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Most of the coupons are at the bottom of the WIKI (next post). However, you may not be able to see them on your mobile device without using the full slickdeals website.

http://www.hfqpdb.com/harborfreightcoupons

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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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10-21-2014 at 12:38 PM.
10-21-2014 at 12:38 PM.
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J - good for you, I didn't have time this time to try it but I was curious to see if anyone bothered either n the store or online
Yes, that was a good thing to try. I can usually stop by on my way home.
The other score I did recently was an open-box sale. I usually don't see anything useful on the table or shelf where they have this stuff.

Although a couple of years ago, I picked up the 18V circular saw on sale. I didn't realize (stupidly didn't read the box) that it did not have the battery and charger included with it. I was already on the job, so I just used alligator clips to hook it to the terminals of another 18V battery I already had. I debated about returning it after I was done, but I seldom can force myself to do that with any tool.

So I thought when I got this 18V drill, which did include the battery, I could use it also with the circular saw. Little did I notice (again, stupid) that the Chicago Electric "brand" used a different battery than the DrillMaster.

So yesterday I was in there and just happened to look at the open box shelf and saw one of the same 5 1/4 circular 18V saws on the return shelf, just like mine. Then behind it I saw the battery and charger. The stupid battery "retails" for 24.99 and the charger (separate, no less!) retails for 19.99. That's like $45 for the pair, and even on sale they are usually $15 + $10=$25. So I took the charger, which was marked open at 4.99 up to the register and it rang up with my 25% off, for like $3.75. I stashed the battery behind some other junk on the shelf, and went there after work and it was still there, also marked down to 4.99. I was worried the charger might have been bad, but the cashier, who knows me well, said that the guy who had just bought the saw and entire package had just returned it, not because it didn't work, but just because he decided to get something else. So she said it probably worked fine.

She told me at that night that she could not combine the 25% with the open box price, and I said I was fine with that. But she did it anyway, probably because the manager was within earshot.

So I got them both for about $7.50, and I figure that's well worth the deal. Unfortunately that is the only tool I have that uses that battery, but that little saw did work well on some small projects, and was light to carry and easy to hold.

J.
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10-23-2014 at 12:09 AM.
10-23-2014 at 12:09 AM.
Wow - good for you J - good story - sometimes we get lucky after being stupid - but in your defense I'll say you were more in a rush to get out of there than stupid.
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10-23-2014 at 06:29 AM.
10-23-2014 at 06:29 AM.
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Wow - good for you J - good story - sometimes we get lucky after being stupid - but in your defense I'll say you were more in a rush to get out of there than stupid.
Yes, thanks.

You're kind to say I was probably "rushing", but I'm afraid I don't have a lot of defense for myself. I'm just used to their cheapo drills always coming with the battery and charger, so I really wasn't paying attention to the box. And I had bought it, like I usually do everything else, when it was on a pretty good sale, so I was so super proud of myself for picking it up so cheap that I made the mistake. I realized why it was so cheap when I opened up the box, which I usually do with every HF tool box that is not shrink-wrapped in the store. I've had too many that some knucklehead has opened up on the shelf and dropped out something useful, like the bag of attachment bolts or something like that.

-John
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10-24-2014 at 03:10 AM.
10-24-2014 at 03:10 AM.
4314 Retail C [harborfreight.com] Thru Thru 11/2 - WOW stuff. 3 in 1 Power Pack, Go Thru Socket Set, ...
4314 Retail B [harborfreight.com] Thru 10/31 - October is still Free (3 FWAPs)
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10-24-2014 at 07:06 AM.
10-24-2014 at 07:06 AM.
How about an updated coupon for the 3500# Badland winch? Only ones I can seem to find are for either the 2500# or the 12,000#.
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10-25-2014 at 08:29 AM.
10-25-2014 at 08:29 AM.
Lost my latest coupon for 56" roller box. Anyone got it? Thanks - this thread is awesome!

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Well post again amd PM me it too please
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I found a previous post of yours about the gloves - but that one didn't have any pics - did they delete yours with some pic like this one?
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I found a previous post of yours about the gloves - but that one didn't have any pics - did they delete yours with some pic like this one?
Yea, its my bad I found it. ignore what I wrote LMAO
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10-27-2014 at 01:17 PM.
10-27-2014 at 01:17 PM.
Hi everyone,

Long time listener, first time caller. Uh, I mean long time reader, first time poster.

Anyway, I'm very surprised that no one has posted this NPR coupon yet. I'm not good at these things so I hope that I scanned it okay and the barcode and number is clear.

I gotta get back to work.

Happy shopping y'all!

-Adam
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10-27-2014 at 03:50 PM.
10-27-2014 at 03:50 PM.
Quote from AdamChanSiuLung :
Hi everyone,

Long time listener, first time caller. Uh, I mean long time reader, first time poster.

Anyway, I'm very surprised that no one has posted this NPR coupon yet. I'm not good at these things so I hope that I scanned it okay and the barcode and number is clear.

I gotta get back to work.

Happy shopping y'all!

-Adam
Thanks Adam and Welcome

It has been posted here, in a post, and I see it in the Wiki, although its not as clear as yours. (OP admitted to its condition)
Thanks for your scan!
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10-27-2014 at 05:33 PM.
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Thanks Adam and Welcome

It has been posted here, in a post, and I see it in the Wiki, although its not as clear as yours. (OP admitted to its condition)
Thanks for your scan!
Thanks for welcoming me Marcia.

Is the wiki the thumbnails on the first page? If so, just a brief clarification. The coupon on that page for the Pickup and Reach Tool is Free with a purchase. The coupon I posted is a "No Purchase Required".

I meant that I didn't see anyone post a No Purchase Required coupon for that Pickup tool.

Sorry that I wasn't clear.
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Thanks for welcoming me Marcia.

Is the wiki the thumbnails on the first page? If so, just a brief clarification. The coupon on that page for the Pickup and Reach Tool is Free with a purchase. The coupon I posted is a "No Purchase Required".

I meant that I didn't see anyone post a No Purchase Required coupon for that Pickup tool.

Sorry that I wasn't clear.
So sorry. I just looked at the product. Free NO purch, even BETTER!
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