We’re too hung over from a tryptophan-induced coma to engage in much serious Googling, but we’re getting lots of reports of unsatisfied shoppers who tried and failed to take advantage of Black Friday deals at internet mega-retailer Bud’s Gun Shop. Here’s a representative email rant we received:
I know that your website is all about getting the right information out there to people that actually want to be informed. But I feel that some of the online retailers are pulling badly managed Black Friday Deals or even bait an switch tactics to lure people to buy from them.
I got up at 6 AM EST this morning to try and take advantage at the two ticket items listed here at Bud’s at 8 AM EST, but was met with extreme website not found cloudflare errors. On top of that all off their offices were also closed. Apparently they were having an online sale before anyone in the company was at work (Business Hours 9am-9pm)
If you check on Bud’s Facebook in the comments of the November 26 post about the Black Friday sale you’ll see all the evidence, lots of people posting images of website being down.
Granted I know that I am just one person that’s probably feeling very cheated that I got up early to try and take advantage of online Black Friday deals only to be screwed over and out of the deal entirely.
I guess I just wanted someone to know other than hundreds maybe thousands of people cheated out of a Black Friday deal that wasn’t properly prepared for or even given proper recognition.
Feel free to use the comments for a little pre-Festivus airing of your Black Friday grievances.
I am shocked — shocked — to find a retailer advertised a black Friday deal that could not actually be purchased!
On a related note, Buds probably prevented the guy from wasting $150 +$70 or so in transfer fees on crappy guns.
I don’t know where you live, but that seems high for transfer fees. I bought one of the surplus Beretta 92s buds has a few weeks ago and was very pleased with the gun and the $10 transfer my FFL charges. Very nice gun for $310 all said and done. YMMV
I don’t know where you live but no one here does transfers for less than $35.
Same, most here are $35-50. One pawn shop that has a couple distribution licenses with gun companies charges $35 for normal transfers, and $50 if they are a seller of that gun. WTF.
I drive 20 miles each way to McCall’s Cash and Pawn in Jane Lew, WV for their $15 transfers, their fast FFL info sending, and remembering me by name. Half the time, they have my 4473 and gun on the table seconds after I enter the door.
Damn worth the $5-7 in gas.
There are plenty of FFLs around here who do transfers for $15-20. And I know of at least one who does $10 transfers for MIL/LEO.
Ehh my LGS has always done it for free for me, but I spend way too much money there
Local pawnshop/class-3 dealer chain does $10 transfers. They’re really great.
Columbus, Ohio Pickett’s Gun Works. $15 transfers all day long baby.
http://www.fixmygun.biz/
Jess at Wichita Gun Club does FFL transfers for $15. Support him. Please. He’s trying to get us a good rifle range.
Uh 10 bucks all around this area, there are even a couple places that do not charge at all.
You must live in California if your transfer fees are that high. In my area (Utah), everything I’ve seen is $25 or less. The shop I go to charges me $10 for a transfer, if they charge me at all. I buy enough stuff from them that I get pretty good deals.
Most places in the Los Angeles area charge $80-$100. Not that it matters, because I’m sure the guns aren’t on the California “nanny list,” meaning they can’t be brought into the state (there are exceptions, but that just adds more $$).
Your California is showing…
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The least expensive transfer fee I have ever seen in CA is $45. One ffl wanted to charge $100. SMH
It makes sense from a business standpoint. They have to store the firearm for 10 days plus, take up an employees time to fill out useless paperwork, etc. And $25 of that goes to the state for the DROS fee, even though they have been operating at a surplus since forever.
To me the question shouldn’t be how much does your FFL charge as a transfer fee, the question should be why the hell do we have to go through an FFL for the legal purchase of an item that we have a constitutionally protected right to own?
i bought one of the door buster deals. The site was overwhelmed with traffic and crashed. I just kept refreshing for about 20 minutes and finally got through and ordered one of the tisas ziganas for $99(normally 350)
Hmmm…”screwed over” because he couldn’t order something online.
Increase the meds and go back to sleep.
Yeah, “poor me, they had a $99 deal which I was unable to get, they didn’t get any of my money, therefore THEY screwed ME over…boo hoo!” Give me a break. If they messed up or if their site was down, go find a deal somewhere else. Nobody owes you anything.
And with that out of my system, it’s time for feats of strength!
Yup. I can kinda see the ‘bait and switch’ complaints when it’s a physical location that you had to drive to and walk around in… but come on. The effort here was waking up and turning on a laptop. It must have taken longer to write that email than to realize the site was boned and go back to sleep.
Big deal.
Oh man there goes my $99Canik(LOL)
I finally got my Canik Stingray C back after having custom night sights installed for $275. The gun cost me $280. but it is not accurate as all get up
Yea I fell for it. Oh well. Live and learn. No big deal though. Could not get through anyway. Just went back to sleep.
They had more traffic than their site could handle. It happens.
Yep, sounds more like being unable to handle the demand and less like deliberately screwing the customer.
Bigger, more high profile sites than Buds have had this happen to them.
Effectively what occurred was a bunch of people hitting F5 to be the first to get the deal DDOS’s their site. This isn’t a case of bait and switch so much as overloading what their servers were able to handle.
But what are you going to do…people gonna people.
The annual convocation of the WahWah Sisterhood is once again upon us.
Bummer.
I did my “happy birthday to me” shopping last night.
Got me a rifle rest for my camera tripod and a Clark Fork Leather chest holster for the G-20.
BUds has started deleting all the posts on their Facebook page and now made it so that you are unable to post. Looks like they are censoring and going into damage control mode.
F*** them
Who cares? Stop trying to buy crappy 50 dollar saterday night specials.
*Saturday*
Tom Jones is a singer, not a speller.
Gee, good thing you pointed out that typo/misspelling otherwise we’d never have figured out what he meant. You get an A!
Since when is a quality CZ75 clone a Saturday Night Special?
What if a “saterday” night special is all you can afford?? Not everybody is a multi-millionaire, award winning singer and television personality with hits such as “Why, Why, Why Delilah!!” Shame on you, Tom Jones! Shame, I say!
Actually, Tom, if you knew anything about the Turkish guns, you would know that they are well made and accurate. The CZ clones are hard to beat in value. The particular one that was selling for $99, the Canik S-120 is a clone of the CZ 75, is all steel, and very accurate. So don’t spout off about things you are ignorant of. TIA
Pity… I would have enjoyed that shotgun. Even if I had to tinker with it for days to get it to run. I actually kind of like doing that anyway.
Seriously has anyone used Buds layaway for the $ challenged like me? 10% down and 180days to pay on lots of guns/and free shipping-but not if I can’t trust them.
That damn Buds layaway feature is the crack cocaine of gun buying.
I typically have at least one gun (usually more) in process with them.
Of course always in the back of my mind is the possibility that I’ll wake up one day and discover that Buds/mah-money are both gone. Seen it happen elsewhere. More than once.
Bought two guns from Buds. Traded in one on a new one and got a fair trade in value. Put another one in lawaway for awhile. Never had a problem with them. So their website went down on the busiest shopping day, shit happens. Quit whining and deal with it, or go elswhere.
no, they advertised something for a stupid cheap price and then switched the price to triple what it was advertised as.
I as well woke up early and spent 2 hours trying to navigate the website. I realized that the first page of the cyber deals they had the emperor shot gun for 189. However if and when you could navigate to the second page the gun was 50 dollars. That to me was a deceptive way to advertise the product. However after trying to just be able to put something in my cart for 2 hours I gave up. Later on I wanted to send ab email expressing my concerns on how the Black Friday deals were handled turned out they aren’t accepting any emails. As well around 9 I finally saw the gun say sold out wanted to check it one more time and it was removed from the site
Open letter i sent them,
Hello there,
My name is Joseph Garrett and i live in Juneau, Alaska. I got up at 3am my time in order to try and get ready with logging into your website and making sure i could expediently get to your deals when they came online. I had nothing but problems. I was able to add the emperor shotgun and canik 55 in my cart but was not able to continue where i needed to input my FFL information.
Now i understand there is a lot of people trying to get onto your site and having it be bogged down, but that website was down from 0750 EST to about 0915 EST and that website was plain unnavigable. Conveniently enough once the website was back up and running perfectly, your three doorbuster deals were out of stock. Let me ask you this, why is it that right then and there your doorbusters are out of stock when NOBODY could use your website? It doesnt make sense. I started looking at your facebook posts to see if others had this problem, and after a few hours noticed that one, no one has heard of anyone actually getting one of these, and two, you deleted all the posts about this. It almost seems like you are trying to sweep this under the rug, and three, you then deleted any posts you had of black friday deals on these items. That is downright suspicious.
This is the second time ive been burned by BGS. I have ordered from you in the past and the last time i had, I ordered a Canik55 from you. It said it had adjustable sights, and had a chrome barrel. The picture AND your website showed that. when it came, it had neither. I called you guys up and you offered me 25$ off of my next purchase with you guys. Is this bait and switch tactic becoming a thing?
I want to hope that this is a big misunderstanding with you guys but with everything I am seeing i am beginning to wonder. I am hoping there is away you can make it right for us. Is there?
Very well said!!! They have lost all of my business for sure. I actually just went to CDNN and stocked up, They have Legit BF deals unlike Bud’s!
The problem is not what happened, but how it was not handled. No explanation, they just started deleting things from their Facebook page, including the sales and comments in regards to them.
They deleted three of my comments. They’ve also now disabled the “Posts by Others” option on their FB, so nobody can post any more comments. Looks like they’ve deleted everything (even their own posts) from the last 48 hours.
Some of the FB posts that were deleted:
Ryan Huffer SO the $99 Canikes will be on Cyber Monday also? Want to get one for my daughter.
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Nathan A. Johnston Thanks for waisting my time
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Sean Dos Santos Tried to get online from 730 onward, and got this same thing. What a waste of freaking time.
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Taylor Leonard They are full of it. They never had these deals to begin with and they just lied to everyone to get more traffic on their website.
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Ty Simmons What’s the point of offering up great deals if you can’t actually get them….
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Ty Simmons really dishonest
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Stephen C. Chesney It’s bait and switch. What they did here was illegal.
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Michael Thomas I’ll be buying that Glock.
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BudsGunShop Excellent, I hope you enjoy it Michael!
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Rick Dembroski So if we ordered a pistol yesterday and it goes on sale before it ships do we get the lower price ? My M&P should be shipping soon
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Hannibal America go back to sleep gun lovers. i wasted 30 mins hoping to get a $50 shotgun. not a bad trade off. however, i can’t but help feel like this was a scam all along. vote with your dollars folks.
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Steve Metzger III had it in my cart, went to checkout and I seen the same thing.
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Jeremy Kinsey Same here.. with the Canik too.. Sucks.
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Timmy Cole Williams II Anyone else?
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Joseph Calandra Yes has been like that since 7:30 this morning
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Sean Dos Santos Since 730 this morning
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Kyle Crews Don’t have a special like this if your server can’t handle the traffic, plain and simple. Been offline since 20 minutes before it was supposed to go live.
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Sean Dos Santos I tried at 730 and couldn’t log in. Ridiculous
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Chris Hawthorne I managed to get it to load at 8:04 EST, both showed sold out under the Cyber Week Deals category.
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Karl Zimmermann Well I tried for over an hour. I kept refreshing and it never once showed the $99 Canik. It was always $329. Not only did Buds make no effort to honor an advertised price. But they have lost me as a customer permanently. I will be reporting this company to the better business bureau and suggests others do the same.
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James Jones BudsGunShop what a fail on this one. Everyone here logged on before 8am and your.items was sold out……..
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Alan Mechels Did you hire the same people that run the Obamacare website?
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Mike Jay There is only one person to blame for these server issues: Barack Obama.
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James Jones Alot of unhappy customers
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James Jones Dirty. Sold out before advertisements huh? Just lost a longtime customer
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Quoc Ba Van pisses me off
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James Halbirt Here is my BBB Claim
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Joe Garrett James i have filed a complaint too. This is a totally unacceptable business practice. I can understand not being one of the first to log in and grab these deals, but with them having server issues before 0800 until about 0915 i find it hard to believe that anyone was able to purchase and then conveniently have their website back up with everything sold out
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James Halbirt Right! I advise everyone to file
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Jason Davidson In addition to our unbelievable Early Bird Specials on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we are offering a f@#kup website too.
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Travis Stevens Shotgun was in my cart and the site crashed until it was out of stock. Thanks a ton buds.
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Alex Coughlin Sale starts at 8am, but you were sold out before that? That doesn’t seem right.
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Tom Trainer Got it in my cart, the website went down, now says out of stock trying to check out….argggh!
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Christopher Schmitt Me too!
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Josh Whittenton same here
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David Fry I had the Shotgun in my cart before it was sold out, but site kept going down and couldnt get through the checkout, no its saying Sold out
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Michael Allen Never buying from you guys again, this sale was a joke
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Christopher Schmitt Had one of the pistols in my cart! by the time I could get the site to work it was sold out! BS. Never buying anything here again
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L.A. McKenney Finally got the site to load, the cz rep canik is still showing $339 price??
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James Stephens Like many, had the emperor and canik in my basket at the sale price. Never would let me check out, now out of stock and the canik is listed at full price.
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Michael Becker BudsGunShop can be guaranteed one thing I will NEVER shop with them again. I had the Emperor shotgun in my cart and when I went to input the FFL it would not accept it so I opted to input later. By the time I got through that it was out of stock. Rest assured you lost a lot of customers with this stunt.
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Jeff Lloyd Got 3 of them, yes! Thank you Bud’s!
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Nikolos Ford You’re full of it bro
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Kevin McGoldrick maximum quantity one, right on the screenshot. gg tho.
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Damir Hurtic So disappointed by Budsgunshop.com. I couldn’t login since early this morning to BUY ANYTHING, let alone jump on some deals. Now, most “deals” are showing out of stock. Looks like you guys hired the same people that ran the Obamacare website. Good job, you just lost 1 customer of many.
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John Eldredge I dont think they ever intended to sell it for $99. It was probably someones joke that got leaked and they were acting like they were going to stand behind it. Then they purposely let the site go down so they couldn’t get false advertisement claims.
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Jonathon Johnston Would have been great to even connect to the website. All I have seen for 30 minutes is website offline. Palmetto State and many other sites with great deals do not have web site issues, guess they know how to load balance though.
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Tony Barrix Jr 8:01 must of had one in stock smh
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Dakotah Bear Hands Someone wake up bud and have him reset his wireless router
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Jeremy Gerdes Anyone else notice there has been no response regarding this issue from Bud’s? Looks like they still need to figure out how they are going to do their damage control.
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Bill Connell Trying to find a way to blame Obama
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Jeremy Gerdes Well we can always blame him. Works for me
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Mark Barta They still have the $49.00 shotgun in stock but refuse to honor the advertised price.Classic bait and switch scam !
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Willie Lawless 65,000+ likes on your FB page and not one person reporting they got the deal….
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Damir Hurtic Hey, now you can magically log into the site…after the prices went up, and the deals are out of stock. It’s magic.
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Michael Leslie Thomason This was a joke! Managed to actually get a gun in my cart and the website crashed again! Now saying the gun in my cart is out of stock
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Stephen C. Chesney I wonder what the Federal Trade Commission would say about your advertising tactics? Just in case none of you Buds employees have ever had a business 101 class, Bait and Switch advertising is illegal. I am done buying guns from you. Absolutely done.
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Jerod Prindable had both the 49 shotgun and Tisa $99 9mm in my cart but after trying to get the site to check me out for 30 minutes(web host error) they were sold out… So disappointing. Cheaper than Dirt site loads right up..
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Chris Everett Finally got one in the cart…and went to check out and crashed for the 100th time…and when I refreshed it boom! Out of stock and website is working again
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Kelly Chamberlin Just found out this was a April fools sale. Not a Black Friday. I have purchased many guns from buds and even took a trip to the store. I hope they make it up to us or else they lost my business
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Kevin Smith maybe next Black Friday…..
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Chuck Martin Well that was bull, had one in my cart saying in stock then I could not check out because your website keeps crashing.
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Gregor Beals Website is down. Was supposed to be up almost 40 minutes ago…
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Derek Maynor BudsGunShop site is down and no one is answering the phones.
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Bryan Paulson Hong Nguy here u go
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Adam McWhorter Had one in my cart for 99$. Got to the selection screen for my FFL. Site crashed for the 100th time. When it came back up it said my email and password were not valid. Crashed again and then showed the full priced gun in my cart. This was awfully executed. I’ve spent a lot of money at buds and wasted almost 2 hours of my time this morning refreshing for nothing. Of course now they are “sold out”. But I’m curious if any were actually sold for this price. Seems like no one here got one.
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Edmund Jonathon Garcia Chavira One person it’s in the third or fourth set of comments
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Michael Church-Kimmey I had the same thing happen. I was choosing my ffl and bam site crashes. This is a joke.
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Jon Savage They are still showing 700+ emperor shotguns in their inventory for the full price! What a joke this sale was.
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Jon Savage I had one in my cart for $49 and when I tried to enter ffl shipping info the site crashed. Buds please honor your ad.
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Rick Antcliff Same issue for me
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Adam Starnes Thought I would give Buds a try but after wasting over 2 hours online, I will not be looking at Buds again. Online at 6:30am and buds server crashed 15 minutes before sale. Bad buisness
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Nick Bobby You owe me an hour of my life back.
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William Erb I’m going to go loot Kmart to show my disgust for buds.
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Eric Winger I managed to get one of the Caniks. It took me probably 45 minutes of constant refreshing to get through the process.
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Edmund Jonathon Garcia Chavira Lucky you
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Kyle Crews I was refreshing multiple pages in multiple browsers for an hour and 15 minutes and only connected to the sit 2 times, and both time when I went to log in it crashed again
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James Halbirt I have many screen shots to show that your website would not allow purchase , from multiple browsers, multiple networks and I will be filling a BBB claim immediately. Additionally this will be reported to the Attorney General as False Advertisement and Bait and switch. This was my first experience with Buds. What a joke. And Believe I will tell everyone I know.
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Steve Koffinas Multiple drops after going to checkout.
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Robert Lall Had mine in the cart when it wasn’t out of stock and hit checkout. Boom nothing but server errors so after of 20 min of refreshing the page constantly finally popped up to say out of stock. Maybe it would of been a good idea to beef up the servers before the massive wave of traffic that crashed the site…..Common sense would tell you that much.
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Michael Clark I brought several guns from buds and have one in the mail from a previous order but your black friday sale was a joke I beat no one was able to order the sales special. Buds needs to be investigated for unfair trade practices!
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Gregor Beals 5:55AM PST (8:55 EST) and still nothing… A few more minutes of trying and then I’m done. This is ridiculous. This isn’t good service…
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James Jones Has anyone actually purchased one of the items?
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Jason Dopirak one guy has reported getting a canik.
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Kevin McGoldrick had one in the cart at 8:39, site went down selecting my FFL. site back at 8:44, sold out. thanks buds.
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Andy Walker I can’t get 2 consecutive pages to load and people managed to get through the complete ordering process? im impressed.
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Chris Carson Very dirty Buds. I had alot of faith in you, but you couldnt even have your site ready to go. Bunch of hacks.
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Travis Michael I’ve got this in my cart, but has the original price.
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Bob E Johnson Lol it’s the wrong one the 99 dollar is same gun different listing it’s sorta a scam
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Travis Michael Well where was it? That was the only one that showed up under their Cyber Week Sale.
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John Sang Worst website and internet sale ever BUDS. Have your stuff together next time you decide to do a sale.
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Dallas Lloyd Is your site going to crash repeatedly when we try to log on like this morning ?
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Landon Vasquez I have one in my cart but the price still shows the original price?
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Rick Antcliff They had separate listings for the promo items…same item but different price. I saw them and even had one in my cart. Got as far as choosing my FFL when the site again became unavailable.
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Josh Robinson I’ve been on since 5am. Added 3 guns to cart, including two of the Black Friday deals. Refreshed periodically to ensure I stayed logged in. Refreshed for what I thought to be the final time right at 8am. Prices still the same. Refreshed again. Website offline. Tried again numerous times. Just now able to get back in. Black Friday prices not shown. Any help here?
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Michael Smith You did it wrong. They didn’t change the price of the regular item. They had a special item with the black friday price.
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Jared Birnbaum dont worry didnt get that either
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Stephen C. Chesney I don’t know what I find more infuriating. The fact that the $99 price was a complete lie, or the fact that your website doesn’t work at the time you said the sale was supposed to start. It worked for a second, the gun still showed a $339 price, and now the site is down again.
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Devon Fitzer Awesome I just scored 4 of each!
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Nathan Jarvis Sure ya did lol
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Chuck Bobuck You guys are all going to the wrong site! The real website is Thiswasbullshitallalong.com
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Skyler Moy The Canik is showing regular price still and it is after 8 am. What gives?
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Neil Wheeler I figured your website might get overloaded and things might load a little slow but I didn’t expect it to go down entirely ha
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William Brandiff What code do enter online to buy for that price on friday
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Michael Frisell Supervisor (??) Just called me back and said they only had so many for sale price then I asked if they were planning on doing anything about this and he said no also asked if they new about complaints on facebook and he said they were aware of it. The impression I got was they really don’t care
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Jeremy Gerdes Be sure to fill out a Better Business report on this. They have an A+ rating. I hope they plan to fix this to keep that rating!
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Carlito Manuel Chavez I’ve given buds a good amount of money and time. This was a travesty and a big F-U to your loyal customers. I hope your bait and switch was worth the loss of a good amount of your customer base, as well as a turnoff to possible future buyers. Will not do business again unless you can rectify your egregious mistake.
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Chris Pace I just talked to cus timer service and they said they were limited quantities and once sold out then they are sold out. They won’t be honoring those prices for anyone.
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Edmund Jonathon Garcia Chavira Are they sold out that’s my question
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Chris Pace He said yes they sold out very quickly. Don’t know how since site didn’t even work
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Chris Sipe Went to look for the $49 shotgun, out of stock. However, if you scroll up a bit, you will find the same shotgun in stock for $189. It is because of this dishonesty that I will never deal with you again.
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Jim Stewart Bullsh*t on the 49 and 99 dollar deals! Site was down when the sale stArted and when it worked again, sold out! They probably had 1 of each…
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Mark Ridder Can’t even find canik on their site now. It was there till I hit add to cart……..
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Brandon Merkley All Tisas products have been removed from the site
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Kevin Laird The canik pistols never showed up as 99,they only existed at full blown retail.. Now the canik manufacturer page is gone completely. What a scummy, shady bait and switch… And you didn’t bother to pay for the extra server bandwidth? Everyone else did.
Disappointed is an understatement.
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Rick Antcliff Not true. I saw them and the shotgun and the Tisas at the special prices. There were separate listings for the BF versions of them which was not obvious. Did i get one? Nope.
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Ross Wyner That’s a lie I have the direct link and it never changed
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Mark Collins Anyone else seeing that all Canik references have been removed from the site?
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Ed Danyo Complete waste of my time. Very disappointing. I knew it was too good to be true…Then I told myself that this was Buds, and not some fly by night company without integrity. I was soooo wrong. This will leave a bad taste in my mouth for awhile.
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Kester Beck Wtf. Worse experience ever. Had them in my cart and the site crashed every time I tried to pay. Did anyone get the 12 or 9? Was this a scam or just a very poorly managed event? Big thumbs
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Johnny VD Should have stayed in bed. Took several tries just to check out, then they were out of stock. I know the BF deals were limited but at least let us check out, that part was frustrating and lowers my opinion of how Buds handles its business. I’ll just sit the next sale out.
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Daniel Ponsano What a waste of a night.
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Kevin Auskings Tim Haynie
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Marc Childres This was after I entered my credit card info and hit pay.
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David Wilkins I got them in my cart and past my FFL screen, but it never gave me the discount prices.
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Chris Pace I had one of each in my cart and could not check out. now they are gone
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Jeff Hall Worst service ever I think your plan backfired on you instead of gaining customers you lost a ton you would think you would have people available for phone ordering since your website crashed!! What a joke I’ll pay extra and buy local!
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Timothy Newton I am contacting you in regards to the Emperor Shot gun and Canik s-120.I had the items in my checkout for about 30 minutes trying to checkout
where you pick an ffl dealer. I chose not to pick one to hasten the
deal, but during the whole time, your website would go offline and not
allow me to finish. So I am very disappointed in the quality of service I
did not even get to try and receive. So I lost out on a great deal
because the webpage would not load, yet it sold out.
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Tom Woolverine Woolever I have been having the same issues . I’m starting to think it was just a hoax
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John Sang I cant wait to see the replies the Buds agent is going to give for this one.
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Erik Troyer gotta love black friday… 40 minutes for the page to load
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Andy Smith YOUR WEBSITE BLOWS!!!
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Jason Bloomfield Had both the Canik and Shotgun in cart at 7:05, when I got the site to reload it said out of stock. Won’t Buy from Buds again if they are pulling this crap.
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John Sang I had both items in my cart and was trying to check out for 40 minutes with nothing to show for it, because of this experience i will probably never buy from buds again
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Marc Childres Thanks for letting me add to the cart then enter all my card info only to be told out of stock! After finally getting the site to work!
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James AndChris Logan This is BS! Buds should make it up to everyone on here with some serious ACTUAL discounts. PRICES NEVER CHANGED! At least when I was anle to get on the site.
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Kamanu Kajiwara 45min wasted. Knew it sounded too good to be true
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Steven Villa Yeah I find it hard to believe that no one can comment that they bought one I find this very disturbing
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Darryl Andrew SIte never showed the discounted price that I can see.
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Josh Whittenton just disappointed. was up at 7:30 on the site and logged in. booted off at 10 til 8 and the website offline ever since.
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Josh Whittenton finally got the shotgun and the tisa in my cart, hit checkout and was offline again. got back in and both items showed as out of stock. 90 minutes and nothing.
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Jacob Stangl I woke up early just to see a server down page for an hour. Awesome.
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Ben Neal Was able to get online at exactly 8:00 and the Caniks labeled “Black Friday” were sold out. I smell something bad. You will not lose me as a customer if 1, only 1 person comes forward who got one of these for $99.
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Jason Dopirak one guy showed he did. but only one is still a cheap trick that ruined everyones black friday. by the time we figured out the site was a hoax all the deals at the real gun stores are gone.
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Justin Thomas Too bad your Canik and Emperor never dropped in price on the site.
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Justin Thomas = ways to lose business when you lie to the customer
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Kelly Kimberlin I’ve been at this for over half an hour and I have YET to see the listed prices show up on the site (when it will actually load).
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Invidiosos Ke Se Derritan Im over here sitting waiting since 7am and comes 8am on the dot and it pops up in the website as sold out? wth?
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L.A. McKenney At least you can see the website.
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Invidiosos Ke Se Derritan Yea they shut down the website on purpose like around 8:04am. This seems to me like marketing bs.
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Michael Frisell Website down
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Joshua Carnes if you order online can you pick up at bud’s gun shop in lexington?
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Adrian Poole Do you have to be a team buds member to get the early bird deals?
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Jordan Frew ^ Good quesiton….
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Kelly Kimberlin Probably not, but you have to be magic to have been able to get their website to load and actually see something in stock.
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Alex Saldana Jose Palomares
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Jason Davidson are you guy only going to have a couple of the caniks for $99.00? or are you going to have a bunch of them?
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Ross Wyner only a few…
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Brad Hannesson See a previous comment where they said they had a pretty good amount.
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Luiz Felipe Fernandes muito bom preço
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Sean Dos Santos I WILL NEVER PURCHASE NOR ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE FROM YOU EVER AGAIN!!!! I have bought multiple firearms from you in the past, but this crap this morning is beyond belief. I had the Emperor shotgun in my cart and was in the process of paying for it when it suddenly says SOLD OUT. Never again.
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Brad Hannesson 10 minutes to 7am central time and your website already crashed. What a joke. I’m going back to bed.
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Daniel Thomas Hughes Now the question is, will there be a limit per person so some of us don’t get screwed when individuals try and score 3 of the same type of weapon. You know people are greedy.
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Quinten Baker That’s what I’m wondering. Im just trying to get one but I know there’s people trying to get 5 or more for sure.
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Daniel Thomas Hughes Exactly good sir. Exactly.
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Anthony Jenkins I tried, failed. Thanks for the tease though. I’ll stick with palmetto state armory.
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Jeremy Kinsey So made it to the web site at about 7:00AM US CST. Even saw the shot gun and Canik, though the Canik was not listed until after 7:30. Clicked the Buy button as they were both available. Checked out. FFL screen came up, selected FFL and checkout returned with OUT OF STOCK on both…
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Jeremy Kinsey Well it was fun for the 30 minutes I wasted anyway… Long time Bud buyer. Sucks that they added to cart and then checkout never worked. BTW, I was not greedy, I tried the shotgun first by itself… When it showed out of stock after it added it to cart, I tried the Canix.
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Jeremy Kinsey Well in fairness, they were listed, and if you were patient enough the site did eventually load. I was able to login, choose my FFL but never got to complete the order. That is kinda what sucks. I actually found the BUY links and products active and then never completed the order.
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Cadwaladr Awbrey SCAMMERS!!!!
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Justin Biggred Hall The website kept crashing. It was crap. So no gun deals. I tried for 35 minutes. No luck. I had these guns in my cart couldn’t get checked out because of server issues. Oh well doesn’t surprise me. I would have shopped there more often. With that kinda of peoblem. No thanks. Looks like a good site but not now.
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Brandon Parrott Looks like Buds screwed themselves on this one. I’d say business was already down a bit considering how the current market is. This is not going to help any.
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Ron Polland Forget this sh*t. I would not be surprised to learn that they sold them out at the store. I tried getting through early, at 7am, which I did, so that I could refresh the site right at 8am – which I did. I saw the ads for the Emperor Shotgun and Canik S-120 that had “Black Friday” emblazoned on them and when they were also marked at $49 and $99. I quickly selected them and they showed up in my cart at the sale prices.
But, then Bud’s server crashed before I could get to Checkout and stayed crashed for 30 minutes to an hour, but occasionally (and teasingly) it popped back to the home page. clicking on the Checkout link showed the server down again. Going back the the home page and trying other links, like Cart, or My Account, also sent me to a “Sorry, this web site is down” error page.
By the time I was able to get back into my Cart, the prices had “magically” reverted back to their pre-Black Friday amounts of $189 and $339.
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Damir Hurtic $339, where is the $99 price you scums?
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Damir Hurtic http://www.budsgunshop.com/…/CANIK%20S-120%20CZ-75…/
CANIK S-120 CZ-75 Clone 9MM 17+1 Chrome
Factory New Canik S-120 9mm Matte Chrome Finish…
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Scott Kloster Buds sucks!
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Lee Wilson Probably because they don’t care is the impression I get
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Michael Frisell I just got off phone with buds and they said they had a limited quantity of sale items for sale but yet able to still have stock for regular price
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Rick Antcliff Their mistake was not publishing that there was a specific number of them at the promo price….seems many assumed it would be their entire stock.
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Kevin Laird Oh hey. Now they suddenly have all of the Pistols in Stock, at full retail again.
Also, why have they been completely silent to this forum? They must have noticed hundreds of pissed off customers.
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Adam McWhorter And how come no one has posted any updates here from buds?
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Robbie Williams You got it right buds “UNBELIEVEABLE” !!!!
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Tony Simon Same thing here as everyone else, guns in my cart, then website crashed and didnt come back until they were out of stock. Did anyone actually get one? Thats all i want to know.
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Chip Smith An hour of my life that I’ll never get back
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Justin Danielle Dickson Will not ever buy Here again, hope company fails!
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Jeff Brockman I had the same issue… did ANYBODY actually get the deal?!? Shame on you buds…
Fooled me once!
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Trevor Dennis Yeah it was a waste of time this morning. You think a company as big as buds gun shop would have there website fixed for the big sale. So sad I am very displeased with buds as a lot of ppl on here.
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Tyler Ray So did anyone get a $49 shotgun this morning?
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Kris Ahlers You’ll never get one off there website
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Brandon MacMurtrie Spent 45 min trying to navigate 5 pages on your site this morning only to have the item sell out by the time the confirm purchase screen appears. Then spend another 30 min on hold to have a “customer service” rep try to tell me how the f*cking Internet works. Never again.
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Michael Frisell I wanted shotgun and canik but would have been happy with just one of them
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A William Icewood Scam alert – Kygunco.com runs real ads with actual prices
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Michael Frisell I cant get on website at all now
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Matt Kaarlela so if this is going to happen again on monday… is there any way those of us who tried to buy today can pre-order? I have spent over 2 hours now trying to buy one of those $99 canik 9mm handguns and have had nothing but frustration with the website freezing or crashing. I am trying to give Buds the benefit of the doubt about this but sure looks suspicious.
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Edmund Jonathon Garcia Chavira Na those are gone
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Aaron Joseph Benson I still have the $49 shotguns in my cart…still available….I am getting all the way through the checkout process….but still at full price….WHAT A SCAM…..BUDS BLOWS
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Sam Oxford We need to give them the chance to correct this. Hopefully they will make it right…
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Michael Frisell Who would you contact to complain about this and I don’t mean someone at buds. I would have had better luck and less aggravation going out to stores
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Chuck Winright same issue as everyone else. had planned on purchasing 3 items, shotgun and pistol for my self, shotgun for my son for Christmas… kicked out, kicked out, oops, out of stock.. what a cruel joke…and waste of time…
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Michael Frisell I had shotgun, tisas and canik in my cart selecting ffl and got booted when I finally got back on it was saying sold out got booted again and then it was regular price. I call BS on this I will never use buds again and make sure anyone I know nevers uses them.
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John Santellan I want to believe in this business. What a shame.
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David Ledbetter Fool me once.
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Mike Hutchens wasted over an hour, had the canik in my cart til i went to checkout. when i was finally able to checkout, the price was changed. thats just not right.
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Dave DeBlasi $99 caniks were BS, they had the site down until 5 mins ago and they were pulled off the site…. good job buds!
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John Willimon I had both the Canik S-120 and the Emperor Guardian Shotgun in my cart on separate occasions and at the sale price and they showed as in stock in the cart and both times the page crapped out in the payment portion. Now both guns are listed at the original retail price and as in stock.
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Kester Beck Website is still crashing
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Matt Hess Was looking forward to my first transaction with Buds.. Unfortunately when trying to buy the $99 Canik, not only would the sales price not show, but the site would continually crash when trying to checkout. Hopefully this is fixed soon, would like to complete this Black Friday deal and continue to be a Buds customer.
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David Kalil Weak and I do mean weak. No more Buds for me. Unlike and no more business from me.
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Alen Cowles Well good to hear atleast someone got one. I had the canik in my cart in stock too After several refreshes I got to ffl selection, then several more got to payment and once I put in my card it said I can’t check out cause it’s out of stock. Waste of an hour but it was worth a shot for a $99 canik.
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Nathan A. Johnston Here is my theory… Buds, posts these AMAZING deals knowing
it will create a stir. They also know that their site won’t be able to handle
all of the traffic and it will crash. Once it’s back up and running they come
out and say, “sorry all sold out at that price” even though they didn’t sell
any, or maybe one to some buddy of theirs so they can say they sold for that price, but really had no intention to actually do so.
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Gregor Beals 6:23AM PST now. I am done.
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Robison Scott Site SUCKS!
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Robison Scott This SALE SUCKS!!!!!!
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Bob E Johnson Lol to anyone who thinks they might actually get a 99 dollar canik. Buds just ripped all of us I personally won’t buy from them again. Gougers in a gun scare and jokes/scammers on Black Friday
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L.A. McKenney “Hey guys, our $99 caniks will have a separate listing than the same gun’s regular listing on our black friday sale page http://www.budsgunshop.com/…/cPath/1716/sort/7a/page/1 , just so you don’t try to buy the wrong weapon and end up very frustrated when the $99 pistol still shows a $339 price at 8:01am.”
I mean….would that have been so hard?
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Sherry Schofield Frazier Took forever to access website then put in cart and wesite went down.
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Brandon Coker What a scam did anyone actually get the deal?
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William Colon Where is the sale ???? items show regular price , just Pi$$ed a 1 hour and half and your BS web site !!! fool me once shame on me !!!
Emperor Firearms Guardian Tactical 12ga 18.5″ 5+1 Pump
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Ryan Molock What a joke. This is the definition of a bait and switch
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Peilong Du Website constantly crashing…products sold out before the sale even began? Are you kidding me? Not only have you lost a customer for life, but I will also vehemently recommend anyone and everyone I know to stay away from your shady business.
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Shan Kumar Black Friday tisas for $99, added it to my cart and it shows up as $349. Go back and its suddenly no longer a special….
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Chuck Detwiler I actually got to a point of selecting my face and when I went to pay it then showed the stuff in my cart as out of stock. What the hell kind of scam is this. It is in my cart I select the ffl and go to pay and then you yank it out of my cart. Looks like fraud to me
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David T Chamberlin I guess the jump from mail order to digital was just too much for them.
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David T Chamberlin Or Aunt Mabel just couldn’t plug the little wires into the right holes fast enough.
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James Jones People here are saying that bought them for the price. Proof or it didnt happen
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Scott Wilcox well, that was a waste of time.. over an hour trying to get web pages to load, never saw the right price, & can’t checkout. Obviously too many shoppers overloading the servers makes this ‘sale’ system very frustrating. It’s not like you’re standing in line, & can see when or if your turn is up.
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David T Chamberlin I guess they forgot to feed the hamsters that were powering their servers.
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Donovon Baggett for those interested in the bushmaster xm-15 sportsman’s outdoor is offering it for $599 with a $50 mail in rebate, had high hopes for this sale from buds but looks like they can’t back what they offer
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Todd Marok Buds gunshop is a joke. Good luck getting anything. It was in my cart by the time it let me check out the price went up. Screw buds
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MistyandDusty Tackett Price never changed!!! So happy I wasted my time!!! Never again…
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Joe Mehler So very, very disappointed.
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Michael Decker Its officially over for the caniks, the black friday link now shows regular price
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Zach Rohr What a scam, waited all morning to get on, only to see it crashed and the gun is out, good buisness practice buds
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Clay Sheffield you wont be able to buy anything..site keeps going down!!!
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Juan Flores Im with Kamanu Kajiwara. Waisted my time for false advertising.
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Dustin Dunmyre The site literally crashed and is still crashing. Had one in the cart, halfway through checkout. And it just kept crashing due to the server unable to handle the load. Absolute crap. Had everything set to go for an hour before.
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John Schiffermuller There does not seem to be anything on the website about the specials. I can get to a page for the stainless Canik, it’s listed for $339 and returns a website error whenever I try to put one in my cart. Been trying since the start with no luck.
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Julio Villarreal The shotgun seems to be back in stock. For $189…
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Timothy Newton Yep I came up from deer hunting this morning at 7:30 to make sure I got the deal but what do you know
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David Gates What a joke. Tried since 0730 and had the Emperor shotgun and Canik in my cart. Never saw the $49 price un the cart. Site crashed all the time and couldn’t log back in the other times. Way to false advertise. Have a buds guns in Sevierville that I had been planning on checking out. May not even do that now after this stunt.
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David Thompson this is just plain awful!
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Michael Decker omg, getting ready to pay for the canik and the site crashes, now its out of stock
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Allen McPherson I was able to get to the site several times between 8:03 – 8:30. Even added them to cart and got to checkout but not once was the price listed at $99 & $49.
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L.A. McKenney apparently they made separate listings for both pistols and the shotgun, making it basically impossible to find.
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Shan Kumar Had canik in my cart but the site kept crashing so by the time I was able to check out it was out of stock
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Todd Marok Buds gunshop what a joke! Get rid of the cloud screw buds
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Tim Moore Well, I finally got the sale prices to show. Unfortunately, they sold out while i was checking out. Congrats to everyone who was lucky enough to get one.
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Derek Odom I’m sure its the system glitching and they will make it right. I had both in my cart, but checking out was impossible
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Jared Birnbaum I doubt they’re gonna make it right, doesn’t seem like they’re addressing the 100’s of customer complaints at the moment
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Jerod Prindable What a joke, not able to even get the site to load before they were sold out. Glad I got up early for this….
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Dustin Lyons Well this was fun. haha. the Canik 9mm would have been nice.
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Brian Paulus when I clicked to buy it at $99 dollars the site keeps crashing, waste of my time
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I had a few issues with budsgunshop.com this morning, but waiting a few minutes and refreshing my browser and/or clearing my cache solved the issue for me. I have never bought a gun on-line before, but decided to try it today of all days. Prior to today, I went ahead and called buds to ensure that the item that I wanted to order was in stock, price was accurate, and since the picture did not match the description, I had some questions, and the very helpful customer service representative was able to look up all of the information for me such as length of pull, overall length, weight, whether or not the item came with a rail, etc. During this phone call, I was also advised that buds does not charge sales tax nor shipping if you are out of state.
So, I went ahead and placed my order, selected my dealer for delivery, and away I went. When it arrives at my dealer, I will need to pay a $30 transfer fee, but that is the way it is. I received the e-mail confirming my order within a few minutes.
So far, my experience with them has been positive. The transaction is not yet complete, and I cannot say how satisfied I will be with the overall experience until I have the item in my hot little hands.
The item I ordered was not a black friday item, so my mileage and others may vary.
Buds usually has higher prices than a few other sites. I only use them for price comparison. They cheesed me off back in 2012 almost as bad as CTD.
Buds can pound sand.
The biggest complaint and concern regarding the whole Bud’s fiasco this morning was what happened AFTER you were finally able to get through all the traffic and get the items in your cart. Everyone (that I saw, which was A LOT) that was able to get the items in their cart and make it to checkout were not able to complete the transactions due to having the site shut down on them at the final step. Then when making back to their cart to try again, were met with an Out Of Stock message. Even after they had already reserved the items in their cart. I own A LOT of firearms and have been dealing with online sources for awhile so I figured something was bound to happen. But everything I saw this morning, including how Buds responded to the situation on Facebook, was really sketchy and not very professional. Just my $0.02.
Wait wait WAITAMINUTE. Are we reporting that a website… Was down… On Black Frisday… Maybepossiblykinda due to high interwebz traffic through their site? because this never happens? Ever?
#slownewsday.
I think the complaint is more about when the site did come back online, none of their advertised deals were listed. And given the length of time for the outage it doesn’t appear that they were ever active. Thus the accusations of wrong doing.
But… I don’t know. I didn’t try to buy anything from them. I enjoyed my sleep. 🙂
They have gotten too big and no longer care about customer service. I have done quite a bit of business with them. I tried to order a Beretta 92S police trade in. The said I couldn’t buy because it has a high capacity magazine and I live in a state where 10rds is the limit. I asked if they’d ship without a magazine they said no; I asked if I could buy a 10 round magazine and they can keep the hi-cap mag they said no. I asked why and they said it was because the mags and guns are serialized and that ATF checks to see if hi cap guns are being sold to lo cap states and some other bs… no more budsgunshop.com for me
I’m sorry $70 for a transfer is redicilous for a transfer here its $30 tops and we even have a shop that does free FFL transfers for all customers
What made it worse was I emailed and talked to them and it even was escalated to Eric a customer service supervisor and was basically told go fly a kite and take my business elsewhere.
Tried it but couldn’t get past the FFL info page. Before I knew it, they were gone.
I spoke to someone Bud’s. I was advised of WEB issues due to over 10,000 people on their site at one time. I started seeing the problem when 6,400 people were on at one time.
I refreshed about a dozen times and the counter was pretty steady at around 600. That’s ridiculous.
Most of the commentors on here have no idea what they are talking about. This is pure bait and switch. They showed out of stock on those items the entire time because they never had any intention of honoring those prices. They have plenty of Caniks in stock at $329, but never had any at $99.
The main reason why everyone is so upset it because they offered no explanation or apology and instead simply deleted hundreds of negative comments left by angry customers. One ad scan had almost 900 comments before they were all removed. Buds even went so far as to remove the posts related to the doorbuster guns from facebook and their site. Does this sound like the proper way to run a business to you?
If you’re old enough to buy a handgun, you should be old enough to know that an ad offering a $300 pistol for $99 is a bait-and-switch.
Bud’s does bait and switch? Hello McFly you didn’t know that! Probably better off anyhow. That $99 Canik they were advertising will be about $300 by the time you check out. Your looking at a 50% fee for using a credit card, debit card, money order, cash, treasury bonds, returnable soda cans, gold, silver, plasma and whatever else you try to use as payment. Then there will be a $150 shipping because the gun was shipped out on a day that ends in “y”. Finally there will be a fee of $100 for the pleasure of them letting you do business with Bud’s.
Much ado about nothing, they’re just a victim of their own success, and possibly a poor choice in web server providers or credit card gateways…. as others have said, you couldn’t get theb page you wanted up, or couldn’t complete a transaction on the busiest shopping day of the year in the US? Have a latte and chill, if you’re still upset take your business elsewhere…. Me, I think there’s still a slice of pumpkin pie in the fridge…
It wasn’t just the website traffic. I tried the codes for both the canik and the tisas pistols. Always got the message code does not exist if the site didn’t crash.
It’s good to know someone is talking about this while not being on the Buds fb page. It’s obvious they are managing that heavily in an attempt to do damage control for the, at best, shady sale this morning. I’ve had several posts and comments deleted by them. Here is one….
Being 55, computer literate since 1976 and internet savvy since first logging on in 1990 I can say this “sale” was poorly handled and executed. It wasnt due to internet traffic, web path was clear to Buds. It was poor planning. Horrible execution and disrespect to customers by not having some sort of notification in place as to when inventory “ran out” or how long the sale would last. Now, deleating posts and comments to make themselves look better. Cry baby? No. Potential customer who expects at least some professionalism and courtesy from an established company? Yes.
I filed a report with the Ky BBB.
what happened was buds advertised ridiculous deals on 3 guns. they advertised a 12ga pump for $49 a canik cz75 for $99 and a tisas 9mm for $99, i was up early to try and get a jump on it and fought with the website for over an hour. what they did is they switched the price from $99 and $49 to $329 and $189. so the guns that were on sale were in stock but just not for the advertised price. i got the 9mm in my cart and hit checkout and the site magically went down and when it came back up it said sold out. so i went for the 12ga, got it in my cart and the same thing happened. i would have went to a real gun shop but Budsgunshop said on their facebook they had alot of them in stock and even expected to be sold out by 9am. the whole thing was shady and even after literally thousands of comments buds acts like nothing happened and deleted everything. if buds didnt advertise pretty much free guns thousands of people would have went to real gun stores so every loses.
Just to give a heads up, The dishonest people at Bud’s Gun Shop have deleted ALL comments on their Facebook page about how they screwed people over and how they continue to not care about doing so. This proves how shady their business practices are. Attempting to silence the customers that they screwed is pathetic.
tried to log in to cabellas this morning and their website was down due to overload also.
Well, at least the local veterinarian was open for the dog’s checkup.
Well, I am happy, I purchased a Tisas 1911 A1, from Bud’s today for 369.00.
So the question is do you think they will do anything or just ignore the problem altogether
I have never purchased a Bud’s gun, and seeing how this thing went down, not sure if I would in the future. Not because of purported website problems, or because it stupidly advertised deals that it couldn’t fulfill, but primarily because the company seems to have thrown the entire snafu into the memory hole. This by itself could cost the company some business.
A statement to the effect of “We screwed up, we’re sorry, here are some other good deals to make things right” would be a good starting point.
Buds will continue to prosper because they offer some items that are $298 and up on 90 days layaway. They have a bunch of items that qualify for 180 days layaway. They give free shipping and life time warranties for about $15 on guns that othewise would have a one year warranty. Yes, you have to know what you are ordering, and if not sure, email them. Yes, you should inspect your weapon at the FFL and if it’s not right, refuse to sign for it and Buds will pay the shipping back and get you another one, refund, etc. But if you sign and then check when you get home and it’s messed up, you will send it to the manufacturer for warranty work. I have found that they stand by their word. I bought a Tisas 1911 that is usually a dependable pistol, but I got a lemon. They refunded my money in full just as they promised. That included the insurance I paid and the extra warranty.
Yep, I’ve bought from Bud’s before & will again.
Now back to the Butthurt Brigade and their BBB threats. It’s my understanding that the BBB rates their member business partners. It has no enforcement power.
I finally got the items in my cart after 15 minutes just to log in. I had book marked all the deals. Went to checkout, ffl page froze up, went back, they had marked 2 out of stock, and replaced the other one multiple times with the $349 version. Seems like a scam because the two sku s were obviously linked. Also the black Friday item listing never said “out of stock”. If it was real they would have created a new item with an inventory and price, which would be reflected on every facet of their website. Instead they wrote a couple static pages for the listing…..
Seems shady, however I’m only saying that because I didn’t get one.
I saw the preview from Slickguns and called Buds. They denied they were having a Black Friday sale, but said if they did, they would send me an email. They did send me an email after midnight on Black Friday, previewing the $99 Canik price which they had previously denied. I knew that their server would not hold up as it gives trouble on regular days. They simply need to upgrade their servers. They are having another small cyber Monday sale, starting at 8 am on Monday. I’m sure the servers will crash again. Maybe they will get it right next year.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I managed to score 2 semi-auto handguns and a 12 ga pump shotgun for $250. When I bragged about it everyone called me a liar and accused me for working for Bud’s Gun Shop. Joke’s on them.
Congrats on being one of the lucky dogs! Sounds like you made out like a bandit.
I’ve purchased a lot of stuff from Bud’s over the last couple of years. They’ve always treated me well, the stuff was shipped quickly, and I always got a good price. People piss and moan about the “cash only” price, but no one is keeping them from sending in a money order or a check to get the discount. Whiners gonna whine.
Well they issued a statement on facebook, but it’s just as bad as not saying nothing. Apparently they only intended for the Black Friday Deals for “Existing Customers.”
The deals were not intended for “New Customers” according to their PR guy (Rex.)
Is it just me or do a lot of Gun Shops/Retailers lately have piss poor customer service and public relations or none at all?
Seriously if you run a business regardless of field you’re supposed to have decent or good customer service and public relations. It amazes me that none of these Gun Shops and Retailers have never taken a business course at all…
Tessius, I agree with you. This kind of stunt that Bud’s pulled is the exact reason why I decided to start my own gun shop about a year ago & start our website. I was sick of dealing with all the incompetent, currently existing online firearms retailers. It’s shocking how poor the customer service ratings are for all of the “market leaders”… see: https://www.preppergunshop.com/buy-with-confidence
That’s the spirit!
While it’s a bit too cold for me up there, I’ll have a look one of these days.
Personally I’d like to start my own shop, but I’m afraid i’d be overshadowed by the bigger shops like Palmetto State Armory here in SC. So I’m looking to go the further route and start manufacturing instead, mostly making AR parts and 1911’s, I’ll probably branch out from there, but that’s my main focus for now.
I think it’s no surprise that site may be down on days like Black Friday when they have a lot of visitors. But of course they need to be ready for that.
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