The only problem I see is many-fold..............
1. If you ship USPS, and the package is large enough, you will suffer damage from the mailman/woman dropping the boxes off the truck and using other means of final delivery that are DETRIMENTAL from an accuracy standpoint, to your order.
2. There is a different price structure for 'bulk orders'; where Midway will get 'Distributor prices', everyone else pays a higher 'Dealer price' structure, which hampers the smaller shops price-wise, and actually is anti-growth for berger in the long run as it hampers the distribution/exposure of products to a wider audience/degree. Examples of more realistic value-pricing would be either dealer-direct, or, like Dillon, consumer-direct sales, AND, (Heavens), cut by at least 50% the threshold for distributor pricing. DROP GSA pricing across the board, (good luck), where the 11% "excise tax" is NOT paid by military/federal/police agencies, thereby continuing to force the end-consumer (sportsman) to additiomally partially finance a death-oriented economy. Bring those 'end-consumers' under the Pittman-Robertson umbrella, too.
3. "I talked to Walt about it, but its out of his hands." Obviously, because he has sold the company and the new owners like many others, are strapped to an archaic pricing sructure and the acceptance of a, '...that's the way its done...' reasoning.
4. Many states, like California, are illegally adopting "Use Taxes", where the 'taxpayers' blindly accept these contraventions to the Constitution; whereas they can, actually, legally formulate a 'contract' w/out-of-state establishments combined with lawful delivery in-state and arrange their transactions to avoid, but not evade, unlawful state taxes. States continue to pass these laws, unchallenged, where there IS precedent in the SCOTUS that has declared them as unconstitutional.
5. Some of these solutions ARE detrimental to the individual shops right now, but a dealer-direct program would still allow shops to advertise their products and communicate the FABs on a knowledge-experience basis, rather than a telemarketing establishment (Brownell/Midway), where all they do is take your order and cannot offer any advice as to the viability of the product, providing positive/negative possibilities and possible cures. Ignorance prevails. The next logical big step for these establishments is to move their telemarketing operations overseas like so many others have done, and, if we refuse to purchase, this will accelerate the demise of our sport by the one-worlders, so we're damned if we do/don't; Heads I win, tails you lose. Great positioning.....
Until people wake up to the "debt-oriented" currency, and the unrestricted spending of STATE-level criminal politicians first, then federal-level criminals, all we will see, unfortunately, is the continuation of anti-business currency practices that are so repugnant they sparked the Revolutionary War. BUT, we NEVER hear about this being studied by our children/grandchildren, unless they happen to be lucky enough to have some "rogue-element" teacher
, who surely WON'T be there teaching in following years....