Bottom line is Harbor Freight tells you how it is.
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I might only use them once or twice, but for $10 are good to have. I bought a few tow slings there the other day for $10 and felt like I got a great deal, leaving with a smile. Harbor Freight however is not about fancy brand names, it is about good deals, you know up front that you are buying cheaply produced goods, but not overpaying for it. That left a bad taste in my mouth and now will avoid the brand. I had no sense of value from this purchase and I just felt like I got bent over. I couldn’t believe my eyes, Snap-On had sold out and I just paid $30 to have a Snap-On name slapped on some cheap Chinese products. I could have got the exact same thing from Harbor Freight for under $5. I noticed it was just licensed by Snap-On and both of the products were just cheaply made Chinese junk, branded with Snap-On logos. I spent $40, as I carefully inspected the Snap-On packaging. Recently I bought a Snap-On flashlight and gloves at Costco. I wouldn’t really go as far as getting a power tool from there, but we did get a multi-tool for review. The list goes on and on, even I am addicted and find myself leaving there with totally useless stuff like a big box of wing nuts or box of cotter pins. You can get an entire impact socket set for $9.99, a reciprocating saw for $22.99, a pancake compressor for $59 and even a 3-D Empire State Building puzzle for $2.97. Even if you only spend $20 there, you come out with a great sense of value. My Dad recently has now become addicted and goes there at least twice a week. They go there in droves and spend a lot of time in shopping and looking around. It is basically a dollar store for men, cheaply produced products at cheap prices. A Harbor Freight recently opened up here in my home town and it has been all the talk recently. If you are reading this, you obviously love tools.