Beware, Brownell's "free shipping on $49"

[vonn]

I don't order anything that I need urgently unless forced to. I don't care who you get it from you will sometimes have something that takes longer than you think it should. The shipping companies have a system that benefits them and profits drive them. Brownells wants and you want fast and cheap , the shipping company looks at the bottom line for them. All you can do is try not to let it get to you. Don't worry,be happy �� you will have a more harmonious outcome is how I deal with it.

 

[tops]

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What boggles my mind is that if an order can be handed off to the postal service then why not just give it to them in the first place??

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I have wondered about that. I don't want it explained too me so I understand because if I understand why they don't give it too the postal service in the first place I'll be as dumb as them. Larry

 

[Rule3]

I addressed this issue back in 2012. It see it has not changed over the years.

There is no such thing as free shipping. If you want something yesterday then pay for overnight delivery


PPP on your part does not constitute an emergency on Brownells or Midways part.


About half way down in this thread:


http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge...e-catch-all-thread.html?251086=#post136530137

 

[LVSteve]

I don't want it explained too me so I understand because if I understand why they don't give it too the postal service in the first place I'll be as dumb as them. Larry

I've often come close to saying something like this at work, but then I consider the lack of pay cheque that would shortly follow and bite my tongue.

 

[Bullet Bob]

I see you've never waited 12 weeks for a secret decoder ring.

 

[johnbeaver]

Had a customer that needed some parts right away. But he did not have time to come get them.
So, UPS Next Day Air.
The part was shipped past him to the airport. Up to Louisville. Back to Houston. And delivered by 10am the next day.
Some things work, if you're willing to pay.
The customer was about 50 miles from us.

 

[iowaMallard]

Just received an order from Brownells today. Same situation. Shipping took a week. I live in Iowa two hours straight west of them on I-80. I'm asking myself why would I buy from them? High prices and 1987 style shipping? I want to support an Iowa business but come on.

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

"What boggles my mind is that if an order can be handed off to the postal service then why not just give it to them in the first place??"

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Totally agree. Like the op, I live 3 hours away and my last order took 8 days to get here via Ottumwa, Chicago, Lenexa and then handed off to the USPS there in Lenexa. Why not just mail it from Grinnell, which is closer than Lenexa.

 

[Dave.357]

I have been trying to unsubscribe
From them for a year.
I use to order from them 3 or
4 times a year. But they are
Not my first choice, they are
Always out of what I need.

 

[TTSH]

Being old and dirt poor, I always look for free shipping deals... and if I have to wait a little while longer, usually no big deal.

Both Brownell's and MidwayUSA have been very good to me shipping-wise. No complaints at all with them.

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about Amazon. Since I am not "Prime", free shipping can take forever. I think the record for me is something over 12 days for a package that ended up traveling less than 100 miles. Bezos sure likes to punish us non-Primers.

My latest adventure in free shipping is for a gun I ordered. I could not resist the price and the free shipping. Too bad for me, they shipped the gun to the wrong FFL (one who may not even be in business any longer). Since the seller does not want to pay to have it returned, I must wait while the gun sits in a Massachusetts post office for the full 15 days... at which point, the post office will supposedly return it to the seller without a fee.

I wonder if it would have been any different if I had paid for shipping?

 

[rubiranch]

and as of today, has been placed from Fedex in the hands of the USPS and the tracking # no longer works. With it now being out of my state once again, I doubt I'll get it before early next week.

Every time I order something from Amazon Prime and it changes hand to USPS the only guarantee I get is its not going to be here in 2 days.

I live in a very rural area and I'm good friends with both the UPS and FedEx drivers and they have both told me that when people get "free" shipping it might sit on the shelf for a few days before they are allowed to deliver it.

Thankfully the upper ups let them deliver stuff instead of letting it just sit on the shelf.

I order part from Rocky Mountain ATV that's 125+ miles from me.
I can't remember the dollar limit for free shipping and if they have it on the shelf I get it the next day.

 

[rubiranch]

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about Amazon. Since I am not "Prime", free shipping can take forever.

I'm sure they do that intentionally just to punish you for not being a Prime member.

I have a sister that's not a prime member and if she needs something fast from Amazon I order it, pay for it and ship it Prime to her then she just pays me back via PayPal.

 

[ladder13]

Being old and dirt poor, I always look for free shipping deals... and if I have to wait a little while longer, usually no big deal.

Both Brownell's and MidwayUSA have been very good to me shipping-wise. No complaints at all with them.

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about Amazon. Since I am not "Prime", free shipping can take forever. I think the record for me is something over 12 days for a package that ended up traveling less than 100 miles. Bezos sure likes to punish us non-Primers.

My latest adventure in free shipping is for a gun I ordered. I could not resist the price and the free shipping. Too bad for me, they shipped the gun to the wrong FFL (one who may not even be in business any longer). Since the seller does not want to pay to have it returned, I must wait while the gun sits in a Massachusetts post office for the full 15 days... at which point, the post office will supposedly return it to the seller without a fee.

I wonder if it would have been any different if I had paid for shipping?

Sometimes it takes a long time if Amazon is not the one shipping the product. My cutter/shield for my Braun razor took 10 days to arrive even though they said it shipped two days after the order, and we are Prime members. It came from another vendor/source.
That's just life.

 

[D Brown]

Brownell's needs an "avoid contact with FEDEX like the plague!" shipping option. FEDEX parked a Brownell's shipment of mine in Tampa, FL for 3 WEEKS a couple of months ago.

 

[pasote]

Sales taxes on out of state online purchases

...and most are now obligated to pay (or rather the sellers are compelled to collect) sales tax, so that's just part of the cost these days.
Can't gripe about that. It is, what it is.

Even ebay purchases from folks not even doing it as a biz, has ebay adding sales tax to it.

I am ramping up to reload a new catridge for me, the .45ACP so I had to buy the redding carbide dies, brass,, bullets, etc.. everything you need to reload a new catridge and I placed a large order with midway. As I checked out, I discovered that, for the first time, I was being charged $25 sales tax for delivery to Texas. I placed the same order with brownells and I was charged no sales tax, so I gave brownells the order with free shipping included. The prices were the same. A no brainer. When I asked midway about the new sales tax they said that there was a new law that required them to do that. I will do business now with brownells and only give midway what brownells does not have. I agree with the OP about the shipping with brownells but the sales tax with midway was a deal breaker for me.