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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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April Fools Harbor Freight Multi-Meter No Purchase Required [youtu.be]
That settles that. Let's put that one up on wiki. Now all we need to do is find the flashlight no purchase required. Let the hunt begin!!!!
Funny that you felt you had to block the store from the camera though, you actually don't have to do that...
I also thought it was humorous that you went back into the store after checking out with the meter... I dunno why, but I would have gone and put the meter in my car, then went back in and got another freebie with purchase :-)
good stuff though, I enjoy watching your videos.... NewEgg (I think) has a camera built into glasses for $40 (I think).... I thought that would be cool to document a trip somewhere with the glasses on and recording LOL ;-)
Mike B
Funny that you felt you had to block the store from the camera though, you actually don't have to do that...
I also thought it was humorous that you went back into the store after checking out with the meter... I dunno why, but I would have gone and put the meter in my car, then went back in and got another freebie with purchase :-)
good stuff though, I enjoy watching your videos.... NewEgg (I think) has a camera built into glasses for $40 (I think).... I thought that would be cool to document a trip somewhere with the glasses on and recording LOL ;-)
Mike B
I might do more of this in the future. It was funny and fun to do.
April Fools Harbor Freight Multi-Meter No Purchase Required [youtu.be]
That settles that. Let's put that one up on wiki. Now all we need to do is find the flashlight no purchase required. Let the hunt begin!!!!
Funny that you felt you had to block the store from the camera though, you actually don't have to do that...
I also thought it was humorous that you went back into the store after checking out with the meter... I dunno why, but I would have gone and put the meter in my car, then went back in and got another freebie with purchase :-)
good stuff though, I enjoy watching your videos.... NewEgg (I think) has a camera built into glasses for $40 (I think).... I thought that would be cool to document a trip somewhere with the glasses on and recording LOL ;-)
Mike B
I might do more of this in the future. It was funny and fun to do.
No we don't buy/sell coupons here, we just give them away. Look at the Wiki on the first page to find all the free with purchase, and 20 or 25% off coupons.
I typically do 3 orders at each visit. I use one 25% off and one "free with purchase" coupon on every order!
Also the Track Club coupons seem to work for me every time even though I'm not a member. You just have to "clip" the coupon right with your scissors. LOL!
Every coupon I've used has been a scan from this website and I've never had a problem. Either B&W or color will work, yet I like the color ones the best.
350 Lb. Motocross Dirt Bike Stand [harborfreight.com]
HAUL-MASTER
ITEM #:66552
Coupon #: 51252446
Originally $39.99
Sale $31.99
$19.99 after coupon
(Sorry for the bad photo)
I have those spy glasses.. They are great and are very practical for youtubing. No one can tell you are recording at all, as they appear to be a simple pair of sunglasses. The pair I have records in 640x480 format (very clearly) and picks up sound very well. You also can timestamp your videos, if you choose. I received them as a gift, so not sure how much they cost, etc.. However, I believe they can be had for around $25 or so off of Meritline. I also believe that a higher rez model is now available. All versions I've seen use a MicroSD card for storage and can either record several hours worth of video or snap photos, depending on what mode you set it in w/the press of a button.
If you want to be inconspicuous, I highly recommend the spy glasses. It will also free up your hands so that you can better carry all your tools and freebies.
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April Fools Harbor Freight Multi-Meter No Purchase Required [youtu.be]
That settles that. Let's put that one up on wiki. Now all we need to do is find the flashlight no purchase required. Let the hunt begin!!!!
Holy SHOOT brother. I can't believe that full page 8 1/2" x 11" coupon worked! You need to shrink that down by about 75% before you print it. Not only are you wasting a lot of ink or toner, but it looks outrageous. If you need help shrinking it let me know!
You also have a header on that coupon that says it's a .jpeg (picture) coupon. You better cut that out so they can't see it. I couldn't see the bottom of the page but I sure hope it DOESN'T say http://www.slickdeals.
LOL! You're a crazy man!
Why did you cover the camera? I couldn't see the items that you were walking by? How much were those knee pads on that end cap?
You sure did walk right to the meters like you knew where they were located. LOL.
"I'm not sure if this is real or not"???? You're killing me! You ALWAYS have to walk in with confidence and act like you know exactly what you are doing. Never ever ask a question - You set yourself up to be shot down. "April Fools Joke"??? Come on.......... The little girl sounded very friendly wish you would have got a shot of her. Would have like to see what she looked like! LOL!
BTW - That little furniture dolly at the end of the check out line. They often go for $7.99. They are totally junk. I had 2 that I returned. Don't ever buy them!
Should have went and put it in your car first. Would have been funny if she charged you on your second trip through the line.
And they say I'm sick?????????????????? You kill me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you liked my video of the April Fools Harbor Freight Multi-Meter No Purchase Required [youtu.be] then you might like the Headlamp With Swivel Lens [youtu.be].
I have attache the freebie Q of the Headlamp. Sharing is caring
Happy shopping everyone.
I actually buy these dollies sometimes just to get the casters off them to use on other items (shelves, etc). At $7.99 that's $2 per caster. Much cheaper than buying them individually.
I think you guys need to take your dollies to another thread.
http://youtu.be/Qc2usu1QsDk
Pay careful attention to memory capacities, etc., encase you decide to go with a different pair. I no longer have the spec sheet on mine, but I believe it can handle up to either an 8GB or 16GB card. I'm pretty sure it could not handle a 32GB, as I remember that particular point irking me some until I realized that I would be way out of battery by the time the glasses recorded that much video anyway.
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