Thread: Who is the JET importer these days?

Is. there anybody left that hasn't represented them?

Seen anyone retailing them lately ? I haven't ! (I suspect that it's nobody!)

Trend Timbers at McGraths Hill ?

Don’t think so. No Jet machinery on their website any more, but Laguna, Woodfast, Sawstop.

Brian

Check out Jet tools' website. You can see their Australian Distributor.

Originally Posted by justonething

Check out Jet tools' website. You can see their Australian Distributor.

Big range they carry. A single vise!

Track them down through the Jet site and they are in Archerfield QLD, go to their own web site (c 2018) and they are in Bendigo Vic. Same contact email address though.

I was told that the reason CarbaTec don't sell Jet anymore is that Jet have said if you want a bandsaw you have to buy a container load and that goes for each and every type of machine. Now we are talking a huge investment to make before you have sold a single machine, so who is going to make that call. I thought that CarbaTec would be big enough to maybe afford to do it by splitting up a container between their stores around Australia but it seems not. I feel this will be the end of Jet in Australia when current stocks run out.

Well, they've certainly brought it on themselves....

As an owner of several JET machines, purchased over the years from (I think) a different supplier every time, support and supply of spares from their head office has been consistently dismal.

JET thrived before the current round of alternative reasonable quality brands were readily available here (e.g. Harvey, Laguna), when the alternatives were really just Carbatec own brand and H&F at that end of the market. Pretty much as soon as some viable competition turned up, they were done for.

Definitely better value for money elsewhere now.