The seller sometimes just show the lowest price just to bait people. When you click, it is just drill bit (for example)

I think this is a good advise. The only practical cordless tool is probably simple drill driver in my opinion.

If you are just doing work in workshop or around your house, traditional corded tool is the wise choice, unless you don't know what to do with excess money you have

Contractors different story. Sometime they need to do renovation on new house where there is no electricity yet. Last time it was a problem. Need to bring portable generator

Yes, contractor would pay cash to neighbor a sum of money. If neighbor electricity is around 100 per month, then 50 is real deal That is if you get nice neighbor

The real problem is when it is totally new housing area when no supply. If there is electricity but no pay deposit yet, they just connect at the fuse before meter

Combo probably comes with casing?

I cannot agree with you more with this. Everyone has his own opinion. Well known brands have the advantage of being elite and ability to mark up the price but not necessarily better than less known brand. You can see many reviews and comparison by people who used equipment on their daily work, especially the review by a bunch of pros and summaries all their opinion. There are clear winners on certain tools for certain jobs. Like Hilti was well known for its power on rotary hammer but there are pros that likes the Hitachi in term of comfort to hold when doing job.

The price/performance for me is not really hold true for high end brands. If you look at disassembled tools, you can see how good they are. Branded one has many series where the high end one use more expensive part, but the high end product line are actually not much higher in cost to build. In my job I am calculating and estimating the cost to manufacture the products, mostly on electronics and some on mechanical parts as well. Since Trump trade war with China, Milwaukee is one of the brand we are involved with.

Now many brands (if not all) are produced in China. The European brand such as Hilti was costly to produce part of it due to manufacturing cost in Europe. Even once produced in China, they will keep the price to keep the image . As comparison, iPhone This way company get higher margin for high end products being less in volume and a bit higher in cost to manufacture compare to mass produced popular lineups.

Some people buy high end product for reliability. Some people buy because they believe it is good. Some people buy for its name.

Worth to note that the price people pay for the higher end product is the insurance you pay for the warranty as well.

Is that so? I thought the Bosch product line even more overlapping. They manufacture in many places and each places has slightly different naming and even use different motor to reduce cost

For consumable part, more like trial and error if you use unknown one. If lucky you can get China cap ayam that is good with price probably half Problen is China one you don't have brand names

I guess we've seen too many models online because they are grey markets stuffs. We need to look at the official website

Not sure you want to drill what. Metal or concrete?

https://shopee.com.my/5pcs-4mm-5mm-6mm-Hamm...6907.1572177749

Metal also got... I'm sure you can find in hardware shop

I believe that branded one starts from 5mm. Only China made can go below 5mm

Just need to find local supplier that sell China made

Probably the bit is in worn out condition?

Actually, that chuck adapter is not designed for hammering because it will damage the chuck. It is designed for drilling mode only.

All I can think is that the SDS bit is loosely fit into its chuck. It can slide forward and backward, thus act like piston to amplify the hammering. However the adapter also SDS on fitting end

I guess the hammering strength is dampened by the chuck weight as well as the gripping is not non-sliding itself.

Because it is Bosch

If I were you, I'd just go for Stanley simply for its warranty alone. Price wise is negligible.

These are same company
Dewalt - 3 year warranty
Stanley - 2 year warranty
Black and Decker - 1 year warranty

As far as I know the Bosch for this price range, the motor is not something special. Looks like it is using internal brush just like the Stanley. Although the this Bosch is supposed to be at same level as the Dewalt (I think), but I saw Stanley cordless drill even beat Dewalt in drill comparison

Yes but the that Bosch model is still pro (right) but lower end.

That is what I meant, those 3 brands belong to same company.

For occasional use and home DIY (like me), I'd still go for Stanley. I have Bosch, Stanley, Makita, Dewalt.

I could not agree more. For me, the 12V tool is not you want your cordless tool to be based on

I meant to say was that for 12V tool, it does matter what brand that much (in my opinion). For higher power tool, then you might want to stick to your favorite brand so that you can share the battery usage.

Any kit of screw bits from any DIY will do.

You would want to have long bit as well since sometime you need to reach deep and it is impossible to do with big chuck head

SO, the spare part available locally?

Can reject I guess.

Product sometimes has different package. Some in kit form with hard casing and some just with bag type. Some with just original bag. The price s are different but the same model, except the picture is the most expensive kit package

Better chat with seller for assurance.