Yeah, but once you have used a Makita jigsaw you won't ever want to use a £25 shed special again :-)
With cordless tools, once you have bought into a pro battery platform, the availability of "body only" tools massively closes the price gap on many no name cordless tools that usually have to be bought with a battery and charger for each and every tool.
For quite a while now, Lidl tools can be bought body only. And often with a choice of battery sizes - and even charger (bought separately)
But of course in a short while they'll change the design.
Or someone will buy all the stock of batts to flog on ebay :-)
I have a Parkside branded (not sure if that is Lidl or Aldi?) tyre inflater that someone bought me (it came with a HVLP inflator for "blow up" things as well). The tool quality is not too bad to be fair, and the battery is serviceable and holds a charge. The charger is a proper slide on design with a charge light unlike some of them. The main problem would be the recharge time (hours) is too long for a more intensive use, and one irritation is lack of a trigger lock on the compressor, so you need a separate clamp or cable tie when you want to leave it to run for
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