After getting your Type 81 rifle will you fo business with TI again?

Will you purchase of Tactical Imports? After this Type 81 pre-order pre-order fiasco?

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Hopefully they learnt a lesson that they cant handle a shipment of 1000, next time they should ship most of the shipment to other retailers.
 
1bigrn said:
Do you think the results would have been better or worse?
When I set the poll for 10-days, I assumed the TI experience, couldn't get worse.
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Are you kidding? The bent rifles and the mag shortage are each worse than the shipping delay imho. If TI had a business place, there would be an angry mob in front of it.
 
The fact that in their last post they blamed CP for not doing things in a timely manner is ridiculous
 
VinnyQC said:
Are you kidding? The bent rifles and the mag shortage are each worse than the shipping delay imho. If TI had a business place, there would be an angry mob in front of it.
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I think the term for my initial statement is "rhetorical question". Do you think I started this post because TI is exemplary in customer service. No, they are beyond bad and dropped the ball everytime they could.in the end I believe I got a usable rifle, but will never do business with them again.
 
cpbird91 said:
The fact that in their last post they blamed CP for not doing things in a timely manner is ridiculous
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What's ridiculous is you not understanding that November and December are CP's busiest months and that everything slows down as we approach Christmas.
In the other thread a guy just posted that the electronic info was submitted November 15 and CP didn't pick it up till November 30. Who's fault is that? What is TI supposed to do? Drop off every rifle individually by hand?
I'm not saying this is all the fault of CP but they do share a part of it, TI could have handled things better but they can't force CP to come pick things up, they submit the info then have to wait for the CP truck to come pick up the next truckload. It's not as simple as you or I shipping a single parcel just walking into a Shoppers Drug Mart postal outlet when you're trying to ship 1000 eight pound boxes that are almost 4 feet long.
 
cr5 said:
What's ridiculous is you not understanding that November and December are CP's busiest months and that everything slows down as we approach Christmas.
In the other thread a guy just posted that the electronic info was submitted November 15 and CP didn't pick it up till November 30. Who's fault is that? What is TI supposed to do? Drop off every rifle individually by hand?
I'm not saying this is all the fault of CP but they do share a part of it, TI could have handled things better but they can't force CP to come pick things up, they submit the info then have to wait for the CP truck to come pick up the next truckload. It's not as simple as you or I shipping a single parcel just walking into a Shoppers Drug Mart postal outlet when you're trying to ship 1000 eight pound boxes that are almost 4 feet long.
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Actually that is TIs fault also. Let me explain:

If you don't register with CPC as a business and pay for bulk shipping services, CPC limits how many parcels they will pick up in one stop for a given volumetric range. I think it's a 20 rifle sized parcel limit per visit, not sure, as I have had d a business account for a long time so it doesn't apply to me.

When you see labels 2 weeks old before pickup, that tells me the vendor is nickel and diming, trying to not incur extra expense for larger volume shipping.

I guess they feel there was too little profit margin to risk shipping like a pro.

For awareness, the flat rate CPC charge per parcel for scheduled pickup is 3.50 per parcel. So not a ton of money to save ;)
 
cr5 said:
What's ridiculous is you not understanding that November and December are CP's busiest months and that everything slows down as we approach Christmas.
In the other thread a guy just posted that the electronic info was submitted November 15 and CP didn't pick it up till November 30. Who's fault is that? What is TI supposed to do? Drop off every rifle individually by hand?
I'm not saying this is all the fault of CP but they do share a part of it, TI could have handled things better but they can't force CP to come pick things up, they submit the info then have to wait for the CP truck to come pick up the next truckload. It's not as simple as you or I shipping a single parcel just walking into a Shoppers Drug Mart postal outlet when you're trying to ship 1000 eight pound boxes that are almost 4 feet long.
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This is entirely TIs fault.
I could have started a company up the day the rifles arrived and done a better job delivering these rifles. There is nothing hard about this process. My buddy has a small company and he ships out 300 packages a day. Sure they are not rifles, but the packaging shipping is much the same. None of this is rocket science, a little common sense, a customer service focus, honesty, some resources and this should be an easy process. Oh yeah I forgot some quality control and the ability to count would also help. I
 
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Hell, could have rented a 5 ton flat deck, thrown the container on the back, and individually driven across Canada delivering the rifles, and have done better than the current shipping progress. Verify PAL face-to-face at each stop.
 
cr5 said:
What's ridiculous is you not understanding that November and December are CP's busiest months and that everything slows down as we approach Christmas.
In the other thread a guy just posted that the electronic info was submitted November 15 and CP didn't pick it up till November 30. Who's fault is that? What is TI supposed to do? Drop off every rifle individually by hand?
I'm not saying this is all the fault of CP but they do share a part of it, TI could have handled things better but they can't force CP to come pick things up, they submit the info then have to wait for the CP truck to come pick up the next truckload. It's not as simple as you or I shipping a single parcel just walking into a Shoppers Drug Mart postal outlet when you're trying to ship 1000 eight pound boxes that are almost 4 feet long.
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I more so meant after TI not taking any sort of responsibility for dropping the ball every step of the way to blame anyone else is just absurd. But clearly as the other CGNers who know have pointed out, the slow shipping is indeed the fault of TI and your excuse about CP is void
 
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