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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2098081" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>Here's my take - it's already difficult to compete with online sales when you're a local brick/mortar gun shop. When you need to make a buck, you rely on the local gun crowd to support your shop even if you and they both know that your prices/selection aren't the best.</p><p></p><p>They're not acting on the free-market by doing this - they're acting on the fact that they're attempting to be loyal to your store to ensure you survive long enough so that "the gun community" has one more local gun shop and the community as a whole is better off for it.</p><p></p><p>Plenty of local places as well as online shops maintained prices and just got creative so that they didn't run out of product to sell. Bravo Company is one - random selling times with limited quantities or time-periods of selling and even a slightly elevated price to handle extra staff is understandable. They didn't price-hike and I will absolutely be buying a BCM carbine as soon as all this AWB crap calms down just to support them for being good to the community).</p><p></p><p></p><p>For those that just decided to get greedy and turn on the gun community to make a buck... that constantly whined about the free market...</p><p></p><p>That free market is going to be a ***** when prices come down and folks have the choice to shop at those places that gouged or say F@#$ those guys, I'm going with the shop that kept prices reasonable. I know there are plenty of folks who noticed that some gouged and some didn't and a lot of us are keeping a list (I personally added folks to my "friend list" instead of ignore list so I could still see what was going on in the gougers' posts). </p><p></p><p>Ironically, I would bet that those who did gouge and said "there's no such thing" are going to be whining about "lowball offers" in about a month or so when the going rate drops to panic-selling prices (credit card bills are coming due, and some of us who have been through this a time or two saved up for just such a time as this).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2098081, member: 229"] Here's my take - it's already difficult to compete with online sales when you're a local brick/mortar gun shop. When you need to make a buck, you rely on the local gun crowd to support your shop even if you and they both know that your prices/selection aren't the best. They're not acting on the free-market by doing this - they're acting on the fact that they're attempting to be loyal to your store to ensure you survive long enough so that "the gun community" has one more local gun shop and the community as a whole is better off for it. Plenty of local places as well as online shops maintained prices and just got creative so that they didn't run out of product to sell. Bravo Company is one - random selling times with limited quantities or time-periods of selling and even a slightly elevated price to handle extra staff is understandable. They didn't price-hike and I will absolutely be buying a BCM carbine as soon as all this AWB crap calms down just to support them for being good to the community). For those that just decided to get greedy and turn on the gun community to make a buck... that constantly whined about the free market... That free market is going to be a ***** when prices come down and folks have the choice to shop at those places that gouged or say F@#$ those guys, I'm going with the shop that kept prices reasonable. I know there are plenty of folks who noticed that some gouged and some didn't and a lot of us are keeping a list (I personally added folks to my "friend list" instead of ignore list so I could still see what was going on in the gougers' posts). Ironically, I would bet that those who did gouge and said "there's no such thing" are going to be whining about "lowball offers" in about a month or so when the going rate drops to panic-selling prices (credit card bills are coming due, and some of us who have been through this a time or two saved up for just such a time as this). [/QUOTE]
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