Well I got my VFC M249 from Stack Up today. Ordered last Thursday. Sadly it was a pretty rough experience for me, personally...
The best way to reach out to Stack Up is via WhatsApp as emails seem to be missed frequently (Had sent emails in the past about other items and no response) which is fair enough if he's busy.
The ordering process itself is fine, however no PayPal option which was a bit of a shame.
Afterwards however, the website would show "No orders", I contacted Stack Up via WhatsApp and he confirmed the order had gone through and informed me he would try to get it sent out on Friday. Waited until Tuesday afternoon, no updates, no parcel. Messaged him again via WhatsApp and asked for an update, 10 minutes later he'd messaged back informing me
it had been collected that day, sent me the tracking and apologised I hadn't received an email. However, upon checking the tracking it had in fact
not been collected as it was booked in for collection a few minutes after I had messaged him the second time (Tuesday) for an update. That irked me a tad as it was dishonest, if he'd of said "Sorry mate, I forgot to send it out" that would of somewhat been better.
Fast forwards to today and receiving it, two issues presented themselves;
- The large gas reservoir magazine leaks profusely from the top - Not a major issue as I was going to run it on HPA anyway but still an unnecessary fix I have to carry out.
- On top of that, the replica itself has some areas of surface rust which was not shown or mentioned anywhere on the site and the photo of the replica was the side where there was no rust. Sure, another easy fix but some knowledge before hand that this almost £1000 replica had rust would have been nice.
One other questionable thing was that the replica was sent with the outer barrel removed and the inner barrel which extends past the gas block stuffed into a piece of foam at the end. Thankfully no damage to the inner barrel but not a great thing to open up and see.
Sadly I won't be using Stack Up again as this has left a sour mouth in my taste, which is a shame as they have some good bits for fair prices.