<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Jeff Writes,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">></font><font size=3>And, in fact,
policies like that may have had something to do with it.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Actually, I think it was the fact that
their quality really tanked, and a LOT more tools needed to be replaced,
then they stopped the 'easy, no questions asked' return policy that did
them in.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">On more than one occasion, I was told
that they couldn't rebuild a ratchet at the store and needed to send it
back to a repair facility and it would take a few weeks to get it back.
NO WAY am I leaving the store with a ratchet only to wait a few weeks to
see if they can fix it.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Then I had a box wrench that had a 3/4
on one side and 5/8 on the other. It bent (not being abused) and
they told me they don't have that wrench any more, but I could pick ONE
of the sizes to replace it with. So I would have to leave my wrench
and get one size only, leaving me without the other size.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That was the day I stopped buying anything
Craftsman.</font>
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"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
Waldo Emerson <br>
-Who is John Galt?</font>