I can't speak for anyone but myself but (refer to my post on page 1) but I think allowing someone to point a gun at another customer and not stopping them and then after it is brought to their attention and the clerk tells you to relax that the gun is unloaded. That goes beyond just bad service it is dangerous, negligent, and outright stupid. That is why they don't get my business it that means I'm butt hurt than so be it I can live with my bung hole sore.
I can't speak for anyone but myself but (refer to my post on page 1) but I think allowing someone to point a gun at another customer and not stopping them and then after it is brought to their attention and the clerk tells you to relax that the gun is unloaded. That goes beyond just bad service it is dangerous, negligent, and outright stupid. That is why they don't get my business it that means I'm butt hurt than so be it I can live with my bung hole sore.
Indeed.
Years ago, I offered to buy a Wildey .45 Winchester Mag. I asked them to split the cost of a box of ammo with me. They were pretty rude. Months later when I stopped in it was still there. That is a speciality pistol for a limited clientle. They let a few bucks kill the deal.
I have worked in sales. If you want help and are there to buy I would have helped you. If you're there just to ask 5 thousand questions and not spend a dime I could have cared less and I would have told you so. I probably would have said "Google, learn how to use it, come back when you're ready to buy somehtin'" They are selling guns not used cars. If they were alienating customers they would have closed up shop and gone out of business 20 years ago.
My suggestion is to head down to H&H, ask a thousand questions, fondle their junk, eat a burger and fries, and then go back to OAS and get a good deal and save some money. When you're ready to buy another gun, repeat the process.
Next time you give a client a price and they make a counter offer remember this.
If a client had a good enough case and wanted me to take a lesser percentage, I would consider it. Point is that particular pistol is a high end gun. Furthermore, it has a limited market as opposed to a HK P7 M13, or even a Colt SAA. Few people can afford it, of the few who can, fewer still are inclined to buy it. If I remember right we were talking about $25 I didn't try to discount thie pistol, I just asked them to split the cost of a box of ammo. Their attitude killed the deal.
It sat there for quite a while.
Emphasis mine.
Are you sure about OAS doing fine?
I ask because I've been going there for a very long time and my perception is that I see fewer customers in the place than ever before. I like the prices, don't mind the attitude and can hang around in there for hours just browsing but I just can't get past the notion that there's a whole lot less folk in the shop at any given instance than I've ever noticed before. Add to that that the owner has a habit of getting into pissing contests with vendors (CZ to mention just one) and the fire marshall and one wonders...
I have purchased many guns from them in the past as prices had always been more competitive than the metro Tulsa area. I must admit that I have not been in there recently and am quite surprised by some of the personal experiences listed here. I guess I have been lucky so far.
I'm not surprised at your loss really ... but having BTDT, still having friends who are working at gun shops here in town and hearing their stories from time to time I can assure you the comparison is neither false nor extreme nor disingenuous.
Hmmmm ... The same thing happened with GC although the outcome was quite different. There was a bit of wheeling and dealing was done on a gun that had been in the cabinet "a while". Scott asked Fred if he throw in a box of ammo ... I still have that Colt Gold Cup but the ammo got used up a long, long time ago. Fred seemed happy, Scott seemed happy, I was estatic!!
