I thought Id post a review of my experience buying brass from houston processed brass.

Ordered 1000 9mm unprocessed (cleaned)
1000 .223 mixed headstamps (cleaned,processed fully)

9mm brass was 50$
.223 brass was 140$
Shipping was around 10$

What I received:
9mm brass was not cleaned. it was very dull and if this WAS cleaned, I can't imagine what it looked like before the cleaning. Also, out of boredom I counted the brass. I did get 1051 pieces. Considering I found 11 steel casings, 46 .380 casings, and 33 casings damaged to the point of not worth resizing, I got under 1000 pieces. I tumbled them for an hour and they were cleaner than when I got them... seems odd.

The .223 brass. It has all been trimmed to length fairly well too. they were at 1.750 +- .003 and chamfered. Primers were swaged and there were no burrs or anything. However, the picture online shows beautiful shiny brass. I got what looks like range pickups BEFORE they were cleaned. They were all very tarnished, dirty, and unacceptable. The brass appeared VERY old as well. No ammount of tumbling would make these shine. I tried several hours with fresh media and polish.
Now for the count... 1112. Not bad! Well, take out the steel casings (which were also trimmed ??) and the beyond damaged casings with inward bent necks, HOLES and folds in the casings (all trimmed and swaged by the way ???????????? wheres the quality control) I ended up with 966 pieces.

For the buying experience. I paid my order by phone and was told I would have an invoice by the end of the day. Friday passed. Sodid Saturday and Sunday, then Monday passed. I called Tuesday asking whats up. Was told they are very busy and received my invoice that evening. My order arrived in a flat rate box. The ammo was packaged in plastic shopping bags,single bagged, and just tossed in the box.

I dont know if this is normal, but houston processed brass seems to need to work on quality control. I can understand the shipping delay, but be honest and say it might take a week. No problem!

Is this a common experience buying brass online? I went to the range and dumped their brass bin in my backpack (i had permission) sorted it at home, and got 1400 pieces of nice 9mm brass for free (minus my time,no biggie)
Seems online ordering can be a problem.

Try
www.gibrass.com

Jeff Bartlett runs a good operation.
Good clean (no dirt)brass, not polished like jewelery though.

muck

I'm happy with the processed 223 brass I have gotten from Top Brass, though I bought it from my local reloading shop, not online.
Website

That's kind of why I won't buy fired processed brass. There are some who think us so naieve as to believe that throwing dirty brass in a tumbler add greatly to its value. I would rather buy unprocessed brass and do it all myself so I know what I'm getting.

By the way, if you go to stainless steel media, it will get really dirty looking brass looking VERY close to new both inside and outside including the primer pockets.

Ive been looking in to that actually. I just got a tumbler and some walnut media which sucks. I guess a tumbler and stainless media would be nice to have, could always run both at once.. one for rifle, one for pistol. Do you get any issues with stainless steel pieces getting stuck in primer pockets for rifle rounds? I like to clean mine after depriming and resizing to get the pockets nice and clean too.