Bundle pricing?

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I am looking to purchase a good bit of Festool products and was wondering if bundle pricing is available? Or, maybe what I am looking to purchase is available in some sort of kit form? I figure if i'm going to spend a small fortune, saving a few $$ would be nice.

Here is what I am looking to purchase

Kapex - 575306
Domino - 576423
Domino connector range KV-SYS D8 - 576797
Tenons Assortment - 576794
Rotex - 576028
Rotex handle - 495188
Abrasive Set SYS STF D150 GR - 577110
Base TSB/1-MW 1000 - 203457
CT CYCLONE CT-VA-20 - 204083
Screwdriver and drill bit set TID 18 HPC I-Set TPC 18/4 - 576996
Standard Cleaning Set RS-ST D 27/36-Plus  -577257
Suction hose D36x3,5m-AS/CTR - 204924
Boom Arm Set CT-ASA/SB 26/WHR Set - 203151

 
In the North American market, Festool is Fixed Price MSRP.  There used to be a 10% discount on a tool if purchased with an extractor, but that ended more than 3 years ago.

The only thing you might be able to find on that list in a bundle in the United States is a cleaning set with a hose.  If you desire two different hoses, you won't find a bundle that way.

Festool still sells some drill combination bundles, and at one point sold a few multi-tool cordless bundles as well.

Your best bet if you don't need full warranty is to keep your eyes on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, and FOG ads.  Maybe even local classifieds or a physical bulletin board at a local woodworking store.
 
Would love to see the Kapex saw and stand combo discount come back so I could pick up a new one
 
Not saying this is right, but there used to be a few online dealers that did not charge sales tax on out of state purchases.
 
SDWW2019 said:
Not saying this is right, but there used to be a few online dealers that did not charge sales tax on out of state purchases.

You can thank all your various state legislatures for closing that loophole and creating a bookkeeping nightmare for every mail order company in the country.
 
Not only is the percentage of sales tax different from state to state, but also what is and what is not taxed.  For example, in Ohio if I use a fork truck to move pallets from the loading dock to the factory floor, the purchase of the fork truck is not taxed.  If I use the same fork truck to move from loading dock to a warehouse, the purchase is taxed. 

In the same state of Ohio, if i replace a starter on my car I and there is a core fee if I do not take in the old starter, I am charged sales tax for that core charge.  If I take the old starter in the next day, I do NOT get refunded the sales tax.  To avoid sales tax the starter has to be returned when I pick up the new starter. 

Every state is different, and the law is very complicated.  The laws are written by lobbyists that have never ran a company that actually produces things, they just know how to apply the leeches. 
 
Yardbird said:
Not only is the percentage of sales tax different from state to state, but also what is and what is not taxed.  For example, in Ohio if I use a fork truck to move pallets from the loading dock to the factory floor, the purchase of the fork truck is not taxed.  If I use the same fork truck to move from loading dock to a warehouse, the purchase is taxed. 

In the same state of Ohio, if i replace a starter on my car I and there is a core fee if I do not take in the old starter, I am charged sales tax for that core charge.  If I take the old starter in the next day, I do NOT get refunded the sales tax.  To avoid sales tax the starter has to be returned when I pick up the new starter. 

Every state is different, and the law is very complicated.  The laws are written by lobbyists that have never ran a company that actually produces things, they just know how to apply the leeches.

That's very true, but they have missed one very important one. I can't believe that someone hasn't figured out the thing about aluminum can/plastic bottle deposits. They don't require any kind of proof of where they were purchased, yet they still "refund" the money.
 
Crazyraceguy said:
That's very true, but they have missed one very important one. I can't believe that someone hasn't figured out the thing about aluminum can/plastic bottle deposits. They don't require any kind of proof of where they were purchased, yet they still "refund" the money.

Depends.

California just charged a group of people for doing that to the tune of $7.6M  [eek] [eek] [eek] across the Arizona border:
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-relea...e-announce-charges-seizures-riverside-county.
 
The bottle deposit thing was also a great classic Seinfeld episode!
 
squall_line said:
Crazyraceguy said:
That's very true, but they have missed one very important one. I can't believe that someone hasn't figured out the thing about aluminum can/plastic bottle deposits. They don't require any kind of proof of where they were purchased, yet they still "refund" the money.

Depends.

California just charged a group of people for doing that to the tune of $7.6M  [eek] [eek] [eek] across the Arizona border:
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-relea...e-announce-charges-seizures-riverside-county.

I heard about that the other day. That's a huge exploitation of the system and bound to be detected.
I learned about this about 20 years ago, while going to NASCAR races. We would bring beer and soda cans from Ohio and take them to Michigan (where a 10cent deposit is paid) The known custom was to throw them on the ground near the trash cans, which made it easier to collect them, rather than digging in the trash.
Events like this, which would draw 200k people, absolutely had to skew the percentage of pay-out vs actually paid-in, for a few weeks.
Someone going to the extent of multi-millions of dollars is just asking for trouble. It has to be legal to turn in cans that you didn't buy, but at some point it becomes fraud of some kind.
 
Crazyraceguy said:
It has to be legal to turn in cans that you didn't buy, but at some point it becomes fraud of some kind.

It's definitely legal to turn them in if you didn't buy them; we have people who cruise town through neighborhoods on trash day to collect cans and bottles from people's bins if they're at the curb (curbside recycling doesn't receive any deposit return).  Proponents of the "bottle bill" as it's known here in Iowa claim that our ditches and roadsides would quickly turn into the Cuyahoga River circa 1957 if we got rid of the deposit and homeless people stopped picking up cans and bottles.

The grocery store lobbyists rail against the law every year because "reasons".

I grew up in IL and remember going with my dad to take bags of crushed cans to get paid by the pound.  The whole "deposit" thing was an interesting twist when I moved here for college.
 
When I was a kid, all bottled drinks came in returnable glass. A 5 cent deposit was paid at the time of purchase. Cans were a non-issue at that time, recycling was years in the future. Most cans were steel anyway and no one ever talks about recycling that.
Glass was replaced by plastic and sizes started growing too. Two-liter bottles took soda out of the single-serving game too.
Back in the 80s, aluminum cans were recycled on a "by the pound" basis. Cans paid a different rate than other types of aluminum.
We haven't had a deposit scheme in Ohio, since the glass days, and that was driven by the bottlers. They wanted to re-fill them, not melt them down and make them into something else.
 
Crazyraceguy said:
We would bring beer and soda cans from Ohio and take them to Michigan (where a 10cent deposit is paid)

I grew up in Michigan, and worked at a grocery store as a kid.  One of my jobs was to count returns, pay back deposits, and sort cans to go back to the different bottlers.  At the time, only Michigan cans were marked with the 10cent deposit, and they actually had a different weight/feel.  I got to where I could filter out Michigan cans at speed without looking.
 
Crazyraceguy said:
When I was a kid, all bottled drinks came in returnable glass. A 5 cent deposit was paid at the time of purchase. Cans were a non-issue at that time, recycling was years in the future. Most cans were steel anyway and no one ever talks about recycling that.
Glass was replaced by plastic and sizes started growing too. Two-liter bottles took soda out of the single-serving game too.
Back in the 80s, aluminum cans were recycled on a "by the pound" basis. Cans paid a different rate than other types of aluminum.
We haven't had a deposit scheme in Ohio, since the glass days, and that was driven by the bottlers. They wanted to re-fill them, not melt them down and make them into something else.

I've often wondered how the "recycle" cycle is more efficient and conservative than the "return, wash and refill" cycle. I never quite understood how the bottlers moved away from re-use bottles.
 
Ridiculous policies like this that give away money with accountability lead to crimes. While not easy money it certainly is not impossible to collect enough recyclables to profiteer from it. Crooks always go where the money is. Greed got them though.

The government gets fleeced repeatably because it never looks at potential outcomes and unintended consequences.
 
I've often wondered how the "recycle" cycle is more efficient and conservative than the "return, wash and refill" cycle. I never quite understood how the bottlers moved away from re-use bottles.

I spent a couple years in Germany and bouncing around the EU. Out there, the grocery stores have machines to return glass adn plastic bottles. Once processed, it will spit out a slip with a credit to use at the store.

The machines performed a quick wash and sorted the material. Quite interesting to see.
 
jeffinsgf said:
I've often wondered how the "recycle" cycle is more efficient and conservative than the "return, wash and refill" cycle. I never quite understood how the bottlers moved away from re-use bottles.

I'm sure it was about money. The labor and time involved with cleaning and reusing bottles had to cost more than the one-time plastic. Plus there had to be some loss due to breakage and a few that got thrown away despite the deposit being available.
When this began, decades ago, plastic waste was not in the forefront of thinking, and now it would be economically impossible (or at least un-feasible)
 
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