"Robatoy" wrote in message

You think people buy Festool as a status symbol?
You tell me.

How would people know you bought any? You don't park them in front of
your house for all to see.
Nobody really knows what the hell a Festool is. The few that know are
hardly a big enough audience to try to impress.

Sure, you're right. But, under the right circumstances, one person is a big
enough audience to try to impress. Given the chance to show off a new tool
to woodworking buddies, most people would go for it. I'm not embarrassed to
say that if I had some woodworking friends in my workshop, I'd likely pull a
Festool Domino out of its case to show it around. It wouldn't come close to
the status symbol of a new car sitting in the driveway, but it would still
make me feel good to show off a new toy ~ a new toy that most others
wouldn't have.

Does that make me out to flaunt status symbols? Maybe, but it would be a
status symbol that I'd also be using when opportunity called for it. Maybe
the difference is that I like to use my status symbols, not just put them
out solely for display purposes.