Tool Purchasing Tips And Advice
By Greg Vanden Berge
I often see homeowners at my local home improvement
centers and my local lumber yards, examining tools for future projects.
I often find myself listening to them talking and asking questions, to
the representatives of the stores and often get confused at some of the
responses from the home improvement store representative and the person
asking the questions about the tools, that they are thinking about
purchasing.
Some of these people can be very informative, while others seem to
suffer from egoitis. They often let their egos get in their way, and
tell the prospective customer, things that aren't necessarily true about
the tools that they are thinking about purchasing. It never has made
much sense to me to sell someone a tool that they're going to have
problems using.
Let me just share a quick story with you. An elderly man and his wife
were asking one of these representatives, about a large power saw. The
elderly man was concerned, with the horsepower and the size and even the
weight, of this large saw, that he was going to need to hold up, in a
vertical position, while doing some difficult home repairs.
The home-improvement representative, told him that the saw wasn't very
heavy and he himself had used it often. I knew exactly what the saw was,
that they were talking about and I myself had problems holding the same
saw, while doing difficult home repair work, myself.
I stood around, until the home improvement store representative walked
away and walked over to the elderly man and told him, what I knew about
the heavy saw. I wasn't about to suggest a saw for the man to buy, even
though he kept pestering me.
I simply told him the truth about the saw, that he was thinking about
purchasing. I told him that I wasn't interested in selling him anything.
I was only passing along my wisdom and he could do whatever he wanted
with the information that I had just given him.
The moral to this story is, don't believe everything that you hear. I
run into this more often than I should, but am often entertained, when
someone with a big ego, needs to give their opinion, so desperately.
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