This is pretty much my standard operating procedure when it comes to car lots and salesmen, but I find myself doing this more and more when I go into gun shops.
I walk in, usually with a specific thing I'm looking for, a guy behind the counter walks up to see what I want, and I'll ask to see something in the case. With gun in hand, I will then ask him a question... a question that isn't overly technical, but not obvious either, but also a question that I already know the answer to. Yes I'm basically quizzing him to find out whether he knows anything or not.
7 times out of 10 I'll get a wrong answer. I don't know whether its because he's busy and I don't look like I'm there to buy, or because he doesn't know, but what I do find surprising is that I have yet to hear, "I don't know, let me ask/look it up/call the manufacturer."
I'm really nit picky with cars, mainly because I have 0 confidence in the intelligence of car salesmen, but I guess I kind of expect more out of gun dealers.
For example, today I walked into a local shop and they has a NIB Beretta M9 on the shelf for dirt cheap. The guy behind the counter had no idea that it was anything other than a regular 92. Are there huge differences, no, but the markings, dustcover and backstrap are different enough that a normal person should be able to tell the difference.
Needless to say I walked out with a new M9 for the price of a plain jane 92.
Anybody else or am I just a nut that expects too much.
I walk in, usually with a specific thing I'm looking for, a guy behind the counter walks up to see what I want, and I'll ask to see something in the case. With gun in hand, I will then ask him a question... a question that isn't overly technical, but not obvious either, but also a question that I already know the answer to. Yes I'm basically quizzing him to find out whether he knows anything or not.
7 times out of 10 I'll get a wrong answer. I don't know whether its because he's busy and I don't look like I'm there to buy, or because he doesn't know, but what I do find surprising is that I have yet to hear, "I don't know, let me ask/look it up/call the manufacturer."
I'm really nit picky with cars, mainly because I have 0 confidence in the intelligence of car salesmen, but I guess I kind of expect more out of gun dealers.
For example, today I walked into a local shop and they has a NIB Beretta M9 on the shelf for dirt cheap. The guy behind the counter had no idea that it was anything other than a regular 92. Are there huge differences, no, but the markings, dustcover and backstrap are different enough that a normal person should be able to tell the difference.
Needless to say I walked out with a new M9 for the price of a plain jane 92.
Anybody else or am I just a nut that expects too much.