Buying tools

I was talking to a local sales guy in recent weeks and he wanted us to buy car parts from his company. He spoke to the boss first and then me when I was in reception. He left me some leaflets and I advised him that it was not down to me to buy parts or tools for the garage as an employee, however we talked about a ball joint separator for Transits as they can be quite difficult to remove the bottom arms without damaging the joint dust/grease cover. He said he'd get the Sykes rep to call and see me but that never happened. I think the boss is telling people not to bother with me? 

I decided to look online for a transit ball joint separator and find one for sale on eBay. The seller wanted £229 for it. Some sellers wanted as much as £304. I contacted the seller who offered to sell the separator for £220. Snap On came that day and I asked him about these commercial ball joint separators. £500 he wanted for the same tool. I bought the separator from eBay for £220 and got a rapid delivery service.

When I opened the box and looked in the case I saw a plunger type threaded bar and thought there must be additional parts to this tool. The sales guy returns and says he'll send the Sykes guy to see me (again) but never arrived. I decided to look again on eBay after I'd contacted the seller again about the hydraulic option. The seller never came back to me. I did however see a hydraulic version of this separator for £275, however the manual attachments are not included. I found a seller for the hydraulic option, with a cost of £109. I thought should I buy it! Well now I've got the full kit, manual and hydraulic, so now I'll see if I still struggle removing lower suspension arms and ball joints out the swivel hubs, and yes the tool installs the ball joints as well. 

I really don't like struggling with jobs anymore and the online system has been made very easy to take your money. People nowadays really do need a lot of inbuilt self discipline to say no to online sales as it is so easy to spend money without ever seeing it.