price gouging

[ftw13]

man gun dealers wonder why people don't buy from them.....even at the shows. junk draco pistols for 500 bucks,guns priced 100-200 more than they're selling for everywhere else and ammo prices STILL being sold for 10-15 more per box than competitors. i went to the high caliber show and alot of the vendors were rude on sunday cause they were still sitting on their stuff and no one was buying. i was seeing wasr rifles with price tags of 5-600. ridiculous

 

[txinvestigator]

You may not like the price, but it is not "gouging"

 

[TexasR.N.]

man gun dealers wonder why people don't buy from them.....even at the shows. junk draco pistols for 500 bucks,guns priced 100-200 more than they're selling for everywhere else and ammo prices STILL being sold for 10-15 more per box than competitors. i went to the high caliber show and alot of the vendors were rude on sunday cause they were still sitting on their stuff and no one was buying. i was seeing wasr rifles with price tags of 5-600. ridiculous

I had the same complaints about the Ft. Worth Gun Show that I went a month ago. I don't call it price gouging, but if that's what they want to sell some of that stuff for, then they can keep it.

Craig

 

[okie556]

You may not like the price, but it is not "gouging"

Agree! Just keep shopping until you find a price that you can live with.

 

[Burt Gummer]

The market will level itself out. If a dealer is sitting on a dozen WASR's for $600 and he cannot sell them he will eventually figure it out and adjust the price to where it is desirable.
I feel sorry for the folks buying things at those crazy prices. A basic AR for $1,500 or WASR for $600? Ha.

 

[Shorts]

Probably many dealers got use to the gravy train of new gun shoppers who knew nothing of "regular" prices and how much items "usually" were. The fervor is tapering off now and gun owners in the know (like us regulars) aren't/weren't buying hyped up items if we could help it. Those high-priced dealers are feeling the pinch now. We'll see if their pride or their business breaks first

 

[cuate]

Out here in the rurals I have to either drive a fair distance or shop online. I have found Larry Potterfield's MidwayUSA to have decent prices and saw no evidence of gouging when the "fit hit the shan" and the obominites took office. I did note that Cheaper than Dirt appeared to raise prices substantually. I am not arguing with Texas Investigator about gouging but it does appear many dealers took the opportunity to get whatever the market would bear. Good business practice or gouging, I leave it to the buyers to judge.

 

[txinvestigator]

. Good business practice or gouging, I leave it to the buyers to judge.

See, those are not the only two options regarding raising prices.

If a bad winter storm came, and supplies needed for those storms were in short demand AND stores raised prices to outrageous amounts, THAT is gouging.

It is NOT gouging to set your prices high because of what appears to be market trends.

You can argue the "fairness" of it all day, but it is not gouging because you don't like the prices.

 

[ftw13]

what if one gas station sold gas for $4 when it was going for $2 everywhere else? wouldn't everyone call that gouging? if someone can't afford to be in the gun business they shouldn't be in it. if they can't get stuff at good prices and sell it for fair market amounts then what are they contributing? just more overpriced items?

 

[SC-Texas]

Some of those dealers may have had to pay $600.00 for that WASR when they bought it during the Obama times.

I have some lowers that I paid more for from Brownells and other places than retail is on them today.

The cost of inventory was higher a few months ago.

 

[txinvestigator]

what if one gas station sold gas for $4 when it was going for $2 everywhere else? wouldn't everyone call that gouging?

if someone can't afford to be in the gun business they shouldn't be in it. if they can't get stuff at good prices and sell it for fair market amounts then what are they contributing? just more overpriced items?

What you mean to write is, "if someone can't afford to be in the gun business by selling at prices I approve of they shouldn't be in it. if they can't get stuff at prices I like and sell it for what I want to pay amounts then what are they contributing? just more overpriced items?

So much for free enterprise.

Civics 101 anyone?


Main Entry: 2gouge
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): gouged; goug·ing
Date: 1570
1 : to scoop out with or as if with a gouge
2 a : to force out

(an eye) with the thumb b : to thrust the thumb into the eye of
3 : to subject to extortion or undue exaction

 

[Okierifleman]

Not price gouging at all. It is called capitalism. If you dont like the price, dont buy it. Period. If Joe Blow bought too many AR's at high prices and is stuck with them, he has two choices. Sit on them until the prices go back up, or sell through his crappy cost to free up inventory dollars. If he got a heck of a deal on them, he should be able to make a better profit on them. That is business 101....

 

[ftw13]

theres capitalism and then theres greed based on usury,which is what american business has been doing for many many years.

 

[okie556]

what if one gas station sold gas for $4 when it was going for $2 everywhere else? wouldn't everyone call that gouging? if someone can't afford to be in the gun business they shouldn't be in it. if they can't get stuff at good prices and sell it for fair market amounts then what are they contributing? just more overpriced items?

Normally I would just buy the $2.00 gas and pass on the guy with the $4.00 gas. But you have to understand gas & guns or food and guns are not apples for apples. I could see how in a state of emergency some station or store owner might jacked their prices for gas or food up because there nothing else available for 100 miles in either direction. I would agree this practice would be price gouging.....IMO. But let's face it....you don't need that gun....you just want it! If you want it bad enough pay the higher price.......if not......keep looking.

 

[navyguy]

what if one gas station sold gas for $4 when it was going for $2 everywhere else? wouldn't everyone call that gouging? if someone can't afford to be in the gun business they shouldn't be in it. if they can't get stuff at good prices and sell it for fair market amounts then what are they contributing? just more overpriced items?

When I think of gouging, I think that a seller is jacking up the price because they know the buyers are over a barrel and have no choice but buy the product or service because it is essential. And they charge these high prices even though THEY didn't have to pay a premium for it. An example that comes to mind where the people that right after Katrina, bought up all of the portable gas generators, and tried to sell them at 10x what they paid for them. If they had bought them in a northern state, hauled them down to NO, and sold them for a reasonable mark up to make a little profit for their time, I would not have considered that gouging,

 

[txinvestigator]

theres capitalism and then theres greed based on usury,which is what american business has been doing for many many years.

what does interest have to do with it?

 

[Buck Nekkid]

I'm honestly starting to see some more reasonable prices. I bought a box of 100 Winchester White Box 40 S&W's for $34 @ the recent Texas Gun Show in San Antonio. The seller had a bunch of ammo and it all seemed to be reasonably priced.

 

[ftw13]

i'm saying our economy is now based on usury and fiat money,not on the gold standard and real wealth.

 

[txinvestigator]

i'm saying our economy is now based on usury and fiat money,not on the gold standard and real wealth.

okkkkaaaayyyy

 

[Texas42]

theres capitalism and then theres greed based on usury,which is what american business has been doing for many many years.

No one is forcing you to buy anything (except the governments that we have).

I want to make money. I'm going to be an M.D. So what. You want to make a living too.

Am I greedy? I don't think so. Am I going to make more money than most people, yes (assuming things doing change drastically in the healthcare area). Is it wrong for me. Nope. I'm not going to force anyone to pay me.

If you don't like someone's prices, then don't buy them. Those people will either change or go out of business.