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Originally posted by ctom87 View PostI've noticed lately I have a bit of an obsession with tools. I hate not having the right tool for the job and I hate when a task takes longer and is sloppier because I don't have the tool I need. So I go out and buy a tool and use it once, then hold on to it forever for "the next time I need it."
I thought about setting up a free/cheap website where I can "rent" my tools out to folks in my neighborhood or surrounding areas. I live in a suburb so there's quite a few people. It's just a side hustle and I'm really just trying to pay for the tools themselves, so I can undercut home depot or other tool rental places.
The downside is these are MY tools and I know no one in the city treats things like they own it when they borrow something. Because of this, I would have a deposit that is the cost of the tool and it would be mandatory. If it's returned in the same condition, they get the deposit back. I would structure it in a way so you could rent it for four hours, a day, a few days, a week, etc.
What do you guys think? Worth doing?
The last two times I went in to rent equipment, I stared at their pile of obviously dead chainsaws. You don't have to ask, if they work, there is no question they are dead. They are just piled up.
If you look around a tool rental company, at their tools. It is very obvious, people who rent tools do not use them for their intended purposes, abuse the tools, misuse the tools, many seem like someone went to a lot of effort to make sure the tool was well past destroyed. I can guess some people were trying to get out of work, if the rented tool was broken, then they could sit around and do nothing while on the clock. Others were probably completely clueless. I am sure many of the tools, were literally ran over, accidently or intentionally, either way, way beyond dead tool.
I used to get POed, when someone borrowed a tool then loaned that tool to someone else and then that person loaned the tool to someone else. Then I needed the tool and went to the person I loaned it to, to find out they gave it to someone else and then that person gave it to someone else. At that point, I would make an announcement, that whoever had my F'ing tool needed to bring it back very quick before I started process of elimination. Then I would sometimes find a fourth person had whatever tool I had loaned out. That will really **** you off, that people will just let someone else use something, that was trusted to them to use, then on and on.
Then one time, after I went off, seriously blew my top, stated the tool that I loaned out had better get returned very quickly. I had people returning tools to me, that were not my tools. So I had to make a second announcement, that if anyone was missing a tool to check the pile on my work bench.
I DON'T LOAN OUT MY TOOLS!!! I have made that mistake too many times.
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Originally posted by sqiggy View PostIf you are buying tools that you are only going to use one time, just keep the receipt and take it back when you are done. When the store ask what is wrong with it, just say you didn’t need it after all.
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Originally posted by sqiggy View PostIf you are buying tools that you are only going to use one time, just keep the receipt and take it back when you are done. When the store ask what is wrong with it, just say you didn’t need it after all.
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Originally posted by aggie2000tx View PostThis way of thinking is what is wrong in today’s society
Wheel bearing went out on my truck. Didn’t have the socket that I needed. Went to O’Rileys and bought one, along with a new bearing. The guy behind the counter told me when I get it done, just bring the socket back for a refund. And I took him up on his idea.
Just sayin!!!
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Originally posted by sqiggy View PostIf you are buying tools that you are only going to use one time, just keep the receipt and take it back when you are done. When the store ask what is wrong with it, just say you didn’t need it after all.
We were building a treehouse and my impact driver wouldn’t handle the 10” Spax screws. Went and dropped $300 on a Dewalt cordless impact wrench, and it wouldn’t do them either, so back it went.
I’ve also returned stuff that broke when being used as intended, and couldn’t get the job done, pitman arm puller for example.
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Originally posted by sqiggy View PostKinda broad brush there don’t ya think!!
Wheel bearing went out on my truck. Didn’t have the socket that I needed. Went to O’Rileys and bought one, along with a new bearing. The guy behind the counter told me when I get it done, just bring the socket back for a refund. And I took him up on his idea.
Just sayin!!!
Returning a tool after you used it for said purpose and it performed accordingly is just flat out wrong.
If you don’t want to own tools send your truck to the shop and let a mechanic fix it for you.
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