A servey to mechanics

Question

how many of you mechanics have saved all your recites for your tools from the tool people coming in to your shop like snap-on or matco or mac or ect and how long have you been buying your tools and what do you pay them per week

Answer 1

14 years, 42000 bucks , every reciept ever written, MAC SNAP-ON MATCO, CORNWELL, KENT-MOORE. Now Chevrolet to tote them all.Tool companies got 75 to 100 a week Chevrolet got 400 month

Answer 2

i buy alot of my tools from auto shops like auto zone and even wal-mart  there is no need to pay the prices for that shittt that you cant even use..

Answer 3

"There is no need to buy that **** you can't use"  Are you retarded?  If you are not a mechanic then you don't buy **** you don't need.  Mechanics buy tools cause they "need" them.  

I always save all my receipts for anything.  I bought the bulk of my tools prob in the first 2-3 years in the field.  I only buy **** now from time to time if I need something for a particular job or if something will make a job easier or quicker.  

I usually pay anywhere from 30-75 a week depending on my funds.  

Oh and as being overpriced yeah a little but that carries a lifetime warranty and I dont have to run to Sears to return my ratchet for the 213th time.  Also the quality is tenfold what any storebought **** is.

Answer 4

I have bought a few thousand from the snap on man and i actually have all of my receipts for my tools. I bought tools from him for about 2 years and i usually paid him depending on the amount of money i owed him but most of the time i just paid him between 50 and 100 bucks a week.  I think that the amount of money they expect you to pay depends on how reliable you have been and how much business you have done with them.  Some times here and there i didnt pay him but i would make up for it in the long run.