Rob Keeble
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My question today is what do you think of this trend to sell cordless tools without the batteries?
Or in other words the bare tool philosophy?
For me, i am anti and annoyed by it.
The single item that wears out sooner than the tool is the battery.
Now this is becoming a model similar to the printer ink approach but its serving to put me off and back to corded tools.
Yeah i know who cares about my demographic. I guess for trades it works in a marketing sense to force the trade to go all out for one brand.
But that dont mean that brand has best in class or bread for every tool.
What it does mean is say like me you got a good ni cad driver from yellow brand and now want to buy a blue brand grinder, well you pooched unless you find the full price full packaged blue brand grinder.
I like recond tools but now they mostly being sold other than drills as bare tool.
Then if you look for a say drill pack with charger and battery, the shrewd marketeers gave packaged batteries with them that are naturally the lowest capacity of the brand, so you still in for the decent capacity batteries on their own to fuel something like say a bare tool cordless grinder.
I blame home depot for this and the ryobi brand with their one battery philosophy.
So do you want to be forced to buy all one brand in cordless tools?
I dont, again, to me its the principle of freedom and choice without having my pocket gouged.
Or in other words the bare tool philosophy?
For me, i am anti and annoyed by it.
The single item that wears out sooner than the tool is the battery.
Now this is becoming a model similar to the printer ink approach but its serving to put me off and back to corded tools.
Yeah i know who cares about my demographic. I guess for trades it works in a marketing sense to force the trade to go all out for one brand.
But that dont mean that brand has best in class or bread for every tool.
What it does mean is say like me you got a good ni cad driver from yellow brand and now want to buy a blue brand grinder, well you pooched unless you find the full price full packaged blue brand grinder.
I like recond tools but now they mostly being sold other than drills as bare tool.
Then if you look for a say drill pack with charger and battery, the shrewd marketeers gave packaged batteries with them that are naturally the lowest capacity of the brand, so you still in for the decent capacity batteries on their own to fuel something like say a bare tool cordless grinder.
I blame home depot for this and the ryobi brand with their one battery philosophy.
So do you want to be forced to buy all one brand in cordless tools?
I dont, again, to me its the principle of freedom and choice without having my pocket gouged.