The biggest thing I have seen with matco, snap on, mac, and cornwell is alot of the tools are the same just rebadged. Plus if any of you seen the episode of hows it made you would of seen waterloo tool box companys assembly line and when they get to the trim department they were not getting waterloo badges. I will tell you this my buddy has a custom snap-on box with a made in waterloo Ia sticker on it, same goes for my mac tools cart. I beleive all tool boxs come from the same place but each manufacturer requires different quilty when built! As for sockets I only buy snap-on but keep in mind that blue point which is sold by snap-on is made in china or someplace like that.