Being a Marine for 8 years taught me to understand...

Being a Marine for 8 years taught me to understand that not everything would go my way or be easy. Which is why I decided to become a home-based FFL dealer, I make my own hours and answer to no one(that is unless the wife opens the door). When I went to look for a processing company to take care of my business, I had seen all of these raving reviews and endorsements by NRA and NSSF for Clearent. Naturally someone in my line of work listens to what the NRA has to say and goes with what they endorse. Man was I wrong, Clearent was quick to get me a mobile swipe account for transactions because at the time I didn't have a online store. But once I made an online store and needed an online gateway, whoa brick way. Clearent wanted me to have an inventory of a certain dollar amount and there is no way I could meet that criteria being a home-based FFL. For one, storage is an issue and two, I don't have customers just walk into my place walking around looking at stuff, that's not how a home-based FFL works. So needless to say, they wouldn't give me an online-gateway, and pretty much ignored my phone calls and emails telling them I wanted to close my account. I don't understand why the NRA and NSSF endorse a company that only works with a percentage of the FFL dealers, that being brick and mortar store fronts. But when I contacted Rick Warren at blue-dog, he let me vent about Clearent for almost half an hour until I asked him to help me. Wasn't any pressure from him or blue-dog to set up an account and such. He walked me through the whole process and within 4 days, I had an account for physical sales and an online gateway. To end this review, the reason I gave Blue-Dog 4 stars and not 5 is because I don't give anyone 5 stars, 5 stars in my personal opinion means everything is perfect, there is nothing in life that is perfect, so please do not think that there was anything wrong with my experience. I just refuse to give 5 stars to any company.