Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[Ford850]

I never give them my phone number when they ask “What’s your phone number?”. Sometimes I reply “What’s yours?”. The ladies chuckle and move on with the transaction, but it makes the guys a little uneasy.

 

[BravoXray]

All the HF stores here ask for your phone # here which links to your email .. etc. I need to go to Richmond Monday to pick up some electrical items not available locally so .. I stop then after my 72 hours is up.

They have an old number that is disconnected now, and I won't give them my email either.
Just because I buy stuff from them doesn't give them the right to pummel me with advertising.

 

[buck12]

They have an old number that is disconnected now, and I won't give them my email either.
Just because I buy stuff from them doesn't give them the right to pummel me with advertising.

I do the same thing. They have my home number that has been disconnected for years.

 

[buck12]

Someone noted the 7 mil blue Nitrile gloves are now $20/box, up from about $8 a year ago. And I see 'Store only. Back in stock soon', around here. HF notes they are now paying more for these and haven't increased their margin. I see also there are no welders listed available except the two cheapest CE stick welders.

This may explain why HF's stocks are low to none: Port of Los Angeles is so backed up that cargo ships are anchoring offshore waiting days to unload. Alternately, a lot of high-value cargo is shifting to more expensive air transport to avoid the delay.

They are probably making more than 50 percent. My daughter got me a box from the small town pharmacy she works at for $11. She gets items at cost. If a small town pharmacy in Mississippi cost is $11, I would imagine HF pays far less.

 

[5030]

Don't the Port of Los Angeles have ongoing union issues? I don't think (from an economy standpoint at least) that HF stuff up here lands in LA anyway. Transportation would kill them. Maybe Baltimore or Jersey.

 

[stuckmotor]

Ditto! When I used to sell stuff on Ebay, I disposed of received plastic peanuts in shipments back to wherever the most had come from. Before the cat could get to them and make a mess.

(Wikipedia photo).

 

[stuckmotor]

I remember the peanuts Harbor Freight used as being bigger and heavier. Now. I think I know why.

 

[MoKelly]

Having 10 felines in the house, I know that story well.... ...and I don't like cats but I tolerate them because my wife is a cat person and I know which side my bread is buttered on....

I like cats but - you have 10! That is above and beyond.

MoKelly

 

[California]

Don't the Port of Los Angeles have ongoing union issues? I don't think (from an economy standpoint at least) that HF stuff up here lands in LA anyway. Transportation would kill them. Maybe Baltimore or Jersey.

From that linked article:

Covid-19 is slowing down imports to the U.S. Around 800 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s 15,000 members have been out of work due to Covid ... [nationwide, not just L.A.]

Just 5% of longshore workers have received vaccinations so far, Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka said. He added that the port is lobbying “all levels of government” for more vaccines

Port of Los Angeles is a huge mess from several perspectives. it's in the heart of the Los Angeles smog basin so there are special restrictions on trucks idling waiting hours or days to pick up a can. The nearest railhead is 20 (?) miles inland so there's no ship to rail loading. Everything gets hauled on semis across the Los Angeles traffic nightmare over to the railhead to be shipped nationwide. Nobody wants to pay for the extremely expensive urban developments that would have to be condemned to clear a rail corridor to the port. There are probably more issues that I haven't thought of. I'm 450 miles north of there so I only hear a little about it.

 

[dragoneggs]

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