Brownells purchases Sinclair

27 June 2007, 12:51

mho

I'm leery about this. Sinclair has been a great supplier of their loyal foreign customers. Brownells has refused to deal with non-US customers and have had no where the service Sinclair has offered.

I sure hope Brownell's will not ruin Sinclair's corporate identity.

- mike

27 June 2007, 19:33

DMB

quote:
Originally posted by mho:
I'm leery about this. Sinclair has been a great supplier of their loyal foreign customers. Brownells has refused to deal with non-US customers and have had no where the service Sinclair has offered.

I sure hope Brownell's will not ruin Sinclair's corporate identity.

- mike

For your sake, I hope so too, living across the pond.
I expect things like that were thrashed out before the merger. You might want to e-mail Sinclair and check it out. As long as Bill Gravatt in in the loop, I look for nothing of consequnce to change.

Don

27 June 2007, 20:13

mho

In all fairness, I should post the reply I got from Brownells:

quote:
Dear Michael -

I wanted to thank-you for your comments on the acquisition of Sinclair. Your concerns about serving international customers is a bit confusing because Brownells has a very large business shipping internationally. Maybe your comments about Brownells international business being shut down was due to our miss-handling of your orders. If that is the case, we are sorry for this and would look forward to earn this business back.

One of the things with Sinclair is there international business success. We don't want to change how Sinclair does their job, we want to add value where it is needed. So, thank-you for pointing out one of Sinclair's successful operations.

This is good feedback. thank-you very much.

Pete Brownell

If that is the case, I'll stay a happy customer with both.

- mike

27 June 2007, 20:38

SShooterZ

If Sinclair is profitable and growing, it would make no business sense for Brownells to change anything.

Hopefully this is just a merger that makes both of them stronger.

28 June 2007, 02:15

Arminius

Bought from both in the past.

I donÂ´t like it!

Sinclair was perhaps a trifle bit quicker, and competition is good for the Customer ...

I hope I get my Goods, also in the future! ( in Europe )

H

28 June 2007, 13:30

Husqvarna M98

The Brownells quote or message is a lot of BS, the refuse to ship even as small items as bedding bolts or other small stuff as it being arms-related and not allowed to send to for instance Sweden.

IN short we are seriously concerned over here as there is a large risk that we will not be able to get god reloading dies, BR bullets and other good things in life.

IÂ´twas a sad day yesterday.

/Chris

quote:
Originally posted by mho:
In all fairness, I should post the reply I got from Brownells:

quote:
Dear Michael -

I wanted to thank-you for your comments on the acquisition of Sinclair. Your concerns about serving international customers is a bit confusing because Brownells has a very large business shipping internationally. Maybe your comments about Brownells international business being shut down was due to our miss-handling of your orders. If that is the case, we are sorry for this and would look forward to earn this business back.

One of the things with Sinclair is there international business success. We don't want to change how Sinclair does their job, we want to add value where it is needed. So, thank-you for pointing out one of Sinclair's successful operations.

This is good feedback. thank-you very much.

Pete Brownell

If that is the case, I'll stay a happy customer with both.

- mike

02 July 2007, 23:32

Idaho Sharpshooter

always had good service and pricing from both.
If they are smart they just leave Bill Gravett alone to make them money.

Rich
DRSS

04 July 2007, 06:16

adrook

Is Fred Sinclair still involved with Sinclair International? I went to high school with his kids.

Who is Bill Gravett?

Andy

04 July 2007, 07:36

Winchester 69

Gravatt

04 July 2007, 09:45

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by adrook:
Is Fred Sinclair still involved with Sinclair International? I went to high school with his kids.

Who is Bill Gravett?

Andy

Bill is the head man at Sinclair. He is married to Fred Sinclairs daughter.

I have been dealing with Bill, and others at Sinclairs, as well as Brownells, for many years.

And I have had nothing but exceptional service from both companies.

In fact, I would go as far as to say that EVERY individual I have ever dealt with in the shooting sport business in the US, has gone out of their way to be as helpful as they can.