Over at Amazon, they’re offering a 15% discount on select USA-made Stanley tools. The discount applies at checkout automatically, and the promo ends 5/13/2016.
Sounds like a good deal to me! There are a bunch of tools eligible for the deal – utility knives, tape measures, replacement blades, and even 2 saw blades.
Deal Info(via Amazon)
Now, about how I discovered this deal…
I went searching around the house for a tape measure, and came across one of my Stanley FatMax 25′ tapes. I bought a 2-pack back in November, when it was on sale for $20. Normally, this tape is priced at around $17-$20 each on Amazon, and around the same elsewhere.
It was in a kitchen cabinet, for those times I can’t seem to find any of my other tape measures. I recently bought a Stanley Lever Lock 16′ tape measure for similar purposes.
But what did I find? The lock was broken. It kept springing open! It’ll hold the tape with a little friction, but not very securely. So I went to Amazon to see if this was a common complaint.
It seems to be a random defect, which does happen time to time.
This might be a good opportunity to test out Stanley’s customer service again. Or I’ll toss it into the car for “just in case I might need it on the go” purposes. It’s still usable, just not for regular use.
What sucks is that I barely used it. I think I first opened the package back in March, with maybe a handful of uses since then. But here’s the tough question – did I use this one, or the sibling tape measure that came in the 2-pack. In other words, was this tape defective from the start, or did it fail somehow?
Anyways, with Amazon holding their 15% off sale, maybe I’ll pick up another of the FatMax Auto-Lock tapes, shown above. It’s normally $25 for a 25-footer, but now it’s $22, minus another 15%. It should be around $18.69 plus tax after discount, which is pretty decent. I like that Stanley Auto-Lock tape a LOT.
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