WOW. Very well said. I just went through something very similar with an air gun manufacturer and they only talked me into buying a new regulator and bottle and said this would fix the low fps issue i was having.
When I got the gun back it was shooting almost a 100 fps even slower still had a hard time feeding pellets into the chamber, bolt handle still about to fall off and any of the repairs that I had sent the gun in for were deemed as custom work and were not under warranty. It took me about ten minutes to type feedback to them and request an explanation of "custom work" and the fact that the regulator only had a 800 PSI output when it was supposed to be in the 1150 range, why didn't they just put a new barrel and bolt on the gun if fixing the problem was going to be custom work. SMH
I fixed the problem in fact, all of them in under an hour and now have the gun I paid for in the first place. In a way I should thank them because this gun that needed warranty work was my very first PCP. It was so terrible to use that I purchased 6 other guns from different makers because I thought the warranty had expired...It did not...the return policy for AGD was 60 days not the manufacturer's warranty. I was so busy enjoying the other guns that I had just didn't care and wanted to get rid of it when Southern Gunner and I were talking about it and he suggested to send it back .
The warranty means nothing to me any more on these guns and I don't expect the warranty service centers to give a damn about my guns. They will find a way ,from my experience to pry more cash from your pockets. This gun now shoots JSB in one ragged hole at 50 yards and pushes 18+ grain pellets out at 970 and can be easily tuned to over 40+ fpe, loads easy,bolts good again, and the barrel is solid and doesn't change my POI every time i hit a twig with it.
Yes sir...We are a bit of a loyal bunch I guess and my money will never go to that maker ever again. If FX is having similar issues...It will come back and bite them in the end.You must be able to support your product in a timely fashion, especially when your shelling out 2 grand for a pellet gun. They may win a lot of events with their guns, but how many people are going to wait 4 months with cash out of pocket for 120 days waiting and waiting. I won't. When I send that cash I had better have a weapon coming in the other direction. If I need a part and have to wait for it that long as well....NOPE...NOPE...AND THE WHOLE TOWN OF NOPEVILLE NOPE. i WILL BUY A DIFFERENT BRAND REAL QUICK. Thankfully there is a lot of good/great competition out there. We are in a great time to be into PCPs at the moment and it's only going to get better and more and more affordable for everyone.