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Once again it's time for my tutorial on how to find the best price online at
Harbor Freight.
You have to click on "Order from Printed Catalog" to get an order form in which to fill out part numbers and quantities. And when you fill it up there's a button to add additional
lines. Find the item you want on the Web site. Let's say it's 57214-9VGA (I have
no idea if this is a real part, it's just an illustration. The real part
number it the 5-digit prefix - in this case 57214 - that's all they need to
send you the thing you want. The three letters are catolog codes -
indicating the catalog (or web pacge version) you are ordering from. Some
may be invalid, but as far as I can tell, if you take a currently-valid
3-letter code off the web site or from a current catalog, it'll work for any
part number.
The price code is the digit before the three letters - in this example the 9
before the VGA. There will be at least 2 or 3 other valid numbers, and they
will in all likelihood each have a different price.
To determine which number gives the best price, add the item to your
shopping cart 10 times - one in each variation of the part number. As in
57214-0VGA, 57214-1VGA, 57214-2VGA, 57214-3VGA, etc. all the way up to
57214-9VGA
The web site will kick the invalid part numbers back at you, but will put
each of the valid part numbers into your shopping cart with the price
applicable to that part number. Look through the items in the cart and find
which part number has the "good" price, remove the rest, and you've got it.
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which number represents the
lowest or highest price.
Happy shopping !
Karl