evike.com gear shipment?

[oldairsofter1962]

im new to airsoft and whant to order from evike.com because theres large selection of gear,mags,upgradeds

the folowing list is what i whant to order:

-Matrix High Speed Tactical C.I.R.A.S. Vest OD(79.99)
-pack of 8 ''MAG'' brand magazines(50$)there not the best quality but seem to be cheap
-a full face mask OD(10$)
-200rnd speed loader(4.00$)
-two bottles of gun lube(8$)
-and finaly and OD shemagh(10$)

TOTAL: 161.99(i think on all orders over 100$ you get free shipping not sure)

let me know what you guys think of this order and tell me if i will have problems(i know it will most likely take time to get at my house)

[TechSeller]

As a fellow "old airsofter" let me strongly suggest a search here on Evike before you buy anything. The number of horror stories by this sham of a company is staggering and I speak from experience.

There are many excellent Canadian retailers that can hook you up and certainly better options outside of Canada if you choose to go that route.

Cheers!

[Shooting Addict]

Don't buy from evike, ever

[Eeyore]

Don't buy from Evike, first they charge outrageous shipping fees and use UPS only. Then if they even bother to actually ship you your products they do so at their leisure. Also read my bottom sig, that about sums it up.

[oldairsofter1962]

were else can i buy a matrix high speed''metal gear solid vest'' from?

[punk_newbie]

Ordering from Evike right now is not the best idea. They are going through definite rough spots so I will attempt to break it down.

1. As evike deals directly with a lot of the manufacture they are able to get the last few items from that manufacture. This means Evike gets say 5 items and lists it on their website, customers see this and order 25.

2. This leads to issue two. There is not a live inventory system in place currently. They are attempting to get it up and running, but it will most likely be 3-4 months before it is functioning and then another month before all the kinks are worked out.

3. After the disaster of a Holiday season Evike had they hired a lot of new staff. This has created the issue of dealing with new staff as they attempt to restructure.

4. There is definite varying priorities between some of the management. I personally know the 1 man who is the RMA department. Yes only 1 person handling all returns. He is constantly told to stop doing his job to do other jobs around the store. People complain about not getting calls or emails returned and this is one of the reasons why.

5. For those that did follow the website they know that Evike moved I believe almost 2 years ago. Within 6 months of moving to the new larger location(Personally being to both stores it was definitely a huge change in size), they had out grown the new location. They have been battling with this ever since.

6. Evike has been trying to implement some pretty cool features for a new website. This has taken a lot of time an effort from the programmers and has in turn put a lot of other issues on hold with the website. With the last holiday rush these issues are atleast starting to get addressed (live inventory, hopefully a check shipping option, etc.)

These issues and others have really made Evike horror stories a more common occurrence. There were definitely many threads about how Evike screwed a customer, but for everyone one complaint there were probably 100 happy customers. This is no longer true, definitely during the last holiday season where we had 5 or 6 users signing up every day on the forum to ask about issues with their order. This is happening once again with the shut down of the clone companies in China. Hopefully, Evike will address these issues promptly to make them a reputable online dealer again.

The flip side is I definitely believe in supporting your local retailers. Running an airsoft store in the US is hard enough, I can see it being 1000 times harder in Canada with the laws currently in place. These people put forth a lot of blood, sweat and tears into trying to provide this hobby to you and if they provide satisfactory service should be supported.

[Darklen]

oldairsofter1962, please make the effort to do some research before posting these questions. There's already entire threads devoted to how bad Evike is:

http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthr...ighlight=evike

http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthr...ighlight=evike

http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthr...ighlight=evike

http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthr...ighlight=evike

And that's just a small sampling for a quick search. Searching the site will answer probably 98% of the questions you have as it will for most new players.