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Special orders and small fun stores ...

Veer_G

Beware of the Dildópony!
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Minuteman
Jun 15, 2008
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So I'm trying to get an optic for the past two months, one that's been pure unobtanium, and someone here puts me onto a wholesale source. I drop in to closest yon fun store, the one that likes to always insist on acquiring at the absolute crap blue book price, no matter what you bring in.

"From who? Yeah, we can do that, we got an account with them."

I call earlier today, and they tell me that they missed out, so they promise to reach out and find one, me knowing about what the difference is between MSRP and usual retail. Of course, they didn't bother to discuss what they were expecting on their end.

It turns out that they wanted $86 over $204 cost (they told me what theirs was, believe it or not) on an item that typically retails for $250 elsewhere, plus state sales tax. Holy mark-up, Batman! I'd like to be helpful and all, but not at the price of a stone butt whippin', so I told them no, and scored it for $235 shipped with the help of a not-so-small (thank you, SH!) discount.

Where's the break between being reasonable and being predatory?
 
Re: Special orders and small fun stores ...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SNIPERTARGET</div><div class="ubbcode-body">went looking and found
MSRP 386.00
Dealer 203.00
Available plenty
</div></div>

Well, I made one mine, but even the big retailer that I went through only had three left when I called.
 
Re: Special orders and small fun stores ...

Yeah I try to help out local business as much as possible but limit the total increase to 5-10% over online. My local store also has some crazy markups on everything from ammunition to reloading supplies. The last time I ordered 1k SMK and 1k Vmax bullets online, I saved about 15% compared to ordering it through local. Now the only thing I order are primers and powder so they pay they hazmat fee and it breaks even.