Post #25.
You understand its Christmas shipping season right?
Well, at least they didn’t take 2 weeks to ship out your $4,000 thermal scope (the hub it left was in Atlanta, which is only about 2.5 hours from my house), then the geniuses sent it through a 3rd party shipper to get it to USPS. And the 3rd party sent it on a scenic joyride across the South & Central U.S…With NO estimated delivery date. While I’m still waiting on it to arrive from their estimated Dec 8-10th time frame, it left Liberty, MO early yesterday morning, and hasn’t been updated since.
We've possibly made a couple of USPS thugs a nicer Christmas.Well, at least they didn’t take 2 weeks to ship out your $4,000 thermal scope (the hub it left was in Atlanta, which is only about 2.5 hours from my house), then the geniuses sent it through a 3rd party shipper to get it to USPS. And the 3rd party sent it on a scenic joyride across the South & Central U.S…With NO estimated delivery date. While I’m still waiting on it to arrive from their estimated Dec 8-10th time frame, it left Liberty, MO early yesterday morning, and hasn’t been updated since.
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I’m fixing to call Amazon and not be real nice…Because 3rd party shipping is always a really stupid idea, especially with expensive items, because they’re extremely unreliable and hire any idiot off the street. They probably wanted to save $5 on shipping cost.
, which might just cost them $4,000 when this conversation is over with, if I get them to overnight me one, and let them deal with trying to track down the first one and figure it out how to get it back to their facility. Then it won’t be my problem. As long as I get what I paid for, their stupidity can cost them all they want it to. Man ... one time an FFL used USPS Retail Ground to ship a SCAR 20 ... it took nearly 2 months to get here ... nothing was damaged/reboxed/etc ... but a hub on the east coast was so backed up ... they couldn't process things fast enough (during peak COVID) ...
Criminal enterprise ... nay ... sold off to a commercial business ... YES!
OP has fucked me on almost every order I've ever placed with them. There are a few exceptions, but the majority have been horrible experiences.
Anybody ever told you to shut your pie hole? OR, mind your own business? Or, Fuck off? I'm betting they have.
Not yet. That's the point.
See, that’s the main issue with a big mouth. To stupid to deal with the vendor directly like a normal person would do. Then come to SH crying like a little bitch how badly they did you…. and then open your big mouth again when you don’t hear what you would like to on an open forum.
I was hoping you could cure your big mouth problem, but here you are again. I'm convinced you are a pre-stroke candidate and are off your meds. You're only about a week behind the conversation.
Just give the poor guy a break, read another one of his whining posts about a Garmin xero Deal gone south. Would he be smart enough by now to support our vendors here on the hide? Of course not, whining little elf…..
That's not anger, it's me trying to keep up with the likes of other forum gentlemen.
Isn't Arken a sponsor here?
No sir, our best supporter that carries Arken is Doug @gr8fuldoug with cameraland.
Who graciously and under no obligation offered to help the OP by shipping an Arken out of his own stock as resolution. I don't recall the OP ever acknowledging or expressing any gratitude in this thread over that offer, whether he took him up on that or not.
He uses the word gentlemen, excluding himself obviously.
Funny how YOU weren't included in our private conversations.
Obviously!!He uses the word gentlemen, excluding himself obviously.
I never said anything about your private conversations and specifically stated your lack of acknowledgement in this thread. My advice is that you log out or delete your account. I doubt that you will find much joy here going forward, as your reputation has pretty much been established based on your posts in this thread and elsewhere.
I wasn't going to respond to your insulting verbiage, but I'll leave it with this: Go Fuck Yourself.
There are reason why I stopped recommending Arken... These above were just a few. The rest, was they burned me on 2 new releases on new first-run scopes. Both my first EP5 and EPL4 were lemons right out of the box. Arken replaced them without question, or hassle, but it was still like damn man, 0 for 2... That's why I decided to cancel my Zulus order, plus, they failed to mention that the European videos all have LRF, but the LRF model is not available here in the US yet. I'm happy with my AGM Neith purchase.
It is how I felt when I had back to back to back $2000+ Steiner M-series optics with issues ... STRAIGHT from Steiner ... they did replace them but I was like ... seriously ... if I, an untrained LARPer can find these issues out of the box ... how do the "professionals" not see it ... I went back to Vortex and Bushnell Elite Tacticals for my needs ...
I ordered a Zulus HD 5-20 Day/Night Digital Scope from Arken Optics on 11/27/2023. To date I've never received it. There is a phone number on Arken's website and an email address. So I called the number 1-833-658-0070, after waiting two weeks with no shipping information and the order showing as "Paid Awaiting Processing" on my Account page on their website, to get some answers and ETA on when the order was to ship.
Now that's real service!!
Well no shit you haven't received it... You do realize that they stated (right on their website) that the Zulus was a 6-8 week lead time, right? That means it could take 6-8 weeks MINIMUM before it ever even ships out from them on its way to you. How dumb are you people?
Also, this sounds like a completely fake story by a paid troll or something. If this isn't a smear campaign, then someone is online stalking & harassing the owner of the company and Arken's CS, over their own stupidity. 
Yes, Doug is a great guy. But he can’t fix stupid….
I would imagine you're an expert in that condition.
