Thread: Sears sure has changed, for the worse!

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Originally Posted by Mr Blue

I also recently took back a 1/4 inch rachet that stripped internally for replacement. They reached under the counter and had a whole box of "reconditioned" rachets. You don't even get a new rachet when yours breaks??.

Same thing happened to me... That's the end of my business with Sears! Not that I did a lot with them but I was a loyal customer for a few decades!

I also recently took back a 1/4 inch rachet that stripped internally for replacement. They reached under the counter and had a whole box of "reconditioned" rachets. You don't even get a new rachet when yours breaks??:

Don Jr.[/QUOTE] well snap on will not give you a new rachet .you can get one with a R stamp on it if the chrome falls off is the only way . but for the price of a snapy you could buy 7 sears rachets they work fine you just can not use that cheater bar on them you have did you pick that up from your dad them small rachets they will puke there guts out any bolt past 5/16 less in body metal you use a 3/8.but i had mac s. snap ons . sears and i busted them all on rusty body bolts/nuts and knew i was pushing it . i was snaping off the ends of snap on screw driver at the boat yard putting in Pachanga windsheilds.warranty. you know the two pc windshields as the one pc could blow up in your face i did 3 windsheilds a day .i ask snap on guy .. if his screw drivers were good? well.. they are the best.. drive tips yes no way you are going to snap the end off .. Oh really handed 3 with no ends on them.. what hell are you doing with them ?driving screws in by hand no way in hell ... then i said watch this busted the end off the one i was usings and handed one more to fix

Originally Posted by 34_40

As long as "they" don't recognize you as trying to return one earlier!

I think that might be a problem. I made a "little" fuss, not quite to the point of them calling security on me, but I wasn't exactly quiet either.

Don

Back on the Farm we used there cataloque for toilet paper

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Back on the Farm we used there cataloque for toilet paper

My grandmother would have shot you, besides that thing was too heavy to carry to the outhouse.

Now that the Chinese are becoming more affluent corporations will be looking for cheaper labor,wait till we see "Made in Haiti" on our tools and parts.That would be scary.

seeing that were on old Sears stuff are old house before they tore it down .there was a old very small iron pot stove must of burned coal in it ? was by the old coal room . i all ways was looking at it when i as a kid had the world casted in the lid . we moved out 37 years ago they said we could go in and there it was that small stove ? water heater ? two pipes going in it ? i pick it up it was still sitting were it been sitting over 40+ years .any one see any thing like this ?

Pat, we had something like that in our basement when I was a kid. It was a little pot belly stove with water pipes going into it, and a galvanized water tank next to it. Every morning my Dad would have to go down, open the little door on the front, and add coal so we would have hot water to bath with. It was about 3 feet high, as I recall, and pot bellly shaped. I had forgotten all about that one.

Don

Saw that the CEO of sears said heads are gonna roll---is this just over your jack?

Ya' kinda' hate to see personnel get "jacked" around like that .

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Saw that the CEO of sears said heads are gonna roll---is this just over your jack?

I doubt it, Jack. The way things are at Sears these days they are probably going to get rid of some people they found out who were giving good customer service. Can't have those kinds of trouble makers around, ya know.

Don

my grandparents had a Coldspot stand up freezer they bought new in 1959. it ran until 2005 when they finally unplugged it because the bottom had rusted out completly from sitting in the damp basement.

This makes me very unhappy to hear this. I've also had a similar experience in returning hand tools. Sears isn't very pleasant when I bring in my tools for replacement.

My Snap-on man still comes around every other Wedensday.... Haven't been in a Sears store for 10 years or so, doesn't sound like there's any reason to go.....

I didn't know they had Sears stores in Ga or Earth,US