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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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SquirtTortuga
10-03-2012 at 08:27 AM.
10-03-2012 at 08:27 AM.
Quote from Personmans :
Any coupons for Item#68365 (2 Piece Solid Steel Auto Ramp Set)
http://www.harborfreight.com/2-pi...68365.html

Looking to get a pair to diagnose an oil leak. I hate using the jack and jack stands for diagnosis work.
Don't buy these... Get a pair of the solid resin ramps widely available. I have a pair that are labeled Gorilla Ramps that I've had for ~8 years, and they still work great.

I have actually seen these steel ramps fail (lose their shape) and put the car on the ground.
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no_idea
10-03-2012 at 11:05 AM.
10-03-2012 at 11:05 AM.
Quote from catguy :
I might get into the store this weekend. If so, I will try to find out what they will take....Paul

Did you happen to have a chance to stop by the store over the weekend?


Quote from Dumpsterdiver :
Never hurts to ask. Kick him a price. I hate to see a mill without a home,..

http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_mi...i-mill.htm
It is just one of a variaty of mini-mills. HF, grizzly, micro-mark, homier/speedway. They require some cleanup and adjustment (I wish they sold them as kits instead) and there's upgrade paths for when the plastic gears take a dump.

I think many would say to save your money for a good used full sized machine, which isn't always practical. Depending on your conversion path, you might be able to recover costs when you upgrade. There's always someone looking to start down the path,..

I've been hearing this sentiment too, and yes I don't think a full sized machine is really practical for me right now. I know their's better mills out there but at my skill level right now, I don't think I would be able to appreciate the difference.
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powellsd
10-03-2012 at 12:44 PM.
10-03-2012 at 12:44 PM.
Anyone have the coupon for the 1 TON FOLDABLE SHOP CRANE ENGINE LIFT $99.99!

I thought I had one, but can't seem to find it anymore.

Thanks
Shannon
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10-03-2012 at 02:03 PM.
10-03-2012 at 02:03 PM.
Quote from powellsd :
Anyone have the coupon for the 1 TON FOLDABLE SHOP CRANE ENGINE LIFT $99.99!

I thought I had one, but can't seem to find it anymore.

Thanks
Shannon
Is it just me or have they removed that completely from the site? I searched using a couple of different terms and the best item number I have from an expired Q (93840) but I get nothing. Someone either back me up on this or prove me insane (<-- which may be easier).
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10-03-2012 at 08:12 PM.
10-03-2012 at 08:12 PM.
[QUOTE=no_idea;53670768]Did you happen to have a chance to stop by the store over the weekend?

No, but I was able to stop for a few minutes today. Couldn't talk with the manager, but noticed they have a price of $400 on it.....Paul
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michvhf
10-04-2012 at 03:05 AM.
10-04-2012 at 03:05 AM.
Quote from gourty :
Is it just me or have they removed that completely from the site? I searched using a couple of different terms and the best item number I have from an expired Q (93840) but I get nothing. Someone either back me up on this or prove me insane (<-- which may be easier).
You're not insane (at least not about this). I couldn't find anything either. Perhaps one of the HF employees here may know if it's history.
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10-04-2012 at 06:12 AM.
10-04-2012 at 06:12 AM.
I'm looking to buy a whole Pneumatic Kit...Compressor, hose, impact wreches...etc

What's the best way to go around getting the whole set using coupons, sales...etc ?
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10-04-2012 at 06:29 AM.
10-04-2012 at 06:29 AM.
Quote from gourty :
Is it just me or have they removed that completely from the site? I searched using a couple of different terms and the best item number I have from an expired Q (93840) but I get nothing. Someone either back me up on this or prove me insane (<-- which may be easier).
Quote from michvhf :
You're not insane (at least not about this). I couldn't find anything either. Perhaps one of the HF employees here may know if it's history.
You can search for it under number 69445. They have it for 179.99 on sale normally 199.99. I seen some people on ebay selling coupons for them. I may have to go that route as i can't find a coupon anywhere on the web.
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10-04-2012 at 09:13 AM.
10-04-2012 at 09:13 AM.
Well I got a new email flyer today and it shows the ratcheting wrenches on sale for 17.99 without a coupon so I figure I will go use a 20% off on them and get em the cheapest I have ever seen them.

Also has any one ever seen the 2 HP 29 gallon air compressor have a coupon?
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10-04-2012 at 09:14 AM.
10-04-2012 at 09:14 AM.
That's one thing that really annoys me about their site, they delete stuff from it all the time if it's discountinued, replaced by another version etc. I wish they would just leave it up for a little while telling you that it was discontinued, linking to a similar replacement etc.

I just ran into this the other week when I was asking about coupons for the 42" end cabinet for my 44" tool chest. I actually thought it over and decided to buy the short end cabinet instead. It was on sale on their site for $129 when I looked on tuesday. Waited until Friday when I got paid and went to the website to buy it and it was gone. Went to the store and they couldn't order it, none in the warehouse, etc. Sent an email and found out it's discontinued, no idea if there will be a replacement or not.
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10-04-2012 at 09:34 AM.
10-04-2012 at 09:34 AM.
Anyone have a coupon for the 37 piece impact socket set? I had one for $24.99 but just realized it expired 9/30. Thanks!
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10-04-2012 at 09:48 AM.
10-04-2012 at 09:48 AM.
Quote from michvhf :
You're not insane (at least not about this). I couldn't find anything either. Perhaps one of the HF employees here may know if it's history.
Thanks mich and I understand my sanity may remain in question otherwise.
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10-04-2012 at 09:16 PM.
10-04-2012 at 09:16 PM.
Quote from powellsd :
Anyone have the coupon for the 1 TON FOLDABLE SHOP CRANE ENGINE LIFT $99.99!

I thought I had one, but can't seem to find it anymore.

Thanks
Shannon
I've got it at $109.99. I don't see $99 in my stack. Let me know if you want it and I'll scan it.
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10-05-2012 at 12:01 PM.
10-05-2012 at 12:01 PM.
Are there any deals for impact sockets 1/2" metric by any chance?
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10-05-2012 at 01:22 PM.
10-05-2012 at 01:22 PM.
Quote from thizsukz :
Are there any deals for impact sockets 1/2" metric by any chance?
Can't say I've seen any Q's for these recently after the ones that ran out in September but here's what's available right now:

Standard 10 pc set -
67899
[harborfreight.com] is currently $11.99 which brings it to $9.59 after the 20% Q.

Deep well 13 pc set -
67903
[harborfreight.com] is currently $22.99 and $18.39 after Q.

Many more with the high-vis laser etching and black phosphate coating but they come with a bigger price tag. It would appear that all the 1/2" impact sets are "sale priced" online at the moment.
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