This company cracks me up. Today I went to order a Redding Bushing Sizing die because the price was good. Put it in the cart. Enter my info. Comes up $27 to ship FedEx and there are no other shipping methods listed like USPS or UPS. They must be kidding! Good thing Im not ordering a rifle from them. They would probably charge $200 to ship.
GA Precision. $27 to ship a sizing die!
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I can ship a rifle in a plano case in the original box for just a few dollars more than that including insurance as an individual not a business.
Had a place wanted $62 to ship 400 rounds 223
Midwayusa had/has some insane shipping also. They wanted $30 to ship 1 oz of loctite or gun lube years ago
Almost as bad as the sellers here that put a few hundred rounds through a gun then try to sell it for 6 percent off of new. Or the stuff that they want more than new price for
Midwayusa had/has some insane shipping also. They wanted $30 to ship 1 oz of loctite or gun lube years ago
Almost as bad as the sellers here that put a few hundred rounds through a gun then try to sell it for 6 percent off of new. Or the stuff that they want more than new price for
I used to buy alot of stuff from Midway not just nickel and dime stuff either ( early 2000's) until they went retard on thier pricing and shipping.
I’ve seen this complaint about GAP a couple times. Seems like if you call them they might ship it a lot cheaper. Some automated POS softwares are awful at shipping with small stuff.
When I see a really good price on anything. I automatically think they will make up that price difference on shipping!
Call them. The only thing they’re gonna be able to do for you over email is ignore you, tell you to FO, or that you need to call.
ammo seek does have a ship charge thing on their listings. is a big help.
An employee reads your order. An employee locates the product you want. An employee boxes the item. An employee makes a shipping label and places that item in the shipping area to be picked up by FedEx. FedEx charges the company for delivering the item to your door.
You're right. We need more illegals and maybe some child labor so the process is less expensive so you can buy a Big Mac jumbo sized meal. Let me guess. You placed the order on a $1200 iPhone?
I bet your local gun store would have gotten you that item for a few dollars more. Of course you would have had to spend the time going there to order it, pick it up when it was delivered there and you would have had to pay for the gas to do so.
Go be poor somewhere else.
You're right. We need more illegals and maybe some child labor so the process is less expensive so you can buy a Big Mac jumbo sized meal. Let me guess. You placed the order on a $1200 iPhone?
I bet your local gun store would have gotten you that item for a few dollars more. Of course you would have had to spend the time going there to order it, pick it up when it was delivered there and you would have had to pay for the gas to do so.
Go be poor somewhere else.
If you are shipping to a residential address out in the middle of nowhere, that $27 might actually be close to the actual FedEx Home Delivery rate.
I'll bet if you order a whole bunch of stuff at the same time instead of one tiny item, the shipping wouldn't be all that much more.
Also don't forget small little orders are a huge pain from a labour cost and packing supply standpoint.
Sure they might be able to ship it via USPS for around $12 if they wanted to go to the trouble of setting up to do that for tiny little orders.
I'll bet if you order a whole bunch of stuff at the same time instead of one tiny item, the shipping wouldn't be all that much more.
Also don't forget small little orders are a huge pain from a labour cost and packing supply standpoint.
Sure they might be able to ship it via USPS for around $12 if they wanted to go to the trouble of setting up to do that for tiny little orders.
Most likely the reason is it's being shipped 2 day delivery. I got a slide and barrel back after having new sights installed. I was charged $24 shipping because it was 2 day delivery. I don't need 2 day delivery on a rifle die.
Yeah but how much profit do they make on a $1.99 tube if grease? I have to guess it's not worth their time to pull, package and ship it.
Many years ago I worked on cockpit voice recorders at Sundstrand Data Control. There was some law or regulation that said we had to provide all components required for repair.
I noticed one day we charged $3.00 for a resistor, at the time you could go to Radio Shack and buy a bag of ten or fifteen of them for like 49 cents. I asked a manager why we charged so much, he said "Because we don't want to be in the business of selling resistors."
Meh.
Loss leader wouldn’t be the correct term but the guy that buys a $2 lube tube might be the same guy that comes back for tens of thousands of $$$ of other stuff. Don’t want to chase him off
^^^ There is a lot to this!
I ship a lot of old car parts. And people get pissy when I won't send them two specialty bolts... or some ignition wire end... that costs $5. And $15 just for postage. It's the intangibles that are spendy. It costs me the same to locate, pack, label (5-10 minutes generally to do a shipping label on an app) and ship a $5 dollar spark plug wire end as it does a $5,000 Carburettor. It's pretty hard to justify the time!
So while I feel the pain... add up the time it costs someone to do "ALL" the sending work before thinking "It's just a $2.00 stamp"
Sirhr
So strange. The first thing I think of when I see GA Precision is saving money.
In my experience usually not.
Cheapskates be reprobate price whores and good customers that spend money tend to not sweat the little stuff.
To little to late, they have lost a large amount of customer revenue and are groveling now.
I haven't done business with them in years and don't plan on changing that.
Great to hear. I finally got an email back from someone that works there. He said someone else would be contacting me and of course no one did. Stay away from GA Precision!
I haven't ever bought anything from them but have been an admirer of thier rifles for a long time.
Price for 2x4 original intake manifold that fits a 427 fe low / medium riser heads , shipped to central Dixie ..........Bear Pit special pricing, Mr." Old Parts "man. Or name / address of MFer that stole mine...........so I can practice the " Art of Spark "....... Can't stay "grasshopper" forever......you know.
PS. Gonna need the spacers that go between main bearing caps and block ,also
I sure wish everyone would get on here and make a thread shitposting a company over their $27 shipping charges. What a fun useful forum it would be. If you don't like it, buy it somewhere else that has a better bottom line price and move on. Good grief. Kicking my own ass for even opening this thread.
It’s pretty damn funny to see some of yall get on here and actually try to justify a $27 shipping charge for a set of dies. GTFO of here with that fucking nonsense.
Well tell you what, how about you go down and ship one at your local FedEx or UPS store to somebody's residential address in the middle of nowhere and come back and tell us how much it cost you.
Oh and before you say, "just put it in an envelope and put in in the mail" how about you be good for the loss if it doesn't get there or gets damaged in transport...
Then come back and chat.
Im back to chat.........A few weeks ago I shipped a Manners stock ( to a residential address) via FedEx with insurance for $28.52. The size of the item being shipped determines the bulk of the charge. Will you now try to convince me that a stock is similar in size to a set of dies? Are you just trying to be delusional for a reason? Are you a GAP nut hugger?
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