Gary Byrum
Overstable By Design
I'm not sure if this base has been covered or not, but today I was a little disappointed to learn that some of my preferred rocket parts are being bundled in assortment packages. This might be OK if I had a need for every thing in the package, but that isn't the case here. I'm browsing through the nose cone section and noticed I can no longer get just the 55 AC by itself. Granted, I'd usually buy 1/2 dozen at a time but now it's packaged with 55 BB nose cones. 2 of each per package. Damn! If I wanted 1/2 dozen of them now, I'd end up with 6 BB nose cones for which I have little or no use for. This stinks! Here's what said vendor told me when I asked what was up with ordering what I wanted.
I was breaking up the packs and selling the nose cones individually. I ran into problems in that I would end up with a surplus of the less in demand nose cones. Then I would get e-mails from customers asking when I would get the more desirable nose cones back in stock but really didn't have an answer since it depended on when the quantities got low on the less desirable ones. So I decided to just sell the packs as they come from Estes.
Uh...this turd ain't gonna flush with me. I get it, that Estes wants to sell it's product, but they're not even giving the vendors a break. They're getting it packaged the same way we are. Personally, I hope the vendors don't suffer losses from this kind of product distribution. I certainly am not going to buy or pay for something I don't want or need.
I was breaking up the packs and selling the nose cones individually. I ran into problems in that I would end up with a surplus of the less in demand nose cones. Then I would get e-mails from customers asking when I would get the more desirable nose cones back in stock but really didn't have an answer since it depended on when the quantities got low on the less desirable ones. So I decided to just sell the packs as they come from Estes.
Uh...this turd ain't gonna flush with me. I get it, that Estes wants to sell it's product, but they're not even giving the vendors a break. They're getting it packaged the same way we are. Personally, I hope the vendors don't suffer losses from this kind of product distribution. I certainly am not going to buy or pay for something I don't want or need.