11-27-2017, 01:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
I NEVER put money down on "pre orders" due to situations just like this.
If it isn't ' in stock' you get ZERO $$$$ with NO exceptions.
ALWAYS Under-Promise and Over-Deliver !
ANYTHING short of that is always an unacceptable excuse.
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I must, sadly, agree (a too-trusting gun enthusiast friend of mine--a Vietnam veteran with PTSD who has great difficulty in standing up for himself--got burned multiple times by gun dealers and gunsmiths over pre-orders). His "beneficiaries" were either running the equivalent of pyramid schemes (buying parts for previous "waiting-in-line" customers with *his* money), or outright frauds, or older guys who had real--but unexpected--medical crises that they spent his money on. Also:
I have ordered several books from Amazon.com via pre-order (including as gifts to be sent to designated gift recipients) with no problems, but being a well-known, multi-million (or billion) dollar corporation which "sells" reliability along with their wares, they have a powerful built-in incentive to deliver on their given availability dates.
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