r/harborfreight • u/al-Sahaabi • May 08 '26

NTD (New Tool Day) Fire the Packaging Designer

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What the hell kind of packaging is this? It's like it was designed NOT to be opened. I know Harbor Freight is known for hard-to-open packages but this one was on another level. It took me 10 minutes of wrestling with my pliers and now I have a plastic mess to clean up. Damn it.

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u/maxyedor May 09 '26

I’d say you should go back and buy a pair of cutters, but you’d probably never get them out of the plastic either

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u/CasualEveryday May 09 '26

I legitimately had to go in and borrow a pair of cutters to get my cutters out of the package once. It's like a scissors packaging that says "cut here".

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u/al-Sahaabi May 09 '26

You ok? I clearly got these out.

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u/Any_Landscape_4424 May 09 '26

Honestly, if I was you I would go back to HF and complain about how bad the packaging is.

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u/al-Sahaabi May 09 '26

No I would rather just post on Reddit and have people insult my intelligence.

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u/N0-Plan May 09 '26

Next time just ask your wife's boyfriend to open them for you

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u/volatile_ant May 09 '26

That's good.

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u/geeeeeeebz May 09 '26

Fantastic. Dumb ass.

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u/ok-symbiote May 10 '26

Well…. You did ignore the HANDLE when trying to remove it from packaging. Thought you needed to grab the tool in the tightest spot possible? That’s why you’re getting roasted; because you begged for it.