Snap On Pricing? Discount?
- Thread starter Tom R
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Thanks for the "valuable" input...I will call the local Snap On rep and tell him that it what I will expect!!
Tom R
84TurboBuick
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Normally if you pay cash then you can expect some sort of discount. It may be the dealer eating the tax on your purchase, or maybe 10 - 20 % off list. All I know is if you walk onto a truck and tell him right off that you got cash, then all sorts of possibilities open up!
Blacknwhitepit
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You guys are lucky. I never got a cash discount from my dealer. 
-BWP
-BWP
NSXSOON
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I get 30% off and no sales tax through the Snap-on industrial rep that handles the company account (big aerospace firm) and he brings me the tools to me during lunch. If there is a promo I get the 30% off the discounted price! There industrial reps have nothing to do with there truck franchises so the promos are usually different and they even have a different master catalog. I have never paid list for any Snap-on tool and never intend to, this has worked well for the past 20 years so I'm pretty much at a point that I only by new products and promo items that are just to good to pass up.
Thanks...good information...now all I have to do is find a rep that will sell on those terms...or find a job at a large aerospace firm
Tom RUncle Buck
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I had a decent setup like that going on years ago as well. The industrial account deal you described was head and shoulders above any of the truck guy prices. By far the only way to buy SO tools if you can do it. Industrial is totally different and far better, Agreed!
malibu101
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You guys are lucky. I never got a cash discount from my dealer.
-BWP
Same here. I don't buy often at all. About 4 times a year, most times between 1-2 hundred dollars. I call him and we set up a time to meet at his house. He is very cordial, helpful, and will usually throw me 1 of his gimmicks of the moment like a pocket screwdriver and once even a pair of Snap-On socks.
However, I asked touched on the price subject once and he said whatever the latest price sheet shows is the price plus tax-period.
Oh well, it's the same price as ordering online.
BTW- I always pay him cash too.
Uncle Buck
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You guys are lucky. I never got a cash discount from my dealer.
-BWP
Every truck dealer I ever bought from instructed me to not enter the truck until he got ready for me. The first few times I really wondered what they were talking about, then I started watching them prepare for my entrance from the side of the truck.
Each one reached into a little box setting on the floor and would grab a tube of KY lube that had been rebadged with the Snap-on emblem on the front of it! The incredible part was the instructions printed on the reverse side of the tube, they read and I quote " Always make sure that customers not wearing the uniform of a service technician get a liberal amount of this lubrication and instruct them to generously apply the lubricant to their rectal orifice and assume the non route customer ordering position ( bent over at waist and legs slightly spread while firmly grasping ones ankles with the hands) prior to taking the non route customers order for processing"!
So if you ever have a route guy tell you to wait outside while he prepares for your entrance my wise words of wisdom are to get the hell outta dodge before he starts waving the tube of KY under your nose!
(yea I do crack myself up sometimes!)
Blacknwhitepit
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Every truck dealer I ever bought from instructed me to not enter the truck until he got ready for me. The first few times I really wondered what they were talking about, then I started watching them prepare for my entrance from the side of the truck.
Each one reached into a little box setting on the floor and would grab a tube of KY lube that had been rebadged with the Snap-on emblem on the front of it! The incredible part was the instructions printed on the reverse side of the tube, they read and I quote " Always make sure that customers not wearing the uniform of a service technician get a liberal amount of this lubrication and instruct them to generously apply the lubricant to their rectal orifice and assume the non route customer ordering position ( bent over at waist and legs slightly spread while firmly grasping ones ankles with the hands) prior to taking the non route customers order for processing"!
So if you ever have a route guy tell you to wait outside while he prepares for your entrance my wise words of wisdom are to get the hell outta dodge before he starts waving the tube of KY under your nose!
(yea I do crack myself up sometimes!)
Doesn't surprise me.....
I am about to drop about $3,000 on tools in about 2 months. I am going to give him an ultimatum. Lets work out a discount, or I'll just order it from the Snap on website
-BWP
DavidtheDuke
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Doesn't surprise me.....
I am about to drop about $3,000 on tools in about 2 months. I am going to give him an ultimatum. Lets work out a discount, or I'll just order it from the Snap on website
-BWP
If I were about put down that much, my dealer would probably knock off 20% instantly, besides anything else he might throw in. From what I hear on these forums I appear to be a fairly lucky guy.
rsanter
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back when I had my shop, I had a kid working for me that was going to school to be a tech. the tech students were all getting 50% off on the tool purchases. needless to say, so was I while the kid was working for me.
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Moose-LandTran
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I am about to drop about $3,000 on tools in about 2 months. I am going to give him an ultimatum. Lets work out a discount, or I'll just order it from the Snap on website
-BWP
i recently bought some stuff off the Snap-on guy who comes to shop i work at, first time i bought anything off him. i was curious about the pricing, so when i got home i checked what i had paid against online prices. excatly the same. he has told me that i can not pay the tax if i pay in cash in one go. but i don't know how much i can do that. if there's no price advantage for going to a dealer, i might as well buy it all online.
i'd get exactly what i want, in 3-5 days, delivered to my door. to be honest, i was a little disappointed that there was no difference in price.
i think unless it's a big purchase and i want to save paying the tax, i'll go online.
Junkman
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Moose-LandTran
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lovely.
Like one of my tyre suppliers, who said the technical term for the price of Porsche tyres was "Bend me over and f**k me sideways!"
Like one of my tyre suppliers, who said the technical term for the price of Porsche tyres was "Bend me over and f**k me sideways!"
Uncle Buck
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I wonder if this guy buys his tools from Snap-On tools....
Hey that pic of me and the Mrs was not still supposed to be floating around out there!
Blacknwhitepit
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I wonder if this guy buys his tools from Snap-On tools....
Low brow! ... but I am LMAO
-BWP
Doesn't surprise me.....
I am about to drop about $3,000 on tools in about 2 months. I am going to give him an ultimatum. Lets work out a discount, or I'll just order it from the Snap on website
-BWP
One of my snap on dealers would give me 10% off a purchase like that and the other will give me free tools, for example, a 3 piece plier set, plus on average of about 15% off retail.
I find the trucks at random and ask them what they have that is used. I'm usually asked what I am looking for, to which I reply "Anything I can get a cash discount on. Cash talks, ******** walks right?" Before I got any farther or into any detail, I often get my response via their body language. If it’s a guy who wears Snap-On underwear and sleeps in Snap-on sheets everyday, you’ll get the company line.
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It's 50/50 but 15-20% without tax was often a good starting point. If I was buying anything significant, I tried to dicker some more. It seemed that the discount was relevant to the item, so I think their markup varies by item type.
Once I had one guy willing to follow me a 1/4 mile down the road so I could get a wad of greenbacks out of an ATM machine. Another time years ago, I bought a good chunk of stuff off one guy I was finding about once every 5-6 weeks who once introduced me to some district guy traveling his route with him. I bought a single socket at full price with a wink and a nod…
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So my advice is check their underwear and dicker with them, but only in a one-on-one situation.
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It's 50/50 but 15-20% without tax was often a good starting point. If I was buying anything significant, I tried to dicker some more. It seemed that the discount was relevant to the item, so I think their markup varies by item type.
Once I had one guy willing to follow me a 1/4 mile down the road so I could get a wad of greenbacks out of an ATM machine. Another time years ago, I bought a good chunk of stuff off one guy I was finding about once every 5-6 weeks who once introduced me to some district guy traveling his route with him. I bought a single socket at full price with a wink and a nod…
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So my advice is check their underwear and dicker with them, but only in a one-on-one situation.
Merkava_4
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I used to buy tools tax free from the dealer when I was just a straggler, but when I joined a shop and got my name put into the computer, I had to start paying tax.
Moose-LandTran
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My dealer will let me buy without paying tax, regardless of being an employee or a shop or not. as long as i pay cash and pay it all in one hit, it's all good.
worth asking.
worth asking.
Snapon is lifetime warranty, so is Craftsman, so I have no issue with buying used, and the snapon used seller I go to at the swap meet charges 25% of catalog for most of his stuff, which would be about $750 instead of $3000.
eschoendorff
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My dealer's cool, and he gets me what I need in quick order even though I am just a DIY guy. I never ask for a discount and go in prepared to pay the website price + tax- same as Sears. I don't expect Sears to give me a cash discount either. I'm not a **** to him and he's not a **** to me. He has a product at a given price and if i am willing to pay that price for that product, it all works out.
if not, I can take my chances with yard sales, pawn shops and ebay. My choice. But he's a good guy and rebuilds ratchets for me that I have bought through other channels... I really cannot complain.
I don't understand why everyone thinks that the Snap On truck driver owes them a discount... these are the same people who pay retail at Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, etc. without batting an eye. What gives????
if not, I can take my chances with yard sales, pawn shops and ebay. My choice. But he's a good guy and rebuilds ratchets for me that I have bought through other channels... I really cannot complain.
I don't understand why everyone thinks that the Snap On truck driver owes them a discount... these are the same people who pay retail at Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, etc. without batting an eye. What gives????
"What gives???"
When I go to buy a new car I do research to determine what the "normal" market expectation s/b for that particular car...ie; what discount from mfg MSRP is "acceptable" to the dealer. As an informed buyer I pay what I should pay. I guess others go into a dealer and pay MSRP.
My post was an effort to become an "informed" buyer...nothing more...nothing less. I assume that a Snap On distributor will only sell at a level that is "accepetable" to him. I also assume that some customers pay "list" and other pay at some level of "acceptable" discount.
BTW...I certainly don't think "that a Snap On truck driver owes" me a discount. Just want to be an informed buyer...FWIW Tom R
eschoendorff
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That I can respect. But, having been on this board for a little while, I have seen my share of threads where people get all upset over Snap Ons prices. Granted, I don't want to pay more than I have to either, but sometimes it seems that some people feel that they are somehow entitled to discounts from every Snap On man that they meet.
Others have had just plain crappy service though. In that regard, I am one of the lucky ones.
If you want to be a truly informed buyer, start watching ebay auctions... and check on Snap On prices at pawn shops in your area. In a few months, you'll have a good understanding of teh true monetary value of Snap On tools.
eschoendorff
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Ya, I see you're point.
Snap On has a unique business model, they're in a sense individual, independent business owners, so I don't think haggling is out of bounds at all.
A store like Sears is a completely different animal, the sales people have no authority to make decisions like reducing the price of product that they have no ownership. And Sears does give discounts, but it's in the form of sales promotions and clearance deals.
A Snap-On truck should give you some sort of discount for paying cash. Their listed retail prices are really a reflection of a "no interest" financing price for buyers who go that route, not a cash price.
These Snap-On drivers that don't go a penny below the retail price listed on Snap On's website for cash customers are being greedy. I would instead find other dealers that sell new Snap-On tools through Ebay. You can usually beat list price by 10-20%. You also don't have to pay sales tax by buying through the internet.
What would be a great idea for this forum would be to compile a list of reputable Ebay sellers that are Snap-On dealers.
Moose-LandTran
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i don't feel they should give a discount, but if there's no difference in price between a dealer and the website, other than them having it there and then when you need it, i can't see a reason for not buying it online.
if i buy it online, i get what i want, i get it delivered to work or home in a short space of time. there's no contacting the dealer, telling them what you want, waiting for them to get it and then waiting for them to come to you.
Coach James
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This is kind of like buying guns. Gun companies have suggested retail prices on their websites, but I know of no dealer that actually puts that price on the guns they sell.
Coach
Coach
chad s
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Good point, snap on (and all truck brands) are one of the only tool dealers that sell at list price.
My guy always gives me 10% off, and I pay cash.
I'll pay extra for my SO tools because I know what I'm getting. I choose not to shop at Sears and I choose not to buy their Made in China junk. To me the extra money is well worth it, plus if something breaks it gets taken care of without questions.
I don't understand the fascination with Craftsmen/Sears, to me what they sell is 85% garbage.
I don't understand the fascination with Craftsmen/Sears, to me what they sell is 85% garbage.
eschoendorff
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Or MESA/Boogie amplifiers. Dealers actually get checked up on (or used to) and get into serious hot water if they are selling those amps below retail...
I buy from my dealer even though he charges the same price as the website because then he gets credit for the sale an is there to warranty a tool or otherwise help me out when I need it. It's a two-way street.
eschoendorff
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Two years ago I would have argues with you well into the night over this comment. Today, I couldn't agree more....
Funny how things change. I have noticed that I have become more quality-driven in the recent past... in every aspect of my life, from tools and toys to my work, teaching and performance.
