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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 at 15:30:14 :
In Reply to: Re: OT, rifle question posted by Tim Holloway [69.54.28.229] on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 at 12:48:50 :
Nope, haven't gotten it yet. "Expected ship date 3/31/11", but obviously it didn't ship.
I've had a lot of SG surplus back-ordered for a long time, and often canceled after several resets of the ship date. I think what they do is they have some guy in Europe who thinks he has a line on a bunch of surplus stuff. SG puts it in their catalog and if they get enough orders, the guy tries to buy the stuff. Sometimes there aren't enough orders and sometimes he can't get the stuff after all. SG will never admit that, of course. I thought the Swedish battery box was good. I'll put my solar batteries in it at my cabin. If I don't get the snatch block no big deal.
I've got ammo orders from a year and a half ago where they keep sending me notices asking if I'm sure I want to keep it on back-order. They're really hoping I'll just miss the notice and they can cancel it. Sometimes they send me a notice by mail that says I have to call a phone number to keep it on back order, rather than just clicking on an email. I think this is how they really try to purge the old back-orders out of the system. I'm pretty sure what's really going with the ammo, since it's still listed in their catalog, is that the price has gone up and they don't want to honor the price they sold it do me at.
SG has some neat bargains once in a while, but they can also be a PITA to deal with. So far they've never charged my card for anything they didn't ship, so I just go ahead and order what looks good and if I never get it, it doesn't matter. Once in a while their description is wrong and I have to send the thing back or decide if I can be happy with the $10 coupon they always send you if you have a complaint.