

I loaned carpentry tools to the crew who helped me finish my exterior sheathing and they were pretty rough on whatever they touched. But I wouldn‘t change what I bought based on that.
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Because they were viewed as tools, not something to simply possess.
 
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while i understand the collectability with that set, its just stupidly priced for the money. but then again people will pay anything for certain collectables.

I will never forget the comic book i once sold on fleabay (before it became a PITA to use). 1960 something first appearance of thor, it was in BAD shape, like damaged, torn, etc. yea its the 1st appearance of thor, thats cool and all-but from my stand point it was to damaged to really be worth keeping. plus wtf am i gonna do with it? looked online and good copies were selling for well over 2000-5000 in good shape. mine looked like it was carried in some kids backpack for 6 months. anyways someone paid me 800 for it, yea coulda i got more..sure. but someone out there was wiling to pay 800 for a comic book that was basically destroyed... maybeif i went thru the trouble of having it graded and such i coulda double or tripled the money..who knows. but it did me no good sitting on a shelf collecting dust. so 18k worth of snap on teal ratchets..someone will want them and pay that
 
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Wow I love that set and I am color blind, oh **** I would rather love a larger toolbox and with that asking price I bet I could buy a few used larger toolbox set ups.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:(y)(y)(y)

Tell you guys something someone a few days ago was selling some rare??? craftsman tool set on CL for something like $1000.00 dollars, really people buy those overpriced "Rare" sets???
 
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Just another ebay clown trying to capitalize on Snap-Ons discontinuation (for the most part) of hard handle ratchets (again).

Personal opinion: The discontinuation is because they're trying to force the 100t "Cynergy" ratchets that no one wants on us, rather than admit they might have been wrong. Jokes on them, I'm not buying any, nor will I. I have enough hard handle Dual80s to last me the rest of my wrenching life. According to my dealer, effectively no one else is buying them either.
 
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