I’ve been asked... told really, not to participate on this forum by certain entities, so I’m likely not long for this board.
So I guess that makes me a “rogue agent.” Running secret internet forum cabals and crushing competitors is hard work. Whew.
Y’all can and will believe what you want about TNVC, re-keyed RAPTARs, the Luna ELIR, Agent Wu, or AR15.com, as it’ll be met with a “nuh uh” by some folks that have already made up their minds that TNVC sucks and must be crooked no matter what they say. Sorry you had a bad experience or don’t like our online presence, or whatever it was/is, I wish we could make everyone 100% happy, but I know that’s unrealistic as a business. I wish you well.
Here is a fact:
At the earliest possible opportunity, TNVC brought the previously “restricted” BNVD (PVS-31A), BNVD-1531, and GPNVG to the open commercial market—not just to sell to our buddies, or “on the down low,” you no longer needed to “know a guy who knows a guy,” and essentially dropping the “the market value” of used PVS-31As by $4,000 and GPNVGs by $10,000 overnight.
Don’t like those systems? Don’t think they should have been restricted in the first place? Don’t think they’re worth the money? All that’s fine and all those are things that are outside of our control (man, what a terrible cabal we are).
Nevertheless, people want them and we could have made money hand over fist continuing to sell them at the “market value.” Instead we priced them at far below, yet still with enough room for dealer pricing, military and first responder discounts, and the works. And yet weirdly I never see the guys who were giving each other “bro deals” at $15-18,000 a set with no spec sheets or warranty and wanted to keep the supply constricted so they could “flex” with their “I can have it but you can’t” toys getting pilloried being greedy.
But sure, it’s TNVC trying to stuff out of people’s hands.
Honestly, we sell Class I lasers faster than the manufacturers can build them. If anything, the “gray” market lasers, Persts, etc. help us keep up with demand, no one loves 2-6 month + lead times on product, least of all us, it’s bad for business. That or “drop culture” models which favor troglodytes who live on their phones and refresh their e-mails and Instagram constantly at 3AM to catch the latest “in stock” notification instead of the working man.
Man, I’m a horrible Rogue Agent, too. Add that to my list of crimes, I guess.
Maybe I need to go find more dick memes or something.
~Augee