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So I was on Ebay a few minutes ago, not looking for anything in particular, sometimes i like to enter random words and see what comes up, anyway, I saw my HF flyer and typed in Harbor Freight. Figured i would see tools and equipment, but no, I see people selling coupons, and people are bidding on them. :headscrat I just find it odd that people are paying for coupons when they could just as easily go online to the HF website and get the coupons for free from there. Or am I missing something and ther is another reason for actually purchasing them? Anyway, carry on my fellow GJ'rs :deathmeta
 
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Yeah, and I've seen people pay over two hundred bucks for one coupon.....
Go figure, huh?
 
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Saw the same thing awhile back when I was searching for a cheap tool cart. Some people just don't know any better.
 
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Maybe the don't know about tools. Maybe they think it's a quality brand like so. If you didnt know anything about tools and heard of Harbor Freight you might think that's the price of good tools.
 
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^^^ Never thought of that one before. I wonder if you're right in some cases.

I think most of them are just fools wasting money, but some of them might indeed be money laundering.
 
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Jarhead0408 said:
^^^ Never thought of that one before. I wonder if you're right in some cases.

I think most of them are just fools wasting money, but some of them might indeed be money laundering.
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In a video game I play there are companies who sell the in game currency for real money. This is not allowed and there are many precautions in place to prevent this, as a way to circumvent these precautions the company selling the in game currency for real money instructs the buyer to put up an in-significant game item that is in abundance to the in game marketplace for a ridiculous amount of currency that no legitimate player would pay. For example, say there is a level 1 enemy right outside the gate, and they drop a feather, those feathers will be so plentiful they sell for 1g, the person who just paid for the in game currency will put it up for 2,500,000g and the person in charge of delivering the in game currency will then go and buy the feather listed at the high price. Legitimate transaction as far as the game admins can tell.

Same thing here, only eBay is the marketplace and the US government is the admins.
 
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softailgarage said:
I find it odd that people actually shop at Harbor Fright.
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RedRabbit said:
Maybe the don't know about tools. Maybe they think it's a quality brand like so. If you didnt know anything about tools and heard of Harbor Freight you might think that's the price of good tools.
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well you are two of the unenlightened!

I have enough tool truck and premium expensive tools to buy a nice house, but I shop at Harbor Freight, because, although they have a good amount of ****, they occasionally have a tool that cannot be found anywhere else, and a few tools that have quality that is on par with ANY brand!

Just because something is cheap, doesn't always mean it *****.

I have a friend who has possibly every Snap-On tool offered on the truck (his SO driver says my friend has more than what is on the truck), he is a multi-millionaire and a tool freak! - yet he was running redlights to buy the tool linked to below when it came out, as it is not on the tool trucks and is world-class and only at Harbor Freight!

www.harborfreight.com/14-in-38-in-drive-long-reach-dual-flex-head-ratchet-67994.html

You don't have to love everything they sell to be intelligent enough to realize that there is gold in unlikely places! :thumbup:
 
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There is some **** for sure, but, there is a good amount of great stuff at HF, and for someone on a tight budget, HF is a great place
 
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softailgarage said:
I find it odd that people actually shop at Harbor Fright.
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I find it odd that people claiming they "invest" in good tools, don't consider that NOT paying an arm and a leg for minuscule items like extensions or breaker bars is a much better "investment" since they cost 1/5th the price and work just as well..:thumbup:
 
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Ezred makes wrenchs just like that. Anyway. Alot of those adds will list said item as say 20ton press in the tittle. Then click on it and it will describe the prress the at the end it says coupon for said press.
 
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I saw them bidding 3.00 for a harbor fright deep impact socket set coupon. But what was criminal was the seller had listed a picture of the actual socket set, not the coupon, and no mention of it being a "coupon" for sale in the main heading. Only when you clicked "description". Then....there in small print it said, "coupon".

Just another one in the long line of dirtbag ebay sellers. There are plenty.

Alot of ebay sellers get off on burning buyers. Like an honor symbol they wear proudly. Their thinking is...."buyer beware" or "buyer should have known better". They feel smarter than you.
 
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Flag those garbage Ebay listings.

Selling free coupons to me is like selling food stamps. And in many cases selling a coupon is not permitted by the company. Read a few coupons.

But I have to say, people who buy a HF coupon are WEIRD!

Don't guys just give them to each other?
 
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horrible fright=loaner tools or for the weekend warrior not often used tools


now the red toolboxes well worth that $$
 
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I was at a pawn shop on Thursday. One of the girls behind the counter was talking to another employee who was looking things up on a computer for pricing. Girl is asking about an iPad mini 16GB - guy on computer says the last one on eBay sold for $430.

My turn at the counter. "You guys realize you can get a brand new 16G iPad mini for $230, right?" No response. She was putting it in the case with the $400-ish price as I left, some poor idiot will probably think it's a deal and buy it.

And the world continues spinning.
 
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SKAutomotive said:
Money laundering.
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nicksnothereman said:
Yep. Lot's of this on ebay.

140 bucks for a 5 dollar kobalt t handle?:lol: Sounds legit.
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I was recently looking at a seller's feedback who has had a few coupons sell for $20-$50... He in fact had a couple of negative feedback for people who thought they got ripped off. Doesn't surprise me that ebay is used for money laundering though. It would be time consuming if you ask me.
 
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I was recently looking at a seller's feedback who has had a few coupons sell for $20-$50... He in fact had a couple of negative feedback for people who thought they got ripped off. Doesn't surprise me that ebay is used for money laundering though. It would be time consuming if you ask me.
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Seller wouldn't be........ btor4149 ........... would it?
 
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BirdMobile said:
I was at a pawn shop on Thursday. One of the girls behind the counter was talking to another employee who was looking things up on a computer for pricing. Girl is asking about an iPad mini 16GB - guy on computer says the last one on eBay sold for $430.

My turn at the counter. "You guys realize you can get a brand new 16G iPad mini for $230, right?" No response. She was putting it in the case with the $400-ish price as I left, some poor idiot will probably think it's a deal and buy it.

And the world continues spinning.
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Told the guy at a local pawn shop that the used HF torque wrench that was marked $40, could be had for $10, new at HF with a coupon.:lol_hitti
 
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interesting....I had no idea that people would actually bid on and buy something they can get for absolutely free. That's what I like about people, they are so interesting to observe.
 
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When using a Harbor Freight coupon at Lowes or Home Depot you must present an actual coupon, they usually won't except a printed copy. To get an actual coupon you would probably have to purchase a publication(newspaper, magazine, etc.) anyway. I suspect a person buying those coupons are not using them at Harbor Freight but are instead using them at a competitor for price/coupon matching purposes.
 
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I have no answers for those exorbitant listings. It's certainly possible something nefarious is happening.
 
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BirdMobile said:
I was at a pawn shop on Thursday. One of the girls behind the counter was talking to another employee who was looking things up on a computer for pricing. Girl is asking about an iPad mini 16GB - guy on computer says the last one on eBay sold for $430.

My turn at the counter. "You guys realize you can get a brand new 16G iPad mini for $230, right?" No response. She was putting it in the case with the $400-ish price as I left, some poor idiot will probably think it's a deal and buy it.

And the world continues spinning.
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Can't fix stupid. It was rude of them to not even respond to you, but that's fairly typical these days. Customers are seen as a nuisance by a lot of these "customer service" reps. One of those rocket scientists may have overpaid someone for that ipad, thus they didn't want to hear that they are only $230 brand new. Who knows.

Customer service is the pits these days. Walked into a convenience store recently and had a gallon of milk and a case of beer and sat them on the counter along with a $20 bill. The 2 airhead clerks continued to gab away ignoring me. Fnally after a minute, I asked if they were open, and one of them laughed and said yes.

"I didn't know you needed help", she said as the other twit sat there pushing buttons on her iPhone.

"Did you think I was just standing here to stare at you?", I replied.

"Um I don't know", she replied. Wowsers.
 
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