For the past year or so, their website contains the message "coming soon". I feel like a dope convincing people to go there for the wonderful pistol I got 2 years ago.
What's with the Crosman Custom Shop?
- Thread starter JoeH
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I believe that Crosman, like most companies around the world, thought that they had had never ending supply of parts for whenever they needed them. Just a few keyboard strokes and like magic the parts would appear, on their loading docks, a couple of weeks later. Well, as we can plainly see, that was a very foolish approach to allow their supplies to run so thin. They should have had a large stock on hand for times such as these. Even better they should be making most of the parts themselves as it is not that difficult with all of the cool machinery we have, at our fingertips, these days. But most companies in the world we now live in, were running lean on extra stock cuz they could make more money that way. How did that werq out for them? Well not so good, I would say, and it is no longer business as usual for anyone and many businesses have already failed. This is going to be a long term if not permanent problem for most.
So not even enough parts to run the Custom shop. Poor planning it is. But then again I am sure that having their business in New York doesn't help any either.
So not even enough parts to run the Custom shop. Poor planning it is. But then again I am sure that having their business in New York doesn't help any either.
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I liked the Crosman custom shop. I only had one pistol made there. A 2300. But if you had to build one yourself with all the options available that they had, it would’ve cost you more money than they could do it.Hopefully they get it running again soon. But I would think much later than sooner.
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Please remember that there is a HUGE supply chain issue. I also work for a company in NY. We keep limited supplies and materials because we have to pay TAX on them. We have to warehouse them, we have to inventory them. Raw material has also become a huge issue. So many raw material suppliers (we use TONS of aluminium and acrylic) just don't have product (again supply chain issues). We have trucking issues as well. We often can not even get a trucking quote on LTL shipments, because there are not enough drivers. We are forced to use the big 3 (UPS, FedEx, DHL) and pay their outrageous prices. Then there is the worker shortage. I work for a government contractor so we are forced to be vaccinated (for good or bad) We have people walking out all the time, and few replacements (that take 6 to 12 months to get trained) The current political attitude in NY is not business favorable, especially for anything perceived as related to the gun industry. It is going to be months (maybe years?) before we return to anything close to normal. I hope Crosman (and other companies) have the Capitol, and resources to survive.
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