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Im looking for a charger. For some reason my batteries are outlasting the chargers, I am using my 3rd charger right now. First the m12 charger quit, so i got a combo m18/m12. That thing stopped lighting up when you put a battery in. Got another combo charger and it just started to not charge on the m18 side
Thinking back to the thread about unplugging chargers due to house fires
Y'all bought into the M18 hype and now they've got you stuck with hundreds of dollars of tools as the price of batteries goes up. Normally this doesn't work because competition pops up to make knockoffs.
The real kicker is that this time around Milwaukee gambled that by building expensive premium tools they made sure all their customers were the well moneyed types who only buy OEM shit (whereas Makita, DeWalt or Harbor Freight customers are much more likely to jam a $30 knockoff battery into their tool). By ensuring that most of the people that bought their tools were the "hurr durr, muh premium shit" crowd who don't buy knockoffs they reduced the market available to counterfeiters making it less valuable to knock off an M18 battery resulting in less people doing it, lower quality knockoffs and higher prices.
They made a bet and they won. I'd buy a beer for whatever MBA came up with that. You people got played like a fiddle.
Y'all bought into the M18 hype and now they've got you stuck with hundreds of dollars of tools as the price of batteries goes up. Normally this doesn't work because competition pops up to make knockoffs.
The real kicker is that this time around Milwaukee gambled that by building expensive premium tools they made sure all their customers were the well moneyed types who only buy OEM shit (whereas Makita, DeWalt or Harbor Freight customers are much more likely to jam a $30 knockoff battery into their tool). By ensuring that most of the people that bought their tools were the "hurr durr, muh premium shit" crowd who don't buy knockoffs they reduced the market available to counterfeiters making it less valuable to knock off an M18 battery resulting in less people doing it, lower quality knockoffs and higher prices.
They made a bet and they won. I'd buy a beer for whatever MBA came up with that. You people got played like a fiddle.
Y'all bought into the M18 hype and now they've got you stuck with hundreds of dollars of tools as the price of batteries goes up. Normally this doesn't work because competition pops up to make knockoffs.
The real kicker is that this time around Milwaukee gambled that by building expensive premium tools they made sure all their customers were the well moneyed types who only buy OEM shit (whereas Makita, DeWalt or Harbor Freight customers are much more likely to jam a $30 knockoff battery into their tool). By ensuring that most of the people that bought their tools were the "hurr durr, muh premium shit" crowd who don't buy knockoffs they reduced the market available to counterfeiters making it less valuable to knock off an M18 battery resulting in less people doing it, lower quality knockoffs and higher prices.
They made a bet and they won. I'd buy a beer for whatever MBA came up with that. You people got played like a fiddle.
Sombody here has Milwaukee M18 tool envy.
He's a troll, his name is very fitting. Every single time he posts, it's shitting on whatever the thread is about and isn't even good at it.
I had a decent variety of m18 and m12 stuff before the fire, about $4k worth iirc making the list for insurance :rolleyes:
I went m18 again, I'm not going to argue that there is a drastic difference in quality between any of the other colors, but I like that they have a huge selection of impacts from 1/4" to even 1" now and they seem to be putting more into developing new products.
I've also actually had great results from their warranty system, even after I told the guy I bought the drill for $30 at a yard sale, and broke it using it to start a pressure washer
As far as battery's, I've only had one fail and it was one of the original thin batteries before the 1.0, 2.0 ect. I had gotten plenty of use out of it before it failed.
