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why don't we lobby brownells to carry more reloading stuff, if enough of us do it, they will carry it. then we can only buy from one source. I'm in the military and have only ordered a few things from them, but it was fast shipping and very reasonable. and they offered me a discount.
I say lets send them emails, who knows what could happen.
emails are free

Brownells acquired Sinclair not too long ago, so in effect they do carry reloading stuff...its just on another web site.

I just made an order thru Midway this weekend and made sure after reading this thread awhile back to say "No thank you" to the catalog. I'm a Brownells man myself most of the time.

Last week I go an email promo about the importance of my anniversary with/to Midway, so special (discounted?) pricing had been set up for my next order. Interesting, as I am in the midst of building my reloading inventories. I followed their instructions and failed to find a single discounted price on anything ( a long list) that i was interested in.
Midway is getting consistently bad enough that I generally just hit the delete button. Sorry to see them go down the tubes like this.

Let me first say I don�t work for midway, nor do I have a FFL. I�m just guessing.

Midway offers you a discount because you have a FFL. They do not offer your brother or second cousin a discount. They do not offer your internet buddy who you have never met a discount. It would be real easy for somebody to post on a forum like this that their midway account name is XYZ and the password is 123. Everybody could then log into midway, enter their shipping address and credit card info and get your discount. The only way they can know for sure the FFL is the one getting the discount is by shipping to the FFL address.

Badspiller,

Ever heard of drop shipping? If I had to reship every order a customer places with me I would never turn a nickle's profit. Their discounts just aren't that big. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have an item shipped other than your place of business. Often when building a custom rifle for a client they will want dies, brass and bullets first. They'll assemble some rounds and ship them to me to function check the rifle with.

But you seem to be missing the point of Rick's first post where he stated that though his shipping address is on his FFL and is different than his POB, they still refused. Is he giving all his unknown internet buddies keys to his public mailbox too?

The mailing addy of my FFL is also different than my POB. No other vendor gives me grief about it.

We have a new Cabelas store just north of me. I have compared prices and most of the time I spend my bullet money at Cabelas
because the shipping is so high at Midway. They are only a buck or so cheaper on the bullets and I have a "discount" at midway?
I used to buy from Midway when they shipped free, but not since Cabelas came to town!

Midway's shipping is unreal and through the roof. I've ordered my last from them.

I have gone to the Midway site a few times only to find numerous dead links and would have to refresh the current link before the next link would work if it did at all. I think that I spent more time doing this than I did trying to shop on their site. I like so many others have gone to Brownells or drove down to the Sportsmans warehouse for the things that need.

I rarely ever order from Midway, too many backorders and overpriced shipping. Plus Midway's server is super slow, I have high speed DSL and it still took 15-20min to place a small order from them.

There was a time they had free shipping, and great sales every month but that's been awhile.

MtnHtr

Hmm, seems like there are more than just a few unhappy customers. Or, should I say ex-customers?

Are you serious?

So how does EVERY other company in the firearms business avoid this "evil" situation you came up with?

I guess maybe you didn't read my original post. I called Midway on the phone after I couldn't place the order on their web site and told them I was away from home and they still wouldn't ship here. If they mistrust me that much perhaps they should have never given me an account in the first place.

In order for someone else to impersonate me they would have to have all of my account info for both my bank/credit card (it's on file with Midway) and my Midway account account number, user name and password...plus have a phone that would identify them on caller ID as Rick B----- and display the same phone number that Midway has on file for me.

If somebody has all that info of mine, using my dealer discount at Midway is about the last thing I would be worrying about.

I was a devout Midway fan until the prices started going up and I noticed they shipped backordered items separately and billed a second shipping entry....That did me in. No longer can you get a deal with them once you compare the total price spent with what it would cost to buy from Cabelas and others with either free or flat rate shipping. Potterfield made his riches...I just hope he saved it wisely. Many hunters/shooters on many boards I frequent are stating the same as on here about giving up on being a Midway customer.

Midway will also not budge on price matching. BTDT. The only positive note I can say is that Midway's customer service did treat me right when things were wrong. No complaints there. CS must cost an awful lot these days.

I know that they don't have near the inventory but Natchez Shooters Supply is very good to deal with. Back a few months ago I ordered a rest that they had on sale for a very good price. Sent them a check for it as I do not like using a credit or debit card the first time I order from any company. The order was sent the same or next day that they recieved the check. A few days after the order came I got a check in the mail from them for $1.?? for overpayment of the shipping. Great customer service in my book.

I have since placed one or two more orders from them and had no problems. They will get the business that I used to give Midway if at all possible. Course I do still prefer to buy locally to support the little guys.

Dave.

I've been looking at the Elite 3200 and/or the Browning 2x7 made by Bushnell at Natchez. Unfortunately, they don't ship to GA, TN, or AL. Anyone know what's up with the shipping policy to these three states?
Thanks,
GeoW

Sinclair international, owned by Brownells, is a excellent place to by reloading equip., if you order 5 or more boxs of bullets you save a good amount of money, shipping is fast too.

If there is a back order, shipping is free on the later items, from my experiance.

Probably don't want to compete with retailers in their area.

Paul

I order from Midway when they are the only ones that carry what I need, which is seldom.

Graf's and Lock, Stock & Barrel will mail stuff to me in a flat rate box, Midway will not.

And frankly, the 'discount' at Midway is becoming a less and less spread between that and retail..

From what I've been told they don't want to compete w/ other stores/retail outlets/etc that they supply product to in those states. Makes sense. Bummer, as I've missed out on some truly sweet deals b/c of this policy.