Sportsmans Guide question.

What does anyone else make of this:

I order some PRVI Partizan .222 for my father-in-law the first week of Dec '12. Expected delivery was to be just before Christmas.

I get a follow up e-mail stating that that it is back ordered until 1/28/13 and according to FTC regulations they are required to see if I still want the order. Because of the free shipping coupon and cheap price I reply yes. This is after Sandy Hook. Explain it to the father-in-law at Christmas. He doesn't care. Still has some and they're for his Stevens o/u .222/20g.

Receive another e-mail on the 17th, again due to the FTC. Same question with an expected shipping in April. Once again I reply yes.

Now comes the e-mail on the 18th. Order is shipped!

I have some ammo on back order with Midway since late November, don't they have the same FTC regs to follow? Never got an e-mail from them. Or was Sportsmans Guide trying to get me to cancel my cheap order so they can gouge someone with a new price due to the times?


I've always likes SG, but I'm starting to look at them in a different light.

Was just told........

........that the item was backordered. Never got an expected date.

RaceM

Yea, I've done the back order thing with them before. Just thought it was strange about the e-mail on the 17th. Just prior to the shipping one on the 18th. I've never cancelled an order if the price was right. Just got ammo elsewhere til it came in.

jmace57 said:

I know there is a guy on another forum that claims he's been doing the form for an SG order since 2009...he's seeing how long it can go.

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That's funny! I like it! There were some orders that I've run awhile, but never anything that long.

My apologies to Gary Olen....

......for doubting him. Checked the website later on after posting. The price is the same. Must be some sort of auto-electronic shipping/receiving/accounting thing. Like Loc n Load above, been shopping there since the '80s. Never disappointed. I do sometimes miss the catalogs when the warehouse workers were the models!