Or brand new unfired firearms... How can someone be an enthusiast and not shoot something unless they are a profiteer!!
but I digress.
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The difference between price gouging and survival for the LGS
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Or brand new unfired firearms... How can someone be an enthusiast and not shoot something unless they are a profiteer!!
but I digress.
I have no problem with a LGS having to adjust prices to keep the doors open and not lay folks off. I DO have a problem with raising prices due to a current event that may change stuff. Raising prices before cost and supply change is when I have a problem.
Not exactly. People who enjoy playing the Flagging Police on Craigslist normally enforce this:
Partial list of items for sale and services the advertisement of which is not permitted on craigslist:
- Child pornography, obscene materials, offers or solicitation of illegal prostitution.
- Weapons and related items, including firearms, ammunition, silencers, pellet/BB guns, tear gas or stun guns.
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Have you tried to order anything in the past 3 weeks? I assure you current events HAVE changed stuff.
Yep, or the "never opened" rifle. How did the store check the damn serial #????
I agree, and I said that I don't have a problem when wholesale cost and supply change. But some stores raised prices before that. It's not just this last event. There were stores that raised prices right after the sandy hook shooting before the supply dropped and their cost increased.
They had to get a running start to pop the clutch.
My fav post to date us the guy who posted he had to get $1600 for his ad because that's what it he paid for it. Duh... Shouldn't have paid it if you couldn't afford it. Nothing like no dust cover, or forward assist to add to the value huh.
Yes it is because you still have the option to not buy anything on the market. You make the choice to engage and enter the marketplace where goods and services are being sold at the price point for which there are buyers.
A free market still exists despite government policies up until the government mandates the price point for a particular product. Everything the government does, be it threaten to ban or provide a subsidy for, the price will reflect the change as the "Free Market" works to stabilize the new aggregate demand with aggregate supply.
Which is what you are seeing now . . . prices are being raised because the new adjusted demand is higher. Like others have stated in this thread, price point must raise because otherwise items would be sold out as an ignorance to market conditions almost always lead to no items in stock or items never being sold.
Because you don't like the outcome is not enough to relabel the current firearms marketplace as something other than the "free market"
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