@econobiker: Lovely...and that's why the return policies for honest people get more and more annoying.

No Craftsman warranty at Sears anymore..... I'm not surprised.

As an added bonus, they charge you a 15% restockng fee on nearly everything they sell.

Hmmm.. No customer Service.... No Returns.... No Warranties.... Oh.... doesn't it just make you want to run to Sears to buy something ?

I'm sure a lot of people see the ad in the paper, go in and see the red price tag on the shelf and buy it assuming that it is a sale.

So you basically stole a screwdriver from Sears by abusing the warranty policy?

You are the very reason that there are such draconian return policies in the first place. I mean seriously, how can you complain about a store going down the drain when you are accelerating the process through petty theft.

Just goes to show that the idiocy extends to both sides of the counter.

(Still waiting for Consumerist to post the picture I sent them.)

I put the blade in a vise and snapped it off with some effort

Unfortunatly it is legal, because they are 'selling' the item, however it is a pretty big scumbag move.

If you were printing and hanging these for a few hundred products, would you have noticed?>

Sears is such a stupid store. Could the employee not see the idiocy in this when they printed off the label?

it means "on fire" in swedish. it's from the irregular verb conjugation of "salieri" which means "to set on fire," or in this case, "to sell everything before it catches on fire and becomes worthless."

Yes ... I was in Sears buying a hammer when this guy brought in a circular saw for warranty service and he got the big run-around. Had to produce proof-of-purchase, a receipt or something. He didn't have it. I left as the saga was unfolding, so I don't know how it concluded, but it was a portable Craftsman power saw.

Found: Possible murder weapon. To claim, send description to econobiker@econobiking.com, will make arrangements to pick up or deliver.

@bmwloco: I remember something like a limited one year warranty on the insert for the Craftsman torque wrench I bought a few years back.

Last tool I took back was a flat head screw driver that I unburied while cleaning outside of an old garage. Some miscreants had sharpened the blade to make a shank plus drilled a hole in the handle for a shoelace to hold it on your hand -given the area it had probably been used for muggings or gang fights. I put the blade in a vise and snapped it off with some effort. Took it in and got a new one no questions asked...but this was a couple years ago.

Is Sears circling the drain:
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I wonder if the fire extinguishers have a "NO SALE!" sign on them. That might clear it up.

Is there no warranty anymore?

Depends on how long you had it. Only hand tools (further defined - hand tools with no mechanical moving parts, like screwdrivers/wrenches/hammers/etc ) all have a lifetime warranty.

Torque wrenches aren't covered. It's stupid, I know, and I found that out the hard way as well.

Not anymore. I miss that warranty......

It as busted. Just quit working. I took it back expecting a return or discount.

No dice. They wanted absolutely nothing to do with it.

No question, that will be the last tool I buy from Sears.

Bu-bye.

I had no counter-argument.

This cannot be legal.

Maybe it's Spanish. "It's leaving!"

This reminds me of those bright red tags I saw on Kmart jewelry. They said "Wow! Low Price!" or something of the sort. The "Low Price" on the red tag was the same as the "retail value" on the back of the box.