Hey Shooters,
I must say that I have been a loyal fan of the Midway organization and have been buying from them way back in the late 80s, early 90s with great success. They offer competitive prices and typically quick shipments.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with your statements. The last two orders I was going to place, from the sale flyer, I ended up not placing. On both of those orders the main items I was buying were sale items and were sold out. I don't know if their sales dept records these cancelled order calls but this apparently is becoming a routine thing and should be addressed by Mgmt. If this is a sales tactic to "up-sell" to higher priced items, it won't work with this boy and my patronage will be re-evaluated. I have even offered to waite for the next shipment to come in and take a late shipped order. They could not offer this and I would have to place an order at a latter date when the items where in stock. This would have still been a compromise on my part because I would have paid extra shipping dollars for the seperate shipments. Needless to say, I never called back latter and didn't buy from them on those items.
It appears from the articles I have been reading on Midway, their organization has just exploded in size and expanded to other sporting goods buisnesses besides their catalog/internet business. This is fine and I have no problem with a successfull business. I just hope they are not losing focus on the customers that made them successfull!
