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OOAL SHIPPING?
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Aaronpaul14
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I think Matt is currently running around 2-3 weeks. The last few sales gave home a lot more work to do lol
I ordered a Shikar mini on 5/27. Website said 3 weeks, that will be Wednesday. If nothing happens I will strongly consider cancelling my order Since I already received a set of Hawk minis that I ordered after. It’s a shame, hopefully they are true to their word and ship them out on Wednesday(or at least update the order status). As a man of principle I just can’t abide by false advertising. I understand small businesses get behind, but it takes 5 minutes to update a website which is your main source of revenue. So there is no excuse for a false shipping timeline.
Aaronpaul14
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Get your tracking?
Not yet. I emailed them asking for an update.
Also trying to figure out why shipping takes 3 weeks in the continental US. I wonder if they mean manufacturing? In which case it would take an additional week plus to arrive. So their website should say 4 weeks until delivery instead of 3 weeks for shipping.
Edit: received a response that it is shipping today - and now I’m a satisfied customer.
Also trying to figure out why shipping takes 3 weeks in the continental US. I wonder if they mean manufacturing? In which case it would take an additional week plus to arrive. So their website should say 4 weeks until delivery instead of 3 weeks for shipping.
Edit: received a response that it is shipping today - and now I’m a satisfied customer.
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Aaronpaul14
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Yeah it’s manufacturing for sure. Can catch him on Facebook assembling and building them. I’m sure he could shave a week or two off by making us assemble them ourselves like others lol.
It shipped exactly 3 weeks from order date. I guess I was just being semantically picky. Maybe Aerohunter has me a little gun shy. At any rate, I am currently tracking it and should arrive Saturday. I know one thing I’ll be doing this weekend.
The thing with these small businesses (Aerohunter, OOAL) is that they aren't holding inventory waiting to go. They are building to fill existing orders so lead time is affected by how busy they are at any given time.
This is different than the major manufacturers like Hawk who turn a large quantity and stock sub-distributor shelves. On the other hand, if you want to buy a Hawk product once the season's run is sold out you're either going to have to wait until next year or find one used. I've experienced that one first hand.
The upside to the small business is they're always producing so they're never completely "out of stock", given a small lead time.
Aaronpaul14
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Hopefully you like it! Big fan of the minis. Just a little warning the teeth on the stand offs are sharp!!
No straps needed to stay on the tree
Agreed. My problem has always been companies that over- promise on the timeline because they know people don’t want to hear about a super long wait time, knowing it’s not the truth, all in the name of getting a dollar. Which I’m not against someone earning a dollar, but there’s a difference. It’s either that or they expect me to believe that in 2019/2020 a company that does the majority of its business on the internet can’t seem to figure out how to update a webpage with the correct shipping timeline??? Either it’s dishonesty or incompetence, either way, not someone I want to trust my life to.
That said OOAL lived up to their stated timeline. My hat is off to the guy that makes the Cruzrs, saying up front that’s going to be a while, hopefully they can stick to their timeline, or be honest if they can’t. And some leeway can be given with a brand new thing but at some point we as consumers have to call BS when we see it.
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I definitely get that.
There is one other thing to consider, that small businesses can struggle with supply chain issues. I know first hand this has happened with Aerohunter (they were upfront about when I was waiting on my Kestrel). Small companies, because they aren't buying in large volumes, often don't have the clout with their suppliers to press for improved lead times or even prevent failure to meet promised lead times. Then they fall into the "if you don't have it you can't build it" issues. I know I received my Kestrel less the carabiners they were providing with it because it was held up waiting on their biner supplier to deliver. In my instance I knew I was going to replace them anyway so I asked them to just ship without which they were happy to do.
Personally I try to give my business to the small guys with the entrepreneurial spirit and guts to go out on their own and try to get it done (says the guy sitting at the desk of a large corporation)
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I wonder if the OP ever got theirs, lol?
Torque_tune
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I ordered mine on the 13th and I'm chomping at the bit. Read about one guy getting his in a week. I could only hope...
I got mine today. Must say I’m impressed. Wish I’d waited for the sale though, could have saved $10.
I ordered a scout on Saturday and got the email today that it shipped! That is certainly not 3 weeks. It’s barely been 3 days, over a holiday weekend. I hate to even think I had previously doubted their shipping timeline. I apologize. These guys are on point.
I ordered my Solo Scout on June 20 and just received it on Monday. So it was right about two weeks to my door.
-Chuck
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Welp I got my top step scout today and the honeymoon is officially over. It It took less than a week to get here, but doesn’t fit on the stick. There’s a piece of paper in the box about “visit out YouTube page for instructions”, yeah no. Why can’t it just go straight on the the stick they make? Well I don’t have enough data to stream an instructional video so that they can get a few pennies for my time. I wonder if I just took a hammer and started beating it mercilessly if it would fit like a bloody glove. Seems like I need to remove some metal somewhere to make it fit. Maybe a skill saw will work. That’s about the extent of my tools lying around. Wish me luck!
Maybe I was just having a bad day and wanted to be mad about something. So shave some powder coat off the stick, I can handle that.
Aaronpaul14
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Hahaha yes not ideal!!!
You need to scrape the coating off with a knife where the scout will fit on. There should of been a spot where some black coating is gone from the double step. Just need to make it a little bigger. Make sense?
It’s a mini so there wasn’t a top step. Also hoping the original bolt works, but it looks shorter than the one in the bottom step.