Gun store craziness.

[DustyGmt]

Good grief! I wonder what a brick of Aguila would sell for???

I just paid $16 for 250rd bricks of Aguila and $24 for a brick of thunderbolts, less than 2 weeks ago. I feel lucky. I now feel stupid for not having bought the other 2 that were there.

 

[Sniper66]

Got my last transfer done by a guy with a basement shop where he sits with his cat on his lap and is happy for the business at $20. Used him after being treated like I had scurvy by a LGS. Guess who gets my business in the future. Few years ago went into a new gun shop and asked if they could get a certain gun accessory. Said they would get back to me. Never heard from them so stopped by to ask and to arrange a transfer. After standing at the counter then browsing for 15 minutes, I asked for help. The guy looked up, said "yeah, be right with you", then went back to talking to his girlfriend on the phone, while two other employees yucked it up with a couple of buddies. I quietly left. They lasted 6 months before going out of business.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Last fall I dropped in to my LGS and thought that the panic had really set in. There was about half as many self-defense, milsurp and used guns as usual, and the ammo for these was pretty thin,

I went in to the same store over the weekend,
WOW!!
There were less than a dozen used and self-defense guns in the place, most of which were either oddballs or high priced types.
The only milsurp was a Mosin with a bulge in the barrel.
I could have carried out all of the pistol and self-defense ammo in a single shopping bag... .

 

[BreechFace]

I could have carried out all of the pistol and self-defense ammo in a single shopping bag... .

Around here you would have walked out with an empty bag.

 

[upptick]

I "GET" some of this, others not. Refusing consignments is IMO nuts. They can make as much or more money on a consignment than one they had to pay for. More than once I've put a gun on consignment with a FAIR price and found out the dealer bilked the new owner for a HUGE uplift over my asking price... AND they still charged me the commission.

I've heard a gun store operator say that he won't do consignments because he has previously lost his shirt in deals where the gun was defective and he was on the hook for the repair / replacement value. He claims there is no way for him to confirm ahead of time that a gun is serviceable and free of defects and that he is at the mercy of the seller, who is often a stranger to him and that when someone wants to sell one of their guns they usually have a good reason and are often not forthcoming about it. It seems to me that that situation could be remedied by having a contract with the seller to indemnify the gun shop if there is a return but to enforce such an agreement, of course, might require legal action and who needs that....