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Originally posted by noshine4mine
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I'm bouncing back and forth on whether to be nice or not in this reply. So I'll start out nice because this part of your post points out just how little you understand of this problem and and about manufacturing.
They have had one of the biggest ramps in business that has ever been seen. No company in the world can raise their output an order of magnitude. Thus all resources are being dedicated for logistics. They have backlogs of orders that you can't even imagine. Their servers, systems, software, shipping, receiving, and so much more was never set up to handle remotely this much business. Keep in mind not all orders are the same so it's not as predictable as you think with your simple subtraction. There are FFL issues, regulations, and accounting practices to keep track of.
It's very obvious the bottle neck is fulfilling orders and shipping. They don't have time to sit their and track your orders on a daily basis. They are asking essentially the same crew to do 10 times the work they were before. Bringing in new people poses 3 MAJOR risks: time required to train will slow down the orders initially, if the new people start screwing things up that's another huge step back in an already critical time, and lastly...this demand is very temporary. Hell they may not even be able to sell AR parts in a year.
Now on to the manufacturing side and supply side.
Say there are 1000 vendors such as spikes and red X selling parts.
Well those guys are supplied by maybe 50 supplier/manufacturers, and of those 50, not all of them make every part.
So you've got 1000 stores, with a 10 fold increase in orders, ordering from the same 50 guys AT THE EXACT SAME TIME. Plus some of those vendors sell their own product (aero is a big one here for receivers). How do you expect the vendor to determine exactly how and who to give the first orders to? Why would you expect them to sell lowers for $50/pc to spikes when they can sell them for $200 on their own?
How do these bolt and barrel manufacturers increase production ten fold? You want them to buy more machines? Doing this poses big risks as well:
-First, there is the technical aspect of possible defects with new machines and new operators that may produce bad parts. If these get out it kills the rep of the company. Even if they don't get out...that's millions in scrap material.
-Next, new machines cost money. They amortize the cost of these machines over the expected sales so prices aren't too high. But these guys don't know if new laws will come out and end their business all together. So they either have to raise prices stupidly high, or they don't expand operations until the political landscape settles.
You want vendors to find new manufacturers? Well there's even more risk in that...
-Again you have the same risk of scrapping material or damaging reputation
-You also run the risk of the business being cut off by new laws
-You also run across issues with vendor agreements that were signed prior to this time period.
Now there's the issue of materials running short. Companies can't just wish for more of the proper grade metals to appear like it's Obama money. They have to have certified materials so a part doesn't catastrophically fail and kill someone...as that would end their business in a heart beat.
Again, these companies aren't going to cater to your desire to "know what going on with your order even though you're okay with it not shipping anytime soon". Keeping tabs for you would be non-productive time, thus provide no return on investment. Even if you get pissed and never order from them again, they know you're one of the people who probably wouldn't have ordered AR stuff without impending legislation to begin with.
Now you have 2 choices:
A) Say "oooohhhhh...that makes more sense, I just want my shit now and need to vent"
B) Prove to us all you're a whiny {} that is incapable of understanding a damn thing.
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