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I am disappointed that Beretta does so little, and relies on the likes of Wilson and Langdon to provide the Beretta pistols we really want. Thank goodness for Langdon and Wilson.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
LTT has the finest CS in the industry.....if it can be done the Langdon group will do it without doubt.
I like LTT and have multiple pistols and parts from them. So nothing I'm about to say is to be construed as being against LTT.
However. I've personally put a brand new car up on a lift to pull a part off of it to get a faithful customer's car going. With the blessing of the sales department. Not saying it's something to be expected....only that well, it really does happen occasionally. And more than occasionally in other businesses such as ag and construction equipment. Those sorts of things are what makes a customer stick with a brand and a particular dealership.
Again, I don't feel like LTT is at fault. You can't make every customer happy with any one business model. It's 1 a.m. and I just got in from night work. My customer's accounting dept will probably complain that my night rate is 1.5 times my day rate. But tomorrow (today?) when they fire up their equipment, it will work and they will have lost zero hours waiting for a 6-hour repair. And I'll have to sleep in and lose profit for tomorrow (today's?) work that I'll now have to get a late start on.
Business models change. The super giant Beretta once would not give the consumer the time of day. LTT and Wilson are two little guys, and the fact that Beretta acknowledges them is a sign of progress in our time. And then there is the NP3 outfit.
Has anyone suggested that perhaps Beretta might have stipulated that LTT not sell these parts individually? I didn't say it made sense.
Four months probably seems like a long time if you never bought anything from Milt Sparks or LaRue or Krieger or McMillan or PTG or lots of others that are in demand. In February I got a handguard from LaRue I ordered Oct 1st. I just got notice of a simple Aero buffer tube that has been on backorder with Brownells since September is now in process, I still don't have it.