Friday, January 21, 2011

What perfect timing...

According to my email in-box, Brownells has thoroughly revamped their product search engine and shopping interface, and just in time, too. At this past weekend's gun show, I had been about to buy a couple of trinkets and thought "You know, I can get these cheaper from Brownells..."

Their old product search engine seemed to have been steadily improved over time, but still had a decision tree that turned searching for and buying a pack of grip screws into a clickfest that sounded like a Minesweeper tournament. This is annoying when it occurs in the same universe that contains Amazon's "1-Click" feature.

I'm off for some rail covers for the M&P15-22 and a few other odds and sods.

5 comments:

  1. Tam, are you going to pick this up?

    http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/n=y/pid=40362/Product/AR_15_M16_ENGRAVED_EJECTION_PORT_COVER

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  2. Ain't it the truth? I'd bought things elsewhere (and most likely for more money) a number of times because of their arcane search process. Kudo's to the Brownell's gnomes for getting to work and bringing their website firmly into the 1990s.

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  3. no, no, no...

    "One-click" is bad. Very bad. Stomping on baby chickens bad.

    You have NO idea how many packages have shown up at my door because of One-click, leading to "Why'd you buy THAT????

    And it's even worse with the the Kindle...

    And ow gun stuff???

    MC

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  4. Just what I need; an even easier way to spend money.
    Now where did I leave that Wish List?
    Sight Adjustment Tool
    Base Pin Puller
    Sight Paint ...
    I can hear my checkbook squealing.


    W/V= "terstora" An Italian sports car with only 4 cylinders.

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  5. Did you ever get around to shooting that M&P 15-22?

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