[Mgs] Harbor Freight Not Really LBC

[Chad Cooper]

I don't understand it either other than people in areas that don't have the
stores close by.  I am in the Dallas area and you can find a retail location
for about anything here. 

Chad Cooper
'72 B

-----Original Message-----
From: mgs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Murray Arundell
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:27 PM
To: mgs at autox.team.net; Schauss, Peter (IT Solutions);
melfrankus at carolina.rr.com
Subject: [Mgs] Harbor Freight Not Really LBC

As resident of the Land Down-Under I am somewhat bemused by these comments
concerning gear bought from Harbor Freight.  The complaints seem to centre
on
delayed
shipping, back-orders and disappointment with the quality of the items.

Why not simply go into the store (or any other store) and buy the stuff?
That
way you see what you're getting.  Obviously there is a US Cultural thing
about
buying mail (e-mail)
order.  The reasons for this escape me and perhaps some of our US members
could explain why this form of buying things is so popular there.

Murray Arundell
Brisbane, Australia

On Wed Oct 14 17:00 ,  sent:

>Similar experience with Harbor Freight.  Very slow ship, very fast cc
charge,
prices low, quality lower...Mel Frank    ps: their retail stores are fine to
buy a cheap tool for a guy
you don't like that much....
>----
>"Schauss wrote:
>> Several years ago I ordered one of their engine hoist cranes.  They sent
>> the crane without the hydraulic jack.  When I called, they told me that
>> the jack was on backorder. ( Sending the crane, of course, allowed them
>> to bill my credit card which they would not have been able to do if they
>> had put the whole thing on backorder.)  When the jack finally came in,
>> it didn't have the piece on the bottom where it bolts to the hoist.
>> Another phone call:  The correct jack is on backorder.  Four months
>> later, I finally had all of the parts for a working engine crane.
>>
>> Needless to say, Harbor Freight is on the list of companies that I don't
>> buy from.
>>
>> - Peter Schauss
>>
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