Does anyone here have experience with Harbor Freight stores?

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6. If you need an expensive tool and are only going to use it once or very infrequently,

Harbor Freight is a great way to go. Not that everything they have is junk, but their tools won't hold up to the tools that professionals use daily on their jobs. On the other hand, if you're looking for a tool that you will use often over many years and hope to only ever buy once, then go with the more tried and true brands.

HF is also good for disposable/consumable kinds of products -- things you don't expect to last a long time anyway.

This is just me. I see people buying cart loads of tools at Harbor Freight whenever I go into one of their stores -- so they must be somewhat happy with what they purchase their unless they are first time customers which I doubt all of them are. I do see construction rigs parked outside our local store often -- so contractors buy and use some stuff from them.

I have also heard that their generators are good alternatives to more expensive brands as one of the posters above mentioned as well. I hear their Predator generator is a good as Honda's small, quiet (e2 and e3000) generators. Thinking of getting one myself as they are about half the price of the Honda.