This turned out to be even better than I expected. The casing is a nicely anodized aluminum alloy. Magnetic everything—the docking of the tool bit module, docking of tool bits at the tip, and attachment of bits to the spindle. Nice heft. Quality item. VERY impressed! And the turquoise color? Magnificent. I’d love a flashlight in this color. NOTE: as of this posting, turquoise is back to normal price but red and slate gray are 25% off. Unfortunately, looks like the VIPON code no longer works… for the moment.
I used mine a couple times and love it so far, the rear bearing is surprisingly smooth. Everything is magnetized. It’s a tad thick for precision work but works well for 90% of the tasks out there.
Did an online chat last week, said it wasn’t delivered, got told it was (!?), and to go look around the house, ask neighbors, etc. Ummm, okay. No joy.
USPS tracking number as-given was 1 digit short. Tried it as-is, nope. Added 0-9 at the end to try 10 more possibilities, all no status. (Began with “93…” so would be a valid/usual number on the front end.)
Emphasis that I was told in the chat that it was delivered, even after C&Ping the resulting link to track the as-given number.
Still waited a while, Just In Case it might show, and still nothing, so did another online chat. Yep, delivered, want a refund? Nope, would rather have the meter, as it was at a really good sale price that I doubt I’d ever see again. Mmmyeah, sorry, can’t do anything about that… want a refund? Fooey, but yeah, go’head.
First part of the chat, verified that it was delivered like last Thursday or whenever. Okay, but can you verify the address it was sent do? Here, we got number-streets, that can be Street, Road, Lane, Avenue, Crescent, etc., and we pretty much got all of ’em in the nabe for the same street number.
“It wasn’t delivered. I can confirm.”
Wait… what? First chat, and earlier in this one, it was “verified” as delivered, and now you can see that it wasn’t? Sorry, but I’m confused.
Tactfully ignored/sidestepped, and I didn’t push it.
Oh, and I asked my usual mailman mailwoman if she possibly remembers what should be a rather largish box/envelope that came a few days ago (asked last week), and nope, doesn’t jingle any bells.
So, got my whopping refund last night, and no meter.
Well, at least I’m not being offered 10-20 useless “points” to my amazon “wallet” that I could never use, so there’s that.
The instructions are not kidding, the batteries in the charger really do get hot while charging. In fact, they
got so hot, I was barely able to touch them when removing them. I think I’ll hold onto the batteries, but only use
the charger when supervised.