TGO David

I was actually looking into this the other day.  It'll have to wait until next month or so before I can really devote any time to seriously investigating our options, though.  I still need to get us moved over to our new web server.

  OR... If you wish hard enough, on a falling star, they might personally call you and tell you each time a new bullet gets its wings!   C'mon dude, really?  These companies aren't just sitting around with their thumbs up their butts.

Slight price increase today, folks.  We realized we were burning through envelopes and labels faster than we had originally anticipated and were in the process almost giving away decals for the cost of postage supplies.   Stickers were $2.00 each and are now $3.00 each to make this a do-able venture and ensure that we can continue to provide them.   Sorry about that.  I actually had a few members send me private messages asking me if I was sure I wanted to sell them so cheap.  Maybe I should have listened.  :lol:

Update...   Mac and I haven't been able to get together on this as both of our scheduled have had us going different directions the past week.  Hopefully we'll be able to put our heads together early this week and still schedule something for the upcoming weekend, or next.   Sorry for the delays.

Anyone who buys a firearm solely for the sake of re-selling it via private sale is begging for a visit from the BATFE.  You might get away with that once or twice in a period of time (determined at their discretion) but if you flip a bunch of them you're obviously selling without a FFL and will end up facing prison time.   Frankly I hope they start dropping that hammer on people sooner than later.  It would really staunch the flow of guns out of gunshops for the sake of resale and leave some inventory for people who really want to own certain items.

Chances are a traditional moving company can do it for you once you get it there, and you might be able to schedule them to come by and do this for you on their way to or from another job, saving some money in the process.

Cool... guess I misunderstood.  Drink more!

One of these days I'm going to do it.  :lol:

Wow... ok... well... I'll add more to the store.  :lol:

Why brag? You've already got 9,999 warning points courtesy of another moderator. Not that I really care in this particular case but you seem to enjoy the fact. Back on topic... Picked this up tonight.

1lessthan10 makes a good point.  So I've renamed this thread.   "The whiskey and spirits thread"   The only way to know what's in a thread is to rename it yourself.

  Very true.  Unfortunately, though, good businesses with good customer service are getting dinged for not answering the phone or rationing gear or other such things by the people who have unrealistic expectations.

  :lol:  Sorry!

Welcome to the relatively-free State of Tennessee, Nadia.

Just remember... some lawyers get into the business so that they can have a chance at politics and have a chance at eventually wielding power irresponsibly so that they can control you and me.  These folks look like they'd be bad at playing poker too.

Last week we blew through 100 TGO decals in about 3 hours. Those are in envelopes and going to the post office today! We've just added 100 more to the TGO store so feel free to hop on over and pick it clean again. We'll keep adding them in batches of 100 as needed, as this gives us a chance to stay caught up mailing them out. Thanks!

Last week we blew through 100 TGO decals in about 3 hours. Those are in envelopes and going to the post office today! We've just added 100 more to the TGO store so feel free to hop on over and pick it clean again. We'll keep adding them in batches of 100 as needed, as this gives us a chance to stay caught up mailing them out. Thanks!

We live in interesting times as gun owners.  As glock55 said times are not normal.  Normally you could just walk into a local gun shop and find ammo, rifles, magazines, etc. and browse at a leisurely pace and buy something if the price seemed reasonable.  Presently you are lucky if you can even get into a store without standing in line, lucky if you can find a rifle that isn't brown and bolt operated, lucky if you aren't limited to buying just one or two boxes of ammo because the store is trying to combat hoarders who are flipping the ammo for 500% profit at gun shows, and lucky if the price of anything is what it used to be just eight weeks ago.   Times have changed.  The small single-proprietor business consisting of one guy who makes holsters, answers the phone, updates his own web site and ships things out when they're ready to go is completely overloaded right now.  And as consumers, we have decades of "I want it right now" experience that tends to make us petulant assholes who think that one guy ought to be kissing our butts for the chance to serve us.   I've got news for you:  That one guy is probably working more hours per week than the customer is right now.  In fact, if the customer has free time to try to visit his store, or call him on the phone, or email him at all during daylight hours, I can guarantee you that he's working more hours than the customer is.   Collectively as gun owners and consumers, we need to get off our high horses and stop being such complete dicks about this.  We can either suck it up and wait our turn in line and support the folks who are in business providing the things we want to buy, or we can keep acting like a bunch of spoiled four year-olds and push them out of business from sheer burnout.   It's our choice.

  The problem I have with this claim is that you didn't back it up with any sort of link or facts.  Just an "I heard from a guy who knows a guy who read a web site while sitting on the toilet" statement.  Post some facts.

There's a beer thread on here somewhere.  Let's keep this one on topic.

Not my normal cup of tea, but it's damn tasty... http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/brands/bourbon-cream

  50 hrs a week worked.  20-30 hrs a week worked on top of that for TGO.  I simply do not have time to do mailed in payments.  It's 2013, so we're leveraging the power of e-commerce to make my life easier.   In a word, no.  Sorry.  Did it before and it was a huge pain in the ass.  Especially those weeks that we too a vacation or someone was sick or I worked 60hrs for my regular job and didn't make it to the post office only to have someone bitch me out here for not processing their bad check in a timely manner.   And, yeah... bad checks.  Those were always fun.   Hate to vent, but you asked.  :)

  They?   Do any of you realize that TGO is not a business?  It's not some company-run entity.  There's literally one person behind it.  Me.    Yes, we have volunteer moderators who help keep the forums moving smoothly, but every single piece of technology that runs under this site... every debt that it incurs... every bill that gets paid to keep the lights on for you... it's all me and I do it on top of my normal 50hr a week job and it takes away anywhere from 20-30 more hours of time from my family each week so that I can provide this site to the firearms community.   There is no THEY and the decision to accept PayPal was made out of necessity and desperation to streamline the process because there's only so many hours in the damn week.  Frankly this thread irritates me and comments like yours piss me off because it opens up a whole 'nother mess of things I have to explain.   The bottom line is you guys better hope PayPal doesn't stop letting us collect contributions to keep TGO running because when they do it's going to cause a whole lot of grief for not only this forum but dozens of others like it that depend on those contributions to keep our web servers lit.   But hey, let's sit around and bitch about someone getting their account shut down for violating PayPal's terms of service and cast disapproving glances towards TGO for being in bed with the enemy.  Because THAT makes my life better.  When you talk about PayPal potentially fucking a gun forum like TGO, you're talking about them fucking ME.   So if one of you guys owns a credit card processing company that will let me set up as a sole proprietor and not claim nearly 20% of everything the members contribute in fees and leave me with enough to pay for the bandwidth, server resources, software licenses and all of the other crap that we've become accustomed to having any time we get bored and want to aim our cell-phones and computers at this little corner of the Internet, I'll drop PayPal tomorrow and start running all of our Benefactor memberships through that instead of PayPal.  But until then I personally hope to God they leave us the hell alone.

http://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/old-forum-news-feedback-problems-comments/25054-paypal-anti-gun.html   Folks should read that.  I'm not going to waste my time repeating what I've said before and what he said quite clearly there.

  Your friend violated eBay's / Paypal's TOS so he shouldn't be surprised.  They clearly state what items you may not use their services for.   This policy isn't new.