[Spridgets] I love internet forums

Brad Fornal tequila.brad at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 08:53:07 MST 2010


Oddly enough, the pain is still on the MIG cart that I purchased.
Brad

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>
wrote:
> List,
> I bought a MIG cart from HB when I bought my new Lincoln figuring hell they
> can't do anything wrong with that. I checked the ones on the store floor
and
> they looked pretty good at 1/2 the price of the Lincoln ones. I looked at
it
> 6 months later in my garage and all the paint fell off in sheets. Yes they
> said the same thing to me 90 days only.
> I have to look at their products as throw away from now on. Good for maybe
1
> day only if that.
> Lin
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Brad Fornal <tequila.brad at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I gotta say, forums are the best thing EVER!!
>> I know Frank loves to trash on Harbor Freight over their cheap ass
>> products. But Frank, there IS an answer...
>> I purchased a Harbor Freight receiver hitch bike rack from those
>> buggers early last year. My wife and I were taking our road bikes to
>> other places to ride fairly often. I made the mistake of leaving it
>> mounted on the Pathfinder, and as Frank knows, the rubber mounting
>> bits on the rack started rotting, and the velcro straps on it started
>> to crack the rubber and break it.
>> I emailed Harbor Freight, and received their patent reply of "we only
>> offer a 90 day warranty on this item".
>> I reply with "you offer lifetime warranty on hand tools, yet an item
>> that takes virtually NO stress gets 90 days?"
>> HF: We hope you understand that we can only follow our company policies
>> Me: I do understand, and I hope you will understand that I will be
>> recounting this experience on the bike forums to which I am a member.
>> No sense any members paying $40 for a rack that will rot away in about
>> 100 days"
>>
>> needless to say, my new parts arrived today.....
>>
>>
>>
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