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Harbor Freight Coupon Policy
Harbor Freight's official coupon policies and usage instructions can be read here:
How to use Coupons [harborfreight.com]

However, for your convenience, here is a summary of the kind of coupons HF offers and the important things to know when using them:
  • One coupon per item, no double dipping on coupons. For example, you cannot combine an item-specific coupon advertising a socket set for $4.99 and stack that with a 20% coupon. You must choose one or the other.
  • Prices on item-specific coupons are not always better than using a 20% off coupon. Be sure to check the pre-coupon price of the item online or on the shelf in-store to compute the after 20% discount price and compare it to your item coupon price.
  • Fixed price item coupons will list a purchase QTY limit for that item at coupon price.
  • You may have a fixed price item coupon retroactively applied to a previous purchase within 30 days. Just bring in your receipt and the coupon and they should refund you the difference.
  • One percentage off coupon per purchase, per day. 20% off coupons are ubiquitous and can be found year round. Occasionally HF will release 25% off coupons, usually during holidays and other random times during the year with short periods of validity.
  • You can use 20% off coupons on top of sale prices with the following exceptions not already mentioned:

    Excludes the following items:
    • Inside Track Club Membership
    • Extended Service Plans
    • Gift Cards
    • Open box items
    • Items advertised in a "Parking Lot Sale" flyer
    • Compressors
    • Floor Jacks
    • Safes
    • Saw Mills
    • Storage (Tool) Cabinets, Chests or Carts
    • Trailers
    • Trenchers/Backhoes
    • Welders

    Excludes the following brands:
    • Admiral
    • Ames
    • Bauer
    • Cobra
    • CoverPro
    • Daytona
    • Earthquake
    • Fischer
    • Hercules
    • Icon
    • Jupiter
    • Lynxx
    • Poulan
    • Predator
    • Tailgator
    • Viking
    • Vulcan
    • Zurich

  • FREE ITEMS:There are quite a few items that can be had for free with a coupon with any purchase or with a specified minimum purchase amount. Like the % off coupons, these are also limited to one per customer per day.

WHERE TO FIND COUPONS
The best online resource for finding copies of HF coupons will be through a site a fellow slickdealer has put together and maintains:
http://www.hfqpdb.com/

This site will always have the best percentage-off coupon available as well as just about every free item coupon in existence. In addition, it will also have a plethora of item-specific fixed-price coupons. Fortunately, next to each item-coupon shows what the current pre-coupon price of the item is and what the price would be if a 20% coupon were applied to determine if it would be better to use a 20% coupon on the item.

There is also a nifty sub-page that will allow you to try and find available coupons by item number:
http://www.hfqpdb.com/tools

Aside from that, here are other ways you can obtain digital or physical harbor freight coupons:

On Harbor Freight's Webpage or sub-pages:
HarborFreight.com [harborfreight.com]
Monthly Sales Flyer [harborfreight.com]
Extra Savings [harborfreight.com]
Digital Savings [harborfreight.com]
Savings Coupons [harborfreight.com]
Weekly Sales Pages (updated regularly)

Value When You Need It Most - April Coupons [harborfreight.com] Thru 4/30 - Moving Blankets, Batteries, Sawhorse, Cement Mixer, Miter Saw Stands, Sand Blast Cabinet, Compressors, Moving Dollies, Can-o-Pee, ...


Harbor Freight's Email and Mailing List
You can get deal newsletters emailed to you as well as their monthly mailed catalog which includes normally around a half-dozen pages of coupons in addition to a listing of a majority of their entire in-store product selection and current sale prices:
Emailed Deals Newsletter and Monthly Mail Catalog Signup [harborfreightsignup.com]
Harbor Freight's Social Media Pages
Facebook
Harbor Freight Facebook page [facebook.com]

Twitter
Harbor Freight on Twitter [twitter.com]
Online and Physical Third-Party Publications
You can find an assortment of HF coupons in various online and local publications/newspapers, coupon packs you get in the mail, and certain magazines that typically target the men's handyman/mechanic/auto enthusiast/outdoorsman demographic.

Here are some online publications:
Progressive Farmer [dtnpf-digital.com] This link should open up the most current issue. To find the Harbor Freight coupon pages, move your cursor towards the top left of the page to find the Menu drop-down. Expand the "Advertisers" selection to find "Harbor Freight" which will then display the pages with the coupons when clicked.
Clipper Clippert [nwclipper.com] Sweet site, locate the "harbor freight" line items in the list.
Issuu.com [issuu.com] This site contains a bunch of digital copies of popular magazine publications (albeit not very well organized and curated). You can browse under certain categories like "Vehicles" to find magazines that will regularly have HF coupons.
Here are a list of some printed magazine publications you will frequently find a page or two of coupons towards the back of the magazine:
4 Wheel & Off Road, American Rifleman, Boating, Car & Driver, Cycle World, Diesel Power, Dirt Rider, Discover, ESPN, Field & Stream, Flying, Four Wheeler, Grass Roots Motorsports, (The Family) Handyman, Home Theater, Hot Bike, Hot Rod, Import Tuner, Jp Magazine, Kiplinger's (Personal Finance), Maxim, Men's Journal, Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Mini Truckin', Money, Mopar Muscle, Motor Boating, Motor Cyclist, Motor Trend, Off-Road, Outdoor Life, Playboy, Popular Mechanics, Popular Photography, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, Popular Science, Science Illustrated, Shotgun News, Shutterbug, Smithsonian, Successful Farming, Transworld Motocross, Truck Trend, Via(for AAA members), Wood, Woodworker's Journal, Westways(for AAA members).
COUPONS/DEAL ALERTS VIA TEXT
Text the word TOOLS to 222377 for coupons and sale alerts. Up to 4 messages per month.
Message and data rates may apply.
Text the word TEXTSTOP to cancel.
INSIDE TRACK CLUB
Harbor Freight's "Inside Track Club" (ITC) gives you exclusive access to other product coupons not normally available to the general public as well as 1 hour early access to Harbor Freight's parking lot sales. The product coupons offered will often feature more niche items or items generally never seen in the normal circulating assortment of product coupons found in the aforementioned public sources.

The value of this membership has received mixed reviews as many deals that are offered are no better or sometimes worse than simply using a 20% off coupon on the advertised item. However, since you are only allowed to use the 20% off coupon once per day, it may help to purchase a variety of needed items at a discount in one trip.

Recently, members have been posting the monthly issues of ITC coupons to this forum and they are usually uploaded to HFQPDB. HF's POS systems are not configured to confirm Inside Track Club membership nor does it prompt the cashier to check. The system treats ITC coupon codes like any other regular coupon. Cashiers reportedly don't bother to confirm your membership either and simply scan any coupon you give them with no questions asked. Normally if you verbally give the cashier the coupon code to enter, they will do so and the system will simply process it like normal.

Currently the membership fee is $29.99 for 1 year or $44.99 for two years. Either comes with a free $10 gift card for signing up.

To find out more information or to sign-up, please click here [harborfreight.com].
Parking Lot Sales
Harbor Freight runs a parking lot tent sale about once every 10 weeks which runs for 3 days over a weekend starting on Friday. They will typically start handing out the 4-page flyer for this event in stores 6-8 weeks in advance. The items advertised are mostly the same collection of items you regularly see advertised in their other flyers and publications issued throughout the year. The advertised prices for these items are usually the same as the prices you see on the item-specific coupons found year-round. The difference here being that you can purchase these items at their usual coupon price without actually needing a coupon. Remember, however, that you cannot stack any percentage-off coupons on any item advertised in their parking lot flyer.

The biggest deal with the parking lot sale is that they sell, at a discount, all their open-box items (usually customer returns), cosmetically damaged items, or items that are missing non-essential parts or parts that can be replaced. On the first day (Friday), prices for these items are as-marked with special orange stickers. For most items, these starting prices are no better than or worse than the prices you can get for these items in new condition with coupon. On Saturday, they offer them at 25% off the marked price which, typically, is only marginally better than usual coupon prices. But on Sunday, they increase the markdown to 50% off the stickered price which is where you can really make out like a bandit, but be aware that a lot of the big-ticket items are well picked-over by this time. Sometimes the managers have increased the discount to over 50% near the end of the day and you can sometimes make an offer to the manager for remaining open-box items near closing hours on Sunday.

Be aware that marked-down purple-tagged items (also seen year round in a designated open-box section of the store) are generally priced as marked and are non-negotiable. They are generally like-new open box customer returns, or missing pieces which is normally the result of the store's method of cannibalizing new kits to warranty-replace whatever pieces broke in a customer's kit. The marked down price is usually 20% off which means it's better to buy a new one with a coupon. Honestly, they are just trying to pawn off these purple-tagged items to ignorant customers.

Lastly, be aware that all open-box items are sold as-is with only a 5 day return policy.
OTHER USEFUL HF INFORMATION
Product User Manuals
You can obtain an online copy of the manual for many items by taking the part number and inserting it into the following URL format along with a specified 1000-item number range. For example, if you needed the manual for item #41653 which is in the 1000-range of 41000-41999 format the URL like the following:
http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals/41000-41999/41653.PDF [harborfreight.com]
Price adjustments
Coupons that have expired and are no longer valid may still be honored or partially honored by discretion of the HF customer service representative or in-store manager.

For online orders, call customer service with the item and coupon numbers and they may be willing to process the order for less on the phone or adjust your online order after it has been placed.
HF CONTACT INFO
If you need to get a hold of customer service:
Call 1-800-444-3353, Monday thru Friday, 6:00 am to 4:30 pm PST time
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected] <----- This seems to be the most effective form for complaints

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06-06-2014 at 09:53 AM.
06-06-2014 at 09:53 AM.
I've received 20% off Harbor Freight coupons just like that one posted on the first page FROM harbor freight when I returned some items through the mail about a year ago or so....

I know it's not fake... I remember thinking, why bother sending 20% coupons out, it was in a sheet of three of the same coupon if I remember correctly....

I wish I kept them now, but at the time I just tossed them away...

Mike B


Quote from avalon :
I think this coupon popped up a few years ago and was identified as a photoshopped fake.

It doesn't work anywhere because it never existed.

If you google fake harbor freight coupons, image shows up from forum posts from 2009 and is identified as a fake.

So you are accidentally committing coupon fraud which has some scary laws to protect stores and not consumers.

That coupon needs to be deleted from the wiki and possibly re-posted with a big red X on it to help prevent other people from getting in trouble.
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06-06-2014 at 09:57 AM.
06-06-2014 at 09:57 AM.
Quote from DocktorD :
And as of Friday morning the loophole has been closed - no using percent off coupons on items that have parking lot sale pricing (i.e. 12" miter saw, electric impact, etc). I just checked and if you add one to the cart it says, "The item is excluded from certain coupon offers. Please check the coupon for details. " and the 25% coupon will not stack.

Interestingly, you can use an item-specific coupon if it yields a better price than the parking lot sale price. I was able to apply coupon 14581044 to get the electric impact for $37.99 instead of the $39.99 parking lot price. As always, you have to do the math on HF "sale" pricing because rarely can you beat a 25% off coupon price.
do you think parking sale price can be combined with 25% off cpn at store?
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06-06-2014 at 10:30 AM.
06-06-2014 at 10:30 AM.
Quote from rekcah :
any coupons for a VISE?
Read the last line of the post above yours.

"As always, you have to do the math on HF "sale" pricing because rarely can you beat a 25% off coupon price."

If an item is on sale, very rarely will there be a coupon which beats the 25% off coupon.
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06-06-2014 at 10:38 AM.
06-06-2014 at 10:38 AM.
Quote from liulinglll :
do you think parking sale price can be combined with 25% off cpn at store?
On Thrusday. When the ad prices go active online, you can often price match the parking lot sale price online and then use a 25%. On Friday the store's ad goes active and either they won't or the computer won't allow you to combine them.

Link to the parking lot sale online/ [harborfreight.com]

My store added another 2 tables of returned items from the back of the store. My photos showed 9 or so mini-generators, they were down to 3. The auger I went back for was gone as well. Frown
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06-06-2014 at 10:45 AM.
06-06-2014 at 10:45 AM.
Quote from Dumpsterdiver :
On Thrusday. When the ad prices go active online, you can often price match the parking lot sale price online and then use a 25%. On Friday the store's ad goes active and either they won't or the computer won't allow you to combine them.

Link to the parking lot sale online/ [harborfreight.com]

My store added another 2 tables of returned items from the back of the store. My photos showed 9 or so mini-generators, they were down to 3. The auger I went back for was gone as well. Frown

i see, kinda sad...really want that miter saw...
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06-06-2014 at 10:49 AM.
06-06-2014 at 10:49 AM.
Has anyone ever tried to get a list of the unadvertised "managers specials"? It always seems like there are 1 or 2 items I don't mind having, and the 25% off coupons work on those. Can anyone explain to me what exactly is further discounted on Saturday and Sunday? It doesn't seem to be open box items. Is it JUST the clearance items? What exactly are the seemingly "refurbished" items with the red sticky price tag? I bought a nail gun last time and it worked wonderfully but had obviously been used and had "DOA" scratched on the housing. I'd just like to get the straight skinny, the clerks at the store don't seem to really know.
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06-06-2014 at 12:58 PM.
06-06-2014 at 12:58 PM.
Quote from Dumpsterdiver :
Read the last line of the post above yours.

"As always, you have to do the math on HF "sale" pricing because rarely can you beat a 25% off coupon price."

If an item is on sale, very rarely will there be a coupon which beats the 25% off coupon.
Yeah I figured. It would have been about $34 for the 4 in vise.

I did find one on clearance at Lowes.

Bessey 4in- workshop vise item #209447 it was $49.98 but on clearance for $27.99.
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06-06-2014 at 02:21 PM.
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Yeah I figured. It would have been about $34 for the 4 in vise.

I did find one on clearance at Lowes.

Bessey 4in- workshop vise item #209447 it was $49.98 but on clearance for $27.99.
Sounds like a good deal for a bessey, did you post it to the hot deals forum? Those HF vises have a pretty low rating for nearly all of them.
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06-06-2014 at 02:33 PM.
im looking for air tools stuff. I got a detail gun but, realize i need things in case of.. like couplers and quick connects. I saw a sprayer for $9.99 so my question is will that go down as the days progress?. same with the 17 piece tool set. thanks in advance
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06-06-2014 at 02:36 PM.
Quote from Dumpsterdiver :
Sounds like a good deal for a bessey, did you post it to the hot deals forum? Those HF vises have a pretty low rating for nearly all of them.
Just did

https://slickdeals.net/f/6981768-bessey-4inch-workshop-vise-27-99-lowes-b-m-ymmv?p=68484822#post68484822
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im looking for air tools stuff. I got a detail gun but, realize i need things in case of.. like couplers and quick connects. I saw a sprayer for $9.99 so my question is will that go down as the days progress?. same with the 17 piece tool set. thanks in advance
Not sure your meaning. Red tagged items? Here, they do not go down as the ad implies. Sometime on sunday most stores here will drop red tag prices to 1/2 off the red tag. I've hit some stores pretty late sunday and they still were red tagged price and heard the announcement just after lunch at other stores.
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Quote from Dumpsterdiver :
Not sure your meaning. Red tagged items? Here, they do not go down as the ad implies. Sometime on sunday most stores here will drop red tag prices to 1/2 off the red tag. I've hit some stores pretty late sunday and they still were red tagged price and heard the announcement just after lunch at other stores.
on the bottom HVLP Gravity feed gun 47016 for $9.99 will that go down more or thats the red tag final?. kinda a newbie on these parking lot sales.. never bothered with them before. but lately ive been going to HF like almost every day to use that 25% to get piece by piece for the spray gun.. 1 day regulator, 1 day the paint gun . etc.
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on the bottom HVLP Gravity feed gun 47016 for $9.99 will that go down more or thats the red tag final?. kinda a newbie on these parking lot sales.. never bothered with them before. but lately ive been going to HF like almost every day to use that 25% to get piece by piece for the spray gun.. 1 day regulator, 1 day the paint gun . etc.
There are normal parking lot sale items, those are the everyday items they sell, at the parking lot prices. Those will be that price for the whole weekend. Often, you will find them on sale at the same price, or nearly the same sale price and as long as it's not a parking lot sale, you can also use a 25% coupon. So I don't buy much "sale items" at parking lot sales anymore. That $10 gun will be $10 for the whole weekend.

What I was talking about 'red tag' are returns, open box and otherwise clearance items that have a red tag on them. These might be wrench sets missing a wrench. Generators that were refurbished. A used once and returned drill. A 12 ton press that got dropped off the forklift and damaged the box and packing material.

Those items are sometimes shown as the "50%, 60%, 75% off final day". In reality,nothing is 50,60,75 and I'm sure at some point they'll get nailed on that.
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Fathers Day June 14 and 15 store coupon had Free with purchase the usual 6 items multimeter,bar clamp scissors,tape measure,screwdriver set and led worklight flashlight.
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