.... those supposed BLACK FRIDAY priced items .. and those Pittsburgher tools ?

Some of this stuff was priced bester last month !

One of the foundational lies of marketing is that "sale" means "reduced price".
In the marketing dictionary, "sale" only means "we want to move more of these".
I see it at the grocery stores all the time.

What's funny about HF is that their ads are inescapable, on or in every magazine & newspaper.
Also emails and in my mailbox from time to time.
Yet at the store, they never fail to ask "do you get our fliers ?"

Interesting spin ts ...

But how about those BOGO ads ?

Where the “regular price” is way inflated

I do not hand out my phone number, email address or my personal info to any retailer,

I don't want their incessant barrage of advertising in any form whatsoever.

Incessant?

I’m getting almost DAILY emails from Hobo !

Maybe it’s that Pittsburgher thing !

I have yet to step foot inside a HF store.

It was a long time until one of their stores was built near me too.

My co-workers don't steal the Harbor Freight stuff. I fix printing presses with that junk every day. Some of it is better than others and the box I push out to the pressroom is full of it. The big box with the good stuff stays in the shop.

For many years the nearest HF was 100 miles away... a couple years ago they finally built one in Mountain Home, AR which is only 40 miles away

Really poor quality tools. I simply avoid the place.

Some of youz are ruff on tools

Only thing I have complains with is the drill bits

They opened a store here in our town about a year and a half ago, frankly, I don't see how they are going to stay in business, I never see any cars in the parking lot.

They have had a store about 40 miles away for many years. Years ago I bought a set of punches and chisels, best set of chisels I ever bought! I bought one of their socket sets about the same time, I've replaced a few sockets, but for the most part I'm still using that set. Can't say the same thing about that 90 degree die grinder, if it lasted 10 minutes that might be stretching the truth, but it wasn't worth the 80 mile round trip to get another just like it. I keep that pile in the drawer in my box to remind me. My experience with them is about 50/50, good to junk ratio. For something you only use a few times a year, or a single use tool, they seem to work OK for the cost.
We are going into the local store tomorrow, the old rickety step ladder I have is pretty unsafe, and they have a really good price on a new aluminum one, its something I will probably only use a few times a year. I gotta at least take a look at it. Gene

Still loving my Pittsburgh brand ratchets and sockets, largest drill press they offer, tool boxes, wooden top rolling work bench and storage area, portable low noise air compressor, tig n mig welder rolling carts, heavy duty transmission jack, led flashlights, tire breakdown machine, free blue led flashlights, aluminum floor jack, and many more.

Yep. If it works it works .A lot of it works pretty good.

Until a few years sgo you couldn't give me a HF tool. But then I worked with s guy who had a bunch of it and some of it was pretty darn nice. When I started at the packing plant most everyone had either Menard's boxes or HF. I got one of the 5 drawer rolly carts, filled it up, and that is all I have there. I did make the mistake of taking in one of my good Snap-On ratchets, and it grew legs and walked off. Won't make that mistake again. Most of the HF has life time warranty, so it works well for me. I tell people lifetime warranty isn't near as important now that I'm in my 60s as it was when I was 30.

I have bought a lot of stuff from HF over the years from small hand tools to my large air compressor and my generator. The only tool I have bought from them that was pretty much junk was a set of metric taps/dies. The compressor as well as a couple of their air die grinders that I only paid 5 or 6 bucks for (which I have used a lot) are still going strong.

Harbor Freight would benefit from dropping their cheapest line of hand tools. You know- the Channel lock style pliers that slip and smash your fingers- the screw drivers with hard candy tips and socket sets not suitable for the kitchen drawer. These are the tool people think about when HF comes up. I like their good better best line of stuff. In Holland MI they moved into a Sears hardware store/building that was built in 2007. When it was Sears it was like Mattress Firm- NOBODY THERE. But as HF since 2018 its going like gangbusters.

You could always shop somewhere else. I'm sure they wouldn't be sorry to lose your business.

Maybe the girl at the counter is a good looking Asian gal and that's the reason Flubberblast keeps going back!

um, DoC, flip that little LeVeR on your DriLL to the other SiDe...............
the bits will cut much BeStEr..................