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by them
Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:55 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Cheaper Than Dirt & the ol Bait And Switch??
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Re: Cheaper Than Dirt & the ol Bait And Switch??

I have never been a huge CTD fan and $90 bricks of bulk .22 only cemented my view of them as being an "adversarial retailer" (where getting a fair deal is a struggle), but....

1) Crediting back cards typically takes a few days. Go buy something from Cabelas, Fry's, or wherever, and return it. If you charged the purchase the reversal will take several days.

2) Their online store makes it fairly clear you are buying a specific gun since every warehouse shows a different item number for the same product. Since your contract was to buy that specific gun, if the specific gun was sold (and their terms say guns are subject to prior sale) they aren't obligated to substitute a different product. Bud's pulls this same trick without the multiple warehouses angle. I dislike the whole multiple "warehouse" thing but I suspect the warehouses are just gun dealers that want to offer their guns for sale through CTD.

3) It is sometimes possible to get a good deal from CTD, but it sure isn't worth the work most of the time and all it takes is one mistake to erase all the savings. That said, I have recently found several guns for less than Bud's even factoring sales tax collection. Not much but you might save $10-$20 on a $500 purchase depending on your ffl's transfer fees. More if paying by CC.

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