Riiiiiiiiiight. So, we're talking about organised criminals here? Primarily, anyway? They steal power tools because they figure they can make a lot of money o

Riiiiiiiiiight. So, we're talking about organised criminals here? Primarily, anyway? They steal power tools because they figure they can make a lot of money out of them, and there's clearly a substantial market for stolen power tools if that's the case. It matters not one whit if the goofballs who steal the tools on their behalf are able to make them work or not. Do you honestly think they're not going to be able to figure this stuff out and easily inactivate the Bluetooth lockout? All you're going to end up doing is passing the cost of this theatre on to legitimate consumers which, perversely, will increase the appeal of buying stolen tools at a discount. Bravo. Why not use the tagging mechanism you probably already have for high value items and which won't require any additional costs/new technology? This has nothing to do with customer experience, or even with reducing revenue lost to shoplifting, and everything to do with some tech/IT guy's wet dream about control and power. (Cynically, I wonder if this also provides a route to killing the secondary market for power tools, forcing people to buy new. It's a long play but it's exactly the kind of thing I can imagine them doing, especially with people like Sonos having tried to brick speakers to prevent them being resold.)