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I have occasionally done business with CTD, and will continue, when the price is right. Early on in his business, the owner bought from a friend of mine. His only comment was that CTD usually paid too much for the merchandise, and then had too charge more to compensate. At that time he was not trying to price gouge, but simply was not a good business operator. If he has something that you need, do your price shopping and proceed as you deem necessary. Just don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
 
Cheaper Then Dirt in my books was thrown out in the dirty bath water after the baby in the old times.
Just like Dicks they can shove their products where the sun doesn't shine. PERIOD!
if any of you want to support a price gouger go right ahead, it's your call.
The rest of us will boycott these sleaze balls that see an opportunity and gouge you.
 
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I tend to shop where the deals are. One thing I don't like about CTD is they will not send much of anything to CA even if it is legal. I guess I wasn't old enough to remember the Clinton era shortage. I occasionally look on their website but like I said I will spend my money where it goes the further and if I do manage to see a better deal on CTD rarely is it something they will ship to me.
 
You all don't get it, do you? No one is twisting your arm to buy anything from CTD. I've bought quite a bit of stuff from them, including my Kimber and one of my Kahrs. No, I didn't buy a $100 AR magazine from them, I wouldn't have bought one from anyone at that price, not just CTD. This is America... if I want to sell AR magazines for $100... then I should have the freedom to do so, and you have the freedom to not buy one. Get over it.

No “you” don’t get it . They do have the freedom to do what they want . What you don’t get is there are consequences to what you do . Just becuase you can doesn’t mean you should . They are now paying the consequences of there actions .

Sounds to me it is working exactly how it should . They have the right to charge what they want and pay the consequence for it .
 
Price gouging during a time of crisis is not the upright way to be. But that is not why I don’t buy from them. I am a hunter of deals. I will buy what I need for a price I want, or I will go without.
If some human wishes to spend a C-note for a plastic magazine, so be it. We all make choices.

What made me choose to forget them as a business was their multitudinous other shenanigans.

Such as their “we have multiple warehouses we ship from”. No, they don’t. And if they did, why would it cost more to ship from one than the other? My house is the same fifteen hundred miles from both places in Texas...
My stuff all came in the same box, how did that magic happen? Does UPS pack shipments for you in the truck?

Or finding three things needed to buy, seeing they ship from “separate warehouses" and looking through the site to find those items at the same warehouse, just to have them change after they are carted to “out of stock, try house 13".
Why don’t you just charge triple for shipping and say so?

Prices are what prices are. But I can not tolerate lying and subversion.

Still, there are fresh shooters like I was, we owe it to them to at least let them know when the wolf is in the herd.
They may still play with them and get bitten, but we did warn them at least.

Oh, and there was a restocking fee they tried to charge me once. As if it were a truckload of siding that needed an hour to put away. They sent me a magazine for a Smith and Wesson pistol of some sort, instead of a thirty round 92 mag.(Yes, I was younger and mag-dump-ier.) And wanted money from me to send it back.:confused:
I just started laughing. I truly think the phone lady herself was trying to scam me, but how could she possibly get the money?
I received three more dollars for it than I paid when I sold it to a fellow at the trap shoot. Which would have been fifty dollars cheaper than he could find one, I think he just liked the story.


An astoundingly perverse business model, unless one is a con-man or thief...

They may rot, for all I care. There are too many other places to hunt.

It’s just that, I wish places like that could go under, so that new, forthright businesses could spring up from their corpse.
 
To buy, or not to buy, that is the question.

But we are not going to argue about what is fair pricing vs capitalism vs gouging/etc/etc....
 
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