How to reduce shipping costs from Midway

I appreciate this information as it never occurred to me. There have been times that I haven't ordered from them because, for example, I wanted a $17.99 link for my 1100, but didn't want to pay $6 to ship the one ounce item. Now I can add some clp for $2 more.
 
Great idea.

Two other thoughts are:

Grafs. The flat rate charge for anything is eight, and sometimes such as with heavy items, that's good.

My other suggestion is Amazon prime.

Yes, Amazon prime costs about $100. I buy every item that I can from them. Just bought dies and saved ten off of cabelas. Bought a spinner that was $5 less than the price at wal Mart and paid no shipping. Buying a press will likely be the same price or lower, with no shipping charges. Books, magazines, almost everything I buy there ships free.they even have a small selection of bullets.

Then you have free streaming television and music.
 
More often than not, Amazon Prime pricing wraps shipping into the sale price.

With some products, you can even compare Prime vs regular pricing side-by-side and see the products marked up for Prime subscribers.
All is not as it seems... ;)


Amazon isn't, exactly, the best option anyway. They pay almost zero taxes. Their money goes overseas. Jeff Bezos has funded multiple anti-gun campaigns. And, of course, Amazon is 'cracking down' on firearms-related products and enforcing the product bans again.
Last time I checked, Grafs, Midsouth, Midway, etc. aren't like that.
 
I haven't ordered from Midway for a few years now since I found other vendors that charged either less or nothing at all for shipping.
 
mauser, I compAre prices when I shop. For example, my last set of dies, saved me almost ten bucks last order I sent to cabelas cost almost almost twenty on almost a hundred bucks for a few pounds of stuff. You gotta shop carefully. Amazon mostly has identical prices, without shipping and taxes. It's sort of like when do you stop supporting a local store whose owner screws you sideways, mouths off at you while you are in the store,and only pays respect if you are a ten year customer who thinks like he does.

I just visited a new cigar lounge. Five to get through the door. Five to light your cigar. Five dollars for a beer. How often could a person spend twenty to sit in a chair and smoke a cigar? I've gone twice to try and support him.

I'm better off going to Frank's lounge, a nice, clean, quiet place to go. Sometimes during bad weather ill go there, have a few beers, and read my kindle. I'd rather have a nice chair, but that's the difference between ten and twenty, and a few visits pays for a half box of good cigars. .

Ill look into what you said about bozos.

Btw, do you smoke cigars? Let me send you a few to show my appreciation for the wisdom you give me. Seriously, no bs, I appreciate it when I get a chance to learn
 
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I have to say this is awesome. I will be ordering more from midway because of this. they have the most outrageous shipping I have ever seen.

hope its not a matter of time until they fix what we are doing.
 
You're right. Amazon does often have identical prices on reloading gear.
It's generally other items where the Prime markup is found.

And, to be honest, I am a Prime member and have been for over 10 years. And I ordered a (somewhat uncommon) shell holder through Amazon on Thursday or Friday. I had a choice between $12 through the only reloading supplier that had one in stock, or $7.19 through Amazon. I chose the latter.

I do try to limit purchases from Amazon. But, sometimes, the choice is backorder it through a reloading supplier and wait 8 months; or get it from Amazon in two days...

Btw, do you smoke cigars? Let me send you a few...
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Thank you.
But, no.

Cigars are a gateway drug for me. Every time I start smoking cigars, I end up smoking cigarettes again. Self control... :rolleyes:
 
Understand about the gateway drug. Twenty-five years of hanging out with cigarette smokers, before I smoked a cigar, and now I have no idea how I'd live without the relaxation.

It's the same way with shooting, when I'm finished, I go to a quiet corner of the range and clean everything.

Wal-Mart sells ammo and guns, but I'd never buy either there. I shop at any other business when I can.

I tend to go to grafs.

Btw, grafs has had lr rounds dsl recently. Federal target right now for about five.
 
well clp used to be part of free shipping along with a couple other things and now they are no longer free shipping.

looks like someone at midway read this post and put a stop to it;
 
Just an FYI...

Three orders from Midway, since this discussion came about, have had ridiculously slow shipping. (10-14 days)




I don't know if it's related to the "free shipping" items, or not. But with my very last order (still en route), I paid full price for shipping, just to see if it makes a difference.
 
Sucks that the CLP is no longer free shipping. They went from 8000 free items to 7500. Probably just natural fluctuation but who knows?
My orders took a while to ship too.
 
Was anything back order? It shows me when it will arrive in the shipping thing.

I wonder if free shipping comes from manufacturers instead of midways warehouse. Either way somethings fishy. I played with it 2 weeks ago and had $15 in shipping charges for a die and ammo box and added clp cleaning solution and brought it to 4.99 shipping. Clp was free shipping over $25 now it's not available. Due to being able to get the die $2 cheaper and box $10 cheaper with free over $45 shipping midway won't get my money. $15 to ship a 1lb die and 2lbs box is crazy.
 
I've always had good luck with the free shipping items from Midway and it has not affected shipping speed. Maybe I've just been lucky but Midway orders typically arrive in 2 - 3 days after I place them.

I have 3 pairs of the fleece gloves, two knife sharpeners, a Lyman black powder guide, a credit card sized multi-tool and a plastic 'tactical pointy-thingy' :)

The gloves are the best out of the items I have picked, they have utility in addition to reducing shipping cost.
 
Midway doesn't set the shipping charges. The carrier does. "Free shipping" means it's in the price of whatever you're buying.
 
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