Midway Keeps Teasing me....

[Branden967]

Just like everyone else, Ive been waiting patiently for primers to arrive at a non screw me price when suddenly I get a product arrival notification from Midway. Your primers have arrived (Tula SP 1000) count. Sweet I think, I immediately log in and wha wha wha they are already gone...Ok, crap Im too slow on the trigger....While Im searching again on midways site looking at the 5000 count box (it says they are out). I get another notification saying that the 5000 count are in. What the hell???

They are teasing me...Whats up with that????

Has this happened to anyone else?

[alfred1222]

They send emails in bunches, as fast as the system can process the lists. By the time that email is sent to you, the guys who got the email before you bought everything

[rromeo]

That's happened to me too.

[ke6guj]

They send emails in bunches, as fast as the system can process the lists. By the time that email is sent to you, the guys who got the email before you bought everything

this.

the email queue for notifications on a popular item could be an hour long, or more. the first couple people to get the email buy what they need and let their friends know. inventory is all sold before the mail server processes the entire batch.

Or, you see the email, log in, see its in stock and put it in your cart and go to check out. while checking out, it goes OOS. you think, wow, it sold out in 3 minutes where it really might have taken 30 minutes to sell out, but you didn't get sent the email until it had been in stock for 25 minutes.

[dogslayer1313]

I have received my email notifications up to three hours after I see the item posted as in stock in the calguns forums. I give up on getting anything from Midway from the notifications. The first couple times I got all excited and as soon as I open the link its out of stock.

[donnrcp]

I read my email from them just less than 4 hours after it was sent, no primers left.

[mike.h]

yep, happened to me too, but I'll still buy from 'em. Prices have remained good, big donation to NRA, ...

[Sennasixty8]

Try Natchez. They had some at 6pm...Tula only

[Multra]

get an email starting with a number if you want to get the emails first.

[mroels]

I've also had the opposite happen. Received email, checked site immediately and it's OOS. Then like an hour later when I turn my laptop or ipad back on and the page refreshed all of a sudden it's in stock.

[Capybara]

Same thing happened to me. Elation to depression in less than :10

[ferretwithacheeseknife]

Happened to me last week. I was looking for a Forster micrometer seating die in .308. Midway sent me an email telling me it was in stock. An hour later I read the email clicked on the link. "out of stock". Ordered it from Brownells.

[happy trigger]

Primers at Midway are gone as soon as they get them. I have gotten several Sierra bullets and an AR stock through there notification email worked for me.

[Branden967]

The frustrating thing was this whole event transpired on monday morning. Which I was checking availability the Friday, Saturday and Sunday before. So the only thing I can think of is their "email notification" servers a way slower or on a different system as their web page...which kind of sucks, when you have a hot item.

The hunt continues. Overall I like the company and would still buy from them, but what the hell. Ill just piss and moan like everyone else.

[ScottC]

Tools for monitoring a webpage for available inventory

-Proceed at your own risk regarding all of the solutions below because software is a mighty good thing but can also BITE BAD.

-I use http://www.gunbot.net/reloading-supplies

-But there are many ways to monitor a webpage instantly or near real-time and then be notified of change. The browser, desktop, and web-based examples below should serve you or help you get tools that will If you have Apple iOS or android hardware:

-word bank to use for searching for solutions-

detecting a changed state on a web page using safari

Website update notification

Website monitoring

iphone notification of changed state using growl

-websites for monitoring webpages-

http://www.changedetection.com/

http://www.gunbot.net

-plug-ins for your browser-
Update Scanner (Firefox) and Page Monitor (Chrome)

-Windows desktop solutions-
Windows only 30 day free trial available for download

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/tracker/

-Apple OS desktop solutions-

Changes Meter

SunFlower

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26838/sunflower