Harborfreight offers something called the InsideTrackClub subscription where for about $1/month, you get a special "club" catalog with special discounts and closeouts.
Anyone here have any experience with the club? How good are the specials? What deals have you gotten and does it seem to be worth the subscription price?
(Please no flames about how bad or good Harborfreight quality tools are in general -- save that for a separate thread :)
I have looked into it several times. Like just before a purchase. Since my purchases there are dependant on my projects. I do not buy a lot any more. I usually decline ANY service that wants to charge a monthly/yearly fee. Utilities excluded. Just does not make sense to my CFO (me).
Check their specials for awhile and see how much you would have bought and what it would have cost you both ways. If your just building a tool inventory it might make sense to belong for a year. My experience with pay per month services is that they are a son of a bitch to stop.
Are you in the market for their equipment anyway? If so, try it out...can't imagine it's anything that would make a major impact--they're not doing it as a community service project.... :)
I can't imagine getting even *more* of their catalogs and flyers in the mail. :-P
Bob
Okay no flame, but I can't help but LMAO.
This is just to funny! I'll save the response to the quality for later. Dave
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I did not find it valuable. There was a time or two that an item on the ITC was MORE than the sale price.
Now we have stores in town and it's worth it to LOOK at the item before you take it home (or have the delivery bounce it around).
I just wait a while. Whatever I want, goes on sale 50% off, and sometimes I've got tools 80% off. How can anyone beat that?
I'm not an inside track member. Well, at least not at Harbor Freight.
Heavenly Father is a different matter. That's a much more divinely run company, and I have an inside track there.
This is turtle.
Sorry My Trigger finger got itchey and fired by misstake.
TURTLE
Let us know when you get your own planet. Especially if there's a Harbor Freight there.
I signed up for their free e-mail list... they send a load of sale stuff out a couple of times a week... often including $5 off $50 or more, and $10 off $100 or more coupons. The coupons are good on sale items too! You got to go to the retail store though.
See below for a sample mailing (with my account number edited off the coupon. Also removed was a bunch of opt out links and the like from the end that contained my address...) You can set your HF mail prefs for plain text only... good idea IMHO.
I strongly suggest NOT giving them any 'real' contact information, or real e-mail address. In my case I have one of those free Yahoo web mail addresses I use just for stuff like this. (Just got a Gmail address too, think I'm going to start using it as my spam account, as I can both POP and SMTP to it with Eudora.)
Erik _______________________________________________
Dear preferred customer,
Your Favorites on Sale!!!
Come to a Harbor Freight Tools store near you to take advantage of the Following offers.
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-- Print Out This E-Mail and bring it to your local Harbor Freight Tools Retail Store!
SAVE $5 on any purchase of $50 or more or SAVE $10 on any purchase of $100 or more
ID = (EDITED OUT)
Limit of 1 coupon per household per week. Hurry in! Prices only good through March 23, 2005.
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-- Print this email and take it to your nearest Harbor Freight Tools store. Press on the link below to locate a retail store near you!
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-- SAVE $40 Chicago Electric Variable Speed Reciprocating Saw
Item 4095/36595
Was $59.99 Now $19.99
Item 91222
Was $27.99 Now $15.99
Item 2433
Was $139.99 Now $119.99
Item 91811
Was $259.99 Now $199.99
Item 40462
Was $26.99 Now $14.99
Item 1611
Was $59.99 Now $39.99
Item 37555
Was $129.99 Now $99.99
Item 90799
Was $89.99 Now $59.99
Item 34313
Was $59.99 Now $39.99
Item 91054
Was $199.99 Now $99.99
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-- CHECK OUT THESE HOT DEALS!
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16 Ft X 3/4'' Quick-find Tape Measure Item 41253 - Reg. $2.99 NOW $.99 - SAVE 67%-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-- Hurry in!!! Prices only good through March 23, 2005. This offer only good at Harbor Freight Tools retail stores.
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I found a link somplace that let me get in and look at all the inside track sale prices. They were really no different from the regular sale prices that you could simply wait for anyway.
When I get my own planet, I can name all the business. Would you like to put in a request? I'll give you special consideration. And 5% discount at all my stores.
Sure, as long as I don't have to give you 10% of the profits. :o)
No. My neighbor fell for this and it entitled him to more mailings - as if they are not enough. He realized no other benefits. Mark
Don't buy from harborfreight on-line. They will take your order and never ship your product.
I waited two weeks, and my drill press hadn't shown up. No feedback from HF, but after contacting them because it wasn't on my doorstep yet led to my discovery that they didn't have any stock, that it was on backorder.
They tried to put the order through two weeks later, assuming I still wanted the thing, but thank goodness I used the virtual credit card feature and the time limit had expired, so they were prevented from processing the order.
Their customer support chat line sucks, to put it bluntly. You have to wait an indeterminant amount of time, you have to keep watching the chat window (like you have nothing else to do).
Buying from harbor freight on-line is just a bad experience.
Rock
Tell me about the virtual credit card.
Where your credit card company issues you a special number that is limited. Limits include such as one-use, limited time, limited amount, single payee, etc.
sdb
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