Cheaper Than Dirt! suspends firearms sales

[RPB]

I have not purchased anything from them in several months. That did not stop me from sending the following to their "Contact Us" page

As a result of your decision to suspend firearm sales, I will no longer make any purchases from your site. Please remove my account and expunge my email and other information from your database,

Good idea I also added that I don't want to receive their mailings any longer....

As a result of your decision to suspend firearm sales, I will no longer make any purchases from your site or the retail location you are associated with. Please remove my account and expunge my email and other information from your database. Please also remove me from your mailing list.

Best Regards,

Steveincowtown

copy/pasted and sent after signing into my account there
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[A-R]

Couldn't help but notice that at the same time CTD announced a suspension of gun sales, they jacked the price of a PMag up to $60.00.

I just confirmed this. I can't stand opportunists. The gun sales thing I could dismiss as a business decision

But this is just ripping people off and is the straw that breaks this camels back ... buh bye CTD

[Heartland Patriot]

And THIS is what I was talking about with Alinsky's "Rule #9"...these dumb jerks at these companies are doing it to THEMSELVES out of FEAR of the unknown...and I agree with you TAM that they are COWARDS!

[longtooth]

I sent them an email telling them to not send any more catalogs. Reminding them my last order about 3months ago was just over $300.00 & I was deleating them from my favorites list.
I really think they will feel the $$er effects of this.

[Beiruty]

No one is shutting dows gunbroker.com this is where I hang a lot.

[Heartland Patriot]

I contacted someone I know who is well-connected to the firearms industry about all of this. He is only an online acquaintance, so I'm not sure how much he'll share with me, but he IS a reliable source of info. If I hear something concrete, I will pass it along to you all.

[Frankie]

Couldn't help but notice that at the same time CTD announced a suspension of gun sales, they jacked the price of a PMag up to $60.00.

I just confirmed this. I can't stand opportunists. The gun sales thing I could dismiss as a business decision

But this is just ripping people off and is the straw that breaks this camels back ... buh bye CTD

Have you see what they did to their price of .223/5.56 ammo? .70 to over $1 per round... pulled up ammo engine and get a feel for everyone else and low and behold, the price of .223 has skyrocketted....
Wish I had stocked up a little more.

[Chris]

Am I the only one to get a website unavailable message on budsgunshop? Are they a victim in all this too?

[e-bil]

Looks like Buds has having a denial of service attack and is offline.

[johncanfield]

Bud's Gun Shop website is still down. .308 ammo is scarcer and of course more expensive. I bought 700 rounds about a month ago (and shot up 150 rounds) - real sorry I didn't buy 2-3,000, at least I have a decent stockpile left.

I sent CTD an email a year ago asking to be removed from their mailing list and proclaiming I won't do business with them - I was ahead of the curve on this one.

[johncanfield]

Looks like Buds has having a denial of service attack and is offline.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Oh, glad I bought five 20 round Magpul .308/7.61 mags a month ago. One of the few instances where I've had good timing.

[Frankie]

Looks like Buds has having a denial of service attack and is offline.

I just pulled thier site up and clicked around with no issues...

[urnoodle]

I've been watching CTD facebook. They've committed online business suicide. 10,000+ comments and less than 1% shows support for their decision. The fact they haven't posted anything else to support their decision after all these comments tells me this is a long term policy change. I've changed my position, I'll give it a few days to watch for feedback from them, if I don't see anything positive then I'm out too. Has anyone confirmed if the owner of CTD is the same owner of Tactical Firearms, eerily similar.

I caved and got the membership to Sportsman's Guide. I wasn't going to do it but when I check ammo prices they always have the lowest with shipping.

[jmra]

Looks like Buds has having a denial of service attack and is offline.

I just pulled thier site up and clicked around with no issues...

I just checked and got the following


"503 Service Temporarily Unavailable"

[e-bil]

Sounds like it's a bot attack that lets up once the service is down. Once it starts responding, it fires back up. This puts more strain on the ISP than a regular DNS attack since they are constantly dealing with it.