I Bought A Pallet of Walmart Tool Returns for $2,217...... Mistake?

Hey that's me, the UPS DRIVER! Haven't gotten to the drills yet to try them

Also, as someone who used to work Walmart customer service, using the tools for projects then returning is EXACTLY what they do lol

So, I work at Walmart and I bought that hart multi tool kit 2 years ago to have in case I needed to do small projects around the house. My wife wanted me to buy her a noodle board and I thought that I could make one myself. I’m now in the process of trying to start my own woodworking business and I still use those hart tools. They’re not awful for the price, and I get a discount on them and am able to keep an eye out for when they go on clearance. But that one kit and my wife’s project got me interested in woodworking and I’m going to be grateful for that brand forever.

Sometimes the batteries get really discharged. All you need to do is manually hook up some wires to get a little.charge into the bad pack from a good one. Then it will take the charge on the charger. Hopt that helps.

Re the batteries, they'll have LiPo cells inside them, that most chargers wont charge if the cells have dropped below a certain threshold. A hacky way to kickstart them back is to connect them to a charged battery, and it'll suck out some of the charge. Usually in minutes the "duff" battery will have enough to then be identified by the charger and allow it to get fully charged. That being said, you got a proper bonus pallet for once!

As a Walmart worker who has completed hundreds of returns, I can confirm that 90% of those tools are returned because of the batteries.

I can't wait to see the live edge, epoxy table that you make out of everything in that pallet.

Which will happen first: -John learns his lesson and stops buying rip off pallets of tools -John runs out of stores he can think of that sell pallets of stuff

I'm new to wood working. Not asking for a thing but I think it's amazing that you're doing this. Tools are expensive. I'm currently buying 1ish per month amd taking hand-me-downs. I'll even invest in my brother so I can get his used ones. I'm loving the projects!

I'm only liking this video because I like your channel...but I'm REALLY hoping that we get to see some builds in the future. I feel like it's been forever since we seen a good build video.

Donnie Platt made out better than anyone. Got all that use out of those tool AND his money back? That's a win. Way to go Donnie! His wife is probably upset though...

I hope the delivery guy didn't end up with one of the bad drills haha, either way it was nice of you to give him some tools 👍

I am surprised people even do return heavily used tools. I live in the UK and never thought of that even being a thing but finding out people just return anything and it gets accepted without any issues is just mind boggling

Whenever I get demotivated because of my lack of creativity, I come to John's channel and binge watch like 5 videos and then I get motivated again to create new things. And some day I'd like to purchase a bunch of mystery boxes and give some kick ass tools back to the community,. :)

As my office's unofficial handyman I was tired of always having to bring my good tools to work to fix things, I picked up a Hart drill for $20 to just keep in the office. It's OK for what it is & will get the smaller jobs done around the place. I will say that it's loud and there's a noticeable delay when the trigger is pulled. Thought about getting an impact driver too but it wasn't on rollback!

That is cool you give them away to viewers or customers...I am new here so that is just awesome to see someone do that for their audience on youtube.. where it isnt just one item only given away. Thanks for the content am enjoying it!!! be well and much love and respect.

Before tossing those batteries out, I would try "resetting", or "jumping" the BMS. This sometimes works. I have never tried it on Hart but have had luck on other TTI branded batteries.

If you're looking for suggestions of what to do with all the drills; some place like Habitat for Humanity would be really grateful for them! You can buy the batteries for them.

Oh John the way you said 'watch you stand in the background & have a good time with yourself' 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JohnMalecki you should see if lee valley offers return pallets. They sell high quality stuff so depending how much a pallet would cost, you’ll definitely get quality items in it