Cheaper Than Dirt recants
They had a hiccup with demand being so and suspended sales, likely because the were taking payments for guns that might not ship for a long time. They’ve now resumed gun sales. Good for them.
Also, they’ve dropped their magazine prices back down to reasonable levels, which, of course, means they are out of stock.
December 20th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Well, that sure happened at the speed of Zumbo.
Now watching Cerberus. Think that’s a hiccup too?
December 20th, 2012 at 11:29 am
I think CTD is trying to walk the middle of road.
As Miyagi say “squash like grape.”
December 20th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
They have already shown their true colors when they rolled over in surrender.
Don’t buy from them and let them die a quick death. Whoever takes over their spot will have a good example of what happens when you knife your best customers in the back.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Oh also, just checked their site & they say wilii resume firearms sales HOWEVER at the moment no firearms are listed. So no they haven’t resumed sales.
December 20th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
After the price gouging they did in 2007-’08 with 380 ACP at $50+ per box, I’ll never order from them anyway. This just cemented that even further.
December 20th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Convenient, once they lost 1/3 of their customer base. Never buying there again.
December 20th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Sorry, the “Cheaperthandirt.com does not sell firearms” message on the gun listing pages convinced me that it was not a “hiccup” from demand spiking. It was a deliberate attempt to roll over and play dead for the politicians.
December 20th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
“Out of Stock?” Sounds like business as usual for them.
December 20th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Jake is 100% right. An IT guy didn’t put up a message saying “Cheaperthandirt.com does not sell firearms” on accident. That’s also not the message you would display if you changed all the inventory lines to 0 in stock. No, they rolled over then rolled halfway back. Too freakin’ bad for them, no money from me.
December 21st, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Truth is CTD doesn’t really inventory much actual product at all. They function more as a drop shipper, just a shell retail operation that collects the consumers money. One of the largest wholesale firearm distributors in the country packs and ships merchandise to CTD, who then forwards said items to the end consumer. CTD used to not even handle the packages (items shipped directly to the end consumer from wholesaler inventory) until the ATF got technical about the chain of possession of the firearm. The velocity of merchandise selling at wholesale essentially crashed the system they had set up.
The CTD fulfillment set up was not all that unique in the online gun seller arena.