"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
My experience is you can't beat Lidl for budget tools. Snag being they are
only on special offer, so you can't buy them when you want. The three year
money back warranty being better than most. But do keep the receipt in
case. Not that I've ever needed it.

Likewise Aldi. What I like about them is the tools are actually made by a
genuine tools manufacturer (usually German/Austrian/Swiss) whose name is on
the box or in the manual. No doubt they are made in China down to a price
as well, but there is someone in the loop who knows technically about tools
and (might) apply some kind of quality control. There are also typically
spares available like spare batteries.

Meanwhile, the model for someone like VonHaus/DOMU is they go somewhere like
the Yiwu Market in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDd10-poMm8
and they strike a deal with an ODM to sell them a container of drills. ODM
manufactures and puts them on a ship. When landing in Felixstowe, the
container goes straight to the Amazon warehouse, from where Amazon will sell
you a drill.

All DOMU has to do is send the purchase orders, do a bit of 'brand
management' (ie encourage some reviews by sending people free items, pay for
some Google ads, wangle their priority in Amazon searches), and collect the
cash. If you have a problem they just refund or send you another one. When
the stock is running low they order another container from whatever ODM they
got a new deal with today. This is how they can stock such a wide variety
of items, because they are just box shippers without caring what's inside.

Which is fine for basic items like tableware, but less good for things like
power tools.

Theo