Posted: 12/19/2012 5:52:37 PM EDT
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Quantico Tactical is committed to its customers. We appreciate your business and, more importantly, you are our family. During this time of unprecedented demand, Quantico Tactical will not gouge our customers by increasing prices above MSRP, and we will continue to sell many items below MSRP. Our logistics infrastructure is strong, as is our buying power and relationships with our suppliers. You will see products continue to flow into our stores, but probably not as fast as you buy them. To prevent resellers from taking advantage of our low prices and buying up our stock for resale at confiscatory pricing, we will limit the amount of high-demand items one may buy at a time. Because our team is stretched to its limits, we may not communicate with you as often, or as timely as we would like. For that, we apologize. Rest assured that we are working tirelessly to process your order and deliver the items you ordered as fast as possible. We stand firm in defense of our 2nd Amendment rights against those who would use "Reichstag Fire” type events to further erode our rights and freedoms. If you have any comments -- good or bad -- about any facet of Quantico Tactical, please do not hesitate to contact me. Semper Fi,  |
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I apologize, but you're right. You were probably the 1,000,000th caller. FYI - Our WA State store had 1,500 MAG211-BLKs plus assorted numbers of other mags at the end of last week. As of yesterday, they had ZERO. They are at the end of our supply chain (Our main DC is in NC). We are scheduled to get 15,000 MOE PMAGs w/o window on 4 January. We will send >2,000 of them to our WA State store. Quoted: Very Nice. I called the one in Washington today to ask about PMags. The guy on the other end seemed bothered, almost arrogant. I think I was the 1 millionth caller to ask for PMags today......  |
| Quantico has definitely earned more of my business in the future. I've bought some gear there to date (Eberlestock dealer, which is semi rare in WA state). However no gun related stuff until I stopped in yesterday. While just up the road Surplus Ammo decided to start gouging their customers $29.99 for a PMAG, I got black windowed 30rd PMAG's from Quantico for $14.36 each! Very impressed, and will be back. |
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i'm way too tired, and probably too deep in my cups to really want to walk into another forum firestorm, but...
*sigh* there's about a little less than a dozen M&P15's left. maybe one lonely bushmaster. a Colt 9mm carbine, one M1A, a couple of mossbergs and a remmy 870. some 700 SPS AAC SD's too not much run on pistols 'cept M&P's. ran out of fullsize 9 mils right before a battlebuddy called me for em. lo' and behold there came a box from fedex claus with 7 more plus 40's, 45's and a few model 311000's. called him back and he came up and brought the fam. too bad i didnt get the time to talk to him. XD's, XDM's, some glocks, and some overlooked 1911's who never asked to be snubbed, just cuz ban lists never deign to include them. record-breaking numbers, speakerphone on hold with a fistful of 4473's in my hand and the Echeck is down for the fourth time today. phones ringing on tandem lines off the hook nearly all with the same queries, and you just cant eat your lunch fast enough. kinda makes you glad you bought all your shit 6 months ago when the writing on the wall became self-evident... |
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We here at the Lakewood location would like to apologize. Yes the phone was ringing on an average of every 2 minutes, and that was both of our lines at the same time. Everyone out there was calling for P-mags and trying to find out what weapons that we had in stock. It just kept going and going and going. That was the day that due too certain circumstances beyond the management control, we only had 2 employees working until we could get 2 other staff memebers to come in later that day. Therefore with a full store of customers, only 2 employees, we where triple tasking to insure that we gave the fastest and curtious service that we could with only 2 employees.
We value all of our customers and look forward to seeing everyone soon. As our CEO has stated, we will keep our prices at MSRP or below. We will NOT take advantage of any customers during this time. |
| Although I believe in capitalism and your right to charge whatever someone will pay you, I also spend a fair amount of time thinking about how vile and awful our opponents are for exploiting tragedy for their advantage. Thank you for not doing this. I went into the Lakewood store on Tuesday looking for a BCG (probably harder to find right now than an actual rifle) and they looked all through their stock and found one for me: a chromed RRA and sold it to me for $165. How can you beat that? I'll be doing a lot of business with you in the future. Thank you so much. |
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While just up the road Surplus Ammo decided to start gouging their customers $29.99 for a PMAG Well no shit. They were the last one's I'd figure to price gouge. ETA: maybe they fail to realize gun owners are some capitalistically vindictive mutherfuckers and remember that kind of shit..... even when prices come back down. |
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While just up the road Surplus Ammo decided to start gouging their customers $29.99 for a PMAG Well no shit. They were the last one's I'd figure to price gouge. ETA: maybe they fail to realize gun owners are some capitalistically vindictive mutherfuckers and remember that kind of shit..... even when prices come back down. Yep, during the last panic I remember who gouged and who did not. I even paid retail without complaining at the time without resentment but I have not spent a cent with dealers who gouged. |
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Quoted: ETA: maybe they fail to realize gun owners are some capitalistically vindictive mutherfuckers and remember that kind of shit..... even when prices come back down. You aint kidding. I still dont buy (and sold all I had) Smith & Wesson for the deal back in 2000 with the previous owners.  And Glock. Jizzuno, 60 minutes, Ballistic Fingerprinting with the feds. Fuckers. |
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Stumps
We are currently out of all AR Platforms except for S&W M&P 15-22, and we have very few of them. We had some more shipped to us on 12-18-12 coming from S&W. However only 11 rifles, S&W M&P15MOE in FDE and BLK, 5 of each. Also only 1 M&P 15T. They will be first come first serve once they come thru the door.. After that, we are not sure what else we will be getting. |
| I got lucky with the PMAGS. I called my old man in Idaho to let him know what was going on. Cabelas still had plenty in stock down there and he bough all of them for me. Score. He is on his way right now to hang out for Christmas and to give me my pmags. He also bought a bunch of mags for his Mini14. |
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QuanticoTactical and QTS_WA
Sirs, Thanks for taking the high road during this time. It will be remembered. I stopped by the shop today and of course, the place was busy as could be and the phone was ringing off the hook. However, everyone kept their composure. |
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We here at the Lakewood location would like to apologize. Yes the phone was ringing on an average of every 2 minutes, and that was both of our lines at the same time. Everyone out there was calling for P-mags and trying to find out what weapons that we had in stock. It just kept going and going and going. That was the day that due too certain circumstances beyond the management control, we only had 2 employees working until we could get 2 other staff memebers to come in later that day. Therefore with a full store of customers, only 2 employees, we where triple tasking to insure that we gave the fastest and curtious service that we could with only 2 employees. We value all of our customers and look forward to seeing everyone soon. As our CEO has stated, we will keep our prices at MSRP or below. We will NOT take advantage of any customers during this time. At the end of the day, I'll bet your shop looked worse that the stock market floor after a record day of trading......  
Thanks for being fair. About that question regarding pre-ordering?????
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Quantico has definitely earned more of my business in the future. I've bought some gear there to date (Eberlestock dealer, which is semi rare in WA state). However no gun related stuff until I stopped in yesterday. While just up the road Surplus Ammo decided to start gouging their customers $29.99 for a PMAG, I got black windowed 30rd PMAG's from Quantico for $14.36 each! Very impressed, and will be back. 
Did you read QT's post? He said they have zero mags in stock from over 1,500 shortly before. There is no gouging going on in the industry. It is simply market forces adjusting price to the huge rise in demand and the rapid loss of supply. Seriously, some people need to study economics a little more and stop using the left's anti-capitalism nomenclature. |
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Quantico has definitely earned more of my business in the future. I've bought some gear there to date (Eberlestock dealer, which is semi rare in WA state). However no gun related stuff until I stopped in yesterday. While just up the road Surplus Ammo decided to start gouging their customers $29.99 for a PMAG, I got black windowed 30rd PMAG's from Quantico for $14.36 each! Very impressed, and will be back.
Did you read QT's post? He said they have zero mags in stock from over 1,500 shortly before. There is no gouging going on in the industry. It is simply market forces adjusting price to the huge rise in demand and the rapid loss of supply. Seriously, some people need to study economics a little more and stop using the left's anti-capitalism nomenclature. I have studied. Also, my morale compass points north. Spew your shit all ya want, it's a free country..... For now anyway...... |
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We stand firm in defense of our 2nd Amendment rights against those who would use "Reichstag Fire” type events to further erode our rights and freedoms. This is a pretty ballsy statement, and I respect it a lot. I do say, quite a bold statement indeed. |
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Quantico has definitely earned more of my business in the future. I've bought some gear there to date (Eberlestock dealer, which is semi rare in WA state). However no gun related stuff until I stopped in yesterday. While just up the road Surplus Ammo decided to start gouging their customers $29.99 for a PMAG, I got black windowed 30rd PMAG's from Quantico for $14.36 each! Very impressed, and will be back.
Did you read QT's post? He said they have zero mags in stock from over 1,500 shortly before. There is no gouging going on in the industry. It is simply market forces adjusting price to the huge rise in demand and the rapid loss of supply. Seriously, some people need to study economics a little more and stop using the left's anti-capitalism nomenclature. OK, check this out. You are correct in some regards that it's not gouging from an economic standpoint. You are WRONG to say this is a product of a free market. WRONG WRONG WRONG. This is not freedom--panicing over the words of politicians. So it leaves people with a bad taste in their mouth to think that the companies who are raising prices are "capitalizing on the fear of their customers." rather than recognizing the long-term need for those customers as an equal entity that keeps them in business. A company like CTD that raises prices every time Feinstein gets on a podium or just stops selling guns will not engender the same loyalty as the company that believes that they are part of the same community as the customers they serve and will stand by them in the dark times. When (if) things get good again, I will stay loyal to the companies who stayed loyal to their customers. I am not including Shizzle, btw. I don't think a $30 PMAG is outrageous right now. I just wont buy at that price, and will now give QT first looks. CTD can go fucking DIE for stopping the sales of guns over political pressure. |
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We stand firm in defense of our 2nd Amendment rights against those who would use "Reichstag Fire” type events to further erode our rights and freedoms. This is a pretty ballsy statement, and I respect it a lot. I do say, quite a bold statement indeed. Damn, I can't believe that I missed that the first time. Very bold indeed. I like this company even more now. |
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We have not raised our pricing because not one supplier - not one - has raised our pricing. Anyone who tells you that pricing to dealers has increase is lying to you. Hell, one major arms suppler just REDUCED our pricing 15% for 2013! We still have the excellent pricing on Federal Ammo we had before this panic buying started. Sure availability is tight, but that is why smart business form tight relationships with suppliers and issue programmed orders, not just try to buy items on the "spot market". We'll see how our supply lines hold up, but I feel pretty good that we'll have a very steady supply of magazines, lowers, complete AR15s and pistols flowing into our stores for the foreseeable future. |
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We have not raised our pricing because not one supplier - not one - has raised our pricing. Anyone who tells you that pricing to dealers has increase is lying to you. Hell, one major arms suppler just REDUCED our pricing 15% for 2013! We still have the excellent pricing on Federal Ammo we had before this panic buying started. Sure availability is tight, but that is why smart business form tight relationships with suppliers and issue programmed orders, not just try to buy items on the "spot market". We'll see how our supply lines hold up, but I feel pretty good that we'll have a very steady supply of magazines, lowers, complete AR15s and pistols flowing into our stores for the foreseeable future. Thats good to know. 
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We have not raised our pricing because not one supplier - not one - has raised our pricing. Anyone who tells you that pricing to dealers has increase is lying to you. Hell, one major arms suppler just REDUCED our pricing 15% for 2013! We still have the excellent pricing on Federal Ammo we had before this panic buying started. Sure availability is tight, but that is why smart business form tight relationships with suppliers and issue programmed orders, not just try to buy items on the "spot market". We'll see how our supply lines hold up, but I feel pretty good that we'll have a very steady supply of magazines, lowers, complete AR15s and pistols flowing into our stores for the foreseeable future. Any idea when the forseeable future will start? |
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That's awesome! Can we preorder the PMags? Quoted: We have not raised our pricing because not one supplier - not one - has raised our pricing. Anyone who tells you that pricing to dealers has increase is lying to you. Hell, one major arms suppler just REDUCED our pricing 15% for 2013! We still have the excellent pricing on Federal Ammo we had before this panic buying started. Sure availability is tight, but that is why smart business form tight relationships with suppliers and issue programmed orders, not just try to buy items on the "spot market". We'll see how our supply lines hold up, but I feel pretty good that we'll have a very steady supply of magazines, lowers, complete AR15s and pistols flowing into our stores for the foreseeable future. |
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We have not raised our pricing because not one supplier - not one - has raised our pricing. Anyone who tells you that pricing to dealers has increase is lying to you. Hell, one major arms suppler just REDUCED our pricing 15% for 2013! We still have the excellent pricing on Federal Ammo we had before this panic buying started. Sure availability is tight, but that is why smart business form tight relationships with suppliers and issue programmed orders, not just try to buy items on the "spot market". We'll see how our supply lines hold up, but I feel pretty good that we'll have a very steady supply of magazines, lowers, complete AR15s and pistols flowing into our stores for the foreseeable future. That's great news and demonstrates a solid integrity. Are you going to limit sales? We're seeing a lot of people buying up everything in sight just to flip them on GunBroker. |
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Like to read? Im torn. I thought they did great here local when I dealt with them. But this is penny wise pound foolish total bs from the HMFIC.  |
| WOW! I called yesterday to inquire about one thing and ended up getting 10 Troy Battle Mags. I guess they found a box of 1000. I talked to Parker. He spent some time on the phone with me and got me squared away. I'm happy so far. This was my first time doing business with them. If my order ships and everything goes as planned, they will have a repeat customer out of me for sure. |
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Like to read? Im torn. I thought they did great here local when I dealt with them. But this is penny wise pound foolish total bs from the HMFIC. Uhh seems pretty reasonable through the first five pages at your link. They offered a full refund and he declined. The guy ordered items and some were back ordered and discontinued. Part of his order arrives and the rest is cancled, he paid shipping on it all as per the policy in place when he ordered. Its not like they went out of their way to screw the guy over. I was at QT black friday for the Pmag deal and will try to get there to pick up more when available. Also, they mention an ar15.com discount in that thread, do I just have to mention the site at the store to get it? |
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They offered a full refund and he declined. The guy ordered items and some were back ordered and discontinued. Part of his order arrives and the rest is cancled, he paid shipping on it all as per the policy in place when he ordered. Its not like they went out of their way to screw the guy over. I was at QT black friday for the Pmag deal and will try to get there to pick up more when available. Also, they mention an ar15.com discount in that thread, do I just have to mention the site at the store to get it? Per my personal experience at the Lakewood store, you have to physically show them the webpage where Dave Hensley says there's a discount --or in my case a chain wide sale -- otherwise the sales guy may deny such a thing exists and attempt to sell it at the previous price which was $150 higher. Then acts like you were speaking Chinese when you show them the advertised price, and suddenly he's like "Ya that stuffs on sale! How many did you want at the way lower sale price?" As for the other thread, had the Customer Service rep just told the guy when he called they don't honor backorders, and don't refund shipping when there's no price difference on the shipping charges, that would have been the end of it rather then trying to be smartasses and offering a full refund knowing that he wouldn't take it. Then post a "you should be grateful we sold you any at all" comment in the thread. QT is a business, they're in the business to make money. I have no personal brand loyalty, I shop where the deals are however I fully expect to get shitty service from QT should there ever be a problem with a purchase. That being said I weigh the odds and if someone else with better service has the items in stock for a competative price I buy there to avoid any headaches or used car salesmen moonlighting at QT. |