“they advertise a 20 % of first entire purchase when you sign up for their credit card, tell you that more info. is needed to get out of the discount. 2 weeks later they send the card but screw you out of the discount. furthermore when you decide to apply the cachiers are rude and dismissive because they have to do it while in line. did this to 2 of my friends. they also took away all the coupons they used to give so now you have to pay top price for inferior products. 0 stars from me.”
“I think it is unbelievable that as a policy they cannot transfer tools from ine store to the next! Every other retailer in the planet does so with ease! I guess when you are so successful, it orives there is no motivation to make some changes outside if tool products!”
“I purchased an off the shelf paint sprayer, never opened it, returned it a week later. They charged me a 10% restocking fee. The return girl said they informed me of this policy at purchase. They did not, I would not have bought it. She would not waive the fee. Very poor business.”
“I bought a Harbor Freight Titanium Unlimited 200 and on the second use, it feeds wire as soon as the unit comes on. This is not only unacceptable, it's dangerous and I could have been electrocuted. The wire hit me on the pant leg before I realized it was feeding out automatically. I bought this from another person and it was still new in the box. Of course, I can't take it back because it has been past 90 days. The local store left me on hold for over 24 minutes and then got testy when I spoke with them. All this company is concerned about is MONEY. When a person has a budget, they may can afford to buy one, but not a second one. I called corporate to get help solving the problem and it seems the issue causing the problem can't be fixed. They can't even get the parts I need to do a repair. I'm quite frustrated with them. Good luck if you have an issue. I would suggest not doing business with this company period.”
“poor.. previously marginally acceptable. Today, I have decided to forego any further patronage as the last straw is some folding wheel chocks.. brand new/never used failed. Piece of junk and the Mt Vernon, WA store refuses any recognition of their products due to purchase date. I even demanded to cancel my ITC membership.. and they can not! Too damn funny - sad - strange for an American Company.. oh but wait a minute.. THESE GUYS ARE NOT AMERICAN BASED.. THEY ARE CHINESE. As I've live in China.. they do not warranty anything less appliances and large items.. but, even that is a battle. See the simularities.. Harbor Freight Tools is yet another example of anti-American principles, workmanship, and pride. AVOID -- BOYCOTT IS NEEDED AS AMERICA CONTINUES TO BE DESTROYED!!”
“I purchased the Insider Track card in December and used it to purchase one item. After that it has never been good for anything I have needed to purchase going forward. They change up the items it is good for every month so the chances of the item you need being valid for a discount are reduced.”
“I purchased a 10x17 portable car port through them in Oct ‘21. I’m March a RAIN storm took it down. I contacted support and they say they don’t cover damages for EXTREME WEATHER!! Are you kidding me, we are not talking hurricane rain, we talking a NY rain storm! This company is ridiculous and sell cheap stuff. There is absolutely no reason it should hold up in rain when it’s rated HEAVY DUTY! I will NEVER purchase anything from them again and I say use caution when buying from this company as they do not stand behind their ptoducts!”
“Could not return a faulty item that I had purchased the two year extended warranty with .when I bought the item only 8 months ago I was told I did not need my receipt just my phone number we'll they lied. I'm sure they don't care if I come back but I have friends and family that will not be back either this is the Northport Alabama store and the manager is a Jerik”
“Recently Tried applied to Harbor Freight
in Aiken, SC, One of the store managers name Brent asked me what’s my availability I told him everyday except Sunday that’s (6 days to work with)
which he responded with that’s not “GOOD ENOUGH” call me back when your availability changes. I believe he violated The Civil Rights Act of 1964”
“Customer service is almost non existence
On hold for over 20 minutes before I hung up.
Called the store and the person told me to bring it in and he would look at the extra parts and maybe could tell me what they are for as there was no information about them in the case.”
“Harbor Freight billed me for several items that never shipped, and shipped several items I never ordered. All from one particular warehouse. After 11 days of begging harbor freight via email, phone calls and social media, I have yet to be given any response at all.
* Two items came up missing from the Dillon, SC docs (I know this because the label was created, which is what happens moments before it is attached to the box an placed on the FedEx outgoing pallet...FedEx never received the box).
* The same warehouse neglected to include all the items in a different shipment (different tracking number)
* On a third shipment (yet a different tracking number, the same warehouse included several packages of zip ties I never ordered.
Harbor Freight refuses to address the issue
* I have contacted customer service several times by phone and many times by email over the past 11 days.
* I reached out to their social media department via facebook
* I called the Dillon, SC warehouse (since your customer service refused to do anything at all)
This is a clear cover up, as Harbor Freight has refused to address any of these issues for after 11 days of me continuously trying to get a response via phone, email, facebook.
* Air Impact Wrench: Mysteriously disappeared from the shipping dock, and they refuse to fulfill the order, even though they charged me for it.
* Air Ratchet: Mysteriously disappeared from the shipping dock, and you refuse to fulfill the order even though they charged me for it.
* Duct Tape: missing item supposed to be included with the Air Oil
* Zip Ties: Mysteriously arrived from Dillon SC without me ordering at all
I have had to open an investigation with FedEx, and have to wait for a billing cycle to open up Fraud / Theft investigations with my Credit Card Company
I seriously think they are going out of business, and just don't care about the consequences that other companies avoid like the plague.”
“HF online charged me full price for my order, then only shipped half the order. Good luck talking to customer service, I've been on hold 36 min, still no help, how do you run a business like this? Oh well, it's the last time for me!”
“Store in Newton NJ very unpleasant unwelcoming and unhelpful. It must suck to work for such a truly atrocious company. They must pay 50 cents an hour to get such horrible employees and the tools are bad too.”
“I bought a generator from their website in early September. For 2 months they gave me the run around about whether it had been shipped. They charged me and sent me an email saying it had shipped. More calls and long waits on hold, and then finally, just shy of 2 months after I placed the order they called and admitted they’d never shipped it and told me they were giving me a refund. Zero apology from anyone through the whole process. I’ve since spoken to others who’ve had bad experiences with them. I will never consider buying anything from these people again.”
“The customer service at this POS company is horrible. The employees are the bottom of the barrel. Last time I went in I was in a line that the lady was doing some return that was taking a long time and told to go to another line. I went and that lady was a chatty taking fool. Going on about her kids and not doing her job. I got in another line that just opened up and they did not take the next person but who could run there the fastest. When I got to the front of the line the lady said to get in another line she was closing. I told her to F off and threw the item on the counter and walked out. I will pay more rather than go to HF its full of the lowest quality workers ever.”
