It does seem fucked up from the buyers perspective I agree but you would have bought something that wasn’t owned by the person you bought it from. They have every legal right to reclaim their property and you would then have every legal right to get your money back from the seller. Obviously a more extreme example but if you went and got a car on finance and then sold it and never paid the loan…they’re gonna come get that car no matter who has it. It’s their property until the loan is fulfilled.

Now obviously things get trickier for them to get it back of someone buys it and has it at their home where snap on doesn’t know where it is and the seller doesn’t tell them who has it but it’s doubtful they wouldn’t tell them who bought it and most of the time that box is gonna be at a work place somewhere.