A few product order stories to catch up on.

.38 Ammo

On October 1, 2009 I submitted an order to MidwayUSA for 10 boxes of R38S12, the Remington .38 Special +P 158 grain LHP… the so-called “FBI Load”.

Today, I received an email from MidwayUSA notifying me there was product for order. Eh? That only happens for general ordering, but I have a backorder. I called and asked and they received enough to fill all the remaining back orders then with some left over for general sale. So, in theory my back order is being processed as we speak and I should have it by next week. I am counting my chickens prematurely, because I have no confirmation of actual order processing. But I’ll trust the girl on the phone.

So 7.5 months to wait for this product. Never had a backorder that long in my life. 🙂  It got to a point where I opted against cancelled the backorder purely because I wanted to see how long it would be until it was filled. Now I know.

Blue Guns

So, the saga of the BlueGuns continues.

I did manage to get the botched order shipped back. They received, and it took about a week to process, then a few days to ship back. When I received them well… I still wasn’t happy.

All 6 XD-9 magazines did have proper latch holes in them now, but one still did not drop free and another still had the “blistered” look to it. I could tell these were the exact same two they originally sent, just cleaned up a bit. While I don’t blame them for not wanting to make a whole other magazine, they could have at least ensured the one fully worked. The blistered one does appear to be cosmetic, but how do I know that? It just seems bad enough like sooner or later it’s going to split.

The XD-45 magazines I have only looked at. They do look like XD-45 magazines, which is a good start. But as I’ve not been able to get together yet with anyone that owns an XD-45 (including the guys I did this order for), I haven’t been able to test them.

The 2 AR-15 magazines? They are better but still not right. If you let the bolt slam home, that’s enough to cause one of them to just drop free.

I’m really disappointed. You’d think given the hell and hassle that they’ve had to go through dealing with this order they would have gotten it right the second time around so they didn’t have to deal with it again. But alas, no. No, I haven’t contacted RINGS about this yet because I wanted to make a single phone call… I’m waiting until I see the guys with the 45’s so we can see if they work or not, so it may be another week or two.

But to be honest, I don’t even want to call them. I’m fed up and tired of it. What can they say to me at this point? And can I trust them? The one XD-9 mag that doesn’t drop free can probably be fixed with a little selective Dremeling, and the one that doesn’t look so pretty can be lived with. The AR mags tho really cheese me off… they’re expensive.

I will call them once I can confirm the 45’s working or not. Part of me wants them to make things right, but part of me is also just tired of it and wants to just return the products and get my money back. They seem nice enough on the phone and all, but there’s just no excuse for this.