There are a lot of negative comments on this thread (and on FOG lately as a whole) about the Recon sale. While everyone may not feel it's fair, this is Festool's decision on how they want to sell their excess used/refurbished tools. If you don't like how they are doing it, that's fine you don't have to buy, you don't have to request to get the emails, you don't have to come to this site. While I haven't posted much, I'm on this site almost daily hoping for good content, hoping for someone's incredible build pics, hoping to pick up some tips from someone. Unfortunately lately everyone is just complaining about everything, it doesn't help a website that is trying to provide a helpful forum to Festool owners and possibly new Festool buyers. No tool is perfect, no car is perfect, no house is perfect and no person is perfect. You can always find something wrong with everything in the world, hopefully we can all just decide for future not to focus so much on the bad or frustrating, but on the good and helpful things. Constructive criticism is good, but lately it just seems to have gone way too far into almost bashing the product daily. Just my thoughts. If I get the chance to buy a tool I want/need on the Recon sale I will, if they are gone, good for the ones who got them!