If the lock is effective, then you are definitely going to have cases where a paying customer receives a tool that is locked or re-locked itself. The organized

If the lock is effective, then you are definitely going to have cases where a paying customer receives a tool that is locked or re-locked itself. The organized groups on the other hand now just have a slight inconvenience (at worst, until they reverse engineer the electronic locking) where they have to open and bypass the lock before they re-sell the tool. Power tools aren't complex enough to be able to make them impossible to bypass without the theft still being profitable.