When it comes down to it people can use whatever makes them happier. I'll forever use Snap-On hand tools(ratchets included) over any other brand. I've recently taken all of my tool truck brand sockets home and replaced them with ICON. Have no complaints so far
Great points! in the Quinn master sets they offer now look just like my tekton 1/4 & 3/8 sets, they even say compare to tekton on website. And as we all know the new quinn ratchets are made by Apex which owns Gearwrench, have many these tools myself. Great upload brother, God Bless you and your family,,,,
Icon ended up being a gateway drug to Snap On for me 😂 While it’s the indian, not the arrow, nobody wants to use a jankie arrow. Not to disparage Icon, that’s aimed more at some of the lousy brands out there.
Without Ford, there would be no GM. Without Mercedes Benz there would be no BMW. Without Boeing, there would be no Airbus. Shall I keep going? Plenty of top-flight Auto Techs do just fine without a single Snap-On tool in their shelves.
Like you said alot of the snap on price tag is thru research and develope,were as others not having the over head just wait till they can compare a tool that comes to market and in some cases completely knock it off if patton has come off. theirs logistics on both sides that one has to understand, that being said i have some of so called professional as well as good chunk of the icon, tekton etc depends on situation is to what im willing to invest, that being said i love snappy ratchets and dont think their extremely to high for what they are and what you get, know their sockets and wrenches on the other hand, wile being good, one better think about before he commits because they get pretty pricey.....pretty ridculous..pretty fast, Great upload
A lot of the Snap-on prices are not due to research and development, they are because the dealer themselves, the dealers get toolboxes for 2-4k and sell them for 10-14k, there is a mark up on all snap on tools bought from dealers and they already get a huge discount from being snap on dealers and just want to make extra money
@@bstceltics4 I agree it can go both ways corporation and dealers over charge, what i was atesting to was, its way easier to copy a product than actually manufacture from the ground up and put product thru testing,That being said we see just how much a corporate companies can make...Take Harbor Freight for example we see how cheap they can sell products yet they have some of the largest quarter profets. I have purchased from them as well as the big 4. So im not trying to throw to much shade at any, im for what gets the job done based on price quality, warranty and based on how perform and feel in the hand, So i concur with equatsion you made, as consumers we have so many options now days, back in my day if craftsman/armstrong % s k wayne didnt offer it you had to deal with the tool trucks. Not the case now days. take care
It's been over 100 years since their alleged (I say alleged because they claim the credit, but it was Blackhawk that did it first) development of the interchangeable heavy-wall socket. It's been 60 years since the arrival of Flank Drive, another thing they claim first to market when Kelsey-Hayes beat em by a year. Are they still needing to recoup costs enough to charge up to $30 for a single little socket? How are Wright, Proto, and Martin also doing it in America and doing it with more labor involved rather than having a machine that does a lot of the initial work from stock on the coil through initial forming process at up to 60 parts per minute, at 1/3-1/2 the price? The simple fact is there's a premium in the brand name. That's it, that's the secret. And if Snap-on makes you happy or makes you proud or has something the other guys don't or even just gives you bragging rights, whatever. It's your money, you spend it how you want. But they're posting over 20% bottom line profits every year -- 10% is usually considered a healthy company. And that's selling at *wholesale* price to the dealers, and now it's the dealers who have to make money off of you. They pull about $4B a year, and throw hundreds of millions of that at shareholders in dividend payouts. That's hundreds of millions that could be more R&D but isn't, that could be bringing more jobs stateside but isn't, that could be money left in the dealers and ultimately your pocket, but isn't. All the truck brands are like this.
