Midway USA foolishness

[chicharrones]

Me. I just buy where I get the best deal.

Usually the best way to go about it.

 

[Outlaw75]

The people lining their pockets with shipping charges are the shipping companies. Now, if the sellers start adding handling charges, that's something else entirely.

Trust me, that shipping charge includes the handling charge. 100% of it does not go to the cost of shipping. They just don't tell you about it.

 

[Ignition Override]

Midway pales in comparison with CheaperThanDirt during an ammo panic years ago.

They accepted peoples’ orders then abruptly Marked Up the prices!
People still boycott “EthicsLikeDirt”.

 

[EMC45]

I do still wear my $2 Midway hat frequently. It was a promo deal years ago.


I'm wearing it the pic to the left.

 

[Terry G]

Midway pales in comparison with CheaperThanDirt during an ammo panic years ago.

They accepted peoples’ orders then abruptly Marked Up the prices!
People still boycott “EthicsLikeDirt”.

I was a regular customer at Cheaper Than Dirt until they offered me CCI .22 LR at a $1.00 per round plus S&H during the .22 shortage. Price gouging? I have never seen it more obvious. I read that the backlash from former customers hurt them badly. Good.

 

[tws3b2]

Some years ago I did a good bit of buying and selling on Ebay. It didn't take me long to see that some seller's would have the exact same idem for sell for less than others. But, If you looked closely you could see that after shipping charges the lower priced could actually cost you more.
So now I always check shipping charges before buying.
Shipping charges can be a deal breaker for me.

 

[gifbohane]

Midway pales in comparison with CheaperThanDirt during an ammo panic years ago.

They accepted peoples’ orders then abruptly Marked Up the prices!
People still boycott “EthicsLikeDirt”.

Have not seen a CheaperThanDirt thread in a few years. The consensus was always that they were awful opportunists. dare I say th&*ves.

Was going to ask if anyone had anything nice to say about them but then the thread would go 10 pages. Please no....

 

[TTv2]

I rarely ever buy just one item from Midway, not unless it's something I wasn't expecting to be an issue and I want to shoot the gun ASAP. Now, requesting $16 for shipping a spring is ridiculous, but that was probably 2nd day air, not economy. Not the most ridiculous shipping cost I've seen, have you guys seen what some gunbroker sellers want to ship a freakin' NAA revolver? $45 for something that fits inside a pack of cigarettes?

By far the worst online retailer with shipping costs is LockedLoaded. They're a drop shipper and regardless of order quantities as soon as you pick a second different item the shipping charges double. So, you could buy 20 boxes of Berry's 9mm bullets and you'd pay the same $16 shipping for that as if you just bought just one box, but throw in one box of .45 bullets and the shipping jumps to $35.

At least they're all still better than Optics Planet. It took LockedLoaded 5 weeks to get me my order, Optics Planet took 6 weeks to tell me they didn't know when they'd be able to ship me my order after I got three different answers from three different service reps. Never dealt with them again.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

You guys are a hoot! Cry me a river. I live in Alaska. So you can immediately eliminate any option of "free shipping." We're always excluded from that. Midway charges me the same high shipping prices that they charge you, then they add on an "Alaska shipping surcharge"- often in the vicinity of $15. They won't ship haz-mat (powder, primers or loaded ammo) to me at any price.

I bought some stuff there last week, but it was the first order I had made in many years. And before I made the oder, I scoured Amazon (I won't do business on ebay.) for alternatives.

My web browser rarely darkens Midway's servers anymore.

 

[HEAVY METAL 1]

Midway uses their S&H as a secondary profit center. More than once I compared on sale items at Midway to the identical item regularly priced at Graf's, which I think is about 30 miles away from them, and to complete the order to me in Oregon it has nearly always been cheaper to go with Graf's. The distance to ship from either of those vendors to me has to be almost the same.

 

[buck460XVR]

I haven't got the spring yet. Ive ordered small stuff from them before and Im pretty sure it came in a padded envelope.

But a sear spring? That's not "shipping". That's mail.

The 1911 mags I mentioned in my previous post came in a padded envelope. There were three of them and they definitely not just "mail". I didn't bother to look at the shipping cost, but it was more than just a single stamp. I'm guessing the amount of postage was still less than the difference between Wilson's wholesale and their retail price points. IOWs, they probably still made more profit than selling the same Mags to Midway.

 

[Robert]

Midway's shipping and handling charges are nothing new. They have been this way for a number of years. I stopped ordering from them as I can find what I need locally or from other online vendors cheaper. Their loss, not mine. That being said, 4 more pages of complaining about Midway are not going to be productive. Let's call it a day.