SRSemenza said:The interchangeable chucks are like gold. It is worth the price uptick to have
Exactly my point. You don’t need to force anybody to buy the Centrotec stuff. Just include the keyless chuck and sell at $300 with batteries. Eventually some people would buy the centrotec head and bits kit. Or the other chucks if they happen to need them.Alex said:SRSemenza said:The interchangeable chucks are like gold. It is worth the price uptick to have
Totally agree. Knowing that they exist, I don't know why you would ever want anything less. It is like tying one leg behind your back to run a race.
I find Festool's decision for this reverse evolution incomprehensible.
slavi.yordanov said:Exactly my point. You don’t need to force anybody to buy the Centrotec stuff. Just include the keyless chuck and sell at $300 with batteries. Eventually some people would buy the centrotec head and bits kit. Or the other chucks if they happen to need them.Alex said:SRSemenza said:The interchangeable chucks are like gold. It is worth the price uptick to have
Totally agree. Knowing that they exist, I don't know why you would ever want anything less. It is like tying one leg behind your back to run a race.
I find Festool's decision for this reverse evolution incomprehensible.
The thing is who would buy a bare T18 easy, when you can get two batteries and charger for $100 more? Even if you have 20 batteries, you would still buy the kit, maybe sell the batteries and make some profit.
And the regular T18 kit with batteries starts at $500???
Also T18 Easy has the notched ring where the angle and eccentric chucks lock in. The only difference is the shaft.
The only reason Festool did this is to keep the price of T18/C18 high.
SRSemenza said:My mistake I thought someone had commented that it did not have the notched ring.
Seth
Alex said:SRSemenza said:The interchangeable chucks are like gold. It is worth the price uptick to have
Totally agree. Knowing that they exist, I don't know why you would ever want anything less. It is like tying one leg behind your back to run a race.
I find Festool's decision for this reverse evolution incomprehensible.
Christopher Fitch said:Heck, if you just have the T18 + keyless, you can even sell more keyless chucks - get people hooked on the multi-chuck approach without having them dive in to centrotec yet.
slavi.yordanov said:I can confirm that the only difference between the T18E and regular T18 it this part.
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Paul_HKI said:but not a cents worth of interest in swappable chuck drills.
Alex said:Paul_HKI said:but not a cents worth of interest in swappable chuck drills.
You know, you are allowed to leave the chuck on, and not swap it out for anything else.
Developing and marketing a T18 Easy is actually costlier than just selling the current T18 with the jacobs chuck only.
There must be more behind it.