Here's a bit of a different point of view.
First you need to define where your interest is and try to anticipate where your interest(s) may be in the future.
For me I'm a one trick pony.... I was not a wood worker before building my first guitar and beyond a stinkin bluebird house for Link.... I'm not likely to make anything but guitars. That's where my interest is, has been, and likely will remain in that I know myself pretty well... 
You are a new builder I assume and as such you have not yet found your stride with a number of builds under your belt so that you can know exactly how to build a guitar and more importantly how YOU will build guitars.
All of us here love guitar building or we would not be here, I think.... Just the same all of us may do many things differently including but not limited to the tools that we use.
Some folks love table saws, I no longer own one and never used the one that I got rid of for guitar building anyway.... It was a huge space-suck and catch-all wanting to dominate the middle of the shop. So off it went - good riddens.... Mind you YMMV.
Regarding the list of the bundled tools:
-Scroll saw: Don't have one and don't use one for guitar building
-12 1/2" bench planer: Ditto, not how I build
-4 1/8" bench top jointer: No need for one here either
-Oscillating spindle sander: Bingo - I have one of these and use it often
-Bench top drill press: A drill press is important to how I build and mine is a lousy Crapsman bench top that does the trick for me
-Router/table combo: What's a router table?  I do use laminate trimmers but no full size router or table here either
So you can see that if I was offered this bundle I would have zero interest in so much as I don't use nearly any of these tools for how I build.
Now you may come to use many of these things when you arrive at your own style of building but you can't know that yet.
Regarding Crapsman..... My table top drill press has too much runout and is from when I was a new builder and did not yet understand that good tools are important and that one can, with some effort, purchase tools that not only may last the rest of our days but may also be a pleasure to use for the rest of our days too. My list of what these brands are does not include Crapsman....
You will have expenses with guitar building that you may not have considered yet such as environmental conditions for your shop. Lutherie is very unforgiving if we do not maintain RH (humidity) control, let me rephrase this, if we do not maintain strict RH control in our shops. Your new instrument can crack and warp and self destruct if built with out consideration for RH. Proper temps are needed for glues and finishes to cure and also play into the RH equation as well.
For many just getting the RH thing squared away can mean constructing a dedicated shop with insulation, vapor barriers, AC/heat and humidification. My shop cost me about $5K to build and I built it myself. Besides guitars it was the only thing that I have ever made beyond trouble and reservations....
Anyway my point my friend is that you may find that you purchased things that you won't use, reduced your working capital needlessly, and ended up with stuff that was not your first choice anyway for quality, function, value, etc.
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