re: What is your favorite store?

A couple of things I agree with you...

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They've stepped their game up in the last 5 years

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continuing to change the game across the landscape of consumer tooling products.

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Yea thats not the case. Making affordable tools for the average homeowner to use, or a tool you dont use on a regular basis, sure, good for them. But Home Depot isnt sweating them in the least bit. Milwaukee making 500 tools that can use the same battery is is changing the landscape. Props to Ryobi for that too.

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If tooling has a large part on profit margin, then what you buy and when you buy it (e.g., on a moment's notice for a particular job and a particular task and thereafter it won't be needed except on a semi-regular basis, let alone for casual homeowner use), then you'll think twice about getting the $300 Milwaukee portable bandsaw when you can take half that much and walk out of Harbor Freight with a tool that'll do the same thing- and that includes the 3 year warranty and the coupon they regularly offer that makes the saw $10

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Well im not really talking about the homeowner that needs a drill to hang some decorations. Good for him for going to HF. Im talking about a carpenter or a guy that is using it on a regular basis. I woudnt tell someone to go buy a $300 band saw for a one time use.

But I had a guy that worked at home depot a while back say I got my grinder at HF for $30. Used it one time and it broke but who cares it was a grinder, ill just buy another when I need it. Well, ok, i've had my Makita grinder for 10 years that gets used on a weekly basis and i've never had a single issue with it.

Also, say you use that $100 tool one time and decide you want to sell it later on, how much are you going to get for that bad boy? $25? What about the Milwakee, its going to hold its value pretty good.

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But hey, you keep buying that $22 dead blow hammer from Home Depot (the middle man) and I'll keep buying my $9 one at Horrible Freight.

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A hammer is a hammer, thats not what im talking about.

I have full time carpenters that use tools hard on a daily basis. I provide their tools. Under no circumstances would I ever buy a HF tool for them to use on the daily. Bc like the home depot worker, id be in there a few months later buying a new one.

Either way, I respect your opinion and props to a hard working guy