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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:Parking Lot Sales
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]Weekly Sales Pages (updated regularly)
Monthly Sales Flyer [harborfreight.com]
Extra Savings [harborfreight.com]
Digital Savings [harborfreight.com]
Savings Coupons [harborfreight.com]
Harbor Freight's Email and Mailing List
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, ...
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:Harbor Freight's Social Media Pages
Emailed Deals Newsletter and Monthly Mail Catalog Signup [harborfreightsignup.com]
Harbor Freight Facebook page [facebook.com]
Harbor Freight on Twitter [twitter.com]
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.COUPONS/DEAL ALERTS VIA TEXT
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.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:
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.
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).
Text the word TOOLS to 222377 for coupons and sale alerts. Up to 4 messages per month.INSIDE TRACK CLUB
Message and data rates may apply.
Text the word TEXTSTOP to cancel.
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].
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.OTHER USEFUL HF INFORMATION
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.
Product User ManualsYou 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:Price adjustments
http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals/41000-41999/41653.PDF [harborfreight.com]
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.HF CONTACT INFO
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.
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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I'll start by suggesting checking if the battery terminal brush is close to $1 on sale or with 20%
Or electrical tape - but only if you can find the old kind, the new label stuff sucks and doesn't even stick to itself (for long).
The duct tape doesn't stick well either.
Providing a false sense of security can be more dangerous than no comfort at all.
The commercial jack stands are fine. Suppose you are jacking up a very heavy 3000 lb vehicle such as an SUV. The hydraulic jack alone is sufficient to hold the weight, but we use jackstands as a safety backup. Even the cheapest jackstands are rated in the range of 2.5 T or 5,000 lbs per jackstand. In addition, most of the vehicles weight shifts to the tires on the ground. So, if you jack up the front, use two jackstands, and remove the jack, each 5,000 lb rated jack stand is supporting 750 lbs at most, and more likely in the range of 500 to 600 lbs - still 20% or less of the rated load.
I've never heard of a jackstand failure - has anyone else?
Make sure the jackstands are sitting level on a solid surface like concrete. Jackstands on the dirt ground or asphalt tend to shift and sink in, due to the load. Jackstands and hydraulic jacks are designed for use only on concrete surfaces.
Providing a false sense of security can be more dangerous than no comfort at all.
The commercial jack stands are fine. Suppose you are jacking up a very heavy 3000 lb vehicle such as an SUV. The hydraulic jack alone is sufficient to hold the weight, but we use jackstands as a safety backup. Even the cheapest jackstands are rated in the range of 2.5 T or 5,000 lbs per jackstand. In addition, most of the vehicles weight shifts to the tires on the ground. So, if you jack up the front, use two jackstands, and remove the jack, each 5,000 lb rated jack stand is supporting 750 lbs at most, and more likely in the range of 500 to 600 lbs - still 20% or less of the rated load.
I've never heard of a jackstand failure - has anyone else?
Lol a PT 4x4 can only support 300 lbs? I think you are mistaken. My companies warehouse has stacks of drywall in excess of 30,000 lbs sitting on top of yellow pine 2x4 spacers. The tire men who change the tires on our peterbilt's will at times use a block of wood to support the axle while they change the tires.
The only way I can possibly think to snap a pt 4x4 with 300 lbs is if you have it suspended over a wide gap and apply that force directly to the middle. Even then you might have to get it started with a saw cut
Not to mention a number of years ago I had my nova sitting for 6 months on pyramid stacked foot long sections of 2 x 4 while I was saving money for the parts I needed. I think wood is a acceptable material capable of supporting far more than 300 lbs.
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The only way I can possibly think to snap a pt 4x4 with 300 lbs is if you have it suspended over a wide gap and apply that force directly to the middle. Even then you might have to get it started with a saw cut
Not to mention a number of years ago I had my nova sitting for 6 months on pyramid stacked foot long sections of 2 x 4 while I was saving money for the parts I needed. I think wood is a acceptable material capable of supporting far more than 300 lbs.
I have no problem using stacked wood as a backup to real jackstands, but I don't make any decisions based on the assumption that the backup will keep me safe. Wood is much more susceptible to movement and point-loads than steel, but I'd rather have my falling car supported by a stack of boards than my skull. I sometimes use cinder blocks, spare wheels, or even ramps as an extra safety measure. As I said before, I don't make any decisions based on the assumption that these measures will save me, but it just might make the difference between life and death.
12gauge, there's no need to justify yourself. You're taking an extra safety measure that many do not.
If we engineers are "mistaken", why do you suppose that building codes don't allow the load levels you suggest on decks, and require 24" diameter footers?
"Guessing" at the load and design of timber heavy support structures is likely to get the car damaged or the person injured. It's far better to use the relatively inexpensive commercially available jackstands that have been designed for and tested to comply with their rated load limit.
If we engineers are "mistaken", why do you suppose that building codes don't allow the load levels you suggest on decks, and require 24" diameter footers?
"Guessing" at the load and design of timber heavy support structures is likely to get the car damaged or the person injured. It's far better to use the relatively inexpensive commercially available jackstands that have been designed for and tested to comply with their rated load limit.
Decks require large footers because the footers are being placed on top of dirt and the weight neds to be distributed over a wider area to prevent sinking. The floor in my garage is concrete I'm not worried about sinking. Also I'm talking about posts maybe 1 foot tall not 4 - 8 feet tall like you see on decks.
And like I've said in previous posts I use these in addition to standard jackstands. I don't trust what they are rated for, they only rate a few stands then they trust the chinese to maintain the same production quality.
FWIW, the accepted minimum design standard for soil is 2500 psf - so a 24" dia footer can support a minimum of 7800 lbs, without requiring soil testing. Given typical deck load ratings of 40 psf, that's about 200 square feet per post. In other words, the load of a typical 10x20 deck under these conditions could be supported by a single post. However, if the post is not properly end-bolted to reduce tipping, that same post cannot support even a tenth of that.
Whatever, just please be careful - I'd hate for anyone to get hurt.
If you are really concerned about the jack stands, you could test them. Use your HF 20 ton press to push down on the jackstands and confirm they don't fail.
The flyer almost looks like a reprint of the last one.
I do see the jackstands in it for $15 without Q, so this would be the lowest price of the year ($12)
Oh I found another 40 cent item instead of tape, get a mini steel brush for 50 cents - 20% Q
I'm getting tired of getting meters though, I like getting meters because it has the highest list price ($10)
I wish I could get a lighted meter, anyone wanna trade four meters for a lighted meter, lol
In those no..
Is your house made of wood?
just mixing the pot
I have used chunks of log for a jack stand when nothing else is available. Figure that is better than nothing.
I'd still say use a proper jack stand when you have no reason not to.
I've heard scotch super 88 electrical tape (another 3M product) is also the best you can get, but expensive too.
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