Shooter's Supply: Louisville, KY

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Went to Shooter's Supply in Louisville.

It is a nice enough shop with nice enough workers but they will rip you off.

Many of their arms are marked up a good 10% over MSRP and are tremendously more expensive than any other local gun shop that I've been to. According to Bill, a transfer is $35 + 6% :barf: of the total cost of the gun and they won't do it for any gun that they sell in the shop. So no private sales.

I wouldn't buy anything from them. The only thing I'd go there for is the eye candy.

I wish Kiesler's was on my side of the river.
 
Where a business sets any price is not "ripping you off". There's no deception involved. Pay the freight for their selection, pay the freight for their transfers, pay the freight for their expertise...or not. But just because you've found something cheaper elsewhere is no reason to accuse anyone of unethical business practices. Just shop somewhere else. P.S. - Try Whittakers (ask for Daryl, he'll be out-front) near Owensboro. IMHO, the best gunshop in the state. Or Ron's Sport Shop in Marion.
 
Well, they got Jerry Miculek to come to Louisville for a S&W Promo. So...somebody thinks they're okay. My point was, if they're open & honest about what they're charging, it may be higher than a cat's arse...but it's not a rip off.
 
One can never speak generally or loosely these days... but yea. Thanks for the recs I will Google them and see if they got what I am looking for.
 
This is Free Market Economics and any merchant should be allowed to charge anything that they please. The market will either support it or they won't. No one is cuffing you to their store and making you pay their prices nor purchase their products.

There is a Shooters Supply in Northern Ky across the river from Cincinnati that is a very nice place. Knowledgeable and friendly people and an indoor range that you could literally eat off of the floor.
 
I don't think the OP was trying to say that the place had unethical business standards. At least I don't read that from his original post. Looks to me like he was just giving everyone a heads up as to their inflated prices. It looks like no harm done. If I lived in the Louisville area and was looking for guns, I'd appreciate the tip about them.
 
This is Free Market Economics and any merchant should be allowed to charge anything that they please. The market will either support it or they won't. No one is cuffing you to their store and making you pay their prices nor purchase their products.
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You've just heard my free market review.:)
 
I don't think the OP was trying to say that the place had unethical business standards. At least I don't read that from his original post. Looks to me like he was just giving everyone a heads up as to their inflated prices. It looks like no harm done. If I lived in the Louisville area and was looking for guns, I'd appreciate the tip about them.
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Yes. Precisely. Thank you.
 
but they will rip you off.
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My mistake. That sounded strangely, uh..."unethical" to me. If you think the prices are too high, that's one thing. Does that mean a $3 ballpark hotdog or my Ryder Cup tickets last year were a rip off? Nope, not at all. They're quite expensive...but worth every penny. Could I have found them any cheaper? I don't know & I don't care. I wanted them, I bought them, I used them, I enjoyed them. And, since you CAN'T be "ripped off" until you actually BUY something, you can't even use "rip off" as a reason not to buy! It might be too expensive for an individual, but high-prices are not a "rip off" as long as you can go shop somewhere else. Until money is taken from you by stealing, cheating or exploiting (see Webster's) it's just your opinion.
 
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Geez, people get way too worked up over this "free market" "capitalism at work" non-sense. :banghead: Unethical would be like knowingly selling a product that is defective....something like that. Over-inflating prices isn't exactly unethical and like I said, I don't see anyone saying it is.

Let's put it like this, if I was about to drop a few hundred dollars on a table saw at Lowe's and another customer says hey they've got the same one for $20 cheaper at Home Depot just down the road, I'd say thanks for the tip and make my way there. I wouldn't jump all over him and start an argument about how I can buy from Lowe's if I want and if I want to pay more for it then it's my business.

I get your point Allegiance. :D
 
Being familiar with that store, I then ask you, OP--did they HAVE firearms? Did they have a good selection? Did they actually carry what people wanted, rather than the other shops that have sold out of darn near everything?

My bet is that yeah, they probably did--for which they charge a slightly higher premium. Welcome to the Free Market. They have things, but in order to get them without waiting (due to fears of a ban, impatience, the urge to get the first cool thing on the block, or whatever), you pay a premium. If you want to get put on a 24 month wait for an AR from podunk dealer in the backwoods, but save $30, that's also your perogative.

No one is forcing you to buy their things. They have product that other dealers don't, and charge more for the fact that you can get it immediately rather than wait. If you think their prices are high, don't buy from there. However, plenty of people DO buy from there, because they actually HAVE PRODUCT.

It's that whole supply and demand thing. They aren't necissarily trying to scam you out of money--they're just trying to do their job, and make some money; they just happen to HAVE things that people want, rather than be waiting for things, and so the market supports their higher prices. If the market didn't support it, odds are they would either lower their prices, or fold.
 
Over-inflating prices isn't exactly unethical... , I don't see anyone saying it is.
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I disagree. That is PRECISELY what the OP said.
Is "ripping customers off" unethical? If yes, then you & I agree. Are high prices unethical? If no, then you & I still agree. How can you now hold that the OP didn't use the example of high prices as the evidence ("they will rip you off") of unethical business practices?

Pay Shooter's Supply prices or decide they're too high for you. Just don't confuse high prices with ripping anyone off.
 
Being familiar with that store, I then ask you, OP--did they HAVE firearms? Did they have a good selection? Did they actually carry what people wanted, rather than the other shops that have sold out of darn near everything?
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I said it was a nice enough shop with nice enough folks. Got plenty of arms. Did I say they did not? All the shops I went to had what I wanted to see as well without their premium. Seems the demand in that shop is so dang high that they are the most expensive one in town.

If you want to shop there, it won't hurt my feelings. If you got the excess money to spend, I am pleased to hear that. I am simply telling you or others that their prices are, in fact, quite high as you well know and concede. Tremendously better deals are in town. As I said above, this consumer, in this here free market, reviews this place as overpriced and therefore unworthy of my business. Now if I couldn't find a shop around with what I needed and I couldn't find anything online I would probably shop there if I needed to. It would truly then, be for me, a supply and demand issue and then it would make more economic sense for me to shop there.

Maybe I'm just a prick, I dunno.
 
I disagree. That is PRECISELY what the OP said.
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Well if clarification directly from the OP doesn't make you reinterpret, then no amount of reason will ever convince you otherwise and we're beating a dead horse. Are we not?
 
I disagree. That is PRECISELY what the OP said.
Is "ripping customers off" unethical? If yes, then you & I agree. Are high prices unethical? If no, then you & I still agree. How can you now hold that the OP didn't use the example of high prices as the evidence ("they will rip you off") of unethical business practices?
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Unless the original post has been edited, I don't see anything written that says anything about unethical. If people are drawing conclusions that "ripping off" is equal to unethical business practices then they've drawn their own conclusion, not necessarily the same conclusion that others have drawn. Looks like people are trying overanalyze what was said to me. Try not to read too much into what was said. :confused:
 
Maybe I'm just a prick, I dunno.
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Nah.

Try 111 Gun Shop, across the river. It's like the route you'd take on the freeway back from Kiesler's, only you don't actually get on the freeway--you take that little road to the right hand side, ride it a little ways.

They're small, but their prices are darn near impossible to beat for the Louisville area--and they transfer to a place in Louisville, no problem, for relatively cheap, IIRC.

Once I get back in town, I think they might become my "go-to" dealer for firearms.

That being said, Shooter's does seem to have a near monopoly on accessories.
 
I've shopped recently at both 111 and Shooterssupply. Yes, Shooterssupply's prices are higher than a lot of the shops in the area, but, if you really look around you can find some pretty good buys. A friend of mine was looking for an AR15 a few weeks ago. Shooters had a DPMS Sportical for about $700. Most of the others in the area don't have any in stock. $700 was a good price considering how the prices have skyrocketed.

On the other hand, I bought a used FAL from 111 for about $700 and I was quite happy with that price too.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Try 111 Gun Shop, across the river. It's like the route you'd take on the freeway back from Kiesler's, only you don't actually get on the freeway--you take that little road to the right hand side, ride it a little ways.
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I tried to go there on Saturday after Kiesler's. I arrived just as he was closing up so I back tracked to Bass Pro. I am glad to hear they got some good prices because that is one of the few locally I haven't yet checked out.
 
You've just heard my free market review.
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+1

Nothing wrong with freedom of speech here. When somebody bashes a gun manufacturer
online, we all still listen in and learn. We aren't being forced to listen here so no harm done.
 
The biggest gun store where I live has a great selection, great sales people, clean store, but their prices are often above MSRP.
So, I go there to look, feel, and research, but I buy else ware. Sad.
Now, their gunshow prices are good, so I know they sell a ton there.

No, don't start the buyers vs. gunstore thread, it's just a fact.
 
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