I Bought A Pallet of HARBOR FREIGHT RETURNS For CHEAP... Scam?
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- I bought a pallet of returns from Harbor Freight, and I think i got scammed.
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What should you do with all those tools now? Glad you asked! You guys need to have a build off, only using those tools of course! Who else wants to see that video?
Great idea!
that’s an amazing idea
Yessssss
Yep
Me me me lmao
If they build it I'll paint with that fancy paint/concrete sprayer lmao
Just goes to show u that u don't ask your wife first lol
If I bought that I'd be outside curled up in the dog house
My favorite HF purchase was a small metal bench top vise. Still use the vise (there was no handle), but what made it my favorite was that the box had "Vice" on it in big red letters.
Also keep in mind - unlike Home Depot or Lowes who throw every open-box return in the liquidation pile, Harbor Freight (at least around here) have a table up front where they try to re-sell the usable returns or sets that are missing a piece. So their liquidation pallets will be like a HD pallet that's already been picked over for the "good" stuff.
I took a mechanic's toolset back once because it had two of the same size of one random wrench and I watched them put it right back on the shelf after I told them. They didn't even open it. But I've definitely taken advantage of that table in the front before too.
I use Harbor Freight only for work tools, because people love stealing other peoples tools at my job. I always make it a point to check that table out just in case there's something useful.
I've bought a lot of goodies off that table.
True
Between the grandkids, neighbors and friends coming over to "help", I have stocked up on Harbor Freight and Hyper Tuff to minimize my losses.
I worked at Harbor Freight for a short time and you are correct they will take back anything there. It doesn’t matter it it was beat to hell. I was truly amazed by their return policy.
My buddy use to buy those for a retail shop. I've never seen one so bad. Like that was a huge cluster. Here's an idea for the crap tools. Take them apart and make Christmas ornaments out of them. Like weld them together and make something cool looking out of it
Keep the shit wrenches and make tools as needed
Yard art maybe ???
this is probably a fake from the start. some jerk offs will do anything to be on you tube.
I worked at Harbor Freight for a couple years. We put alot of the good condition and mostly complete tools in an open box section of the store at discount. Everything else gets palleted up like what you have. However half to most of the tools are usually working, either you got bad luck of the draw or the liquidator is trying to sell off the shittier pallets. Also ship me a welder!
This is true I also work at harbor frieght
Is that the clearance section at the back cuz I’ve never seen an open box/returns section.
@@iprobablywontseeyourreply.7193 No they are two different sections. Our Harbor Freight will put large Open Box items up front, and has a section where they pile a bunch of smaller open box items. The tags specifically say open box on them.
The play here is to go to harbor and try and return it all and get retail price for them 🤣
actually, I like this idea. try to return all of them and get "your money" back.
He said they are all marked in a special way. I bet they look for the mark that it's been returned before but i bet most employees wouldnt notice and give your money back
@@tysonkoehn1 I more so just joking but I didn't catch that in the video.
I will do but only for very crap tools.
I can not believe you guys are suggesting this at all. Thou shall not lie or steal. Remember those are commands not suggestions
I have had that same 12v compressor for over 15 years. The bag is shredded, but the pump still works like a champ. I carried it in my Polaris Ranger for about 10 years and used it to fill at least 100 tires. Honestly, it was the best bang for the buck of any Harbor Freight item I've owned.
Harbor Freight really took each of those wrenches and priced them individually at about $5.66 per piece, even though the majority of those wrenches all came from multi-piece kits that were probably only worth $10-$15 each. Sorry that this pallet was such a cluster-f for you guys, but at least those compressors (esp the pancake and that bigger one) were in good enough shape to help someone out in their shop! I'd love to have one, but being from Virginia it's highly unlikely haha
yea it has a few things we can use for sure
Ditto
I think the welders could be salvaged... but yeah.
@@John_Malecki I think you have a scammer in here bud
@@John_Malecki Hey by any chance are you giving away any of those broke generators? I have small engine repair experience and a generator would be a blessing this winter.
I work at harbor freight and this is literally exactly how my co-workers stack theyre returns. that pallet came straight from the back of their warehose to yours!
11:45 😂the little green Genny, I was watching a video earlier where a guy pulled the same one out of the trash and tried to repair it. You guys didn't toss that out, did you? ... 😂🤣😂
Returns are sent back to a facility to be tested- the best of the bunch are sent back to stores to be sold “as-is”…my guess is these pallets are the ones that didn’t make the cut
Me too , I believe the same thing , any of the as is stuff that I purchased was as fine as any other products on the shelves.
When I buy from HF, it's usually something that I'm going to use just a few times, or a spare tool I need to keep in the truck or at the office. If the truck/office tool gets the "five finger discount," it's not going to break the bank.
A lot of people are abusing the return policy. Harbor Frieght needs to update the policies to exclude returned used junk & shouldn't resell broken items
It's a feature not a bug
I firmly agree with whatever your smile says
Ya at Home Depot they don't take back ruined products or at least there not supposed to. And returns of defective products are RMA only like new open box are supposed to be accepted by associates. But sometimes the service desk makes mistakes aka half empty products, no product, wrong product or destroyed products.
If they didnt accept everything no one would buy from the HF
That’s a fault in the US system. In Europe you can only return stuff within the first 7 days. After that it’s either a repair in warranty or a replacement. You cannot just return something because you do not like it any more. I went camping in US once, and a buddy of mine bought a tent, used it the form the month of camping we did, and later returned it, and got money back. How can this be “legal”?
So I can tell you the crate you bought is returns from Harbor Freights Extended warranty coverage. When someone purchases an item and they purchase the extended warranty and bring back the item that is broken, the employee or managers takes the item to the back and that item is thrown in a pile (i.e. like the one you bought) When an item is purchased and it's brought back within the 90 day return policy, that item is sent back to the manufacturer.
I've not bought a pallets worth, but I scope out the open box areas of my local HF when I go. Gotten a couple turds I returned the next day but a fair few good buys. My worm drive circular saw I got basically 1/2 of MSRP, just needed an oring to fix it from being leaky.
Right on😊
9:25 ~ I have that tire inflator. If you have a substantially older vehicle, as in 25 years or older, it works well. On newer ones you run a very serious risk of blowing a fuse if you use it. Really have no clue why it's still sold nowadays. I went with a different, hand-held, inflator from a better brand *not* sold at H.F. (Also, only good thing from the Warrior brand is their corded angle-grinder; which is slightly better than decent quality.)
Waiting for the Scooby Doo ending where Jordan pulls his mask off and it’s really been Sam this whole time.
Yes we’re has Sam been
Sam went away do other things.
@@michaelwillson6847 hope he’s successful
personally i would never buy returns since most of the good stuff is already been picked out by the retailer then the second best stuff is picked out by the liquidators then all thats left is the sh*t EVEN after you repair everything at best you'll break even which is why i will never buy one ;)
I went through 5 of those trickle charges. Just because I live walking distance to a Habor freight and kept thinking maybe the next one will work…maybe that was one of my returns lol
You mean the charger with the trickle charge and emergency start? The Centech? I have it and haven't used it much but I believe you---not expecting great things from it.
Almost the same thing for me. I returned 3 of them in like a month, then finally got one that worked for more than a week, and that one has been going strong fpr nearly 2 years.
Yup. They work until they don't.
Don’t know why I’m liking these pallet unboxing videos so much! 😂😂😂
John’s reaction to the $hit pile had me dying😂😂😂
It's kind of like the Christmas where you think you are getting a smart phone and inside the box is a pair of wool socks!
I have that exact battery charger. Shockingly, it works really well! Definitely a keeper!
Me also , never a problem with it .
I spent a few months working as a temp at a Kohl's warehouse dealing with many, many shipping containers full of returns. We get into things like store and vendor return policies and warranty policies when we discuss what was returned. Some places allow returns within 30 days even if used, some don't if the box has been opened, unless you can show the item is wrong or simply doesn't work.
Need a one time use of an impact driver? Buy one, use it for that one job, then bring it back and claim it doesn't work and get your money back. Need a new gas tank fill cap for your generator, buy one like it, take the part you need off, then bring the generator back and claim it is missing the fill tank cap. Or just put the used one in the box and return it to a place with a clerk that doesn't question. Some people are like that and take full advantage of return policies.
On the other hand, from having wasted money on some air compressors that really do fail to compress for more than one use, or a pull to start lawn mower the cord of which breaks at the first pull, etc. aren't unusual or unheard of. I once bought a cheap, new Poulan chain saw the casing which melted from engine heat during it's use. It is fair to say if it was mechanical, those boxes were usually opened and returned because someone had tried the item and found it to not be working.
I saw air compressors, small dorm room refrigerators and battery chargers. I saw relatively few never unsealed boxes of things mechanical or electronic. Many of those boxes had been partially crushed. It was pretty rare for me to see a box containing a battery charger or a heat gun that hadn't been opened. There were a few bit damaged things (including some that looked really cool to have) but open boxes missing parts or with something that even casual observation showed breakage were pretty common. There was a lot of stuff that came in sealed, plain Jane cardboard boxes that I had no idea of the contents (they had bar codes telling someone with a scanner what was inside, but that wasn't my job). But there were lots of original boxes too. As well as items without any box. Actual non electrical tools were uncommon. Probably not too many reasons to return a hammer or a pair of pliers. However I did see wrench and s. ocket sets. Air compressors were not uncommon (also hydraulic jacks with leaking oil)I did see lots of pillows, foam cushions and the like as I put items on a conveyor belt for someone else to sort. Lots of shoes and clothing returns too. Wrong color or size I guess. How much was actual return to store of purchase vs an online purchase I had no way of knowing. Occasionally I saw big ticket or unusual items I don't normally associate with Kohls like once or twice an Eprom programmer device or a Sun computer terminal and how did I miss those sales? My favorite was a brand new looking shrink wrapped V8 engine too heavy for the conveyor belt and it was moved around by it's own pallet jack.
If I could cherry pick which return item would go into a crate to be sold at a discount, then heck yeah, that would be a great buy. But from actual observation of literally tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of returns (our daily performance metric target was 6,000 items per day and we usually beat that) I would pass on a randomly filled crate. I can easily anticipate crates filled with what is best described as junk or landfill.
Thanks for helping to keep harbor freight prices low!
The Warrior brand at HF is the "use & abuse until it breaks and toss" brand (better known as the meh brand).
Yep, and some of their bits and drill accessories just belong straight in the garbage lol
@@mattmgarza I agree. Someone at my work bought a set of Warrior drill bits, and some of them came out of the case bent.
They break easily
I have a lot of HoboFreight tools. Most everything is halfway decent with a little spiffing up: like the angle grinder that came with a dry gearbox. I greased it and it’s been good for like fifteen years now!
I have that same heat gun: yup it stinks until the heating element burns off the manufacturing goo. It works great now.
Gotta have Lou make something 🤞
John can you do a video on buying lumber for the newbies like myself. Sizing, places to order from if you live in BFE like myself?? Awesome videos by the way, I never miss one
So much warrior and drill master! Those two brands practically come broken when new. The best item in that box by far was the Fortress compressor, assuming of course it is working properly. I have the same one and I love it. Nice and quiet. Not sure how the grab bar on yours got so bent up, mine is a at a lower angle that doesn't block the outlet. That whole handle slides forward with four more mounting screws anyway, to give better leverage when grabbing and moving around the garage
I love these videos and I learn a lot. thanks for making mistakes before I do
I actually love that little Pittsburg Compressor in my Beach Jeep. Airs up my tires super fast.
4:58 "you can see it spark" yeah, that's how every battery powered drill was pre-brushless becoming the norm.
“I’m never going to financially recover from this”
John Malecki
I've taken on the philosophy a friend of mine. He was using a cheap $30 benchtop drill press to make a sewing thread caddy for his wife when I asked how he was drilling the holes he pointed to the drill press and said "I buy the cheap item first, if I burn it up in a year then go I'll buy good one." I have the Avanti hand held airless sprayer it's definitely not a Wagner. I haven't opened the $99 welder yet. Now I have to watch your HD one, because I didn't know you could buy stuff like that!
Set the whole lot in a box of clear epoxy. Apart from the winch. Then winch it up to the roof and let it hang there like a big sword of Damocles.
Loved the Bill Wurtz sound bit thrown in there.
I also have one of those 2500# ATV winches. i bolted it to the floor of my garage. makes a great pull-in-the-dead-car winch. as long as it rolls freely it's never had a problem.
I’ve got one of those too, and use it exactly the same as you to drag dead cars into the garage. I also have a receiver mount and I put the winch on it and use it to drag dead cars out of the garage as well as other uses around the house. I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth out if it.
Good idea 💡
I think John might have said "You win!" before Lou even said his number. lol
To this day, the best thing I ever bought from the Freight was an 'As-is' 125A Flux Core welder for $38. Get me in to welding and caused me to buy a couple others from them. HF can definitely be hit or miss but if you play your cards right, it doesn't always have to be buy once, cry once.
It's a gamble on some of their products
A friend who owns a store bought a truckload HF return, and I helped him sort and test everything.
1 US General (I think was a 42 inch) toolbox had a huge dent on the top, beyond that it was great. Added a wood workbench top after pounding the dent out, and sold out just under full HF price.
Most air compressors worked, and the non working just had minor issues (relief valve opened at 120 psi, and wouldn't close automatically until it was empty)
A ton of grinders used once, a couple that needed brushes, and a few pallets of the tailgate generators that were all pretty much garbage.
Either he'd gotten real lucky, or you'd been royally screwed.
I have the circular saw, the 12v drill, the battery charger and the winch, and the green welder. All work well when used within their means. The circular saw is very smooth and cuts like butter with a new blade in it, very comfortable grip. The green welder is my el cheapo go to for exhaust work and fabrication on cars, bery light weight, easy to move around a car. The 12v drill do have their issues, mostly stop working after laying around for months and one, the battery woudnt remove. The 2500 ATV winch will pull a 4000 pound car onto a trailer, with Engine, no problem, have been using them for years.
I had one of those ten dollar grinders and used it on all kinds of odd projects in my formative years. It’s not bad for ten bucks.
Harbor Freight actually spends a lot of effort trying to fix returns and resell it. Their junk pallets are always going to be junk. If you want to do return pallets, stick to Amazon, they have no method to fix returns and the shipping to get it back to the manufacturer is prohibitive. Anything returned, they just put on a pallet.
the 2:17 ricochet shot at Lou was uncalled for
I would be excited to have a harbor freight returns pallet for a reasonable price. Years ago I heard about dumpster diving at harbor freight. About 5 years ago I decided go check out their trash bin with my fiance (lol) and scored a crappy leaking pvc air hose and an engine honing tool which I actually sold.
Useable good stuff… that’s a humor. Given the general opinion you are a warrior.
There are a couple of companies that import those pallets, refurbish/inspect those tools and make the Harbor Freight tools available to us in Canada. You can't understand how cornered we are, especially in Quebec, with retailers like Home Depot/Canadian Tire/Rona (Lowes) jacking the prices of the cheap stuff to premium levels and removing more and more product diversity from the shelves. Watching TH-cam, you keep hearing about how easy it is to procure X or Y item from "ANY" hardware store...not here.
I have to look up online and find retailers that will ship to canada at a decent cost nowadays. It's cheaper for me 99% of the time to order from Rock Auto and pay 100+$ of shipping than go to the nearby Carquest or Napa.
I personally had the drill master angle grinder from harbor freight for 6 years and it still runs nicely
I've got some used/open box stuff from there - but purchased in store. Another point - returns are charged a restocking fee of like 20%, and most of the items returned are re-sold at the same store. My guess is, anything that goes all the way back to a distribution center is completely fucked.
Got that same winch hooked up to a farm plow.. no snow yet this year but it lifts a heavy a$$ plow no problem.. keep up the great content
You should do a build challenge where you only can use the tools from this box. 👍🇺🇸😂
The best thing for me was getting a Harbor Freight ad with this video, lol.
Lou looks like a young Norm Abram
I have a buddy that worked at one of these liquidation places and he told me they let them go through the pellets first before they’re bid on so a lot of the good stuff gets taken out before you even get a chance at it.
They'll resell all the faulty stuff hoping people won't return it before the small return window ends. Been there, done that. But I wasn't dumb enough to let the window expire.
Amazon return pallets in the UK go for the equivalent of around 150 Dollars and all the ones I've bought are worth an easy 500 to resell, often a lot more.
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Maybe you could take some of the working tools and donate them to a rehab/halfway house type place where people trying to rebuild their lives can learn a skill also. 🤷♀️ or maybe a high school shop class might could use some of the better ones.
Saw a short clip of someone making a guitar out of the live edges of a small cookie and epoxy. Would love to see you recreate that!
A true friend finds out a way to give you the crap that they don't want!
Something additional, be sure to get and keep the units manual. If you don’t have a manual, you can get one on-line or get HF to send you one.
Thank you for killing my curiosity! I am so glad I have never pulled the trigger on something like this. This confirms my hesitations.
I don't buy pallets. I get them for free in bulk from almost every single business. I can fit 70 pallets in my enclosed trailer. Every 400 48x40 pallets they save 350 by not having to pay a flatbed to dump them. Then, i take the pallets apart w/duck bill deck wrecker, pneumatic nail kicker, safety glasses, & an old trashcan -stacking boards side by side for temporary lids for ricochets. Then, use wood for projects. I've never sold them to a manufacturer -but, they all say you can.
everything harbor freight I've ever used was sketchy when it was new in box. returned, probably used/abused is terrifying. They could have shipped you all new in box items, and I don't think it'd be worth what they claimed.
Things break quite frequently from Harbor Freight, so I think they just have a super lax return policy within 90-days.
I bought a Bauer orbital sander and it died after 6-weeks of use. Didn’t use it all that much maybe like 1-2 times a week. One day the sander just died when I tried to turn it on… Wouldn’t turn on after I tested it on other outlets.
I bet some poor guy bought it on a pallet and it’s completely useless now.
Supposedly the QA for the tools they sell at HF is minimal and there’s quite a few lemons in what they sell, but it’s 50/50 I think on whether something will hold up or just straight die on you.
My oscillating tool from HF is still going strong after 6 months of use 😊
Who else saw Lou mouth, "Oh s**t" with absolute dread on his face when he was asked to sort wrenches?!??! Epic 🤣
Only time I ever had trouble with one of the table items mentioned below was when I purchased the warrior grinder. It didn't perform at its full speed rating and wasn't powerful enough to cut what I was cutting. They allowed me to return it for a partial exchange on the Hercules grinder.
I was lucky when I learned that a tire gauge was defective that someone else bought, then was taken back to return, just have to watch what you're buying and if possible test it out in the parking lot.😊
I actually really enjoyed watching this video. And same with Home Depot one also.
You need a 20 gallon or better air compressor for that air driver. 20 gallon is pushing the low end if you are going to use it professionally. HB was selling a 20 gallon compressor last week for $199.00. the same price I bought my 6 gallon one months ago. If you can afford it get something much larger then you think you need. Yeah the six gallon doesn't want I need but I would expand my options that I could do now. The pneumatic option are cheaper then the battery or corded option.
Everybody already mentioned it but all the tools that are sellable like the customer opened it and changed their mind or the box got beat up in shipping they sell at a discount. Then on top of it anything that is descent condition the warehouse will clean up and send back to stores to sell. The only tools they liquidate are usually the non working tools or anything they don't want to fix.
Wow! This was actually painful to watch. I am a retired carpenter and woodworker who takes pride in my tools. To see such a collection of Chinese-made junk that you paid $2300 for, seems completely insane. I doubt that I own $50 worth of Harbor Freight tools, and after seeing this video, I might not ever set foot in a Harbor Freight store ever again!
Some of the crap they list replacement parts for. Way back in the day if you bought some of the power tools they came with an extra set of brushes. First time you plug it in you found out why.
What I can't believe is anyone would buy Salvage from a cheap discount tool store. At least with the wrenches and other hand tools you can walk in and walk out with a new one with no receipt.
I had a 14" chainsaw that was recalled. I swapped it for a new one in the box and asked her what do they do with the old one. We throw it in the dumpster. Well after closing I found my chainsaw in the dumpster and took it home. The switch still hasn't caught on fire. I contemplated returning it again to a different store but I never did
McGraw air compressors are good and the Vulcan welders and Titan welders are really decent compared to the bugger brand name stuff, badlands auto and ATV winches are awesome and can pull anything out in the comparable power range of the Ramsey equivalent, and I have the same Bauer 1/2 inch drill and it works fine but it still shows the sparks if you look in the back of them..
I work at a big lease-to-own furniture store as a delivery driver (the name has 2 "A"s) and they gave us effing Warrior drills for assembly. Suffice it to say that I bought a used makita drill and knockoff batteries ASAP.
Those little baby gennys are actually pretty great, but of a pain to start and they take 2 stroke but they’re awesomely portable
The air compressor is awesome. I’ve had a couple before.
Hey, John's brother, those stubby wrenches can come in REALLY HANDY. Bless your brother for the gift.
John, GET A NEW HOBBY. LOL. Condolences on your total loss.
Yes they sure can .
I sometimes pick stuff up from their return table in-store, never had any issues and usually get it dirt cheap
Yes , no problems with buying returns here 😊.
The open box return table sucks around here, they won't negotiate and only a few dollars cheaper than buying the item new
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3:56 -18 pesos 😂 that cracked me
I lost it when the belt sander went across the floor😅
Those welders are probably still good. Just need to repair the MiG torches with inexpensive parts that are available in store. Titanium welders are made in the USA by Miller or Lincoln depending on where you live.
man those fortress air compressors are pretty legit. There is some legit nice stuff there, I would be in heaven if I got this stuff on a pallet. Some of it may need a little work but it's still decent.
please do more of these
An entire pallet of returns, and the welders are the only thing I would even accept a free from a neighbor - except as filler junk for our annual garage sale. Oddly, why am I excited that a new Harbor Freight store is due to open in my small town next month?
That quiet compressor is a screw type compressor. More expensive than your standard piston compressor, and much quieter!
When I worked at harbor freight the returns that were actually worth a damn were sold at a discount during the parking lot sales.
His face when you said smell this brush 🤣🤣🤣
How much for a working cordless drill, and maybe a working generator? I'm a disabled retiree looking for a decent price.
It took my 5 minutes to destroy a grinder from Harbor Freight. I tried to cut an aluminum downspout. Didn't need to buy a replacement cutting wheel, the first cutting wheel lasted longer than the tool.
Not American, but when I buy used, or returned, or second-hand products, I'd inspect them. Weigh the pro/con regarding the difference from new. Blind buying (store returns, storage lockers, etc.) are all built on the gamble: you hope to be the one who get's more than they paid. Those people get exposure. The majority are trash to pay for the exposure ones. No surprises here.
Holy Toledo, use the supplied fuel to light the bashed up box, with all the crap in it and collect insurance for your burnt out shop! This is the horror story of the year and it’s only February !
That sucked terribly. Part of me says stay away from those pallets. I did buy a vacuum compressor for AC work for $40 on clearance at HF. I actually lucked up it works great. The atv wench works great. I got a few uses out of it before I burnt the connectors up. Pulling stuff heavier than rated. Probably would have survived if I didn't abuse it. Unfortunately, I couldn't take it back...
One of the best items y’all got is a winch . Winches , unlike hoists , are not made to be used vertically . They don’t have built-in brake designs like hoists do . Should use a pulley if y’all want vertical - but , again , they still wouldn’t have built-in braking design like hoists .
Those cheap heat guns smoke when new because of the oils on it. After you use it for a minute it goes away. I use mine a lot winter RVing.
Lou looks just like a younger version of master carpenter Norm Abram.
Drill is good. Can always see a spark in the back.
Maybe I’ve never got a good drill in all my life lmao but I can always see a spark.
That steelers sign in the background should be in that box lol
Excellent video. I appreciate your approach.