Midway USA foolishness

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I don't mind paying $8.00 shipping. I live 25 miles from the nearest small city. I can't drive there and back for eight bucks in gas plus an hour of my time wasted in transit.

Also, I've mailed a few small packages lately and they cost $4.50-$5.00. Add the cost of the padded envelope and the trip to the post office and eight bucks seems completely reasonable to me.
 
You can see why they do it .
Enough people will pay the ridiculous shipping charges so they will have plenty of money to stuff their pockets.
Always plenty of suckers to keep the pockets full.
 
tws3b2 said:
You can see why they do it .
Enough people will pay the ridiculous shipping charges so they will have plenty of money to stuff their pockets.
Always plenty of suckers to keep the pockets full.
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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.
 
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Terry G said:
I buy a lot of stuff from Sportsman's Guide where every order over $49.95 is free shipping. I'm a member too, so that's an automatic discount also. If my order's under $49.95 I just a box or two of ammunition to get the free shipping. I'm wary of low cost ammunition that suddenly get's expensive when you add the shipping charges.
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Add enough boxes of ammo and suddenly you have a heavy box, which increases the cost of shipping.

And that reminds me of an equipment move estimate I had to give recently.

A 40 year old 3000 pound machine needs to be removed from a customer's office. The machine has no value except to a scrap yard. The customer that wants the 3000 pound machine removed is wanting to by a new replacement.

It costs the same to move either piece of equipment even though one has scrap value and the other one is worth $40K.
 
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I may sound like I'm defending online sellers and what shipping companies charge them. I'm simply presenting basic facts from my own experiences dealing with shipping and receiving in business to business industries since 1983. UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, etc. have all been charging for their services to ship packages for a very, very long time.

If anyone wants to see what it costs to ship something as an individual, try out a shipping calculator.

https://www.theupsstore.com/tools/estimate-shipping-cost

https://postcalc.usps.com/
 
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chicharrones said:
Add enough boxes of ammo and suddenly you have a heavy box, which increases the cost of shipping.

And that reminds me of an equipment move estimate I had to give recently.

A 40 year old 3000 pound machine needs to be removed from a customer's office. The machine has no value except to a scrap yard. The customer that wants the 3000 pound machine removed is wanting to by a new replacement.

It costs the same to move either piece of equipment even though one has scrap value and the other one is worth $40K.
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Shipping is FREE if the dollar amount is over $49.99 no matter what the weight.
 
But a sear spring? That's not "shipping". That's mail.
I bought a sear spring and sear for a 22rifle a couple months ago and I was charged $12 for the sear and spring + I think something like $1.60 for postage. They put it in a plastic bag wrapped in paper, put it in a small envelope and dropped it in the mail. 4 or 5 days and it was in the gun.
From Texas to N C
 
trackskippy said:
I really dont dislike Midway, they have a ton of stuff and usually in stock. What always kills me, and usually the sale, is when I get to the checkout page, and they try and rape you on shipping.

I was going to order a Wilson 1911 sear spring from them for $6.95. Not a great deal, but they have it and its only $7. "Until" you get to the check out page. Bottom line on the checkout page, $15.85!!! :cuss:

For those who dont know what a 1911 sear spring is, is a small, flat piece of metal that would fit in a small envelope. Screw Midway! :fire:

I then do what I should have done right at the start and just did a quick search. Wilson has them, same exact price (Midway didnt even discount them a couple of cents), and the total at checkout.... $7.37.

Hey, I guess if Midway can get it, good for them. They aint getting it from me though. Doom on them. :neener:
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Midway used to offer free shipping on everything... about 25-30 years ago or so. I used to buy all my reloading supplies from Midway. I haven't really purchased anything from them since they started charging for shipping. I have always been able to find a better deal elsewhere.
 
troy fairweather said:
I miss when you could add a $2 Item and get free shipping on the order. Can't blame them to much on shipping not like they set the prices the carriers give.
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I bought sooo much, not necessarily unnecessary stuff, but at least stuff I didn't necessarily need at that point, just to make those deals happen.
 
If I Really Wanted the spring, I would have paid the total charge by Midway.

And if any other gun items later were available at other retailers, we can buy these other components from them.

With " dollar-cost averaging", the extra $3-$5 we pay for only a single, Small item (bought just once) really isn't bad, except for The Principal of the overcharge.

The notion of accepting this "ancient Rhine River Robber Baron" bugs many people more than the actual extra few dollars.
 
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What gets me about MidwayUSA is I select things to buy and go to my shopping cart. It says I only need to purchase $10 more for free shipping. I add more than $10 of products and I still don't get free shipping. It still tells me to buy more to get free shipping.
It turns out there are some things that are marked for free shipping. You have to buy $49 worth of those specific things that are marked "ships free with $49". I think it's deceptive on purpose. Especially people new to MidwayUSA don't realize how this works.
 
Durango_Dave said:
What gets me about MidwayUSA is I select things to buy and go to my shopping cart. It says I only need to purchase $10 more for free shipping. I add more than $10 of products and I still don't get free shipping. It still tells me to buy more to get free shipping.
It turns out there are some things that are marked for free shipping. You have to buy $49 worth of those specific things that are marked "ships free with $49". I think it's deceptive on purpose. Especially people new to MidwayUSA don't realize how this works.
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It's the friggin' internet. If you shop much online, there's way worse sites than Midway.
 
tws3b2 said:
But a sear spring? That's not "shipping". That's mail.
I bought a sear spring and sear for a 22rifle a couple months ago and I was charged $12 for the sear and spring + I think something like $1.60 for postage. They put it in a plastic bag wrapped in paper, put it in a small envelope and dropped it in the mail. 4 or 5 days and it was in the gun.
From Texas to N C
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That’s about as cheap as it gets. Now it just depends on who pays for it, the buyer or the seller.

$1.60 for postage and maybe 75 cents for the packing and envelope for a total of $2.35. So, if it costs $2.35 for Wilson to mail a $7.00 sear spring to @trackskippy, Wilson keeps $4.65 for the sear spring.

And if that sear spring cost Wilson $3.50, they’d make $1.15 on the sale.

No telling the time cost of employees to put that part in inventory when it arrives at Wilson, then pull it from inventory for pack and ship to a buyer.

Definitely seems like a loss leader to Wilson.
 
So, I guess there are 3 types of Midway shoppers here-

Those that see that Midway has modernized and become rip off artists and hate them. (not too many)

Those that did business with them for 100 years and love them not matter what they do (might do a little mild complaining now and then.)

And the philosophical, tolerant, and deep thinkers that understand why Midway has changed and does what it does and condones it.

Me. I just buy where I get the best deal.
 
My pet peeve is that Midway Falsely tells you within minutes your package has shipped just so you cannot change your mind. Cannot cancel after they say it's shipped. Then it takes two weeks to get to you.
 
Getting my package on time is one thing that I have never had a problem with .
 
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