A ten-year-old Festool track saw sells on Marktplaats for three to four hundred euro, roughly two-thirds of what it cost new, and it usually finds a buyer within the day. That resale floor is the whole reason to buy one.
The Festool TS 55 is a plunge saw that runs along a guide rail and drops a clean, splinter-free cut through sheet material and solid timber. New, the TS 55 FEBQ-Plus is around six hundred and twenty euro. For that you get a tool built to be opened and serviced. Festool covers it for thirty-six months with an all-inclusive repair that includes the wear parts most brands leave out, and the company guarantees every spare part stays available for at least ten years after a model goes out of production. A worn brush, a tired bearing or a chipped riving knife is a listed part and a bench repair, so the saw keeps working for decades.
Now the money. Spend around six hundred and twenty euro, cut furniture and doors and floors with it for fifteen years, and you can still hand it on for three to four hundred. Your real cost across those years is a couple of hundred euro, and that sum sits on the shelf the whole time as an asset you sell back the week you stop woodworking.
Here is fifteen years, side by side.
| Festool TS 55 | Budget track saw | |
|---|---|---|
| New price | about €620 | about €150 |
| Warranty and parts | 36-month all-inclusive repair, parts for 10+ years | short warranty, not economically repairable |
| Saws bought over 15 yr | 1 | 2 to 3 |
| Resale after 10+ yr | €350 to €450 | €0 |
| Net cost over 15 yr | about €200 | about €300, nothing back |
The one hundred and fifty euro saw looks like the sensible pick until you count the reorders and the empty resale column. Its gearbox and bearings are built down to a price, the cut wanders once the rail clamps wear, and no repairer will touch it for less than a fresh one costs, so it goes to the tip and you buy again. Two or three of those across fifteen years costs more than the whole decade of ownership on the Festool, and at the end you own nothing.
A tool that holds its value changes how it feels to own. You reach for the good saw without wincing at the wear, because the wear is covered and the parts exist. Every cut it makes is furniture-grade from the first day to the last, and the used market treats a well-kept one as money waiting to come back to you. The euros you put in stay where you put them, ready to return the day you pass the saw to its next owner.
Verdict
Buy the saw once, cut with it for fifteen years, and sell it on for two-thirds of what you paid.