Posted: 11/1/2006 6:46:35 AM EDT
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Quoted: Never heard of Double Star. But OLY is pure JUNK. |
Please tell us why you think they are junk. Just don't make a one line statement. I have a national match Olympic Arms stripped upper and lower. I bought some parts kits from other Manuc., slapped a Bushmaster barrel on it and it is great. The rifle works great and I have never had a problem. The finish is great too!
So if you have had a bad experience, let uss know what it was, dont just say they are junk without an example. |
Put this in your OLYMPIC ARMS CRACK PIPE and SMOKE IT! (guys who have already read these testimonials bare with me since this is a monthly topic)
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I USED TO SELL OLYMPICS.
I also stock Colts, BM, RRA, and AR. Wanna know what the #1 most repaired AR15 in my shop is? OLYMPIC. I don't sell them anymore. Wanna know what the most repaired AR15 in my store is now? Still the OLYMPIC. Wanna know what I've had to send Olys back for? You name it. Wanna know how hard it is to get repair parts/replacement parts/financial reimbursement for shipping NEW guns back to OLY for warranty work as a gun dealer? IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!
Several distributors have even stopped carrying Olympic rifles because of the high reject rate once they get to the dealers.
They might, sometimes, take care of the individual owner, but as a dealer, I believe that they have a black list, and if you're on it, you're screwed.
I've actually had OLY on the phone with a customer in my shop, and they have actually told the guy that there was nothing wrong, and if he shipped it back, they would not fix it. The rifle had a broken bolt. Sheared off 2 lugs, broke at the cam pin hole, and damaged the bolt carrier.
I fixed it, with BM parts that were available to me at the time. I sent the bill to OLY, never got a response. Sold the debt off to a collection agency, along with all the other repairs that I had to do on OLY guns. Now, if an OLY comes in for repair, I advise the individual that it will cost them an open ended amount and get them to sign the estimate before I'll even touch it.
SHOT show 2002 I took them a box of the parts that I had replaced from their guns that I could not get reimbursement for.
I'll guarntee I've owned/handled/shot more OLYs since 1999 than you ever will, unless you work at Oly or a gun store.
There is, at best 15% profit in retail guns. Olys eat up my 15% on repair parts/shipping/gunsmith time almost as soon as they get unpacked. No more!
Now, about their issues, still "Pretty sure they have been resolved by now" ?????
Or is my post worthless, too?
Tom |
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Quoted: ...With my Oly lower, that jerk blamed the magazines even though my cast Oly lower was so out of spec that the back of an inserted magazine hits the bolt and keeps the bolt from closing. This was after trying about 30 different magazines at a gun show. None of them worked. Tom called me lazy since I was unwilling to modify all of the magazines I own rather than asking for an RMA #. I modified a couple of magazines anyway, but while shooting they'd still work their way upward to block the bolt. I've had that piece of junk for over five years, and I have never gotten anywhere towards getting them to honor their warranty. They just don't give a damn.z
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WEeused to be a Oly dealer used to be the operative word
We had to send probably 25% of the cast plinkers we sold back for repair and probably 10% of the regular Olys
had about the same luck with DPMS
probably sold about 50 plinkers
The failure rate of the other better ( A ,B ,C ,RRA) brands is probably about 1% in my experence
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and this guy ..
Quoted: My first AR was a CAR15 Oly kit. The bolt carrier was tight in the upper until I honed the upper. I figured it was a kit so I should not be upset about some fitting. |
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