Backorder is killing me!!!

Is it bad that I knew the company before I clicked?
It’s like trying to order ammunition. A lesson in patience is what my fiance’ tells me;)

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

You know, that company has to be missing a ton of sales due to their retarded inventory policy. If I want something, I don’t want it 6 or 8 months from now. I’ll go for something else, or buy used. In 6 months I could find a PM or Uni for less money on CL.

-- Michael :-{| Diapers and politicians both need to be changed often; and for the same reason.

I would never support a company that does this. There is competitipn out there. I have a grizzly table saw and a grizzly planer but I got them about a week after placing the order.

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I had to wait 6 months for grizzlys 10” service sander ,but I am very glad I did ,I have 15 other major grizzly tools ,all the rest I got within 7 to 10 days after ordering, they told me right up front that it would be 5 months when I ordered it.If you whant it bad wait. Good luck.But waiting is a bitch.
Chuck

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You would think a saw could be redesigned, built, and then shipped on the slow boat from china and arrive sooner. You are a patient man, I commend you. That length has to be bad for sales. But like Al, I did not have to look to see who we were talking about. Good luck.

Chuck, you’re OK with waiting 6 months? Well, I guess you have better patience than me. That’s three months shy of a pregnancy, brother! That must be some kind of serious late second trimester saw, lol.

To Crank, you think so?
http://huntington.craigslist.org/tls/2569896750.html

That’s a humpback 2hp Uni with inserts, bladeguard, and miter.
Available NOW, lol.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

I ordered 2 parts for my 48” combo sander and it took 4 months to finally receive them. It’s a mixed emotion when it comes to ordering parts or tools from them. Do I go without for months or order from competitor and pay more and receive it in a week.

-- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Well I just got an email back from grizzly. Looks like they got thier shipment in sooner than they expected and my order is being shipped today. What a coincidence! I should have sent a letter sooner.

At least you have the option of being able to order it – no nice table saws are available in New Zealand unless you import it yourself at great cost. An 8 month lag in inventory, however, might soon put a company out of business. Not many would be patient enough to wait that long. Price is a motivator but after 8 months I’d begin to wonder if the company is really still in business, not that Grizzly is likely going anywhere but I’ll bet it is losing customers with that kind of customer response time.

-- If you can't joint it, bead it!

Someone pointed out that anytime you order from Grizzly, it’s a big gamble; you gamble that you won’t have to slot trunnions (lol), the miter slots won’t square (lol), the motor won’t run (lol), or you have to wait 6 months (big lol). That being said, the gamble is not without significant reward: you get a gigantic discount and if you get a good machine, it’s a good machine. I’ve seen enough here that my opinion is made.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

hmmm, my unisaw was in stock and came home with me when I bought it from the local Marsh Power tools. I guess that’s because it took a truck from Tennessee to Michigan, rather than a slow boat from China…

^Oh Snap!

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

I had a similar problem with Powermatic. They took 5 months to deliver a sale item.

They have lost me as a customer.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

^I’d dump Martin over something like this.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

It seems to me that Grizzly among other tool vendors is having serious supply line issues. If you cruise the forums and search for Grizzly you will find rants about back orders, and not honoring advertised sale pricing, but I must admit that although there are a few posts about quality issues, they are few and far between. When you consider the sheer number of machines Grizzly has out there, compared to companies like Laguna, which I see quality rants about them fairly frequently, I must say that generally it seems that most people get good quality from Grizzly, and the manufacturing flaws that slip through are the exception rather than the rule…

I think a LOT of the problems that customers are running into with Grizzly is because of their short supply line model. They try not to keep tons of inventory on hand, rather make the sale and basically ship it through from the MFG to the customer. In effect they are acting as nothing more than a routing agent from the MFG to the customer… This keeps the prices low, and when there are no hangups in the supply chain this model works great. However when fuel prices fluctuate, or other factors that influence pricing or availability from the manufacturer, they have no back inventory to fall back on to fulfill their commitments. And it’s not just Grizzly doing this. To one extent or another all of the big tool companies do this. It just seems Grizzly really mismanaged their customer relations over these issues by passing the problems on down to the customer instead of absorbing the hit to buy customer good will… That is a conscious choice that Grizzly has made at the executive level, and while not the smartest choice, it is understandable… Business after all, exists to make money not lose it.

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