Festool seminar at Lee Valley Vaughan

[hopper]

Any of you guys, around the GTA, going to the seminars on Feb 10/11 and Feb 13/14 at the Vaughan Lee Valley.  I just signed up for both. Hope to meet some of you there.

 

[JCLP]

I'm thinking about it.

 

[vkumar]

And I just read in another post that Lee Valley will no longer sell Festool.

Vijay

 

[gkaiseril]

They appear to be temporarily not selling the big tools but the  say they will try to provide support and supplies.

From their Festool page:

Dear Customer,

Circumstances beyond our control have made it uneconomic to continue offering the FESTOOL line of power tools. While the associated accessories and supplies are also affected by the same external forces, we will continue to support the products already sold to the best of our ability.

We fully expect that this will be a relatively short-term problem, and hope to offer the complete line again soon.

In the meantime – we'd suggest that this is a good time to replenish your supplies!

Please accept our apologies for the unplanned interruption in service.

Lee Valley Tools Ltd.

 

[hopper]

Now this is interesting.  First time I've heard this.

 

[tazcubed]

They appear to be temporarily not selling the big tools but the  say they will try to provide support and supplies.

From their Festool page:

Dear Customer,

Circumstances beyond our control have made it uneconomic to continue offering the FESTOOL line of power tools. While the associated accessories and supplies are also affected by the same external forces, we will continue to support the products already sold to the best of our ability.

We fully expect that this will be a relatively short-term problem, and hope to offer the complete line again soon.

In the meantime – we'd suggest that this is a good time to replenish your supplies!

Please accept our apologies for the unplanned interruption in service.

Lee Valley Tools Ltd.

With the Canadian dollar tanking, and expected to continue to drop until somewhere around the $.71 mark before the year is out (we were at $.94 in July 2014), if the margins are already tight it's understandable. It's a suspension of sales until something can be worked out with Festools. Don't be surprised if other resellers do the same.