Speaking of backordered shit, we have one supplier that is just fucking retarded.
I'm not even gonna hide their name, because I doubt any of you know/use them, but they sell wood doors. Oregon Door. They continuously, over the past decade or so, and despite us bitching about it countless times, will process our order and give us a ship date, and only when it shows up do we find out that a door/doors is back ordered. If you check the status right up until it is shipped, there is zero indication of a backorder. They claim that only when they are loading the truck do they know if something is going to be missing, but even then they don't send any kind of notification to us about it. It typically gets here in a day or two at most, so we generally aren't checking that one fucking day in transit, and it just shows up missing shit. A lot of times the delivery is worthless to us if it isn't complete, because we aren't going to send installers a couple hours away without all the material because we didn't factor in multiple trips in our cost. Even if none of that matters, contractors absolutely LOVE when you tell them they aren't getting all of their shit right now, and oh yeah, we have no fucking clue when they might get it because Oregon Door has no idea either.
It used to be that they were cheaper than most other places, or closer (many take a good week to get here), but their prices and lead times have gone way up and we just started factoring in the extra delivery time, because at least everyone else ships complete, or tells you ahead of time that something is being held up. No fucking clue how you run a successful business with that kind of incompetence.