I got the same email the third week of February 2014. I immediately paid for my rifle. Now it's the second week of April. I have no rifle. What happened to the "they don't bill it till they shipped it" crap. I've made several phone calls and basically they're telling me to shut up and be patient. I'm not sure I'll ever buy another rifle from Larue tactical.

Ordered a 16" tAR barrel today, was told they were 2-3 weeks out.

Placed the order, went to "stealth upper- GTG" status. Next thing I know I get an email saying completed, however when I check my order status is says "front office" on the main page, but when you click into the order it still says "stealth upper- gtg."

Anyone else seen this?

Interesting... I placed my tobr order Wednesday and the card was charged Friday for just the rifle and shipping/tax. Status still says gtg...  John at larue said that means it's going into production and should be a few weeks before it ships and my other accessories are billed.

Anyone have any idea when backordered triggers from the $125 sale are going to ship?

+1. This is the last piece to my black friday build!

i seem to have an answer.

Any wait time on 5.56 18" PredatOBR?

Has it been defined what "Rifle-GTG" status means?

An order was placed for "PSR Atlas Bipod BT46-NC and LT271 QD Mount Combo (780-003-271) Combo mount piece: LT271" and a backorder email was received.  Any ETA on when it will be available again?

Just got a notification from my credit card of a charge for 132.94 from Larue.

8 weeks 6 days wait for the MBT

I'm getting ready to order a rifle from Larue and just read through all the OP and the links. One that got my attention is the guy that changed his order 24 times and just needed to share an experience. I once worked Tech Support for Gateway 2000 Computers back in the day when their product and service were second to none. (Dell was maybe our closest rival company but we had them beat in service by a mile with awards to prove it). Thing was I recall my Tech Support group got this guy that would call in a minimum 4 times a day with issues. Constant demanding and trying to persuade reps into giving him the current model upgraded hardware, constantly complaining and messing up his system etc. Finally we had his system brought in and we had it in our area for a week and ran every program and diagnostic on it and it was flawless. Send it back and still the guy kept calling. Keep in mind each phone call average cost to the company was approx $40 a call. Also the industry changed rapidly, place an order one week and the same configuration would have a bigger monitor, hard drive, ram etc the next. His sales rep got wind of what was going on and came up to my department and advised us that Dell had been the ones that called and ordered this system for the guy. Low and behold we discover HP did the same thing to them. Had so many problems with the guy they took his computer back and bought him a Dell. Dell had enough of the guy and bought him a Gateway. We wound up having enough of the guy and bought him a Compaq after taking ours back. Essentially firing him as a customer. His sales rep also stated the guy had changed his order several times a day and after a week just had to say, too late it is built and shipped. We had three people like this in the five years I was there.

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After more than 15 years in customer service, sales and business management I have learned the customer is in fact, not always right. Businesses are in business to make money not friends. There are some people you cannot satisfy no matter what you do. Every business has to evaluate at what point they are going to stop the hemorrhaging cost of an unreasonable customer. I would be Leary of someone who makes so many changes. Clearly they cannot make up their mind, they are difficult to satisfy and will probably be a problem in the future after they receive their product. I would probably allow one change through a phone call to finalize and if they are at all hesitant. "Tell you what, I'm going to close your order rather than you getting something your not happy with. Once you have thoroughly researched and finalize what you want we would be more than happy to place your order again."

I ordered my MBT, and it has not been processed yet (says backordered).

I had to go in and change my CC info on  my account today...people like to take things that aren't theirs it would seem. Will this mess with my order?

They won't bill your new card unless you call and specify they need to, I had to do that with my rifle order.

Is there a current wait time on rifles?   Everything I read is outdated.

When did you place your order?

I had a card expire once while waiting, can't remember if they called or emailed me but they updated it and shipped

Mine says 'Payment Received' on a rifle order.  Invoice says waiting on FFL but it was sent to them.  


Not a complaint, but pointing out a a 'new' status.  

P.S. Card was charged within a few hours of ordering.  I have a feeling the rifle will be shipped in records time! Before the gunmaggedon of 2013 I had ordered 20" 5.56 and 7.62 OBRs but never got them.  My phone number had changed and I actually forgot I ordered the rifles two years before!

Doesnt mean a thing really. You have to wait for quality sometimes and at these prices there is no basis to complain.

example 1  

My card was charged on 8/28 for an 8/25 order for a 308 ultimate upper and has been sitting there as "GTG" for awhile now.

example 2

During the ultiimate AR15 upper sale I called ahead to make sure it wouldnt ship/arrive until after my out of state vacation and was assured it wouldnt. The package shipped the same day I left the house for the airport.. (fastest thing I ever got from larue LMAO) I had to direct it to a UPS drop off Pac N Ship facility over the internet to pick it up a week later. The CSRs/ shipping people dont really  know I guess. LOL.

example 3

I ordered an upper kit as part of their AR Builder thing on 2/19/16 and cancelled the order on 8/8/16 after waiting 6 freakin months. Of course that put me off the builder list because I didnt have the patience to wait.. lol

I placed two orders on 9/16. My cc was charged (yes, full amount) on 9/18 for one and 9/20 for the other.

Status on one is 'Stealth Upper - GTG'. The other is 'Lowers'.

Now what?

Now you wait. It seems the policy of your card isn't charged until it ships is something in the past now.

It’s a preauthorization to make sure you’re good for the amount. Very standard in many “preorder” purchases or online card purchases in general. Nothing new or strange going on.

No, mine came up as a solid charge on my card according to my statement.

1 OBR 7.62 with some glass and a bipod ordered on this day.

Order status change 10/18/17 "rifle -gtg

Charge Date: 11/6/17

Ship Date: 11/6/17

OBR received. Ordered originally on 10/16/17. Rifle and other stuff in hand on 11/8/17.

Yeahhhh....nope. I ordered a LaRue Tactical FDE lower for my ultimate upper I bought. That was the 12th of September, they charged my card (already on my bill) and here a month later I still haven't seen the lower and zero communication. I get it, popular...all the cool kids want one (I wanted one)...it was supposed to be a wait of a few weeks. It's now a month plus since ordering, sucks. I'll just sit in my corner and sulk until it gets here.....

I hope it comes sooner for us. From what I’ve heard, all 18” 6.5cm’s are finished and they are working on the 22” now. I ordered a week ago and was told “about 4 weeks”.

I'll play, hopefully give a better feel for how lead times currently are.

Items ordered:
Order No. 5386xx

6.5 Grendel FDE Rifle with Burris Scope Combo (no 5.56 sparrel or TranQuillo)
LT130 Bipod Mount
Stickers

Order Date: 9/29/2017

Rifle GTG: 9/29/2017

Card Charged: 11/6/2017

Tracking Number for Rifle: 11/6/2017
Rifle Shipped: 11/6/2017
Rifle Received: 11/9/2017

Tracking Number for Swag/Scope/Other items: 11/7/2017
Swag/Scope/Other items Shipped: 11/7/2017
Swag/Scope/Other items Received: ETA 11/9/2017

I will update has I receive new info.

ETA: Probably should have order number....

Actually showed as a 'hard charge' on my CC.

Funny thing - I paid the card off (firm believer in zero balances) in September. Now it's November and I'm still waiting on the lower to show anything other than 'Lower' on my order.  I received the upper kit three weeks ago...

My order was placed 11/18/17. My card was charged 11/22/17. Its now 12/28/17 (almost 6 weeks later) and I'm still waiting. I don't want to change anything. I still want (very badly) the 7.62 ultimate upper kit. I still believe that this is the best deal anywhere for a top quality 7.62 upper kit but, the suspense is killing me!

All I'm saying is that top quote has not proven to be true for me. Oh and yea, did I mention that the suspense is killing me!

could be worse, one of my lowers was delivered on 12/9/17......can't seem to pin down my ffl.... :(

FWIW some of the names of the statuses have changed a bit but I placed a pOBR order and the sequence was as follows:

11/28/2017 – Order Placed, “On Hold” status
11/28/2017 – Status changed to “Rifle – G2G” once FFL processed
11/29/2017 – Pending charge showed up on card
12/01/2017 – Pending charge on card disappeared
01/17/2018 – Card Charged, status changed to “Payment Received”

I suspect I will get a ship notice soon.

My evidence would agree.
And no, (before it's mentioned again) it's not a pending, or a pre-authorization. It's a hard charge on the credit card, 2 days following the order (which is a "Backordered" trigger).
I want the trigger & will wait for the trigger (reasonably) but this one particular facet is not a good practice.

My experience. Trigger orders charge when placed.

My lt204 ordered on 1/4/19 didn't charge until it shipped on the 17th.

Rifle order.

Placed 1/11/19
Charged 3/15/19
Received 3/16/19

Status still shows pending also, no separate swag box shipped yet.

Is anyone interested in circumventing the wait time on a ultimate upper kit? I've got a 7.62 FDE upper kit, 16" stealth barrel, two additional mags, rail guards, ...and so on, I'd like to pass on...after the 6 month wait I had already bought another used LaRue that I'm in love with now... so I'm selling the UU kit, ill do it at cost to any worthy LaRue fan...shoot me an email [email protected]

Did I miss it, or was an order status of “Front Office” not previously addressed. I’m a few beers in, so it’s possible I missed it.

Thanks!

I too have "front office" as my order status, can anyone shed some light on wth this means?

Maybe I missed it, but what does 'flagged' mean?

it means they are checking on your FFL.