Ever ordered something that took so long to ship...

[Idaho45guy]

That you forgot about it?

I got an email today from Skinner sights saying that my sights have shipped that I ordered for my Henry rifle.

It has been so long since I ordered them, that I completely forgot about them. I have no idea when I ordered them. Pretty sure it has been at least a month or more.

That is some incredibly bad customer service. Seems like a lot of retailers have gotten far behind lately. I ordered crash bars for my new motorcycle a week ago and they still haven't shipped.

I have a feeling with an impending recession and the immediate drop in demand for goods, that retailers will be begging people to buy from them.

[GregLaROCHE]

It happens all the time to me. Especially when I order small items from China and it takes a month for them to be delivered.

[Land Owner]

From a "starving artist" in the FL Keys, a quaint method of "salesmanship", with a well visited booth in the local flea market, I commissioned a table and paid a deposit. I had purchased one of his unique driftwood tables the year before and saw a current piece in progress that I wanted. We agreed on price, each signed the commissioning receipt, and what I thought was a schedule for delivery.

He showed me the piece he was currently working on, $45K+, commissioned by a local restaurant, that was widely acclaimed at delivery. He turned, by chainsaw, a huge piece of driftwood root, 15-feet or more in diameter, into a fantastic under-seascape of sanded and varnished, life sized, octopi, fish, Moray eel, crabs, lobster, etc., all uniquely carved into and part of the root. How he could "see" the seascape in that tree root only God and the true artist in him knows. He forwarded the forty-paragraph newspaper article to me after its delivery. As an artist, he had "hit the big time", and his talent was MUCH more desirable.

Terrific! Well done! Nice job! "Finish my table"? Nope. It has been a YEAR, one of two legs he already made is "missing", started over, and I am still waiting.

He had each knee arthroscopically repaired, which I knew was in the works at commissioning, so I wouldn't fault him for his several month recoveries in those. BUT he ALSO spent MONTHS in Club Fed, for what I don't know, and of that I neither knew nor commissioned.

So, after waiting a YEAR, worrying he would sell mine to someone else for more, then turn me down, dozens upon dozens of phone calls to him (mostly unanswered and no voice mail), "starving artist" calls, is once again in need of cash, and trying to finish my table...we shall see.

[Randy Bohannon]

Order a Shiloh Sharps 1877 and you won’t forget you spent $4K , even after six years.

[Half Dog]

I recently bought an office chair at Sams Club. The chair seems to push me forward when I’m sitting in it so I called Serta. The rep knew exactly what I needed and put a part on order. I got an email saying I can expect the part in 12- 16 weeks. No more Serta for me.

[pworley1]

I got a notice yesterday from Optics Planet that my order was ready and would ship soon. I couldn't remember what I had ordered. After checking my order files, it was small items that were ordered on 3/22/22.

[Sasquatch-1]

About two years ago I order a refrigerator. It took almost 13 months to get it. I order from a small local independent dealer who gave us a loaner till it came in. The big box stores could not get them either.

[bedbugbilly]

Elections do have consequences . . . .

[Froogal]

Yes. Just recently. UPS blames it on the retailer, and the retailer is blaming it on UPS. Most recent update indicates delivery for tomorrow, one full week AFTER it was supposed to be here. Not making any bets.

[Bmi48219]

That you forgot about it?.

Most of our late packages get delivered to the neighbors.

[MrWolf]

I got a notice yesterday from Optics Planet that my order was ready and would ship soon. I couldn't remember what I had ordered. After checking my order files, it was small items that were ordered on 3/22/22.

Just looked mine up - December 9, 2020 and still waiting. At least they stopped with the projected ship date. Good thing I was not in a hurry.

[Rich/WIS]

Bought a cheap nylon holster off E-bay, seller shipped in a day or so, then the PO got involved. Following the tracking the holster has seen more of America in the last week than I have in the last year. Supposed to be out for delivery today.

[GregLaROCHE]

In October I was promised a mold by the first of the year. I still haven’t seen it!

[gwpercle]

Good News ... the Randall Made Knife Shop gave me a ship date of 5 years ...from placing my order for a custom made knife to my specifications .
But it arrived in only 4 years - 10 months ... now if that isn't prompt servive ...
... I don't know what is .
Gary

[Beerd]

I'm sure some of you must have been in on the old Lee group buy moulds.
..

[Idaho45guy]

I got a notice yesterday from Optics Planet that my order was ready and would ship soon. I couldn't remember what I had ordered. After checking my order files, it was small items that were ordered on 3/22/22.

I refuse to do business with Optics Planet after hearing all of the horror stories on multiple gun forums. Their business plan is apparently to list items for sale that they don't have, and then ship them whenever they get them in, which in the current climate, can be a year or more.

[Winger Ed.]

Early last year, I cashed in a bunch of factory ammo I bought after I thought I was done reloading,
then traded into a unfired early 70s Colt AR rat gun.

Here, if you do a trade and get store credit, you don't have to pay sales tax on what you get from the store.
So, I bought a Henry Golden Boy I always wanted. But they were on back order.

It didn't take long for me to forget about it.

About 7-8 months later, I was thinking about getting a round barrel Henry .22 the next time I went to town.
A day or so later,,,,, the local guy called and said it had come in.

[Land Owner]

Christmas in July eh Winger Ed.?

[Winger Ed.]

Christmas in July eh Winger Ed.?

Well, it wasn't my birthday,,,, so I guess so.
If I'd known how nice they are, I'd have gotten one 10 years ago!

[johnsonian09]

I once owned a beautiful Saab convertible.

The cables in the top needed replacing and I worked as a mechanic. So I ordered the cables. But in the meantime if I wanted to put the top up and down I had to do it by hand which was simple but heavy

2 years later I the car needed an engine so I scrapped it and bought another Saab.

3 years later the cables arrived.


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[firefly1957]

Nope but I have ordered stuff that did not come in double the promised time and that was before the red plague!

[Big Tom]

I ordered a $5k sauna from Watsons in Sharonville, OH - waited for a year and a half, then they delivered one which was the incorrect one. That was a year ago and the replacement will "maybe" delivered mid of 2023. So, if I am lucky, I will get the one I ordered about 3.5 years after I paid for it. Guess where I will never spend a penny again... (at least they let us keep the incorrect sauna until the replacement will be delivered). Oh - and it was "in stock" to be delivered in 3-4 weeks when I bought it.

[Nueces]

Last week, I took delivery of a Springfield SA-35 that I had ordered early last November. No big deal. I had ordered two, one at the retail price and one at a 10% military discount. The retail one is the one I got and I was told that Springfield had cancelled all military discount orders. My buddy had ordered a discount one and he is out of luck. They didn't roll those orders into retail ones, they just crossed 'em off. 7 months of waiting down the drain.

The pistol is a beauty, though.

[Hannibal]

Thanks to this thread I remembered I have a 30 cal range rod and a set of bushings ordered from PTG.

Should have known better and ordered elsewhere in the first place.

[Papercidal]

I ordered some stocks for a s&w k frame from vz grips it took them over 4 months to ship a set of n frame stocks.

[skrapyard628]

Oh man, back during the Obummer years when powder was hard to find by me I ordered a few lbs from Lohman Arms that was supposedly in stock. It wasnt anything I needed right away, just a few things to experiment with different loads. About a month later I still hadnt seen a shipping confirmation. So I called them and was told that it wasnt actually in stock and it would be a few months before they restocked and would be able to ship my order. No big deal. I can wait.

Of course I forgot about it over the next few months. And then about 4 YEARS later they emailed me asking if they could ship my order as a partial order since they didnt have everything. I told them "heck no! cancel my order and refund my money." Used the refund to pick up a few cans of powder from the next local gun show.

[farmbif]

still waiting for a new vehicle without all the bells, whistles and heated leather vibrating automatic powered seats, going on 9 months now. im about ready to forget about it.
with the economy crashing maybe vehicle prices will come down to normal.

[Kylongrifle32]

I got a notice yesterday from Optics Planet that my order was ready and would ship soon. I couldn't remember what I had ordered. After checking my order files, it was small items that were ordered on 3/22/22.

Stopped doing business with them years ago for just that reason.

[Kylongrifle32]

Both of my MP group buy mold chooses. First was a heavy 300 black out mold. Now it's a NATO Heavy 75gr 5.56 mold.

[Winger Ed.]

still waiting for a new vehicle without all the bells, whistles and heated leather vibrating automatic powered seats, going on 9 months now. .

Find the Fleet Salesman. He's in a little shack out behind the dealership, or has a desk way, way in the back somewhere.
He's the guy you see to buy ambulances, school buses, fire trucks, etc. and those stripped down cars & fleet trucks.

The regular salesmen on the showroom floor usually won't acknowlege their existence.

Back in 2006, when all the F250 'city trucks' in the showroom were around $50-55,000---
I got my new stripped down, gas fired V8, Fleet model for $21,600.
The showroom salesmen wouldn't let me buy one.
The Fleet guy had it shipped up from Houston, and in Dallas two days later.
(That was where the closest one with a manual transmission was)

[bkbville]

It happens all the time to me. Especially when I order small items from China and it takes a month for them to be delivered.

I used to do the same thing - when stuff shows up it's a surprise!

I call it Chinese Christmas.

Haven't ordered much for some time.

[Tripplebeards]

Yeah I ordered a desert eagle mark 19 the last year they made them in Israel. I think it took eight or 11 months to get it. Completely worthless pistol. I sold it about a half a year later and bought a four wheeler with the money that I still have and use.

[Froogal]

Well, UPS finally got here with my order from Midway. One full week after it was originally scheduled to be delivered. Another package, from Amazon, showed up at the same time, on the same truck, even though that package was shipped UPS/Surepost, where UPS delivers to the post office, and then the rural carrier delivers it.

The whole experience has left me just a wee bit gun shy about buying stuff online, but I have no local source for most of it.

[JSnover]

That you forgot about it?

I got an email today from Skinner sights saying that my sights have shipped that I ordered for my Henry rifle.

It has been so long since I ordered them, that I completely forgot about them. I have no idea when I ordered them. Pretty sure it has been at least a month or more.

That is some incredibly bad customer service. Seems like a lot of retailers have gotten far behind lately. I ordered crash bars for my new motorcycle a week ago and they still haven't shipped.

I have a feeling with an impending recession and the immediate drop in demand for goods, that retailers will be begging people to buy from them.

That's unusual for Skinner but today's economy is like the Titanic; everyone had to 'disembark,' one way or another.

[Idaho45guy]

That's unusual for Skinner but today's economy is like the Titanic; everyone had to 'disembark,' one way or another.


Got the sight and it says it was ordered on June 5th. I checked my bank statement and sure enough; I paid for them on June 6th.

My memory is obviously failing. Less than two weeks for a sight is certainly acceptable.

However, when I went to install it, I noticed that the aperture was a blade for a front sight instead of a peep.

It fits perfectly and is excellent quality, but has the wrong aperture.

301360

I sent them an email to figure out what went wrong. Who knows; I probably ordered wrong.

[jonp]

I got a notice yesterday from Optics Planet that my order was ready and would ship soon. I couldn't remember what I had ordered. After checking my order files, it was small items that were ordered on 3/22/22.

Ive ordered from them several times as recently as this spring with no problems. Got a few left over Nikon scopes, a house brand 10mm slide and all shipped toot sweet

[Idaho45guy]

I called and got Mr. Olson on the line. Very pleasant gentleman. Seems they hired a new assembler that did a batch of sights wrong like mine and they hoped they had gotten all of them fixed. But, seems like only two made it out; mine and another gentleman's.

They'll get me a replacement out as soon as possible, so no worries.

[canyon-ghost]

Ordered a Winchester Wildcat 22 when they were first announced. Local gun shop owner said he could get me one. The following year, I assume after the collectors got through with the market, he asked if I still wanted it. So, acquired one about a year later in July. Still a lower serial number, and cleaned up and polished out. I love it. Can't beat a $208 price tag either! Made a great, accurate little shooter!

[Ziptar]

Had a couple Mihec group buys that went 2+ years. I had so forgotten one that when Miha emailed the invoice I honestly couldn't it recall it, "I didn't order one of these!!!". I came here found the group buy thread, and sure enough, I'd signed up for one and totally forgot about it.

[abunaitoo]

Happened a few times.
Mostly from evilbay.
Had one from amazon that never got.
Got my money back, but I would rather have had the item.

[lightman]

I'm kind of dealing with this right now. We recently moved into a new house. We have been waiting on blinds for 2-1/2 months. Had the last piece of furniture that we were waiting on delivered last week. I am still waiting on a new beer fridge. Was looking at getting a yard sprinkler system installed and was told it would be next March! Crazy.............!!!

[Idaho45guy]

I'm kind of dealing with this right now. We recently moved into a new house. We have been waiting on blinds for 2-1/2 months. Had the last piece of furniture that we were waiting on delivered last week. I am still waiting on a new beer fridge. Was looking at getting a yard sprinkler system installed and was told it would be next March! Crazy.............!!!

Just had dinner with my sister who is up from Twin Falls, Idaho for the 4th.

She has friends who are trying to build a new home and were told that the wait for a contractor there is over 2 years due to all of the Californians who flooded into the area with tons of cash. They bought up all the available homes, then when those ran out, they started having homes built.