Discovered a couple weeks ago while catching up on the forum that the Mini 3 existed, and I immediately decided had to have some. All of my systainers are Festool branded, so I didn't want any odd-man outs in the regular Tanos gray/blue branding.
Off to eBay I went, where I had previously purchased 10 Festool mini's for way cheaper than buying them in the US. Found a number of people selling them out of Germany (like the 10 mini's I had previously purchased). Picked the best overall deal after shipping, and 10 days later they are in my garage.
Going to use for some of my 12V tools and some of various small bits that are just a little to big for a Mini but will work in a Mini 3 on an angle. I keep my GoPro and accessories in 2xMini's so will probably move that to a Mini 3 with some kind of insert to divide it into top/bottom halves.
Total spend was $42.40/ea after shipping and conversion from EUR. I'm sure it's against Festool's arrangements with their dealers to sell stuff across country borders, but plenty of them have no problem doing it, at least with systainers. All in, a little under $6/ea price premium to source Festool ones overseas vs. the Tanos ones at Woodcraft (tax also factored into price)
I also got a Sortainer SYS-4 on Amazon last week, and I see myself getting some more of those, and SYS-Combi's. Those drawers are going to prove way more useful than I expected, but man are they pricey. Maybe I need to look for better deals out of Germany on eBay!
