Harbor Freight settlement?
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A lot of American companies are squandering their name and reputation. For those owned by Blackrock, etc. private investment firms, they are looting the enterprise and will sell the husk when they are done. If I am going to use a Chinese Tool, I will buy it at a Chinese Store at a Chinese price. My impression is that Sears is offering Chinese tools at American prices.
Regarding Harbor Freight, which I have always known as a Chinese import house, you also have a buyer beware. The 'comparison price' in the litigation is the issue. It's like shopping at Kohl's - who pays full price for anything there? Their profit model is built on the minimum price. There will almost always be a coupon for what you want to buy, you just have to wait for it, or use the 20% off coupon. Sign up for their customer alerts (which is how you got the litigation notice), or cut one out of the newspaper or car magazine. And don't impulse-buy anything but what you came for. That's how the supermarkets, Kohl's and HF squeeze the best profit.
I have broken three HF tools in 20 years. I agree that their quality has vastly improved over the years, so I am not worried about my safety using them, but I do agree that their battery tools are crap. I am using their 20-ton shop press, engine hoist, wheel ramps and engine stands with no issues.
Regarding Harbor Freight, which I have always known as a Chinese import house, you also have a buyer beware. The 'comparison price' in the litigation is the issue. It's like shopping at Kohl's - who pays full price for anything there? Their profit model is built on the minimum price. There will almost always be a coupon for what you want to buy, you just have to wait for it, or use the 20% off coupon. Sign up for their customer alerts (which is how you got the litigation notice), or cut one out of the newspaper or car magazine. And don't impulse-buy anything but what you came for. That's how the supermarkets, Kohl's and HF squeeze the best profit.
I have broken three HF tools in 20 years. I agree that their quality has vastly improved over the years, so I am not worried about my safety using them, but I do agree that their battery tools are crap. I am using their 20-ton shop press, engine hoist, wheel ramps and engine stands with no issues.
For those who do buy HF stuff, this coupon site is a good resource, I have used it a couple times with no issues.
http://www.hfqpdb.com/harborfreightcoupons
http://www.hfqpdb.com/harborfreightcoupons
Certainly not about bringing Craftsman back to the US, if that's what you're wondering. But about the sheer slapstick tragicomedy of having to cram so many once proud names into one breath just to say that. And then what ssn696 said, too.
It doesn't seem to have done them much good. I was reading just the other day where Sears themselves are reporting that their "future viability" is "in doubt."
Funny about Sears. Since that last post, I was just remembering that when I was a kid, that was the main place we went for Christmas shopping. And they had all these toys, including big elaborate stuff, and of course it was all made by people here in the US, and that was part of the magic. What do kids have to look at now? Nothing against other countries and peoples, or even foreign toys, but that's all there is. It's like what you would expect to happen if we'd been conquered.
EDIT: Not to mention all the Christmas decorations. No wonder people think it's an atheist plot.
EDIT EDIT: Remembering the toys, and only later the decorations and supposed religious significance, was obviously a Freudian slip on my part.
EDIT: Not to mention all the Christmas decorations. No wonder people think it's an atheist plot.
EDIT EDIT: Remembering the toys, and only later the decorations and supposed religious significance, was obviously a Freudian slip on my part.
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For the last 25 plus years Sear has been crying we are in trouble.
And for 25 plus years they have been doing everything wrong.
Screwing there employee's and the consumer.
Go find an late 70's early 80's craftsman wrench.
Know what it says on it?
MADE IN TAIWAN !!!! and Taiwan tools were JUNK back then.
Now your lucky when u look at a tool and it doesn't say China or nothing at all and says Taiwan
Sears learned real fast back then they screwed up when there were other stores that still sold AMERICAN tools.
Here is the problem in a nutshell
When was the last time you saw something like this.........
And for 25 plus years they have been doing everything wrong.
Screwing there employee's and the consumer.
Go find an late 70's early 80's craftsman wrench.
Know what it says on it?
MADE IN TAIWAN !!!! and Taiwan tools were JUNK back then.
Now your lucky when u look at a tool and it doesn't say China or nothing at all and says Taiwan
Sears learned real fast back then they screwed up when there were other stores that still sold AMERICAN tools.
Here is the problem in a nutshell
When was the last time you saw something like this.........
After looking at the site I'm more depressed than ever.
All we have is a sharpie with a pocket clip an axe and a plastic paint bucket thingy.
All we have is a sharpie with a pocket clip an axe and a plastic paint bucket thingy.
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