Got an ad from CPO outlets a day or two ago, and they have a great deal of their stock at 15% off with free shipping on a lot of it. Certain restrict ions apply, see dealer for details, your mileage may vary, not good outside the USA, blah, blah, blah.
My personal experience with CPO has been great, and although they sell reco nditioned tools, they sell new as well. They stand behind their products 1
00%, and are quick about doing so. The only problem I ever had with their product was when UPS (their choice of shipper) smashed the original box, re boxed the saw, then smashed that one as well. After seeing my pics of the saw, CPO reversed the charge on my account without receiving the saw back t o their warehouse. They issued an RMA sticker and sent it two day mail, an d gave me the the option of repurchasing the saw, even though it was a 24 h our sale when I bought it a week before.I have bought a DeWalt recip saw, a Milwaukee Sawzall, two brad guns, a fra ming nailer, a heavy duty hammer drill,saw blades, and all kinds of odds an d ends. As a heads up, when they have a recon sale, from time to time they really have some great deals. I don't believe they break down the tools a nd reassemble them, but all the tools I have bought arrived in "like new" c ondition. Years ago when CPO was very small, I bought a Milwaukee half she et sander from them and a giant Milwaukee ROS. After I got them and used t hem, I had to call back and find out what they did to them since they came unmarked and clean. The operator told me that the pad had to be taken off and the counterweight tightened on the half sheet sander, then reassembled. On the ROS, they had bad triggers at the assembly point. R/R the trigger , then back for sale. The ROS was selling at 30% of the original cost, and the operator told me it was because Milwaukee was discontinuing the sander anyway so the recons were the last of them.
I recently broke the handle on my DeWalt 713 miter saw, so I am going to ta ke the deal of buying a new replacement from them, take the discount and fr ee shipping, and add a couple of things to the box (nail gun oil from them is literally 25% of the cost locally) to pack it full.
CPO isn't always the cheapest and they don't give things away, but they hav e been a great resource for me, as I said, especially when they have a lot of a certain product they are trying to move.
Hope this does someone some good!
Robert