Some weeks ago, I decided to make my first foray into the AR dark side, and I ordered up a nifty AR from a well-known mail order gun dealer. The price was good, the reputation was that they tended to be slow, but very reliable, etc.
Finally, on Monday I got notice that after more than a week of my order being in "processing" status, the AR had finally shipped. Great! I'll be shooting it this weekend.
Sadly, there could be but one outcome...
Yesterday, I saw on the tracking status page of the shipper that they tried to deliver the gun to my designated FFL, but he was closed for the day. OK, tomorrow's the day... No problem.
Today, I went to the tracking status page and was greeted by this message: Status: Damage reported. Merchandise is missing. We will notify the sender with additional details. / All merchandise missing, empty carton was discarded. We will notify the sender with details of the damage.
Missing? Missing? As in gone? How could this happen? I called the shipping company to confirm that this wasn't some kind of mistake and for clarification. The agent on the phone confirmed that the package was found, but "the item" inside was missing and, in fact, was not "damaged at all, but was simply gone".
I then pointed out rather tersely that I would suggest that they quit calling it "the item" and refer to it as exactly what it is: A freaking AR15 that they has just lost or had stolen right from under their noses! Which, on the relative scale of badness, 1 being not so bad and 10 being very bad, is actually a 27. Loosing ANY firearm while, much less an AR15 rifle while in transit is very, very bad.
I'm so freaking pi55ed off I cannot believe it. I cannot believe that this has been allowed to occur and obviously the security around an item like this was woefully lacking such that it could just disappear. Certainly a firearm in transit would be identified as an item that had to be kept secured?
Sorry for the rant, I just can't believe that this has happened. I've called the online dealer and they are, of course, investigating.
Anyone want to take any bets on how long this takes to sort out and for me to get my AR Mark II? Maybe a forum pool?
I'm betting 3 weeks.
Grouse