Harbor Freight ToolsReviews of harborfreight.com

Purchased an oscillating tool this past June, it lasted two jobs and broke. For the record it’s now October. Harbour freight refused to replace or refund the cost of the tool. It was just outside the 90 day warranty. Bauer brand ain’t it. I’ve never had a power tool die this fast before. I’ll be shopping at Lowe’s or online now for sure.

I will never buy from Harbor freight again after being treated like crap. 10yr+ loyal customer of Harbor Freight across multiple states where I have property rentals. I purchased Harbor Freights most expensive top of line brand new 18" gas powered Portland chainsaw to cut down 2 x 30ft trees on a property. This was a big project, involving hiring of boom lift, and tons of costs to make the day go smoothly. I used an electric craftmans 12 inch chainsaw to cut branches upwards and then going to use Harbor Freight for the stump on way down. Craftsman got me up no problems and Portland BRAND NEW saw would not even start! I've used many chainsaws before and I followed the Portland instructions to the tee, actually using dedicated 50:1 chainsaw fuel (92 octane and no ethanol) in order to get the perfect first start. The so called easy start did not start at all. All attempts to start it failed and the entire day was ruined. This was clearly a manufacturer issue. Returned it to Harbor Freight Sandy Utah store and got screwed for a $37 restock fee!?? wtf! They said I could have bought a $70 protection plan to save me the $37 fee, go figure out that one! SCAM Contacted corp office and Snr Associate customer service, Maeghon, stuck policy in my face. Lets review the BS policy: 1. Harbor freight corp office decided in their internal meetings that they would like to pass on the cost of faulty, dead on arrival products, to the customer, to increase their margins rather than make sure the customer gets the product they need for the job. Why is it the customer's fault? The manufacturer needs to pay 100% of this. Why exchange for another crap Portland when their quality control is this bad, risking me paying $1k of dollars for it to only fail again? 2. I did actually look at exchanging it for a different brand and the other products were all worse or smaller size that would not do the job. Why is it my fault that Harbor Freight merch assortment team has NO VIABLE OPTIONS to chainsaw a 19" trunk tree! 3. how does Harbor Freight you equate buying a $70 protection plan to save me from paying $37 fee???!!! Why does that make sense??!! 4. This Harbor Freight caused issue cost me $1k as I need to reschedule and rehire all my tree cutting equipment and personnel. Another lost customer! Never Portland. Never Harbor Freight. I can buy the same products on Temu for half Harbor Freight costs, let alone Walmart or Vevor! Go craftsman or any tool that stands by their gear with lifetime warranty!

I ordered a CENTRAL MACHINERY 20 lb. Pressurized Abrasive Blaster from Harbor Freight. It seemed like a good price so I figured even if it's not that sturdy, if I get a few dozen good uses out of it, then it would be good enough, and lesson learned. The instructions to assemble it are not correct, if assembled in the order shown, you physically cannot complete the assembly. Luckily I am mechanically inclined and I figured out the correct procedure and eventualy got it assembled. I have not used it yet, because the air input is a simple threaded inlet and not a quick connect compression fitting as is normal for pressurized air tools and components. So now I need to go order a quick connect adapter for it. It looks sturdy enough for occasional home use. Time will tell.

Hola La tienda de la 79 st y la 27 ave del nw en Miami es un dolor de cabeza porque tienen más de una caja y tienen los letreros que dicen cashier,pero solo utilizan una y hasta para devolver productos y he ido y mejor no les he comprado nada porque toma mucho tiempo,así que a mi opinión funciona muy mal.

I've been customer purchasing from Harbor Freight for many years, but I refuse to buy anything else from them because of a hypocritical situation that occurred today. When I go there to browse or shop for a specific tool, they are always trying to get me to sign up for Inside Track Club Membership, which costs an extra $29.00 for one year, to get additional discounts on their products. This came after years and years of them soliciting me for my phone number and email address so that they can send me those discount coupons. Well, low and behold, I finally gave them my information in order to get the discount coupons emailed to me. But today, something really weird happened. I returned an unused and unopened item to one of their stores, and got a note from the cashier saying that they might not honor any more of my returns. He made sure that the note was read before he gave it to me. The reason he gave was that I have returned too many items within a certain timeframe, and this put out a red flag in their system. I feel like this was highly hypocritical because every time I purchase something there, the cashier always makes it a point to tell me that I can return it within 30 days for a full refund or exchange if it hasn't been used. My problem with this whole scenario is that I have never returned anything to Harbor Freight that I had already used. The only things I ever return are things that I haven't used and I always return them back in their original packaging with my original receipt. After getting that note today, it felt highly hyprocritical because I have never returned anything that they couldn't immediatley put back on the shelf and sell to another sucker. The note I was given reads as follows: "Dear Customer, This return has been approved, however, a warning code was returned, and future returns or exchanges may not be accepted. Your return acitivity report (RAR) may help you understand the reason for the decision. You can obtain a copy by visiting wwwtheretailequationcom If you prefer, a customer service agent can be reached at 1-866-585-6465 (Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm PST)." This is an insult and I hope someone from Harbor Freight reads this review. You people are hypocrites. You solicit sales telling customers that they can return the items, then when we do it, we get these insulting flags and notes from your system in front of other customers in your store. Quite frankly, I will never ever shop at Harbor Freight Tools again, and in these tough economic times, you really ought to be ashamed of allowing a policy such as this to insult loyal customers. I mean, how much can you really save by doing this? If your leadership is allowing this, you have poor leaders who obviously doesn't care about running customers away from a crowded and competitive tool marketplace. I'm sure I'm not the first person to receive a flag like this, and if you keep doing this, it will certainly drive customers away and put you out of business becasuse your tools are cheap and are of lower quality, anyway. The nerve of you to insult customers that bring back products unused, and threaten to not take future products back when they have not been used and if the customer has a receipt. Shame on you and I look forward to seeing you go out of business.

Extremely low quality tools Poor customer service. Stay clear of this business

John Szabo If you like buying mostly China made crap, then this is your place to support a Communist Party! Geuss what - 90% of what you buy in this joint is made in full or in part in China thanks to american greed!!!!!!

I’ve been a harbor freight tools customer for many years but a recent experience have changed my view. I purchased a pressure washer to use at a location 35 miles distance, When the unit was attached to water it had a internal leakage , rather than driving 70 Mile to replace the defective unit since my wife was coming to my location I had her to purchase another pressure washer at harbor freight for me and I could return the defective unit later. Two days later I did return the defective unit to the store for a refund . I was shocked that harbor freight wanted to charge ME 15% because they sold me a defective item—— This type of harbor freight attitude isn’t going to fly with customers———I bought the item in good faith and expected the selling merchant to respect its customers in good faith. This transaction is definitely going to affect my future business purchases.