This guy here. Oddly, I thought I had a name dnschmidt, but this guy will do. Amazing! From my initial posting on this board I thought that I had made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that what I was selling on EBay was the EXTRA products that my friends and I had bought for ourselves that came in standard box quantities. Since there are only three of us being forced to buy five and 10 items in a box does lead to extras. These I sell.
The fact that when the "extras" are gone that they will not be reordered should surprise no one. Getting rid of extra stock means it's something I and my friends already have that we no longer need. Obviously, I'm not going to buy more of what I already have.
With respect to this thread I hope this works out for all of you but I do have a couple of questions. I can't send a set of wrenches from Phoenix to Pennsylvania for under $20 in UPS or FedEx charges (in fact some times the shipping charges I charge on EBay are less than what I actually have to pay UPS or FedEx) and this guy gets FREE SHIPPING on a dinky $200 order from GERMANY to Salt Lake City. How the hell does that happen? Tools are heavy, air freight is super expensive, believe me I looked into it with TOPTUL, how the hell do you ship anything from GERMANY to Salt Lake City for free. A damn letter from the US to Germany cost $1.20 in postage. LET ME IN ON THE SECRET. I really want to know. I've got tons of family in Germany. If they can ship me Stahlwille and Hazet for free (and without customs charges, freight forwarding charges and duty) I'm REALLY going into business not just screwing around on EBay.
I've placed three orders with TOPTUL all were for greater than $4,000 at a time. Each time the freight charges were close to $1,000. This includes the sea freight, the customs clearance, the duty and the trucking of the shipment to Phoenix, AZ to a warehouse where I have to pay $80 to pick up my pallet. If I can get free freight on $200 dollar orders from Germany screw TOPTUL I'm going back to The Fatherland for my stuff.
I can tell you that the prices on the German website are UNBELIEVABLY good. How these guys can live with a 10% to 20% margin is amazing to me, but hey, if I can get 1 each of a great tool at a time from these guys I'LL USE THEM MYSELF. But remember if something seems too good to be true if often is and to me that seems to be the case here. I hope not since I'm a consumer of TOPTUL tools. If I can buy one at a time at close to the same price each that I'm paying TOPTUL for full boxes I'm all in.
Once they are gone the only TOPTUL tools I will be reordering to sell on EBay are the top sellers. For example the super long combination wrench sets blow out of here so I am reordering them.
The how I acted on this forum comment amuses me (in a Joe Pesci kind of way). I told the truth, I explained exactly what I was doing and why I was doing it. If that in some manner upset people I don't think there is much I can do about it. My friends and I drive Porsche 911's, we ordered the tools for ourselves to work on OUR cars, there are no SAE bolts on a Porsche 911. That's why I ordered no SAE tools. The vitriol that has been directed at me, for reasons I fail to fathom, amazes me. I'm a guy who bought tools to work on his car and I've got some extras to sell. Have none of you ever been it that position? The fact that I don't care if you buy from me or not is because this is such a minor part of my life that I really don't care. Should I fake like I do? Should I pretend that I live or die on every $10 order. Am I to be flogged for stating what should be obvious to anybody after reading the above explanation?
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