Has anyone received their Tactical Machining lower from the brownells preorder yet? If so, what date was your order placed? The posting said initial units would arrive in January.
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Has anyone received their Tactical Machining lower from the brownells preorder yet? If so, what date was your order placed? The posting said initial units would arrive in January.
Ordered 1/2/13 and nothing yet.
[ oops misread original post ]
I ordered mine on 1-4-13, and have not heard anything either. I was wondering about the lower myself. Hopefully some people have started to receive their orders.
I also have not heard anything, which is obviously why I ask, my order went through 12/27. Does anyone know when the preorder was first offered?
My order went in on 1/2/13, not a word yet.
Hopefully they didn't pull an Aero Precision and go sell them themselves at a markup before filling all those Brownells backorders! I just assume thats what happened since they are still backordered at Brownells (Aero Machining).
I could be wrong. I usually am.
Preordered several on 12/24. No word so far.
Ordered 12/21.. nothing yet.
Hmm, January's end is fast approaching. I am still curious if anyone at all has received one or if Brownell's statement was too optimistic. Hopefully they get them out soon. The good thing though, if we are successful in stopping a ban this go around, is we will have not payed exorbitantly gouged prices for the lower at around $100 when they eventually ship. Thanks for the info guys!
I double checked that my FFL had got ahold of them and got this response at 4:39am.
For what it's worth I didn't ask for an ETA on the lowers. I assume not=no
"Yes, we have FFL on file as XXX XXX XXX and will ship your lowers to him when available, not ETA's on the lowers."
Cathy
Cathy Mather
Government Order Specialist
Brownells, Inc.
200 S. Front Street, Montezuma, IA 50171
email: cathym@brownells.com
phone: 641-623-5401
direct line: 641-623-5401 x5443
fax: 641-623-3986
According to Tactical Machining's facebook page they have only shipped 1200 to Brownells so far over the last 2 weeks.. someone mentioned Brownells said there was 16,000 ordered.. And TM said that sounds a little high..
FB Message from TM:
Tactical Machining, LLC: Don't want you all to think we are ignoring you we just can't comment on your order status with Brownells. As we fill orders with Brownells the receivers are out of our hands and a number of things can factor into when you receive your lowers. We have no way of knowing Brownells processes and time frames or where you sit on their back order list. Know that we are pumping out a ton of lowers and hopefully you'll be getting them soon enough!
January 17 at 4:21pm · Unlike · 8
I know Brownell's stated they would start receiving shipments of the lowers in January with no specific promises. It sounds like they have started getting them in. I don't think we are being gouged at all at just under a hundred dollars even without all of this political crap going on. I saw lowers in a pawn shop the other day for 600 bucks, now that is gouging.
They went live with pre- order on 12/20 (I think), I ordered on 12/21.. the problem is we don't know Brownells shipping processes.. and they were backlogged for weeks on attaching ffl info. So if they attached your ffl before mine even though you ordered days after does that put you ahead of my order? No idea. Hopefully they will start shipping soon so we can try to correlate some of these variables.
preordered mine. nothing
I called today and Brownells said you should see them by the end of April at the latest.......:confused:
I too ordered on 12/30 and have contacted Brownells twice withing the last 2 weeks to no avail. They stated that they should be in receipt by the end of this month and they won't be able to supply positions in the pecking order but to recheck the site for updates. My FFL is on standby either way. TM was called about 2 weeks ago just to see if things were in process and they stated that they're pumping out shipments to their vendors by alotment per month and they're not aware of the end vendor's shipping methods. They're swamped but catching up by all means....it's giving me time to stack more mags, ammo, and parts to build with.
This is what I see when checking status vis Brownells.
1/30/2013
$0.00
ITEMS NOT IN STOCK AT THIS TIME
Not available
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Order#
1/30/2013
$0.00
ORDER PROCESSED - NO ITEMS SHIPPED
Not available
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Order#
12/31/2012
$0.00
ITEMS NOT IN STOCK AT THIS TIME
Not available
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I just checked my status online
12/21/2012 $0.00 ORDER CANCELLED OR UNABLE TO FULFILL
What the heck BROWNELLS? Of course the phone is on constant busy and won't reply to emails.....
Off their Facebook, "Hey Gang - We are in the process of making some changes to the “Order History” portion of the site so that we can provide better information on your order status. Your order status may fluctuate, disappear, or even show canceled. Please note your orders have NOT been cancelled. Thanks for your continued patience as we work through this issue. We’ll update you when it’s back to normal."
My order said the same thing earlier today. But now doesn't say cancelled.
Mine is cleared up again..