I would print this thread out and hand it to the owner, with a gleam in my eye.....
Never understood consignment for guns - they would be easy to move IMO, and for more $.
I looked around yesterday, for an email address to their business, but couldn't find one. Surprising that a business... today... doesn't have a website or at least, an email address in their listing. Anyway, I found nothing, but I was going to send them a link to this thread. I've done that before on threads like this, that rant about the shady moves a business makes. I realize that this controversy is none of my business, but it would be good if the upper levels of management knew how many Coloradoans have heard about this one bad decision that was made, and what sort of ramifications it has caused.I would print this thread out and hand it to the owner...
I remember that there was supposed to be an alright shop in Boulder but I can't recall the name.
Why not have the original owner take it from consignment and do a private sale?
Why not have the original owner take it from consignment and do a private sale?
That's exactly what I was thinking. The gun store was going to get a % of what you paid anyway so he would probably drop the price a little to boot.
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Why not have the original owner take it from consignment and do a private sale?
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Originally Posted by Jbabbler
That's exactly what I was thinking. The gun store was going to get a % of what you paid anyway so he would probably drop the price a little to boot.
1) The original owner would have to go through and pay for a background check to get his gun back.
2) Even though it sounds like the shop owner is a jerk, the OP did discover the gun at his shop and for the OP and the owner to go behind his back and negotiate a direct sale would be ethically shaky. Although the shop owner probably deserves it.
Why in the world would he have to go through a background check? If you take a gun to a shop to sell on consignment it still belongs to you. You don't have to have a background check to get your gun back. You don't get one when you drop it off to have it worked on.
The dealer tried to screw the buyer. No loyalty is owed there.
While I agree, with this the gun owner still has a consignment contract with the shop owner and selling the gun to someone who discovered the gun while on consignment violates it. At least technically.
If the shop owner wanted to he could take the gun owner to court. "Yeah, a customer was interested in the gun, but we were unable to agree on a price." Which is at least technically true.
While I agree, with this the gun owner still has a consignment contract with the shop owner and selling the gun to someone who discovered the gun while on consignment violates it. At least technically.
If the shop owner wanted to he could take the gun owner to court. "Yeah, a customer was interested in the gun, but we were unable to agree on a price." Which is at least technically true.
Maybe so, maybe no. The seller dictates the price on our consignment agreement. If the buyer makes an offer in line with that price then the gun gets sold.
For example, suppose the seller comes in with a gun and in the contract he states he wants at least $400 for it. We add our consignment fee, potential auction fees, markup (because in doing research we find it's worth more than $400), and offer it for sale.
To keep the math easy, assume the consginment fee is $35, auction fees around $10, markup is $55, so advertised price is $500. If we get offered $475 in the shop, the gun is sold, we get the $35 consignment fee, and the seller gets $440. Not selling the gun in that instance violates the consignment agreement.