Century/SOG

[legion489]

Alot has been written on here about the various sellers found inthe SGN, especially Century and SOG. Here is my take.

Century has good prices, but like a CAI rep said "it takes a century to ship". They employ minimum wage workers and sorters who have no (or little) idea what they are looking at/for, so don't be suprised to get the wrong item or less than the entire item if it has more than one piece to it (like a Garand bayonet frog. Forget getting all of, or the correct, parts order, it aint gonna happen). I don't think I have ever got all the stuff I've ordered from them if I ordered two or more items. The return policy is good and they are easy to work with (normally) when you send something back. Get one rep you deal with and stick with them, it will be helpful in the long run, I use Albert (hit 9 then 2), tell him Doug at D&D in Iowa sent you. It may not help, but shouldn't hurt.

SOG is generally pretty good. I placed an order Tuesday of this week, the order came today (Thursday) . The FAL mags (at $5) looked near new, just slight handling marks! If they offer more than one grade (grade 1, grade 2, grade 3), you will LIKELY get the lesser grade, at least I always seem to, every time. I ordered (and paid good money for) a grade 1 Rom. .22 rifle w/sling swivels, I got grade 2 w/OUT swivels. I called and they said send it back (they will refund S&H) but I said just send me swivels. I got ONE swivel, called to bitch, told that was tough, they were out of grade 1 rifles and didn't have any more swivels. This seems to be more common lately (last year, year and a half), but they are normally good. When they are good they are great, when they are bad it is no end of trouble to get it straightened out! Better to just get over it than die of a heart attack screaming at some low level flunky who doesn't care and won't help.

Tapco is well loved here, and I like they too, but they can have problems also. I called late night to place an order and talked to a young man who was very helpful and nice! Did I know about the FAL mag special? No? Of course we will add it to your order! How about..., it was great, my very own FAL helper! Called late night to place another order and talked to a young lady. YEAH, WHAT DO YOU WANT?! THAT IT?! I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY SPECIALS OR FFL DEALER PRICING! I'M BUSY!...CLICK!! She was obviously having a bad day. Both orders in the last four or five weeks or so. On the plus side, both came PDQ, so no problem there.

This is my .02 worth.