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.
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.