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I won't throw insults at somebody who's using capitalism to make a quick, easy profit, but by the same token I don't intend to be part of it.
Trading (selling/ buying) Commodities at a market cmex is different than buying/selling firearm.
Last edited by MrPrena; 12-23-2012 at 11:58.
R&S I'd say price w/ how you'll be able to sleep at night. If this is how you're going to feed your family then make as much as you can. You might not get to sell anything coming up. It's a sellers market. Someone somewhere is willing to pay the price.
Some may be glad that the market has caught back up to where it was, when they bought an item during the last scare, and are only trying to recoup what they paid for it back then.
People remember who was trying to help someone else out and who was trying to make a quick buck off of paranoia. Make a few extra dollars today but may lose the shop next year. The maddness will die down soon and I'll add more to my inventory then. I've crossed a few shops and people off the list I will buy from in the past week; I'm sure i'm not the only one. I'll pay a few bucks more to help an honest person out rather than go back to a person/place that was raping shooters in a panic.
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Last edited by Drucker; 12-22-2012 at 23:26.
As I have said before, I have "helped" some folks out by giving a "great deal" on a hard to get item and a promise they would keep it and not resale it. Then that item ends up on gunbroker for more than twice what they paid for it (same day). I have learned that I can't trust some folks because their "word" is for sale to the highest bidder. I have decided that if I get an AR15 and/or high cap mags (which I have no problem selling) I will put my normal markup on it (which isn't that much) but I will be putting it on gunbroker.com. However, I may also choose to sell an AR15 at MSRP (if I can get one). That way I am not overpricing an item it will be priced reasonably and if the public wants to pay more for it by bidding that is their business and the profit will go to my business and not to the person I gave the "great deal". My other guns that are for sale will have the normal markup.
The real issue is that if I can get one or more, how many more? If a ban goes on them the prices will really skyrocket and I won't be able to get replacements. Then again, if Grandfathering is not allowed I might get stuck with a bunch of ARs that I will have try to sell to LEOs.
comments welcomed
Last edited by R&S; 12-22-2012 at 23:41.
This. Let the market set the final price.Originally Posted by R&S
Most retail pricing is based on being able to turn over inventory, so that you can buy in new stock to replace what has been sold, and the difference between those prices pays your overhead and generates your profits. If the items you're selling can't be replaced, or at least not be readily replaced, and sold at or near the same price, then a shop which sells at the "old" price is ensuring it can't get in any new stock to sell, so no turnover, so no overheads being paid or profit being made.
If an item sold cannot be restocked at or near the same price, it is only logical from the seller's perspective that he has to make more profit on each item sold, in order to displace the lost revenue of not being able to restock and turn over new inventory. The buyers (market) generally agree to this principle, in that scarcity means they cannot find the goods at the old prices, so have to be willing to pay more to buy some of the smaller number of those goods still available in the marketplace.
It's not an opportunistic conspiracy, it's a reflection of running a business in a semi-capitalist economy.
If the seller can't replace the commodity to keep turning over sales at the old price and profit margin, they can't afford to part with current stocks at (just) the same old price.
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Sell it for whatever the market will bear, if that number is $1500 over MSRP then do it, the stock market works this way, no reason why guns should be different. Berkshire Hathaway Class A can be bought for $134,800 per share, I'd love to own some, maybe if I write a whiny letter to Mr. Buffet he'll give it to me for what I consider a fair price, more than likely he'll tell me to go pound sand and that is exactly what Mr. Buffet should do.
We don't know if the replacement for these guns costs are going to rise and furthermore we don't even know if we'll be allowed to replace them, the retailer has to account for both of those variables.
The government must allow grandfathering, they really have no choice. The current government might have the desire to remove these guns from our hands but they do not have the manpower to carry out that desire. This is a very sticky situation for the government.
This is going to be interesting to watch.
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