Walmart Threads Merge

[Ashton]

Smart business practices IMHO. Don't buy shit you won't be able to sell.

[mtnrider]

It is smart business sense and I wonder how many others are following suit? Magpul for instance. They have a million 30 round mags on backorder. Do you think they are actually trying to produce them now or waiting to see what happens? If they get banned outright they could be stuck with a lot of inventory.

Smart business practices IMHO. Don't buy shit you won't be able to sell.

[BuffCyclist]

It is smart business sense and I wonder how many others are following suit? Magpul for instance. They have a million 30 round mags on backorder. Do you think they are actually trying to produce them now or waiting to see what happens? If they get banned outright they could be stuck with a lot of inventory.

I don't think thats a fair comparison. As you said, MagPul has millions of mags on backorder, that customers have ALREADY paid for. They will continue cranking out their product UNTIL the mags are banned. At which point they will contact their clients and say they can not fulfill the orders as requested, and those clients will then refund our money (unless they charge at shipping).

Walmart orders ammo to stock it, which isn't sold until someone comes in. If they took backorders for ammo and then stopped ordering it, there'd be major backlash, kind of like with Dick's Sporting Goods and the Troy Carbines.

[mtnrider]

May not be a apples to apples comparrison but they still have the potential to get stuck with hundreds of thousand of dollars of inventory that they will not be allowed to sell. I guess my thought was if you are a manufacturer do you spend thousands of $ cranking out something that is likely to get mbanned or do you slow roll it until the final verdict comes out? Could make the difference on whether a business survives or not?

I don't think thats a fair comparison. As you said, MagPul has millions of mags on backorder, that customers have ALREADY paid for. They will continue cranking out their product UNTIL the mags are banned. At which point they will contact their clients and say they can not fulfill the orders as requested, and those clients will then refund our money (unless they charge at shipping).

Walmart orders ammo to stock it, which isn't sold until someone comes in. If they took backorders for ammo and then stopped ordering it, there'd be major backlash, kind of like with Dick's Sporting Goods and the Troy Carbines.