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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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There's been a few reported incidents of cashiers and maybe some managers not accepting Q's that are obviously printed from your computer. As for me, I've never had an issue even with some single Q's that take up half a letter size page. Besides, I'm not sure how else they expect me to use a Q they sent me in an email. Best thing to do, at least as a backup, is save the Q to your phone if you have the ability to do so. This way they must take it (now a company policy) and you also don't forfeit your Q to them. All that is really needed is the number associated with the bar code. Technically, you could show up at the register with a hand written piece of paper (or do it by memory or list it on your phone...) and give the code to the cashier. If the Q code is valid for your purchase then ba-da-bing!
I now go in normally with my list as (and no issues if computer says valid (& applicable):
coupon code, item description, item code(s), price.
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Btw this is the thread if anyone is interested in getting the saw for $50-$55. Basically, you buy 3 saws, use the coupon code, pickup 1 in store and have the other 2 shipped (free) then return those. Probably only worth it if you have a sears close by as I do. But like I said, this is the exact same saw as HF sells but it's 1yr warranty vs 90 days.
http://slickdeals.net/f/5894862-Updated-Craftsman-10-Compound-Miter-Saw-with-Stand-21241-104-99-AC-OR-POSSIBLE-59-or-84-99-ymmv-on-59-or-84-99-Free-Shipping-or-Store-Pickup?
I've never had an issue at my store with "giant" printed coupons that were obviously from my computer. Seems it's very dependent on your local store\cashier\manager. You can search this thread for "coupon policy" and see many entries with great information regarding this topic.
Here is a link to the SD New User Guide. It is very helpful and despite the fact that I've been a SD'er for a couple years now, I still reference it first when I have questions. Very good info, even for those seasoned vets out here. The Wiki (located on the very first page of this thread) also has a great deal of information and links specific to HF and this thread. Kudos to the OP (Original Poster <-- the one who started this thread) Dumpsterdiver (aka Dd) and all those who contribute to and maintain it!
If I were to bother with spending money, I'd love to grab a 12" double bevel sliding compound miter saw like HFT #69684 [harborfreight.com] (~120 for today OR by a coupon posted here in the last 2 weeks) on my Ridgid MS-UV.(a combination miter saw stand/miter saw cart). $80 for something that will "just do" for this project or $120 for something that should take care of any future project? I'll spend the $120. This is actually a part of how I inherited the Craftsman as my dad upgraded to a DeWalt comparable to HFT #69684.
Side note: the electric brake is a nice bonus safety feature but NEVER EVER depend on it as my Craftsman's brake circuit is unreliable (works ~75% of the time). ALWAYS practice safety common sense.
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It's 100 miles round trip to my nearest HF so I have to make it worth the while when I go. I typically do 3 different orders (for me and the 2 guys at work - wink, wink) and I have coupons for absolutely every item I'm purchasing. Plus I always get a "free item" with each order.
Knock on wood, but I've never had a problem.
I've even had luck the last 2 visits using ITC coupons. Seems they must figure that if you have the coupon you must be a member.
It's 100 miles round trip to my nearest HF so I have to make it worth the while when I go. I typically do 3 different orders (for me and the 2 guys at work - wink, wink) and I have coupons for absolutely every item I'm purchasing. Plus I always get a "free item" with each order.
Knock on wood, but I've never had a problem.
I've even had luck the last 2 visits using ITC coupons. Seems they must figure that if you have the coupon you must be a member.
I will credit you for going into uncharted territory for me with the ITC Q's though. Haven't tried that yet but it is more a case of not finding the right Q for the purchase. One day I'll venture into the unknown and feel the exhilaration of being completely invincible like you. For now I lay in wait and plot my next purchase (aka sinister move). Mu hahahahahahaha!
If I were to bother with spending money, I'd love to grab a 12" double bevel sliding compound miter saw like HFT #69684 [harborfreight.com] (~120 for today OR by a coupon posted here in the last 2 weeks) on my Ridgid MS-UV.(a combination miter saw stand/miter saw cart). $80 for something that will "just do" for this project or $120 for something that should take care of any future project? I'll spend the $120. This is actually a part of how I inherited the Craftsman as my dad upgraded to a DeWalt comparable to HFT #69684.
Side note: the electric brake is a nice bonus safety feature but NEVER EVER depend on it as my Craftsman's brake circuit is unreliable (works ~75% of the time). ALWAYS practice safety common sense.
Tip for you. First Q is the original, second is after scissors.
Print out in B&W so the color part doesn't stick out.
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Haha nice. I went back and re-read your post about getting the saw for parking lot sale price plus 20% Q the day b4 sale, too bad I missed it this time. I'll remember to check next time around and hopefully there will be a valid 25% Q floating around then also.
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Tip for you. First Q is the original, second is after scissors.
Print out in B&W so the color part doesn't stick out.
Purchased this cable this weekend.
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