After reading all the problems with the 40 cal shield, I decided that I would not fall victim to a bad design. So when the LGS called today and said my Shield had came in I passed on it and told them to sell it to the next guy (sucker) on the list.
The LGS informed me that I was the 6th person that they had called and the others had passed also. S&W has really tarnished their name with this fluke, I am on the 9mm wait list also, however I am thinking now of waiting and maybe get one when the 2nd gens come out. Until then I am shopping for another manufacturer for a small pistol.
S&W please do better in the QC department.
By the way I own a few FS M&P's and love them.
Unfortunately, this is the problem with the "error-net" as Vickers calls it. Every unhappy soul is given a public forum from which to spew forth vicious lies and gossip, trashing something in the process.
After reading many hundreds of posts, it is easy to get depressed, because a tiny percentage belly-ache about every little thing (tiny blemishes, etc.) and an even tinier percentage have an issue that is not present on the overwhelming majority of examples (mag drop, for example), yet the "squeaky wheel gets the grease."
I understand the original poster getting worried, but I will bet that just as many got buyer's remorse when confronted with a new pistol and an angry wife when it is time to pay real estate taxes, personal property taxes and buy Christmas presents for the kids. Not to mention dinner for all of the hangers-on whiny relatives that you never see except when it is time to get a Christmas present.
I think S&W gets unfairly trashed, and it is too bad customers are not treated to the whole picture (number produced versus number returned for this mag drop issue). Of course, the belly-aching whine-bags would just say S&W is not being truthful anyway.
Why do we give the vast majority of whine bags the time of day when they represent such a tiny fraction of the number of buyers?
Oh, wait - that sounds almost like a question we could ask about a number of tiny percentage loud groups who like to trash a politician for not becoming a card-carrying member of some wild-eyed radical "save the whatever" group.
Sorry for the rant.
To the original poster: I mean YOU no disrespect, and understand how you could get discouraged at the amount of whining we read compared to the number of good reports we read. I get discouraged at times as well.
