Dumb gun shop question,

[beatledog7]

Shops with limited display space use it their best advantage, and that means making sure their profit-making items are front and center where customers can see easily them. In the shops around here, profit apparently comes from semi-autos, AR/AKs, Saikas, and other "non walnut and blued steel" guns. Prices on these are purposefully visible. The more traditional rifles get relegated to back wall, "who really cares" status because they aren't the shop's bread and butter.

 

[trex1310]

little tag like the one you see hanging from Minnie Pearl's hat.

LOL. Good one.

 

[1stmarine]

Go to walmart? you got to be joking...

ONE DOLLAR SPENT AT WALMART AND CHINESE SUPPORTING COMPANIES IS ONE DOLLAR INVESTED IN THE FUTURE MISERY OF OUR CHILDREN!
BUY LOCAL. SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY. SUPPORT DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING BY BUYING "MADE IN THE USA" or AT LEAST FROM FREE FRIENDLY NATIONS
THAT DO BUY FROM US.

Mabye the little local all american shop can actually teach you something about what you want and need...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgagh4yz7g&feature=uploademail

 

[Josh45]

Two of my LGS let you look at the shotguns or rifles without them needing to be handed to you.

Gun shop one has all rifles and shotgun EVERYWHERE on the floor, Nothing on the back shelf. Handguns are in glass counters.

The second gun shop has them on the shelf but they allow you to walk back there yourself and check em out without them. They also let me check out some hand guns this way.

 

[1stmarine]

I have a lot of fun at the little local gun shop. I ask politely if I can inspect any new firearm and they always say yes. I always ask politely if it can be dry fired. Always behave in a professional way no matter how long you know the folks. They are a fun bunch that give great advice. Some they are avid shooters and hunters so they give some nice tips and recommendations. We gather there to talk about firearms, football, whatever and we always end up buying stuff and we do not care if we pay a bit more because they are local and they are neighbors and they are friends and they did not sell us to any communist country like all those big retail chains that are destroying everything that is good about America by selling cheap, hiring even cheaper and overall lowering our standards of living and the national pride.

 

[mortablunt]

Maybe it's so that they have an excuse to try to persuade you to purchase something when you ask to give it a once over. Economics is probably a big factor; it costs less to make those tags, and when you run a business processing a lot of guns, the last thing you want to do is increase your overhead on uncertain investments. If the tags are only 25% smaller, then that eliminates a quarter of the cost of tagging the merchandise. As I've learned by having to at least partially manage my own finances, that bills accumulate uncannily when you aren't looking. $25 here, another $10 there, and before you know it, you've just blown through without even realizing just how much you were spending.

 

[royal barnes]

I work parttime in a gun store and our long guns are either out for anyone to pick up or behind the handgun counter. Customers are allowed behind the handgun counter to look at long guns. From my experience, tags on handguns probably start out all face up but when the guns are constantly in and out of the counter they tend to get turned around. On an average day I'll show handguns 75 times. If you are interested in the price of a gun and can't read the tag....ask!

Pet peeve - Customer asks to see a particular handgun, racks the slide repeatedly, or slams the cylinder open and closed, and dry fires it half a dozen times then announces, "I'll take it but I want one in the box that hasn't been played with".

 

[LoonWulf]

My favorite place here dosent even display handguns, he keeps them in a safe...or a couple actually. To be fair tho the store part of his shop is actually smaller then my bedroom, and the rifles are either kept in safes or are behind the counter on a 2x8 gun rack lol. I like talking to the owner and the people that are there tho, and everyone knows to just ask if you want to know if they have something. The other two stores that i frequent that have guns are sports authority, and a local store on the other side of the island. They both keep their guns behind the counter with good tags on them so you can see the price from 10ft or so.

 

[Stophel]

Yeah, they want you to ask and pick it up to try to "hook" you. They don't want you to see the price, decide it's too much, and walk right out.

I really hate having to try and get the guy to come over and tell me what he wants for a gun (often, they are busy with another customer....or just BSing... and you have to stand there forever to wait your turn...when you could just see how much it was if they put the tag where you could see it!). What I REALLY don't like is when there's no price tag on a gun at all (usually at a gun show). I figure if there's no price, they don't really want to sell it, so I walk on.

 

[Ryanxia]

One LGS in my area does this, they have all their more valuable rifles behind the handgun counter with impossible to see tags. They are almost always busy so you have to wait and if you're like me you'll just end up going down the line, 'how much and what caliber is that? and that? and that one?'

I like getting good deals so I always want to see the price tag, even if I don't care for something if it's a good enough deal I'll buy it to sell/trade down the road.

 

[1stmarine]

Firs of all they do not want 'anyone' to pickup a firearm. It is their product, it is sensitive and I have seen goons in gun stores creating a mess.
In my local gun shop I ask politely and I am always invited to come behind the counter to browse for anything I need, bullets, primers anything. They know I do reload many special calibers so they let me be. In any case if I want to see a firearm I ask them politely and they always show it to me no problems. No pressure of any kind. These are friends behind the counter.
VEry simple. keep the good customers coming back and the goons out.

 

[orionengnr]

I lean toward the theory that they want you to ask, so the employee can hand it to you, strike up a conversation and generate some interest and a chance at a sale.

If the tags are only 25% smaller, then that eliminates a quarter of the cost of tagging the merchandise.

Seriously flawed premise. Unless you are making the tags yourself (inefficient use of your labor), the paper is an insignificant percentage of the cost of the tag. By your logic, a quart of milk would cost 1/4 what a gallon does. Next time you are at the grocery store or 7-Eleven, check on that and get back to me.

And since you are still in school, take a few Business and Econ classes.

 

[mortablunt]

^ I can't do that until next year; they mandate that I clear the mathematics requirement first. Can't wait for next semester, as I'll get to knock down that math requirement and earn my English requirement.

 

[olafhardtB]

What difference does it make? Who pays the sticker price? Wally World beats every body on ammo and standard new guns, the gun show is a good place for trades and off the wall stuff and I can make trades and good deals and layaway at my local shop. All and all I think we got it great!

 

[JTHunter]

In Illinois, you have to show a valid FOID card before they open cases and let you handle either guns OR ammo.