Snap On Pricing? Discount?

[Tom R]

Just curious...is their frequently a discount offered by the Snap On distributor? What type of range from a new customer to a large account?

What about Mac?

Thanks...Tom R...part of my quest for knowledge

[Danglerb]

I get 75% off all my snapon purchases.

[Tom R]

Originally Posted by Danglerb

I get 75% off all my snapon purchases.

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]

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]

You guys are lucky. I never got a cash discount from my dealer.

-BWP

[malibu101]

Originally Posted by Blacknwhitepit

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]

Originally Posted by Blacknwhitepit

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!)

[NSXSOON]

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.

[Tom R]

Originally Posted by NSXSOON

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 R

[Uncle Buck]

Originally Posted by NSXSOON

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.

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!

[rsanter]

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.

bob

[Moose-LandTran]

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!"

[6skott]

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, bullshit 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.

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…

So my advice is check their underwear and dicker with them, but only in a one-on-one situation.

[Merkava_4]

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]

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.

[SteveG]

Newbi chimming in here. I get a 10-12% discount and dont pay tax from my dealer. I've been getting much better deals (40-60%) on new & slightly used SO tools from ebay.

[Danglerb]

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.

[unsung]

I just ordered the BRA7180V and I got over $1000 off online price plus a credit for $300 for any tools I want.

[eschoendorff]

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 dick to him and he's not a dick 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????

[Tom R]

Originally Posted by eschoendorff

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 dick to him and he's not a dick 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????

"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