Originally Posted by Bdc101

Thanks for the offer -- I may take you up on it. But let me plan out the project first and find a weekend when I can get it done. I don't want to rent it from you and then sit on it for two months while I wait for time to do the project, that wouldn't be very nice of me.

It would be nice to have my own set, but I don't think this tool set is useful for a whole lot of other things, and I'd rather not send any money to Winnie the Pooh and the chinese communist party if I can avoid it. I'm definitely in the boat that I'd spend a little extra to not buy Chinese or even Amazon anymore, which seems to be the distribution arm for the cheap chinese knock-off industry.






Thanks Oldskewel -- I won't bother trying to call around to see if any stores have the tool then. I am on the left coast, but not anywhere near SF unfortunately, otherwise I'd take you up on it!

On the subject of shipping, from what I understand, Amazon and other E-commerce retailers have gotten the USPS to subsidize their businesses such that shipping is much less expensive for them than consumers. I've noticed, being an occasional ebay seller, that getting the USPS shipping label through ebay is easily half the price or less of going to the USPS kiosk. A lego set my kids didn't want that I tried to return was going to cost $38 to ship back to Indiana. It was a $100 set with free shipping, so do I really believe Lego paid $38 to ship it to me? Not a chance. It wasn't like that 10 or 15 years ago. Neither here nor there, but it's something I've noticed in recent years that really ticks me off.