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 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.
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.
I put in an order online yesterday and used the $5 off coupon from the flyer... there's a place to click at checkout that lets you enter the coupon number..
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