Really.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmleadr03
Those who charge more gouge. Those who charge more and cannot keep the door open close. OD is still in business, so someone must be sitting in the seats they put out.
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Really.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmleadr03
Those who charge more gouge. Those who charge more and cannot keep the door open close. OD is still in business, so someone must be sitting in the seats they put out.
Dude. If the factory service writer at Schomp BMW quotes me $4K for a transmission, you quote me $3,785 with OEM parts, and Advanced Transmission asks $6,712, it's called gouging. Someone will pay it, yes. Someone "needs" it, so there will be a demand. That doesn't mean that there isn't some sort of line to be crossed, even if it is subjective.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmleadr03
You need to get over it. It's their business they charge what they like. You feel the price is too high move on. OR complain about it on line, AGAIN.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZERO THEORY
LOL. I look at that and think I should raise my prices. If they can get that for the same job I am undercutting myself since I am clearly worth more then they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZERO THEORY
Stinks they got burgled. Glad they got a perp to talk.
Hear hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmleadr03
Supply and demand and the owner sets the price, if you don't like it you can leave.
What I don't think you realize about business is my goal as a business man is not to be the cheapest around. My goal is to charge as much as I can and keep my tech and myself busy. I refuse to race to the bottom when it comes to price.
I charge a lot because I buy the best equipment, I pay for school for myself and EVERYONE who works for me, I keep my lights on, I buy the top quality parts and I provide a nation wide warranty for two years. In point of fact I am paying to send my shop manager to DFW for a weekend to attend a class on running a shop. So I am paying for the class, the plane ticket, the hotel, and the food to make sure she is a highly trained as I need her to be. Does she already do a damn good job? Yup, but it doesn't hurt to see another angle on how to do a job right.
That costs money.
So I charge a premium for my work.
ETA: I keep finding more to say.
You might consider my prices to be gouging. Because they are indeed high. Personally I think people who come to my shop and pay those prices get their money's worth out of me.
The one time I went in there a salesman with the AR on a single point was in a heated argument with a customer about the prices. It's everyone's right to have a loaded gun but it's my right to beat feet when one them gets pissed off. The dude cleared the store.
Want to complain about pricing start another thread. OR resurrect the one that started way back, last time someone's vagina got sand in it.
I gotta agree with ol' sandy-crotch here.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmleadr03
I used to think that price gouging was indeed a real thing but it only applied to necessary commodities such as food and water during a crisis. If you were talking about any other item, especially something such as ammo, which is widely considered a sporting good component, then there was no such thing as price gouging - That was called capitalism.
I have since come to realize that there really is no such thing as price gouging. Capitalism simply doesn't recognize it. If you don't like their prices or the way they operate, then take your money somewhere else. If the market doesn't like their prices or the way they operate, the establishment will go under. Thus, the market speaks. Capitalism.
I believe you mean this thread: https://www.ar-15.co/threads/76761-p...hlight=gougingQuote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo