I recently purchased three ejection port covers from Valkyrie Tactical which were supposed to say “BREAK YO’SELF.” I thought they were funny and would add some humor to some builds. This particular phrase is no longer offered on their site, but they still have “GIT-R DONE” and “Thug Life.”
Unfortunately, the ejection port covers are a large disappointment and it looks like there was no quality control before these were sent to me.
The first, and most glaring issue, is that one of them isn’t fully assembled.
The second is that the lettering is not consistent amongst the covers, nor even amongst the letters themselves. One looks more like it says “EAK YO’SELF” with the B practically non-existent and the R only faintly visible.
Finally, while the VT site describes the lettering as “ghost,” it is far far lighter than it looks on the site. Under decent lighting, it completely washes out. The lettering is really only visible under very specific lighting conditions at certain angles.
VT’s site guarantees “total satisfaction” to their customers, so I inquired with them if they had any covers that were in better shape. Unfortunately, I have received no response to the emails that I have sent. I first raised the issues with them on May 9 (using the above photos), then I followed up on May 13. As of today, I have received no emails back. This is quite disappointing, not only because I was looking forward to using these, but because these were part of a $203.87 order.
Since I have received no response from VT, I tried to use the one cover of three that is actually intact and has the most even lettering. When the cover is installed on an upper though, it won’t actually click closed. I tried to locate contact points and dremel them down, but after a a lot of dremeling with no progress, I just gave up.
On a side note, I was charged a $16.42 sales tax on this order. I was under the impression that sales tax was only collected on internet sales when the vendor has a physical presence in the customer’s state. I live in MD while Valkyrie is in CA so I’m confused by this. Is this a separate tax? I can’t even figure out what value it came from:
Sub-Total: $177.50
Shipping: $9.95 (U.S.)
Sales Tax: $16.42
Valkyrie Tactical Total: $203.87
If the sales tax was derived before shipping, that would be 9.25070423%
… if after shipping that would be 8.75966925%
Those aren’t the kinds of decimals you usually see on sales tax 
