Ebay - a few tools for sale

[Rob77]

Mind you, the buyer will be able to recoup lots of the price back if he sells the excess one by one. If he can be bothered with the hassle, SnapOn tools get good prices individually on eBay.

 

[E CLASS]

Now at £26,200!!!!

Perhaps they are worth more when split into smaller units and sold on.

Either its a lot of money and a lot of stuff....

 

[tpwuk]

If this lot sells for £26K, how much profit do you think there is if the tools are sold individually or in smaller sets?

 

[nick mercedes]

Now at £26,200!!!!

Perhaps they are worth more when split into smaller units and sold on.

Either its a lot of money and a lot of stuff....

For £26k you could buy a new C-Class and fill the boot with spanners and still have some change left over...

 

[Ted]

Any Whitworth spanners to fit my old Triumph Thunderbird??

 

[Rory]

far too much, If you think I got a band new fully equipped teng toolbox for 2.5K, this is just nuts. Ive never needed a tool thats not in my box to work on any of my cars.

Its mostly just spanners and sockets, i mean how many different sets of the same thing can you need! Id say 10K is a reasonable price bering in mind the tool box itself is worth 1500-2K.

People on PistonHeads who seem familiar with these matters reckon there's at least £100K worth of tools there - at Snap-On's prices, of course. Apparantly even normal sized single spanners can be £50 *each* and socket sets start at a couple of hundred - and there are 80 sets of each!!

Someone has just posted that a Snap-On van was recently stolen not a million miles away from where that seller is located. I can't for the life of me imagine they're stolen - listing them all at once would be a bit obvious - but I'd love to know what the story is.

 

[jaymanek]

yes but these are all well used tools.. snap on tools are expensive but they arent made of pure gold.

 

[nick mercedes]

yes but these are all well used tools.. snap on tools are expensive but they arent made of pure gold.

Does seem like an awful lot of money.

Story changes a little bit too...

"I had the chance to purchase a workshop as a job lot with all the tools ,I did not want them all just the milling machines"

"I HAVE COLLECTED THIS LOT OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS AND ONLY EVER USED A FEW SPANNERS"

 

[scillyisles]

I have quite a few Snapon tools and I reckon there is well over £50K worth of Snapon tools there.
Their quality and warranty is second to none. Those of you comparing them to your average tools have presumably never used Snapon.

 

[Will]

Yep - Snap-On tools are normally an investment - lifetime warranty and they increase in value over the years for stuff like sockets and spanners.

As said already, the value of individual tools can be quite high - I've got a set of the flank drive spanners that I bought 'as new' used years ago and they're probably worth twice what I paid back then.

Worth considering that they used to be around half price in the US though - not sure at the moment but I bet they're about the same amount of USD versus GBP nowadays (so still cheaper in the US!)

There's a reason why people are bidding £25k+ for that lot, as daft as it may seem

Will

 

[A210AMG]

While I agree the tools are of good quality, and I'm not disputing the 'piston head guys' reckon on £100K worth of tools.


Surely thats New price assuming their maths is correct?

Second hand they will be worth no where near that. so the Bid already at a quater of new price I cannot see a huge profit to be made given the sum of money upfront to pay out? Then the time to spli and sell.


Saying that at least they all have a use and in a way will give many people hours of 'fun' working on cars etc compared to pictures that sell for millions and look like something my 4 year did

So a bargain to someone maybe

 

[Rory]

Does seem like an awful lot of money.

Story changes a little bit too...

"I had the chance to purchase a workshop as a job lot with all the tools ,I did not want them all just the milling machines"

"I HAVE COLLECTED THIS LOT OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS AND ONLY EVER USED A FEW SPANNERS"

I noticed the story changed - regarding the 2 year comment, he implies at one point he bought many of them himself direct from Snap-On. That seems highly improbable.

Also, a lot of value of Snap-On tools is in the lifetime warranty, and the van driver that comes around the garages every week. I don't imagine that facility is available to people who buy the tools used.

Here's a link to the nearby Snap-On van theft story: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...-after-charity-car-vandalised-92746-28237755/

 

[camerafodder]

Snap-on are nice but they really are grossly over-rated, and before anyone asks, yes I do have some. There are plenty of equivalent quality brands for far less money. Kings clothes and all that. Reminds me of those rediculous Kirkby vacuum cleaners that people used to sell door to door in the eighties.

 

[Mercsys]

Snap-on are nice but they really are grossly over-rated, and before anyone asks, yes I do have some. There are plenty of equivalent quality brands for far less money. Kings clothes and all that.

Ill go along with that, SnapOn are ok I have had a few, they are like Americam cars, long on chrome and polish but lacking good design, and execution. You will get better from the Germans per £ and per Kg, Stahlwille, Wiha, and Wera, but Britool for torque wrenches I can’t afford the Stahlwille ones and I just don’t use them enough any more.

 

[Dieselman]

I noticed the story changed - regarding the 2 year comment, he implies at one point he bought many of them himself direct from Snap-On. That seems highly improbable.

Also, a lot of value of Snap-On tools is in the lifetime warranty, and the van driver that comes around the garages every week. I don't imagine that facility is available to people who buy the tools used.

Here's a link to the nearby Snap-On van theft story: Coventry student devastated after charity car vandalised - Coventry News - News - Coventry Telegraph

My initial thought were that it looks like a van trader had given up the franchise and was selling all the stock.

Seems plausible.

 

[bennesspipers]

I think i'll send my girls round to distract him while i .....um....er......

 

[nick mercedes]

My initial thought were that it looks like a van trader had given up the franchise and was selling all the stock.

Seems plausible.

It's odd that the volume of tools in no way matches the size of the tool box, you'd think that someone who blew a fortune on spanners and sockets would have brought a box big enough so that they would fit properly.

 

[marty359]

Jeez ive never seen so many spanners!! it says in the questions and answers that alot of them came from Colin McRae's mechanic.


I wonder what the Ebay fees are on £30k?

 

[NW_Merc]

I wonder what the Ebay fees are on £30k?

I reckon about 10-15%?

 

[Druk]

My initial thought were that it looks like a van trader had given up the franchise and was selling all the stock.

Seems plausible.

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