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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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04-19-2014 at 07:27 PM.
04-19-2014 at 07:27 PM.
Quote from jhun_hapi :
Looking at buying floor jack from harbor freight.. 2+ tons needed. Seen one 3tons for $69 with coupon. It will be home use. Seen the one from Costco for $99 but only 2.5 tons. What do you guys think?

I just bought the 3 ton low profile last week For $69 - very nice jack. It will go high enough for me and the low profile does help in certain locations. I'd buy it again.
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04-19-2014 at 08:02 PM.
04-19-2014 at 08:02 PM.
Saw a No Purchase necessary coupon for 6 inch dish so one is out their someplace.Big Grin

Went to pick up the Free Aa batteries but were all out so had to settle for AAA and got from the cashier "Were you here today earlier"Wink said NO and then told me its one per person per day blah blah.

It looked like thier was no free tarps as well but boxes of 27 led flashlights,small flashlights and fly swattersWink

For those of you on the mailing lists do you get more mailings if you get the catalog scanned often or just a marketing ploy to track your buying etc along with do you get anything extra for the part where it says birthday month on sign up

Only get the monthly catalog

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04-19-2014 at 10:16 PM.
04-19-2014 at 10:16 PM.
Quote from 20sharks :
Saw a No Purchase necessary coupon for 6 inch dish so one is out their someplace.Big Grin

Went to pick up the Free Aa batteries but were all out so had to settle for AAA and got from the cashier "Were you here today earlier"Wink said NO and then told me its one per person per day blah blah.

It looked like thier was no free tarps as well but boxes of 27 led flashlights,small flashlights and fly swattersWink

For those of you on the mailing lists do you get more mailings if you get the catalog scanned often or just a marketing ploy to track your buying etc along with do you get anything extra for the part where it says birthday month on sign up

Only get the monthly catalog

Santa Clara,CA store
Any idea where you saw the Free No Purch coupon for the 6" dish? I assume you mean the magnetic one. Only one I've seen or heard of was from the February Facebook coupons. They were good for the month of Feb.
The freebies are here today and gone tomorrow. The other day there were lots of the 27LED flashlights on the shelves at the registers. Next day there were none. Fellow told me they'd 'be in Friday'. So as they get their shipments in, they restock, as the coupons come out, the stock is depleted.

We signed up last month with the postcards at register (again) but haven't gotten anything in the mail from that. Just get a monthly (I guess?) ad that I signed up for long time ago thru emails they send.
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04-20-2014 at 01:07 AM.
04-20-2014 at 01:07 AM.
Quote from 20sharks :
Saw a No Purchase necessary coupon for 6 inch dish so one is out their someplace.Big Grin
Quote from marciadel :
Any idea where you saw the Free No Purch coupon for the 6" dish? I assume you mean the magnetic one. Only one I've seen or heard of was from the February Facebook coupons. They were good for the month of Feb.
Looks like a Valpak coupon titled "Spring is Free" with a 8/4/14 exp. date.
(not mine and code not readable. found it in online auction site)
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04-20-2014 at 08:08 AM.
04-20-2014 at 08:08 AM.
Scanned the Headlamp with Swivel Lens coupon from 4-20-14 Parade Magazine (Sunday Paper). Exp. 08/20/14

Also is a 27 LED light from 4-20-14 Sunday Newspaper . Exp. 06/28/14

I too am looking for the free dish. I have one that requires a purchase, but not a free without purchase required.
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04-20-2014 at 08:20 AM.
04-20-2014 at 08:20 AM.
Quote from 20sharks :
Saw a No Purchase necessary coupon for 6 inch dish so one is out their someplace.Big Grin

Went to pick up the Free Aa batteries but were all out so had to settle for AAA and got from the cashier "Were you here today earlier"Wink said NO and then told me its one per person per day blah blah.

It looked like thier was no free tarps as well but boxes of 27 led flashlights,small flashlights and fly swattersWink

For those of you on the mailing lists do you get more mailings if you get the catalog scanned often or just a marketing ploy to track your buying etc along with do you get anything extra for the part where it says birthday month on sign up

Only get the monthly catalog

Santa Clara,CA store
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Any idea where you saw the Free No Purch coupon for the 6" dish? I assume you mean the magnetic one. Only one I've seen or heard of was from the February Facebook coupons. They were good for the month of Feb.
The freebies are here today and gone tomorrow. The other day there were lots of the 27LED flashlights on the shelves at the registers. Next day there were none. Fellow told me they'd 'be in Friday'. So as they get their shipments in, they restock, as the coupons come out, the stock is depleted.

We signed up last month with the postcards at register (again) but haven't gotten anything in the mail from that. Just get a monthly (I guess?) ad that I signed up for long time ago thru emails they send.
No freebies at your local stores? Slickdeals effect? Although it's likely not just a Slickdeals thing. That and the fact that HF employees are almost to the point of "warning" customers in the aisles of the "1 freebie per person per day" rule. As for those showing up with all 8 current FNP (Free No Purchase) Q's and expecting to leave the store with every one through a single cashier\register, it may have been possible to pull off in certain stores at one time but I believe those days are coming to an end. When stockpiles of their freebies are completely depleted within a day of receiving the shipments you're going to see a much tighter policy on how freebies are doled out. Just my 2 cents...
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04-20-2014 at 08:37 AM.
04-20-2014 at 08:37 AM.
https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=67437770&postcount=8123

https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=67315174&postcount=8075

The power strip isn't listed in the OP yet (wiki), although I did find that several posters (post links above) did place copies of them here! Just leaving a note! Smilie
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04-20-2014 at 08:54 AM.
04-20-2014 at 08:54 AM.
I've never seen my store out of a freebie I wanted ( tarp, fly swatter, 27-LED light, black LED flashlight, powerstrip, the screwdrivers, scissors, rope, magnetic bowl)

actually the only item that's ever been out of stock was the little 2-step step stool that I wanted to buy one day..
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04-20-2014 at 09:10 AM.
04-20-2014 at 09:10 AM.
Me neither....I stop by on the way home every weekday around 5...the one here (almost always) has plenty of freebies in stock, and quite visible too...ah'm currently stocking up on AAA batteries due to the expiration date being 4/30, lol...

They are definitely enforcing the one free gift per customer per day policy....I've seen numerous customers in the past week try to take several at a time and get turned down.

My favorite is the 27 LED worklight...least favorite probably the screwdriver set.
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04-20-2014 at 04:23 PM.
04-20-2014 at 04:23 PM.
[rant]MAN my store sucks. When I picked up the bandsaw a week or 2 ago I had to stand in a single line and they'd call you up. Yesterday, I stood in said line when they announced they were back to lining up at the registers. Today everyone is waiting in a single line and I'm asked to go wait back there. How freakn hard is it to run a store?

Then I slap down my free item and today's USA/parade section and the gal asks I fill out the catalog form. "ah, I already get those". She said they were told they'd have to be filled out for the no purchase items. So I picked up the coupon and pretended like I was going to stand there all day reading it. Man that is some fine print, but clearly, no conditions on 'free'.

Finally she just rings it through. .

Quote from beumer23 :
My favorite is the 27 LED worklight...least favorite probably the screwdriver set.
I love giving them screwdrivers away. People's faces just light up. The worklight is without a doubt the best, but I'd have to put the flyswatter as a never get so least favorite. Possibly the batteries.
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04-20-2014 at 06:53 PM.
04-20-2014 at 06:53 PM.
Coupons from Maxim - May 2014 (I keep receiving this magazine to my wife's dismay, but have no idea why I keep getting it sent to me.)

Anyway, Enjoy and I should have more from Sunday's paper for you all tomorrow.

Sam
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04-20-2014 at 07:05 PM.
04-20-2014 at 07:05 PM.
Picked up a couple of ads during last visit to HF.

Scanner is down so took pics of them. Should be readable.
Last time I did this, got around 600-1000 views but no feedback.
Is this helpful for you guys?

Ad 2999 -- Warehouse Liquidation Sale -- April 29-May 12
Ad 3001 -- Dollar Days -- May 13-May26
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04-21-2014 at 12:31 AM.
04-21-2014 at 12:31 AM.
Here's the magnetic parts holder coupon. Sorry for the crease in the coupon, it's been sitting in my wallet.
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04-21-2014 at 03:48 AM.
04-21-2014 at 03:48 AM.
I just reposted 1614 Retail B [harborfreight.com] because it disappeared. The 25% off is expired but everything else is still good.

People, use caution when editing the wiki. If something goes wrong just blow out of the editor without saving anything and start over again.
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04-21-2014 at 07:01 AM.
04-21-2014 at 07:01 AM.
From USA Weekend from Sunday's paper

Enjoy,
Sam
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