Mirage Stock Rig Lead Time

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Has anyone else had issues recently with Mirage's listed lead time for receiving a stock rig? Approaching the 14 week mark since they took payment. I've reached out a couple of times to Mirage and haven't received any valid reasons why the rig is delayed, other than it's still on the production line. If you call them today, they will tell you 2, 3 weeks max for a stock rig, but are unable to provide any reason why were at 14 weeks.

[riggerrob 558]

General background knowledge ....

Back when I worked for Rigging Innovations, we never quoted delivery time less than 6 weeks. While it was possible to rush a rig through production in a day or two, it disrupted production to have sewers waiting idle until a rush order reached their station.

This was to cover our butts in case an outside supplier was slow in delivering a particular color of fabric, specific hardware, etc.

Also consider that factories try to smooth production by not changing colors too often. Changing thread color takes 5 minutes at best. Changing binding tape color takes another minute or two. So we would typically sew black rigs on Mondays and Tuesdays, blue rigs on Wednesdays, red on Thursdays and every other color on Fridays. Even on Fridays, we tried to sew all of the white rigs sequentially, then all of the orange rigs in one batch, etc.

Also, if we got a large military order (e.g. 250 rigs all the same size and color) we lumped them together as one batch and nudged everything else aside until that large order was complete.