Lee Valley IS selling Festool

[Rob Lee]

Hi -

Pleased to announce that we will be putting the tools back on sale, having worked out an accommodation with Festool that will protect the brand, restore some margin to all Canadian dealers, and allow us all to get back to what we do best; supporting our customers.

Many thanks to those at Festool USA who worked hard to resolve the predicament.

Sincerely,

Rob Lee
President
Lee Valley

 

[SittingElf]

[thumbs up] [thumbs up] [thumbs up]

Just another feather in Festool's cap!  Awesome that they made accommodations for our brethren in the North! 

Of course, if you Canadians would all just agree to become our 51st State, there wouldn't BE ANY issues!! [poke]

Cheers,

Frank

 

[Rob Z]

Of course, if you all would just agree to become our 51st State, there wouldn't be ANY issues!! [poke]

Cheers,

Frank

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[elfick]

Of course, if you all would just agree to become our 51st State, there wouldn't be ANY issues!! [poke]

They don't even need to go that far... They just need to standardize on the USD instead of the CAD... Like Europe did with the Euro.

 

[hopper]

The only problem with that would be no more colored money.  Now, I just need to glance in my wallet and see if I have "twenties"  or "fifties".  With USDs, its a lot harder to tell, besides, I would have to deal with paper "ones" and "pennies" again. If you're not aware Canadians have gotten rid of the penny and paper one and two dollar bills now we have the "loonie" and "toonie".

 

[tiralie]

Many thanks to those at Festool USA who worked hard to resolve the predicament.

Excellent.
Tim

 

[tiralie]

Of course, if you Canadians would all just agree to become our 51st State, there wouldn't BE ANY issues!! [poke]

If you guys could finally convert to the metric system, adopt the parliamentary system and French (Canadian) as your other, other official language it might work. [big grin]
Tim

 

[landowner]

Good news! Thanks to Lee Valley and Festool for sorting this out.
Back to collecting loonies for one of those Kapexes....
Regards
Doug

 

[greg mann]

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Just another feather in Festool's cap!  Awesome that they made accommodations for our brethren in the North! 

Of course, if you Canadians would all just agree to become our 51st State, there wouldn't BE ANY issues!! [poke]

Cheers,

Frank

Or, we could become their eleventh province. We WOULD need to work on our collective civility to fit in though.  [embarassed]

 

[elfick]

If you're not aware Canadians have gotten rid of the penny and paper one and two dollar bills now we have the "loonie" and "toonie".

What's a "loonie" and "toonie"?
You don't have to use a paper $1. We have a coin version also, though far less common.
$2 bills are useless. They only made sense when $1 was a lot of money.
I agree that colorful money is prettier and easier to distinguish at glance, but as long as it spends...

 

[elfick]

Or, we could become their eleventh province. We WOULD need to work on our collective civility to fit in though.  [embarassed]

ewww... then we would have hockey as our national sport... I see upsides to this idea... 

 

[greg mann]

Or, we could become their eleventh province. We WOULD need to work on our collective civility to fit in though.  [embarassed]

ewww... then we would have hockey as our national sport... I see upsides to this idea... 

Yea, Hockey and civility, there's two things that go together, eh?

 

[hopper]

What's a "loonie" and "toonie"?
You don't have to use a paper $1. We have a coin version also, though far less common.
$2 bills are useless. They only made sense when $1 was a lot of money.
I agree that colorful money is prettier and easier to distinguish at glance, but as long as it spends...

The "loonie is our one dollar coin (no paper dollars). It's called that because it has an engraving of a loon (duck like bird) on the reverse side. Hence the nick name "loonie".  When the two dollar coin came out the nick name "toonie" (a combination of two and loonie) caught on.

 

[SittingElf]

We have a "loonie" as well. He followed a "toonie" and lives in a big house! [eek] [oops] [ban]

Frank

 

[MattrYYC]

That's some excellent news - thank you Rob. Now if we can just get the stupid CSA stickers put back on the CT-MIDI I would be there in the morning when you open to take one home!

 

[gnlman]

This is very good news and hopefully acceptable to all Canadian dealers.
Greg

 

[JCLP]

That's some excellent news - thank you Rob. Now if we can just get the stupid CSA stickers put back on the CT-MIDI I would be there in the morning when you open to take one home!

Yah, me too.
Festool, where are you on this? Is there something in the pipeline for us Canadians? A bunch of us are anxiously waiting.

Cheers,

 

[TelcoRandy]

Well that was a short lived stop-sell...

I just spent a whack of cash on some Festool items because I'm expecting a very high price increase in the near future due to the low Canadian dollar and because of Festool's own price increase that must be coming in the near future.

 

[BMAC]

Most excellent news!!!

I also agree on the DC comment made. I'd buy a CT midi in a heart beat in addition to my CT36AC if the CSA thing was resolved. I have a part time staff person that sometimes does the final construction clean at some of our restoration worksites, when the GC's regular sub is not available and this smaller format DC would be the right fit for the task.

 

[roadking]

Good to see that!! Went down last Saturday as soon as I saw the notice on FOG. I had a Lee Valley gift certificate from SWMBO. She had tentatively earmarked it for Festool tools, believing it would increase her chances of getting things made for the house and for family gifts etc.. Actually most of my Festools are a result of gifts, ever since I expressed a desire for a Domino a few years ago over any of the biscuit joiners out there. And all so far from Lee Valley.
Have always had excellent service and products from them. At one point received a cheque in the mail for a Bowrench deck tool bought several months earlier and the price had dropped so they sent me a rebate. Complete surprise.

Bill