On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 4:57:14 PM UTC-5, -MIKE- wrote:
On 3/7/15 3:22 PM, Spalted Walt wrote:
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:15:58 -0600, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 3/7/15 1:57 PM, Spalted Walt wrote:
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 12:20:35 -0600, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 3/7/15 12:09 PM, Spalted Walt wrote:
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 12:01:09 -0600, -MIKE-
wrote:

It's already on sale, so you can't take the additional 20%
off with the coupon.

That is simply not true.


Every Harbor Freight 20% off coupon I've ever seen has stated
"Cannot be used with any other discount or coupon..." so yes,
it simply is true, in the truest sense of the word.

In HF's world "Discount" does NOT equal items on "Sale". Note how
the coupon doesn't say "excludes Sale items". You or anyone
reading this can use a 20% coupon at your local HF to buy
ANYTHING at this link (for example):

http://www.harborfreight.com/power-t....html?limit=60



The only caveat being during 'Parking Lot Sale' weekends. Other than
that, if you ever have a cashier refuse to honor a 20% coupon on
an item that is on 'sale', she/he is being a ****, ask to speak
to the manager.

HTH


Something on sale for a price lower than the original price is the
very definition of a discount. If you do not understand that simple
fact there is nothing more I can do to explain it.

Crow is a dish best served cold. =^_^=


If you go back to my first reply, which you conveniently edited out when
you quoted me, I wrote, "Even though this is their official policy, I've
run across the occasional manager who will approve it."

In my HF they've always had to call a manager over to allow the 20% off
coupon on "sale" items. Your experience is obviously different. All I
can do is quote their policy.


Interesting 2013 thread found at the following link, but be sure to read both pages. There's a response from HF to an email from a customer asking about their "official policy" followed by "web site tested" proof that the "official" answer given in the email appears to be incorrect.

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=58239

In my experience with 2 local HF stores, a 3rd store about 150 miles away and purchases on their website, I have never had a problem applying the 20% coupon to sale items unless they were specifically excluded. With the humans, I guess you could call allowing the 20% of "a consistent mistake" or perhaps many unseen overrides at the register. However, when the discount is applied to sale items on the website, I have to assume it's policy. I just checked a few items on the website. In the cart, some sale items specifically say that they are excluded from "certain" coupon offers, other sale items do not. Those that don't include the exclusion wording accepted a 25% off coupon code.