have a chance to buy new this weekend a 12 ton arbor  press for 89. 00 any one have any comments?

I've had one for 5 years now. I bought it when I changed the rear axles on my CJ-7 to solid axles. For the price I can't complain, it does what I need it to do.

Why so cheap?

On their website the A frame model is $149 and the straight framed press is on sale for $129. For $89.00 I'd jump on it.

special sale with a coupon in a flyer of theres, not the usual every week flyers

Is there special pricing on the 20 ton?

I went to harbor freight today and picked up one of the 12 ton presses for $89. The sale is only good until the 31st of October, here is the link to the coupon.

http://widgets.harborfreight.com/wswidgets/common/displayCoupon.do?hdr=mag&week=4310&campaign=b_retail&page=4310b_retail.html&cust=78009972071&keycode=0000

Don't expect precision engineering. The instructions say to square it up as you assemble, hardly possible when the bolt holes hardly match up but it does work great with a few shims in the right place to keep the wobble of it to a minimum. For that price, you can't go wrong though. One week before a flier came in with that listed price, I went out and bought one for $129 with a 20% off coupon so I paid about $103 plus tax. Couldn't take it back and get the price difference though as the coupon states that was not allowed. Still, its been working great for me.