If you had a vpn and set it to eur, you would have been clicking on all the products wondering why they weren’t going out of stock for a good hour. Lol
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MDT Black Friday 2024 Celebration (or crash)
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Of course. Canadians ruined cheese curds by making that poutine concoction.
On a serious note, MDT needs to make a gen2 Fieldstock. Comb needs to be wider and also the toe otherwise I like mine a lot.
I assume those people had good luck, I just know I had zero luck with MDT this year lol glad I didn't wait for this sale to replace the manners TCS I sold last month.
If your objective fact comes from you building similar online interfaces, I accept that.
-Stan
My point being, you write as though you know how much work my preference would be for MDT to implement, and yet you admit you do not work for MDT nor have you ever built my preference into a website.
As such, your "objective fact" doesn't seem like fact to me.
Alas, I assess your goal is to have the last word, so feel free to quote me once again, and we can then add each other to our respective ignore lists.
-Stan
Just like Virginia, proofreading is for lovers.
I do.
“Hey, let’s hire someone months in advance to develop and then track all of these people all in an effort to have them pay us less”
What they should do is just not announce it so they don’t have everyone hit them at the same second.
Edit: not a dumb “idea”, just not a prudent business decision.
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This is an outrage, poutine is delicious! I demand to speak to your maaaaaaaaanger.
The supposed MDT Black Friday sale is a drinking game. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
It probably started when some office monkey was trying to figure out what to do with the leftover, obsolete and blemished stuff at the end of the year. Part boredom in the off season doldrums of November, a touch of malicious “fuck those stupid Americans buying shit like idiots on “pilgrim shopping day”, part creative genius. It has grown and morphed into a company wide November hangout designed to create chaos. Each player gets to implement a suggestion to add confusion and disruption:
“Full blown social media hype fest for weeks”
“Loudly proclaim that all tech trouble has been solved”
“Confusing rules that we post but don’t follow”
“Start it right in the middle of a holiday”
“Make sure to turn half the servers off so the system immediately crashes”
“Post several items that are in super high demand but make sure there’s actually none in stock”
“Plant some insiders to talk up all the great deals they got”
“Pick one poor bastard who goes on social during the event to pretend that we are paying attention or trying to fix it or working late” (this year it seems to have been Paige)
“Put a timer on the web “cart” page some people think their carts are being held but aren’t”
Then the best part. The whole company gets together and drinks:
A Labatt when the first thread pops on Snipers Hide
A Molson when the first email complaint about the website is received
Drink every time a DM comes in about the servers being down
Drink anytime anyone mentions a DDOS attack
Drink once for each “pull” mentioned in any Ckye pod complaint
Any mention of a chassis for a CZ requires everyone to shout “Canadian Zima!” and slam a white claw”
A shot of Canadian Mist at any mention of “time lost” if the reported time exceeds one hour
A shot of crown when someone gets all self righteous and proclaims that they will never buy from MDT again.
If you allow me a bit of a mixed metaphor here if you walk into a black Friday sale and can’t figure out who the patsy is, you are the patsy. For the sake of the MDT crews’ livers, don’t be the patsy.
It probably started when some office monkey was trying to figure out what to do with the leftover, obsolete and blemished stuff at the end of the year. Part boredom in the off season doldrums of November, a touch of malicious “fuck those stupid Americans buying shit like idiots on “pilgrim shopping day”, part creative genius. It has grown and morphed into a company wide November hangout designed to create chaos. Each player gets to implement a suggestion to add confusion and disruption:
“Full blown social media hype fest for weeks”
“Loudly proclaim that all tech trouble has been solved”
“Confusing rules that we post but don’t follow”
“Start it right in the middle of a holiday”
“Make sure to turn half the servers off so the system immediately crashes”
“Post several items that are in super high demand but make sure there’s actually none in stock”
“Plant some insiders to talk up all the great deals they got”
“Pick one poor bastard who goes on social during the event to pretend that we are paying attention or trying to fix it or working late” (this year it seems to have been Paige)
“Put a timer on the web “cart” page some people think their carts are being held but aren’t”
Then the best part. The whole company gets together and drinks:
A Labatt when the first thread pops on Snipers Hide
A Molson when the first email complaint about the website is received
Drink every time a DM comes in about the servers being down
Drink anytime anyone mentions a DDOS attack
Drink once for each “pull” mentioned in any Ckye pod complaint
Any mention of a chassis for a CZ requires everyone to shout “Canadian Zima!” and slam a white claw”
A shot of Canadian Mist at any mention of “time lost” if the reported time exceeds one hour
A shot of crown when someone gets all self righteous and proclaims that they will never buy from MDT again.
If you allow me a bit of a mixed metaphor here if you walk into a black Friday sale and can’t figure out who the patsy is, you are the patsy. For the sake of the MDT crews’ livers, don’t be the patsy.
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That's totally understandable, as I would be upset, too. Customers are number one to us, and we are working hard to improve not only our customer support but internal processes, too. The owner was here last night late, trying to figure out what was going on and answering people on social media. We were promised things on our end too with the servers and it did not pan out. We have our team on it and will be making sure to avoid this again next year's sale. Here is an example of the traffic we saw when the sale opened to give you an idea of what we were up against. We are taking all this information into consideration and making improvements. We do appreciate you taking the time to give us feedback, as it will only help us become better as a company.
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Wasted a couple hours refreshing page, then out of stock. I was looking for gifts, not the end of the world. Heading to home depot now to see how many sale items are already gone, lol.
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Wasted a couple hours refreshing page, then out of stock. I was looking for gifts, not the end of the world. Heading to home depot now to see how many sale items are already gone, lol.
Hmmm…. When I went to their site I got a notice that site access was delayed by high traffic levels and I was in a queue.
The LAST thing I wanted to do was hit refresh and go to the end of the line.
Waited about 5 minutes and I got in and ordered what I was after.
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I never really got in until today and what I wanted to check out was gone. But that’s ok, having done enough coding years ago to understand that this can and will happen. We just need to be patient. Besides, I spent the money I was going to spend on purchasing my wife a new rifle, so purchasing anything would really be going out on a limb budget wise. Still good to know y’all be trying and besides, it give us something to look forward to every year.
So, If I don’t get to you sooner, I’ll be looking again next year.
So, If I don’t get to you sooner, I’ll be looking again next year.
Missed out on trying to get a double pull as well. Best part is they seem to be sold out everywhere else with a nice back order minimum 12 weeks 
Missed out on trying to get a double pull as well. Best part is they seem to be sold out everywhere else with a nice back order minimum 12 weeks
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I appreciate the answer, and the additional data is interesting. I do think context matters in this. The 100k-200k or so that was averaged prior to that spike of 6.5 million, is more or less irrelevant to the bulk of your customers after yesterday. That spike was a majority shoppers reloading once your website went down, not the total volume of shoppers and while it did make things worse, on the technical side, I dont think that or the fact that the owner was there late night really matters at this point. Maybe it can be used to negotiate with your host, moving forward, but I dont think this does much for any of the customers.
What you have is a large portion of your customer base who kept being told "any minute now", repeatedly, in the facebook group by MDT staff, and the bulk of us waited patiently for nothing.
The biggest issue was undoubtably that your cart software showed that it would "save" the cart contents, with a countdown to boot, leading most of us to believe that if we stuck with the site and waited patiently, we still had a chance to buy something once the technical issues were resolved by your team. I havent seen MDT offer anything to the customers than excuses at this point.
Instead, most of us got to waste an hour of hour time on Thanksgiving day.
As to whether your loyal customers will stick around to buy something else after, or waste their time again with this sale again for 2025, thats a tougher one to answer. I highly doubt that I will be. I wrote out a more detailed response originally, with some suggestions that could be implemented, but at the end of the day, after going through yesterday's events first hand, I figured why bother wasting any more of my time with a company who clearly doesnt value it to begin with.
We get it, this is business, not charity work, but for some of us who were loyal customers, that whole experience was an insult, and we'd be foolish to fall for it again.
This happens to several companies on black friday. It's part of it and that probably won't change anytime soon. Same with pre orders that people get crazy deals then complain when lead times are longer than expected.
There's a whole thread full of pre-orders for the ARC CDG on the hide too. TONS of complaining about shipping times as well, the difference being, everyone who was interested and participated, was able to actually buy the product. ARC held that $899 intro price for an incredibly generous amount of time.
I was really hoping you guys ( and gals ) would post this. That is an insane spike in traffic.
Thanks for the excellent products and great team that is always doing their best for customers.
Remember,
most of the sane, normal and happy people don’t bother coming here to post.
( I’m not necessarily sane or normal, but I’m generally happy )
And here all I want for Black Friday is my Ingenuity Precision thread to be unlocked. 
Well…..See you all again for the MDT BF SNAFU of 2025!
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You will need a buttstock that attaches to this interface below which will be a A2 buttstock. Our SRS standard also has this interface.
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Ok, so a regular AR tube set up will go right into it then without any additional pieces to make that buffer tube connection. Cool, thanks
Thank you sir I just grabbed one using your link. Free shipping/no tax.MDT Ckye-Pod Double Leg Gen II - Short Action Precision
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i did the same, 20-25 wait time will suck but got the chassis for 723 with xlr's coupon. then used the smoke composites coupon to get the carbon grip 25% off. i mainly wanted the hnt-26 because carbon is much nicer than magnesium when ur in 2 feet of snow and its cold as balls. but i cant afford the full price and missed out on getting a hnt-26 in BF sales 2 years now.
Tried for over an hour. Said fuck it and went and bought another Accu-Tac for 35% off. This shit has gotten comical.
Can anybody confirm if this is the right buttstock part number for an ESS that's going on a winchester model 70?
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The picture shows what looks to be like the right interface/connection type.
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The picture shows what looks to be like the right interface/connection type.
Hey Paige, does that Tac21 chassis come with a forend on it? I think it does but if not I'd want to get that one yall have discounted. Thanks
Damn you MDT! You got me for some field stocks and ordering some mags tonight when I get home. I hate you guys 
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