Joe and I looked around for awhile for a decently priced, dependable trailer and decided we really liked the trailers sold by Harbor Freight. Plus Harbor Freight lets you get pretty much anything in the store for 20% with coupons from Joe's motorcycle magazines. But Harbor Freight didn't ever have the size trailer we wanted. Joe asked if they could order one to be shipped to the store for pickup. They said yes, but that we would not be able to use the 20% off coupon because it wasn't "in stock" in the store. BS, I tell ya! I big load of BS.
Now don't get me wrong...we still go to Harbor Freight for a million other things all the time! But Joe shopped around and found the same exact trailer at an online store called Northern Tool + Equipment. We ordered it (with free shipping) for pretty much the same cost as what we would have spent at Harbor Freight. There were a few mishaps and frustrations along the way:
- Only one box arrived. They asked us to ship that one box back so that they could ship both boxes together. So weird...why couldn't they just send the second box?
- The trailer we bought went on sale for $90 CHEAPER within the week after we bought it; which was a little frustrating. But....Joe worked his magic and was able to get a credit for the $90.
- Once BOTH boxes arrived, there was a hole in one of them. After arranging all of the parts and taking an inventory, we noticed that we were missing one hub assembly. Awesome. That's, apparently, what came out of the big hole in the box. We were able to get them to ship us a hub assembly replacement with no problem.
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