When you buy Snap-On you're buying two things quality and service.
I worked a couple of summers at a John Deere Dealership, one of the guys had the at the time a 7K Snap-On on box. I asked him why he'd pay that much for the box and he replied, "I bought a 4K Matco box and when I loaded it with tools a the bottom drawer bent, when I asked the Matco dealer to warranty the drawer, he said I overloaded the drawer, the next week the Snap-On dealer gave me 3K as a trade-in and said load the drawer as full as I can get it."
There are a lot of tools from Snap-On that are ridiculously over-priced, I've seen them sell rebranded welders for double or triple the price of a Lincoln or Miller. To spend that kind of money is stupid. Their hand tools are simply the best, and if I earned a living using hand tools, I'd own a lot more Snap-On.
Right now the only Snap-On I do own are those that have no Craftsman equivalent. For example, Snap-On sells 4-way angle head wrenches that aren't sold by anyone else in the same angles. A standard combination wrench has a box end on one end and a 15 degree open end wrench at the other, the 4-way angle head wrench heads are angled at 30 degrees and 60 degrees. For tight spaces these wrenches are really cool.
Regards,
Joe Dokes
