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I made a thread a while ago (In the wrong section I admit because I didn't notice the ammo/reloading board) about 300 rounds of Fiocchi .223 I bought from Midway.
Every single round is seated off-center. I detected it by rolling the cartridges across a counter (you can see the tip move in a circle). So I called Midway.
They said they don't take returns on ammo. I said it was defective. They they said sure ship it back. Then I call up UPS and ask how I'd go about shipping ammo back to the distributor. They said they can't ship it citing something about it being illegal to return ammo to a distributor. I call back to Midway, they say that if I can't ship it back they won't refund me and they passed the buck to Fiocchi. Fiocchi's site has been under construction for months so it wasn't very helpful. The only phone number got me to an machine that asked me to leave a message. I did. It's been almost a month and there's still not a peep from Fiocchi. Then I called my bank to file a dispute, they said that because Midway was technically willing to refund me (even under impossible circumstances) there was nothing they could do.
I think I might want to try leaving Fiocchi another message in case the first got erased by accident or something. But as it's looking now I'm 110$ in the hole and this whole runaround has gotten me absolutely nowhere.
So if you're thinking of buying Fiocchi Shooting Dynamics 55grn .223 either avoid it like the plague or if you're buying in person inspect it first.
Does anyone know any phone numbers of Fiocchi representatives?
What do I do with 300 rounds of ammo that I can't shoot or get my money back for?
Is there some way to get them pulled and re-seated?
Does anyone want to buy it and scrap it for it's components?
Update: After many e-mails back and forth and many problems with the shipping arrangements the matter has finally been resolved! My ammo was not only replaced, but upgraded from the 6 boxes of regular 55grn. .223 that I sent back to 7 boxes of 50grn. V-Max! Fiocchi more than made good on their word to stand behind their product, their representative went out of his way to resolve the matter and upgraded my ammo to a better loading to boot. I'm very satisfied!
Every single round is seated off-center. I detected it by rolling the cartridges across a counter (you can see the tip move in a circle). So I called Midway.
They said they don't take returns on ammo. I said it was defective. They they said sure ship it back. Then I call up UPS and ask how I'd go about shipping ammo back to the distributor. They said they can't ship it citing something about it being illegal to return ammo to a distributor. I call back to Midway, they say that if I can't ship it back they won't refund me and they passed the buck to Fiocchi. Fiocchi's site has been under construction for months so it wasn't very helpful. The only phone number got me to an machine that asked me to leave a message. I did. It's been almost a month and there's still not a peep from Fiocchi. Then I called my bank to file a dispute, they said that because Midway was technically willing to refund me (even under impossible circumstances) there was nothing they could do.
I think I might want to try leaving Fiocchi another message in case the first got erased by accident or something. But as it's looking now I'm 110$ in the hole and this whole runaround has gotten me absolutely nowhere.
So if you're thinking of buying Fiocchi Shooting Dynamics 55grn .223 either avoid it like the plague or if you're buying in person inspect it first.
Does anyone know any phone numbers of Fiocchi representatives?
What do I do with 300 rounds of ammo that I can't shoot or get my money back for?
Is there some way to get them pulled and re-seated?
Does anyone want to buy it and scrap it for it's components?
Update: After many e-mails back and forth and many problems with the shipping arrangements the matter has finally been resolved! My ammo was not only replaced, but upgraded from the 6 boxes of regular 55grn. .223 that I sent back to 7 boxes of 50grn. V-Max! Fiocchi more than made good on their word to stand behind their product, their representative went out of his way to resolve the matter and upgraded my ammo to a better loading to boot. I'm very satisfied!
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