Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[John_Mc]

I'm curious to watch their changes but dislike daily solicitation.
They are clogging up the proverbial airwaves.

I wish there was a way to cut them back to one email per week. The flood I get from them and from Northern Tool is really tempting me to take myself off their mailing lists.

 

[Diggin It]

The 30% off items under $10 is back up. Limit 5 items. If you need a few small, low cost things, this works out well.

 

[LouNY]

Even if I go in for just a "few" small items it seems to cost me $100 or more before I get out

 

[lostcreekranch]

Sometimes you can get away with using the same coupon again the same day if you use a different payment method, for example pay cash once and use a credit card the second time, or use two different credit cards.

All the HF stores here ask for your phone # here which links to your email .. etc. I need to go to Richmond Monday to pick up some electrical items not available locally so .. I stop then after my 72 hours is up.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ They ask, but I never give it to them.

 

[5030]

Not only did the Feds successfully prosecute HF for misleading advertising years ago, but I think all that complicated promotional hoopla
wound up being expensive. Today they can send us daily emails for much less money. I think email and texting will be their approach from now on,
though I'm sure they will have a sale on something. I'm curious to watch their changes but dislike daily solicitation.
They are clogging up the proverbial airwaves.

If a normal retail store (not electronics) keystones their inventory, charging double what they pay for it, then giving 20 percent off on that still means
good profit to the seller. But perhaps things have changed in China and they aren't getting the same good deals/cheap deals they were before.

Not everything they offer comes from China, just most.....

 

[5030]

Ditto! When I used to sell stuff on Ebay, I disposed of received plastic peanuts in shipments back to wherever the most had come from. Before the cat could get to them and make a mess.

(Wikipedia photo).

Having 10 felines in the house, I know that story well.... ...and I don't like cats but I tolerate them because my wife is a cat person and I know which side my bread is buttered on....

 

[5030]

Interestingly, I never get emails from HF other than the monthly ITC flyer coupons. Never have but then my Trend might be deleting them for me automatically.

 

[California]

Someone noted the 7 mil blue Nitrile gloves are now $20/box, up from about $8 a year ago. And I see 'Store only. Back in stock soon', around here. HF notes they are now paying more for these and haven't increased their margin. I see also there are no welders listed available except the two cheapest CE stick welders.

This may explain why HF's stocks are low to none: Port of Los Angeles is so backed up that cargo ships are anchoring offshore waiting days to unload. Alternately, a lot of high-value cargo is shifting to more expensive air transport to avoid the delay.

 

[LouNY]

Someone noted the 7 mil blue Nitrile gloves are now $20/box, up from about $8 a year ago. And I see 'Store only. Back in stock soon', around here. HF notes they are now paying more for these and haven't increased their margin.

Of course a margin of 50% on $8 isn't bad but sure as heck isn't as nice as 50% on $20.