Thats what I used to do but alas no more. I just fired off a letter to
their president about the games that one has to go through just to buy
from them. I told him that at the very least they should give their
frequent buyers a complimentary subscription to their insiders club. Maybe
others should write and complain about their pricing games.
...Art
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, John Napoli wrote:
> Interesting. The last time I tried this was about 3 months ago, and it
> worked fine. One detail is that this does not work with the folks that
> take the orders. You have to call the separate phone number to get the
> part number suffixes. The prefix of the part number identifies the part,
> and the suffix sets the price. The people who answer tha other phone
> number give you the suffix corresponding to the lowest price, so when you
> call in the order it is as if you have all the right catalogs.
>
> Good luck,
>
> John
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Art Pfenninger wrote:
>
> > This used t be the case but not any more. I'm in the process of writting a
> > nasty letter to their presiden complaining about their pricing. They came
> > very close to loosing a $500 sale because they refused to give me a part
> > number for a welder that was on sale but I didn't have the catalog any
> > more. When asked wht the woman said that that was their policy but they
> > would refund the difference in cost within a year ifthey advertised it
> > cheaper.
> > ...Art
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, John Napoli wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Chill! Call the Harbor Freight 'Customer Service' number (or whatever it
> > > is that they call it). The number is listed in the fine print on the 'how
> > > to order' page of every HF catalog.
> > >
> > > Call that number with the part numbers of everything you are interested
> > > in. They will give you the suffix for those part numbers that corresponds
> > > to the lowest price HF has ever offered for that item (maybe only a year
> > > back, actually). Use these suffixes when you order (you must order on the
> > > separate phone number).
> > >
> > > This is the way to deal with the fact that every HF catalog has some
> > > prices that go up, and others that go down. You don't have to cross-index
> > > every catalog, and you needn't panic if you lose the catalog with the
> > > lowest price for whatever you wanted.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Erik Quackenbush wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Last week I received a flyer from Harbor Freight that was mostly 50% off
> > > > clearance items. Alas, someone threw it out... In any case, I'm pretty
>sure
> > > > they had an inexpensive slip roll machine in there on clearance. If you
> > > > still have this flyer and you see the slip roll machine in there, PLEASE
> > > > email me the price and the exact part number so I can order one.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you!
> > > >
> > > > -Erik
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Erik Quackenbush, V.P. Operations, Midwest Filter Corporation
> > > > 1-847-680-0566 fax: 1-847-680-0832 http://www.midwestfilter.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
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