A few years ago I purchased a gun from Bud's for $850. I mailed a check, they then emailed that the gun was out of stock. After notifying me it was out of stock, they deposited the check instead of returning the check. After 38 days I received my $850. Last time I ever opened Bud's web site.

I was not happy with Buds either.

I ordered a shotgun barrel and within 24 attempted to cancel the purchase, as a friend told me they had one I could have.

Called Buds and they said they could not cancel the order since it already went the shipping dept. 3 days later the barrel finally shipped. Why could this not have been cancelled, oh thats right you wanted the restocking fee. I had to pay shipping and return shipping along with the restocking fee.

F' you buds.

IF the gun hadn't shipped, why didn't you simply cancel the sale, then reorder.

Same reason as the reply just above yours.

While I empathize with anyone that buys a product only to find it went on sale the next day there is nothing to say the retailer did anything wrong here or that buds screwed anyone or that Buds is the problem.

They priced a product, both the OP and gpbbst3 felt that original price was good or they would not have ordered.

Buds certainly didn't force them to agree to purchase the guns.

So afterwards the price dropped, and Buds doesn't offer a price guarantee, chock it up to experience.

I don't see how this is a valid complaint, the merchandise was advertised at a price point, and it was bought at that price.

So until the discounted deal came up, would the OP agree that the original price was acceptable?

I'm not a buds customer, I buy locally, so I have no skin in the game, and have bought a gun only to find a month later it went on sale. Thats just the way it works...

While I agree with HRK in principle, it sounds to me like Buds is not the kind of business with which I'd care to do business. So I will not.

I get HRK's point, but there is a difference between buying something locally and getting it right then, vs waiting on the seller to ship the item. In this case, Bud's hadn't fulfilled the order before dropping the price, but wouldn't give the new price. Douche move by Bud's.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
I get HRK's point, but there is a difference between buying something locally and getting it right then, vs waiting on the seller to ship the item. In this case, Bud's hadn't fulfilled the order before dropping the price, but wouldn't give the new price. Douche move by Bud's.

Each firearm has a purchase price attached to that gun. I don't know the reason for the price drop on the next gun, but the OP felt the price was ok when he bought it. Perhaps they don't even have another gun of the same. Bud's has a lot of guns listed with a low price but then says not in stock or sold out.

I had something sort of like this happen while shopping in person at Walmart.

I picked up a bag of oranges, priced at $5.97. When I got to the register they rang up at $6.97. A supervisor happened to be standing there so I mentioned it to her.

The supervisor walked over to the produce area with me and the shelf tag did say $6.97. There was a woman working there with a hand-held terminal. I asked her if she had changed the price of the oranges while I was walking to the register. She laughed and said yes, she had just made the price change, a 17% increase during the minute or two that it took me to get from the produce section to the register. She told the supervisor to ring the oranges up for me at the old lower price.

Regardless of whether it was “right” or “wrong,” it is bad business. This one incident likely cost them a whole lot more than the $300 extra they got from the OP.

I could very well be wrong, but I have come to suspect that Buds is basically a middleman outfit that has several sources (other retailers and wholesalers) from which they secure the items they offer. Several times I have found multiple listings at various prices for the same firearm. I first noticed this in their listings for Rossi lever action carbines. Seems to me they had them listed under LSI, Rossi, and maybe Braztech, at widely varying prices. This may have nothing to do with the OP's situation, though.

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
Called Buds and they said they could not cancel the order since it already went the shipping dept. 3 days later the barrel finally shipped.

They seem to move orders quite quickly from order input to "shipping", which cuts off the cancellation ability. Then "shipping" takes its sweet time to actually ship the damn thing. Absolutely no reason it could not be cancelled if it has not actually been shipped. What is "shipping" doing during those 3 days?
 

I did get a call from Buds. They proposed an acceptable response that comes close to making it right so I will wait and see if they come through and provide an update. I have no reason not to believe them.

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Originally posted by GRH:
I did get a call from Buds. They proposed an acceptable response that comes close to making it right so I will wait and see if they come through and provide an update. I have no reason not to believe them.

Glad to hear it.

I have bought from Bud's now and again, and have been pretty happy with the transactions.