natchez shooter supplies will not get my $

[Ultra25-06]

Was looking to order some bullets and having some trouble with my usual scources, was recomended to natchez by a coworker. Lets just say I will not pay $18.00 in shiping for 100 8mm bullets. Wow I couldnt belive it that is way to high.

[billy_56081]

I comparison shop. Even with the extravagent shipping Natchez does have some great deals on scopes.

[DalesCarpentry]

I have ordered from them a few times and never had a problem. Yes they do have great deals on scopes. I would bet you that if you ordered 1,000 of them bullets that the cost for shipping would still be around $18.00. Dale

[Old Fart]

I had a similar thing happen ay Midway.
There was a special fee added at checkout without explanation.
Someone said they do that on small orders.
Okay but not my small orders.

[lakota]

Midway's small order fee really torques me off. I could understand it if you were placing an order of ten dollars or less. Why do you have to spend $25 bucks to avoid it?

[Hairtrigger]

$25 is not an unreasonable amount to spend. just throw in a spare lock ring for a die or some case lube. Oh yea  BUY LOCAL!

[billy_56081]

I guess myself I have no problem with a small order fee either. If ya really need it that bad pay the fee or wait until you get a large enough order andd order it then. Alot of time my friends anf I get together and order.

[Graybeard]

Nathchez will not in fact cannot get the business of quite a few of us here because they refuse to do business with us. I think it's TN, AL and GA that they refuse to accept orders from. I've never really fully understood that policy but it is theirs and their right to make such policy. It does however leave out a lot of GBO members as potential customers of theirs.

I think it's bad policy just as many companies set bad policies but I long ago got over it and just don't take them seriously as a supplier since they chose not to do business with me that means I don't have to even consider them for a source of supply.

In general I dislike small order fees, handling charges and flat shipping fees and feel all are in one way or another unfair to the customers as a whole. But I also recognize it is each business' right to do these things or not just as it is our right to vote with our dollars who to do business with.

I tend to do repeat business with companies who I feel treat me right and have good prices and a decent stock of merchandise of the type I want. Those who don't fall into those categories for me pesonally I mostly don't do business with but I generally don't make a big issue of telling others not to do business with them unless they have done me some real dirty turn that causes me to kinda go on a campaign of sorts against them.

[Foxxtrot]

I have been lucky with Sportsmanguide,  AIM surplus, and a few others. Don't buy from Midway with some secret added fee at the last checkout. Don't buy from CTD when they raised the prices 1000% on everything last summer.

[Swampman]

I really like Midsouth.  One lady commented that I was one of their oldest customers.

[MGMorden]

$25 is not an unreasonable amount to spend. just throw in a spare lock ring for a die or some case lube. Oh yea  BUY LOCAL!

It's $40 minimum for a dealer's account.

And yeah, it's easily enough to toss in a few things to make the total, but if you didn't want them in the first place, then that kinds defeats the purpose of adding them to avoid a $4 charge (no sense in adding $8 worth of stuff to avoid  $4 worth of surcharges).  In the end, I've found that it's easier to just shop at places that are willing to accept my business at all times.  The guy who happily accepts my $12 order will get the $500 order when it comes along too.

[wreckhog]

Natchez is a great company. Their shipping is cheap once you order a few hundred bucks of stuff.

[Ultra25-06]

I agree with buying local. I am overseas and was looking to start load development with a specific bullet once I return. The box of 100 was the smallest amount available and would prefer half of that for testing. I had my wife look locally and in the city to no succes so I started seaching online and they were the only one who listed it as in stock. Oh well, I will just order from the local store and wait for a new batch to come in.  If only one item is wanted, why should one have to purcase additional item to avoid a fee? The item in consideration was $33 and shipping came to $18 over 50% of the product cost!
I agree that a buisness has the right to do as they please and will keep mine with those who can please the consumer. I also agree a individual should not tell another where they should or should not do buissness with. That is extremly odd that they will not ship to certain states, it would be interesting to know why a company would deny themself from expanding their potential customer base.

[Graybeard]

I think they pretend to be a wholesale outfit and supply dealers in those three states they refuse to ship to as it might make them in competition with the retail dealers they supply. I might be wrong but I think that's their reason. I think it a rather silly reason tho.

If they are in fact selling at wholesale to the dealers and retail to the rest of us then I don't really see that as competing with their retail business customers.

But I really don't care. I'm sure that if they didn't have that policy they'd likely have gotten some of my business over the years but since they won't ship here anyway they don't get any of my business. I'm not for or against them really. Since they refuse to do business with me they just sorta don't matter one way or the other to me.

[Swampman]

I'd love to buy local but at 2 to 3 times the cost of what I can buy online it's tuff.

[Sourdough]

I order a lot of stuff from Natchez.  I requested one order be sent to my Dad's house since I was going to be there for Christmas and thought it simple to just have it sent there instead of to Alaska then haul it back to Tennessee.  Not possiable, if they deal with people in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, they have to collect local sales tax from the customer, then turn it over to the state.  They don't want to get involved with collecting taxes.   

[Old Fart]

$25 is not an unreasonable amount to spend. just throw in a spare lock ring for a die or some case lube. Oh yea  BUY LOCAL!

It wouldn't have been unreasonable if they had just explained it.
Nope it didn't say anything other than extra charge.
So for all I knew it was because they just decided to charge me extra that day.
I could have figured out on my own about ordering something else.

[Graybeard]

Since they are based in TN and not AL or GA I don't hardly see that. Midsouth is in TN and they ship to TN, AL and GA without collecting taxes in AL for sure and so far as I know not in GA either. I do suspect they have to collect state tax in TN but I seriously doubt that local taxes are collected by any company in other than the city in which they are located if they ship to folks in that city.

I don't much buy that story.

[BBF]

A company called Tiger Direct dealing in Electronics located in Florida  retroactive charged me Nova Scotia Sales Tax ( 13%) on a 'puter that was sent to an address in GA. Absolutely insisting that they were obligated to do so because the Visa Card came from a Canadian Bank. Absolute crap!!  They will never get any business from me again.