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stresst

Location: The Village in the Middle of New York
Joined: Dec 10, 2010
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Simplicity or Craftsman??
Original Message Dec 26, 2011 3:40 pm

A few weeks ago I posted about how impressed I was with Simplicity's new 208cc SS unit, looked well built and much more appealing over the Toro. Anyway long story short I was just looking for some tools at Sears.com and noticed the Craftsman 88782 thou I would probably never buy a craftsman again this thing looks really nice! Anyone have any insight on this machine?

TORO 826OXE

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aa335

Joined: Nov 28, 2008
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Re: Simplicity or Craftsman??
Reply #27 Dec 29, 2011 1:24 pm

royster wrote:

aa335, " I hate to Sears go."

Sears are not going out of business. It was a poor choice to buy the over 100 K-Mart stores and now they are closing or selling these K-Mart stores

Sounds like it was a poor decision for a failing business to buy another failing business.

Like I said, I hate to see Sears go away. Let's hope they can turn around and improve their business.

Bill_H

Location: Maine
Joined: Jan 11, 2008
Points: 354

Re: Simplicity or Craftsman??
Reply #28 Dec 31, 2011 11:41 am

My local Ace Hardware now sells Craftsman hand tools. I stopped using their power tools in the 80's, but the sockets, etc. still seem as good as my old (60's & 70's) ones. They'll outlive me easily.

Who the hell let all the morning people run things?

stresst

Location: The Village in the Middle of New York
Joined: Dec 10, 2010
Points: 213

Re: Simplicity or Craftsman??
Reply #29 Dec 31, 2011 8:32 pm

Bill_H wrote:

My local Ace Hardware now sells Craftsman hand tools. I stopped using their power tools in the 80's, but the sockets, etc. still seem as good as my old (60's & 70's) ones. They'll outlive me easily.

Believe it or not I use to think the same thing, both Sears's that I frequent said they see more broken sockets that ratchets....While I never had an issue with even one socket they said its an everyday occurance. IDK

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