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Posted by JimL on June 14, 2005, 5:53 pm
Tell me about the virtual credit card.
>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
>
>wrote:
>
>>Have been a Member for roughly 1 (one)year. Not really much of a deal. I get
>>lots of catalogues on a weekly (?) basis as is. Sometimes there is a
>>"cheaper" deal but not often. Biggest problem was/is I joined at the $20.00
>>rate, next issue price was reduced to $15,00 ( no refund of course). If you
>>get the catalogs anyway, save your money and just go on-line for "just as
>>good" deals. FWIW
>>Bill
>>> 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 :)
>>
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