Harbor Freight...Again!

I have a HF store a few miles away and do purchase the items that they do well at. If it can be made out of a big hunk of steel and / or does not need to be precision they can do it. The rest I usually pass on as a lot of it is poor quality. I was looking for an air hose and on the shelf was two different made in USA hoses for less than the china imports! I needed a pump and motor for a water wagon. I was looking at one from Pacer Pumps from PA. Did a Google search and found that HF had them for much less than anybody else, and it went on sale for an additional 30% off. It has worked great. I never purchase an item from HF till it is 30 � 70% off �regular� price; they cycle through sale prices about every 3 months.

It looks like the US has exported most of the polluting jobs to china and India due to tighter regulations here.

Jim

They want more, the companies have to charge more. Granted cream could be skimmed off the top, but don't go blaming everyone that's buying the cheaper stuff. The unions of years ago started it...called it keeping up with inflation, but they forgot to look in their own backyard as to who was the one of the causes of inflation. Now everyone just expects a raise every year. And from what I've seen of a lot of American made stuff. Cost has gone up....quality has gone down.