What is wrong with this tool set?

[Dstosh]

I stumbled across this on ebay, How come no one has bid on it? Is it some type of lesser quality?

http://cgi.ebay.com/MAC-TOOLS-24-PC...82252QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262


Cool Forum. A good read at the end of the day

 

[Merkava_4]

A lot of guys don't like such a high starting bid and plus not everyone has a PayPal account.

 

[SilverLake]

I scored this exact kit a couple of weeks ago for a total of $165. including shipping. I put in a lowball bid never expecting to win and i now own it. Nice stuff btw.

edit: it was a different seller, however. i got mine from deanscoins
dan

 

[fourfeathers]

I'm pretty sure it is low-grade stuff with "Mac" painted on it. It is not the good stuff.

 

[Zeroek]

I'll tell you one thing. A while back Mac was selling all of that stuff together with that bag for $200. I doubt it's fake by the way. Unless he sends different stuff from the pics.

 

[wilbilt]

MAC = Stanley.
Maybe that's it.

 

[wrenchr]

It is the taiwan made stuff with the mac price tag, My mac dealer knows better than to try to sell this stuff to me, I'm not saying it is junk but to much $$$$$$$$. IMO

 

[Zeroek]

So it all is Made in Taiwan?

 

[Fedwrench]

So it all is Made in Taiwan?

YES, everything in that picture is made in Taiwan and MAC branded. That set sells often for $200 off of the truck.

 

[joenero]

Exactly, that's why they're popular but still a very expensive premium IMO for overseas stuff. It's just a very cheap alternative offered by the truck brands but with the formerly "upscale" Mac name.

 

[chavist93]

Those screwdrivers look ALOT like my proto screwdrivers that are made in England.

 

[jay50]

Way over priced for the quality;

 

[eschoendorff]

MAC... what have they become??????? i don't know many folks that take them seriously anymore. Too bad, really... they had some of the best customer service.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Piteeefull!

 

[Merkava_4]

YES, everything in that picture is made in Taiwan and MAC branded. That set sells often for $200 off of the truck.

You know, I'm not so sure about that. Some of the hose grip pliers and large nose pliers look like they're a KAL Tools product; and some of the other pliers look to be from Channellock. Those screwdrivers look to be the English PROTO screwdrivers. So yeah, I'm not quite ready to condemn them Taiwanese just yet.

 

[lbgradwell]

You know, I'm not so sure about that. Some...of the other pliers look to be from Channellock.

I doubt that very much. Certainly the "tongue & groove" pliers - that most Channellock of plier - is not made by Channellock; they look to me like a cheap generic import...

And those adjustable wrenches (not "pliers") look really cheap too! (In fact, how do you trust a guy who doesn't know a plier from a wrench?)

 

[kidney]

I bought a few single pieces of that set a while back. Every single one of them was junk. Good thing I didn't pay much for them.

 

[Merkava_4]

I doubt that very much.

I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. There's no way for me to know for sure unless I knew the individual part numbers of each piece in the set.

 

[wrenchr]

Here is the item code..........................J U N K!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jay50]

Expect SO to start making a junk set like that before too much longer.