Metzer charges you upfront. They had thousands of birds available the day I ordered for, and thousands the 3 weeks after, as well as I think 1000+ the week before.
The problem comes from no one producing a bird 3/4 as good as the Golden 300 in terms of egg size or quantity.
If that were the problem they should have told me by Wednesday like they said they would though. It wouldn't have been a surprise.
I'm only annoyed because I'm getting pushed behind people who paid after me
They told me they had a bad hatch, and I was bumped back because the next 3 weeks were already sold... even though I paid a month before my ship date. But I got them to bump it up a week because I only have about 4 weeks of brooder time at that point
Well the office person told me I was bumped that far because the ducks for the next weeks were already sold.... I'm sore of me having paid over a month ago, while there were a ton of birds available. Basically it seems like I'm getting bumped 3 weeks because I'm a small buyer.
They had a...
Yeah, I reached out to them first and haven't gotten a response. I completely agree when dealing with animals problems can arise.
What bothers me is their email states specifically that if they haven't contacted me by Wednesday assume it's shipped. Their next hatching date is on Monday. And...
I got an email from metzer this morning basically just saying things didn't work out, we didn't ship your birds. We will send them in 3 weeks.
This is after an email last Friday explicitly saying I would hear from them by Wednesday if anything like this were going to happen.
I ordered and...