Need Some Feedback on Friends New Business - Bulletboyammo.com

[BuffCyclist]

Hey guys and gals

I may or may not have talked about this way back when, but a friend of mine just opened his company: BulletBoyAmmo.com.

Basically, you ship your brass to him, he reloads it, and ships it back to you no more than 2 days from receiving your brass. When he ships it back to you, he is required to ship it in an ammo can, which will be yours to keep (which you can reuse with future orders or collect them). To offset the $10 cost of the ammo can (which my understanding is added to your order), he offers free UPS Ground shipping back to you.

I'm not sure if Frank is on here or not, but he asked for some feedback so I wanted to get the name out there and see if there are any major flaws you all see with the website, business practices, prices or other.

One thing I am going to bring up is, since a lot of people live around the Denver area, are they able to drive by and drop off their brass in person, and then later pick it up so they can avoid the shipping costs (for both parties). They might still be required to buy the ammo can, but for those people who live very close to Thornton, it could save a ton of time and money.

All feedback is welcome, good or bad. He has a lawyer working through the details of everything, so it's not just something that he is randomly throwing together. It's my understanding as well that getting his business up and running has been in the works for over a year. He is also a long-time shooter (see the tab "Bullet Boy" on the main page for his bio) and very skilled at what he does.

So, without further ado, lets get some feedback!

[ChunkyMonkey]

Whats the minimum?

[BuffCyclist]

Good question, I'll add it to the list of questions to ask him. Seems like it's up to the buyer, as they have to pay for shipping (at the moment) to ship the brass, so more brass sent means the cost of shipping is less per round.

[opie011]

I would rather drop it off in person since I'm close. Please find out if that's a possibillity.

[ChunkyMonkey]

He'll spend tons of shipping cost if he takes an order of 100 etc. Unless he does custom loads etc in which the pricing would be expected higher anyway.

[Mtn.man]

OK so if 100 people send 1000 rounds ea, how can he turn em around in 2 days per each?

[BuffCyclist]

He'll spend tons of shipping cost if he takes an order of 100 etc. Unless he does custom loads etc in which the pricing would be expected higher anyway.

Good point, then again I'm sure he has a business UPS shipping account which may be cheaper (not sure).

OK so if 100 people send 1000 rounds ea, how can he turn em around in 2 days per each?

Very good point, I'm emailing him a lot of questions already, which will hopefully allow a much better company and for it to last!

I'm planning on emailing him on Friday with a lot of suggestions, but if anyone would like to know sooner, feel free to email him yourself and post up when/if he replies: Frank@BulletBoyAmmo.com

[BulletBoyAmmo]

Hi everyone. I figured I'd join up!

Thank you all for the feedback, you make some very good points.

I've started to work on a way to require a minimum amount of brass requirement, shipping will add up. The hard part about this is that I don't want to discourage anyone from using my services because they are a few pieces of brass away from the requirement. Minimum requirements are easy when you can just click to order more; my business however requires that the customer have the brass to reload and finding more may be an issue or just take some time?

I like the drop off and pickup idea, that would work well, I'll add that as an option to the website. The ammo will have to be dropped off and picked up at the Thornton UPS store though and not my house for safety reasons my lawyer has stressed with me.

As far as the turn around, what seems like a reasonable timeframe where customers won't think "Oh, that will take too long" versus I get swamped and run out of time? I can say something like 5 business days and obviously load their ammo in 1 day if possible. In other words, the turnaround is not an exact time frame its just a maximum.

I honestly have no idea how busy I will be. I feel like it will start off slow as people discover that I can load their ammo for much less than buying new anywhere and that it will be better grade as well. I know the ammunition market is incredibly backed up right now, so maybe business will be nuts! Either way, all businesses change and edit their policies as they go to mend problems and adjust to their demands, so I'm not too worried about making things flawless before I open.

Thank you all for the feedback! I hope this business will be able to benefit all of you. I know I've been through 100,000 's of rounds in my life and I would have a lot more cash in the bank rights now if I had a business like this to buy through 10 years ago.

[Irving]

This sounds like a great business venture. I'm also curious about the minimum for brass. I've been collecting brass for a while, but don't reload myself. Glad I started saving my brass. How do you expect to load stuff for people who aren't familiar with reloading? I only ask because if you asked me how I'd like my stuff loaded, I couldn't tell you one way or the other because I've only shot factory stuff.

[68Charger]

looks good from the customer perspective, maybe post a "current lead time" on the website- so if you get a large order in, you can set expectations..

I'll also ask the obvious, since I don't see it answered- you have a type 06 FFL already?