Howdy All,
This is to all the gear vendors who frequent these boards.
After an exhaustive search for a holster for my USP and Hatch gloves for my brother in Iraq, I have to say this: a vendor that can tell me immediately when going to a site that they have the product I need in stock, even if priced 10-15% higher than their competitors, will get my business everytime.
It seems as if every other type of web business does this but tac-gear vendors. Most all of them require you to either e-mail them for stock info and hopefully hear back within a week, call them and leave a message, or order the product then find three days later that your CC has been charged but your products are back-ordered an indefinite time. Hell, I can find pet food stores that offer this system.
Current offenders (to me) are as follows, Lightfighter.com, Texas Tactical, Police Tactical Gear, Blackhawk.com, and a few others I forget. Places getting a thumbs up are adcofirearms.com, tacticaladvantage.us, cqbsolutions.com, and botachtactical.com (I know, surprising to a few).
Hopefully, a few of you can chime in with your experiences with different places, but I am more interested in same day services, not "well, within a week or 2 we got everything settled". Some of us need items ordered ASAP, and next week will not cut it, and we should be able to know if an order can be filled immediately or not, and not tying up funds on my IMPACT, govt cc, or personal cc.
Don't get me wrong, good service will have me come back to a vendor that makes me wait a couple of days, but often times that is not an option.
Is that this too much to ask?
-Redfoot