Hinky gunshop practices

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Inflation is making items cost more by the day/week. I believe we will see this type of price policy more often.
The replacement cost of items in stock increase faster then dealers can reprice them.
Buy it now, as the cost will go up as long as the dollar continues to fall in value.
 
If you refused on principle, you wouldn't have your Sig, now would you?
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I know your reasons for saying this Bloog but if a gun shop owner said something like that I would tell him: yes I would have my Sig I just won't buy it here or anything else. Then I would ask him to recomend some place else where I could get a fair price.

Unethical stores like this don't deserve the slightest respect. Then they try to rationalize their bad behaviour with the same old saying: "You didn't get ripped off if you were willing to pay the price".
 
I would have walked also. If it was a used firearm and not available then I would have rethought it a little but sill most likely would have walked. Almost this same situation happened to me, wanted a used rifle and looked at it several times over a week long period. I called the next day to see if it was still there and found it was. Went there immediately and it had a $55 price increase on the tag from what it was the day before. I walked and bought it elsewhere that same day. Then went back to first store with the new rifle to find scope rings that I was sure that they did not have in stock.:cool: Said to them I was glad I looked around as I had found it for even less elsewhere.:D Also said that their offer to order the rings was not needed but thanks for looking as I probably could get a scope and rings for the same price as they could on line just as fast and walked out.
Next time in there a month or so later (I know:banghead:) I asked about a pistol on display and they immediately offered me a discount off the tagged price but I politely declined and stated that if they were that eager to sell it I probably could do better elsewhere anyway and immediately left there again. Haven't been back there since and it's been over 10 years.:D
 
In ANY store I have ever bought anything from - if the register price did not match the shelf price, the store ate the difference, as the posted price is the legal one.

You might have checked on-line prices to see where his price was in realtion to that before impulse buying
 
Ten years ago I saw a Colt 1991 advertised $200 cheaper than anywhere else in my area, actually 200 dollars cheaper than anywhere I had seen on line even.
I saw the ad in the paper and then checked it again on line and left to be the first one in the door that morning. That was the first day of the advertised sale.
4 Clerks in the store, ad in my hand; I immeadiatly ask the first Clerk about the Colt. "No Sir, that was a misprint, the paper was wrong; but we sold out of them at that price yesterday."
Disappointed to say the least I shopped around a bit more, found some small parts and asked a second Clerk about the Colt as I was checking out. The second Clerk reaches under the counter and pulls out three Colt 1991's and opens each box for me. I found the one I wanted as the first Clerk came up to the counter and avoided all eye contact with me.
I haven't bought anything there since; but I wished I had bought all three at that time.
I don't like being lied to or giving my money to liars.
That was in Pflugerville Texas BTW,..
 
Tell us the name of the gun store.

Send the gunstore an email with a link to this post showing them how much negative publicity they are getting due to their shady practices.

Hopefully that'll save the next guy from the same fate.

p.s. I would have told him where to go and then walked out the door for good.

(Oh, and a raise in price should coenside with the next set of firearms the gunshop sells...they already paid the lower rate for this firearm to sell...so any additional price increase is straight profit for them. The next set of guns that come in will cost more for the shop to stock, they should be the ones with the higher price.)
 
Lodge a complaint with the BBB. If nothing else it will go into a file that other potential customers can see.
 
I'm going to be honest, 95% of the gunshops I've dealt had customer service like this along with usually being rude and having prices a lot higher than online or Walmart or similar. Everyone can say that online shops and Walmart are putting local stores out of business because of their prices. I don't feel this is entirely the reason, but instead it's because it seems like a large majority of the shops out there have horrible customer service and pull crap like this. That's what causes people to stop shopping there. Why should you pay a premium to be treated like this when you could just order it online usually for cheaper without the hassle?

Now I've dealt with a gunshop that was great, but I've literally dealt with 1 gun shop that's been great and I've been to dozens. Most of them have extremely high prices and rude customer service. They seem to be trying to capitalize on the "buy local" thing and be taking advantage of it.

I've since learned I'm going to go with the cheapest price which usually is Walmart or online. That one store I got treated great at, I'd pay a premium to buy from them, but they are the only store I feel worth a premium, and their prices usually aren't any higher anyway and usually cheaper. The downside is they are about an hour and a half from me in an area I hardly ever travel to.
 
...I took the gun. the more I think about it, the madder it makes me.
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I'm with ya. It sort of ticks me that you accepted that deal. That means this practice will only continue and other customers will have to deal with it.
 
Something like this happened to me once. I had several other things I purchased at that time, and hadnt noticed the price being off by $50. The pistol was on sale, and it rang up at the regular price. I didnt catch this until I was home from the afternoon of shopping, and had sat down to go over the receipts. A quick phone call to the store and a chat with the store manager cleared it all up, and the next time I was that way, showed the receipt, and received a refund for the difference.
Have you tried to get in touch with the manager since you bought the gun? It may lead nowhere, but it could get your money back. Might just have been a less than honest employee trying to make himself look good at the cost of loosing a customer.
 
(Oh, and a raise in price should coenside with the next set of firearms the gunshop sells...they already paid the lower rate for this firearm to sell...so any additional price increase is straight profit for them. The next set of guns that come in will cost more for the shop to stock, they should be the ones with the higher price.)
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That is incorrect, a store has to price the goods in relationship to the next price they will have to pay to replace them so it is NOT just pure profit to the store.
 
The door worked both ways I would have left . I almost never pay the price dealer has on pistol.l I always at least try to get him to eat taxes if nothing else . Be surprised how many will if you standing their cash in hand.
 
Happens every day at the gas stations. Same old stuff in their storage tanks, price goes up because someone else raised theirs.

Crappy business practice.
 
You guys are missing the simple need for retailers to generate funds to replace inventory once a price increase is on the way. Yup, I "feel" bad if I don't skate thru at the lower price, but it is the seller's perogative to re-price. If they don't reprice they can miss the profit margin on a turnover. ( Profit = margin x turnover )

Sure, some times you make a deal when everyone involved know a big price change is in the works... like I just bought some junk silver halves at 11.50 each in mid-March because the seller didn't care. But I would not have had the right to prevent him from getting the bullion price that day.

So you are going to win some, and other times you wait too long. If you want to snarf off deals, use private want ads.

PS: US case law clearly allows retailers to correctly price items which were incorrectly priced in their ads
 
The gun shop is not obligated to sell the gun for the advertised price, and you are not obligated to purchase it. It really isnt that big of a deal, price changes happen and sometimes it is to the consumers disadvantage. There is not a law that says a retailer must honor an advertised price.
 
I understand your burning desire to own that gun, but no way I would have paid the higher price.

You might want to contact your local Consumer Fraud Division of the local DA's office. This is the kind of thing they can really get into. Might also want to talk to your local TV consumer reporter. Can't hurt even though it's (gasp) a GUN!! :eek:
 
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That is incorrect, a store has to price the goods in relationship to the next price they will have to pay to replace them so it is NOT just pure profit to the store.
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Er, no. They bought the gun for X, they sell for X + Profit.

Next guy they buy for Y and sell for Y + profit.
 
Agree with younda.

Suppose the market is such that everything is doubled a year from now. Does that give the gun shop owner (or any store owner as far as that goes) license to DOUBLE the price of the product PLUS any PROFIT??

I don't think so!:rolleyes:
 
I agree with youngda9.
Er, no. They bought the gun for X, they sell for X + Profit.
Next guy they buy for Y and sell for Y + profit.
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Suppose the market is such that everything is doubled a year from now. Does that give the gun shop owner (or any store owner as far as that goes) license to DOUBLE the price of the product he is selling today, PLUS any PROFIT??

I don't think so!:rolleyes:
 
That would never happen at my store- sometimes we mismark a tag but we let the customer win- happy customers is a good business practice-

makes me wonder whether the clerk was pocketing the difference- doesnt take much to void a sale and re-enter at the lower price and keep the difference.

id go back like someone else here said and take a look at the price of the new one in the case.
 
I'm confused. The shop had the weapon in stock with a price tag attached. That + tax should have been the price out the door. It was their stock item not something they had to order for you at the new price, yes? Personally, I'd of taken my paperwork and told him politely "sir, that is not the price you quoted me " and walked out the door.
 
I have mixed feelings on this one. Most gunshops only mark up new guns around 10% over their cost. People do make mistakes, typo's do occour and prices are sometimes misquoted. I've seen signs at the register in many stores lately that say something to the effect that "If there is a different price on your purchase than what is in the computer, the computer is right".

As a store owner I shouldn't have to sell an item at, or below cost because it was mislabeled. I might offer to sell it to you at the lower price, but am not required to do so. If a customer wanted push the issue, then I'd be happy to see him walk.
 
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