Private Party FFL Transfer

C & S Outdoors in Trinidad will do private party transfers for a small fee.

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Originally Posted by stodg73

C & S Outdoors in Trinidad will do private party transfers for a small fee.

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That sounds great........How small?

Not sure, but between $20 and $50.

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Originally Posted by def90

Takes them more than 3 minutes.. Private party transfers are a money losing proposition for most shops so why do it?

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Most every other businesses actually PAYS to get customers in the door. Arrogant gun shops actually get paid to get customers in the door and complain about it? Yeah, I'll take my business elsewhere you can't help me out. I've had others that do NFA refuse to take my transfers because the item I'm buying is priced less than they sell it for and they refuse to price match or even come close. I'll take my business elsewhere. It amazes me how gun shops make money in spite of the worst customer service of any other business in existence. You want to make money beyond your wildest dreams? Open a gun shop, have a reasonable inventory and then employ people for their customer service ability and not their ability to tell racist or homophobic joke or how they voted in the last election. You'll have to hire another full-time person just to count the money.

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Originally Posted by Jer

Most every other businesses actually PAYS to get customers in the door. Arrogant gun shops actually get paid to get customers in the door and complain about it? Yeah, I'll take my business elsewhere you can't help me out. I've had others that do NFA refuse to take my transfers because the item I'm buying is priced less than they sell it for and they refuse to price match or even come close. I'll take my business elsewhere. It amazes me how gun shops make money in spite of the worst customer service of any other business in existence. You want to make money beyond your wildest dreams? Open a gun shop, have a reasonable inventory and then employ people for their customer service ability and not their ability to tell racist or homophobic joke or how they voted in the last election. You'll have to hire another full-time person just to count the money.

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Why do I have a feeling that you have never owned or operated a small business?

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Originally Posted by def90

Why do I have a feeling that you have never owned or operated a small business?

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You would be VERY wrong. Nice try though. I guess you've run several multi-million dollar businesses w/o an advertising budget?

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Originally Posted by Jer

It amazes me how gun shops make money in spite of the worst customer service of any other business in existence.

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You don't eat much fast food, do you?

[Coffee]

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Originally Posted by trot

Lets whip it out and start measuring wankers.

But no, you wouldn't "hire a full-time person just to count the money".

Firearm sales have probably the worst profitability of any business.

You've got to be around for many many years to make it even work. Niches can make good.
But good CS isn't the whole picture.

Guys like savings $ more than they do talking. Where jewelry has a markup of 80%, guns you're lucky if you truly even have 8%.

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It's called hyperbole. I wasn't serious about needing to hire a full-time employee to count the money but I was making a point that if someone could merge the simple idea of customer service with the business of selling firearms and firearms accessories that seems to be profitable despite the employees they couldn't help but be successful. I guess I took this website for smarter people than that.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

You don't eat much fast food, do you?

[Coffee]

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I have. Recently. And had poor experiences. They still don't turn customers away because they don't 'make enough money' on whatever the loss leader is that they waste billions advertising. We wonder why the average citizen doesn't get into firearms.... have you seen our ambassadors to someone trying to learn more about firearms? It's no mystery and drives me nuts. Too many 'gun people' behind the counters.