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Re: husky and the depot



Where can you good husky tools besides home depot?
You say they actually DO make good metric only sets?

scott ammerman wrote:

>|  Yes, Home Depot does warranty their tools forever.  Often they
>|  will take Craftsman tools back too; to entice you to try Husky.
>|  As far as being around- with over 1100 stores around the world
>|  with another 1000 planned in the next few years- no problems there
>|  (that and they make over 35billion a year).  In case you couldn't tell
>|  I work for them, but I use craftsman myself.
>|  And  little background on Husky-they've been around for a long time; 
>|  my dad had a set he got when I was just a little kid(now 30 and long 
>|  before home depot) and they were warranteed then too.
>|  
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>yeah, husky tools are a pretty good buy, but home depot is sometimes
>less-than-helpful during the return process..
>
>I bought a flex head bent handle 3/8" rachet from them (for the low low
>price of like $16) and broke it trying to remove a stuck bolt.. upon
>completing the return process (including, but not limited to TWO seperate
>forms) and a lengthy description of exactly what was wrong with the tool, I
>was told that the design was discontinued, and they couldnt help me.
>
>I finally persuaded them to let me rebuild the head of the rachet using
>parts from a non-flexhead, but that took a bit of coaxing, and talking to
>the head-assistant-manager-on-duty person for about 10 minutes.. every time
>I've ever gone to sears for a craftsman return I was in and out in 10
>minutes.. you can practically throw the broken tool at the sales guy and
>they'll still replace it.. even with the next model up, if the one you have
>isnt made anymore. in most areas, they're even opening hardware-only stores,
>with an even more choices.
>
>the depot also doesnt stock husky's decent metric-only socket sets, so I
>have a whole pile of SAE stuff and a massive blow-molded case, just so I
>could get a good buy on a rachet/socket set..
>
>in short: husky, good.
>          home depot, duh.
>
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>/scott
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