dogtown tom
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I know. Thats why I mentioned it.
Firearm Compliance FEE
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Steel Horse Rider
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It still boils down to either use the service or don't. You do have a choice.
Golfanaticshooter
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I won't use Gunbroker ever again! But I will use Amazon, use Google to search and shop regularly at Wal Mart! Hell, Dicks has a sale on boots, I'm on my way...............
Steel Horse Rider
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Isn't that a little inconsistent in your belief structure or is it only because it has a direct financial impact on you.
Golfanaticshooter
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Sarcasm....
Trey Veston
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I got the same email. So, I like that they used a $1 example of the new fee meaning $.22 per dollar fee.
Oh... 22 cents is no big deal.
But 22 cents times the $600 I spent on the last firearm I purchased from GB means an extra $132 fee. Pretty sure there is no way that GB is going to be assessing a 22 cent per dollar fee on all sales. That would be ridiculous and idiotic.
Oh... 22 cents is no big deal.
But 22 cents times the $600 I spent on the last firearm I purchased from GB means an extra $132 fee. Pretty sure there is no way that GB is going to be assessing a 22 cent per dollar fee on all sales. That would be ridiculous and idiotic.
That's incorrect.. the fee is 1%
Your example of 600.00 = 6.00
The .22 was just an example
windini
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True, but not quite the perspective I have. I try and consider the cummulative costs of whatever I'm buying, whether it's on GB or at the grocery store. Purchase price, tax, shipping, etc., all must be added into a comparison equation.
Another thing lurking in the back of my mind is cummulative total taxes we're subjected to. "It's only 22 cents" or " only 6 bucks to open their market to me" should, in my view, be thought of as "22 MORE cents" and "6 MORE dollars."
I see GB's new fee as a private tax added onto the requirement (or choice?) to collect the gubmint tax. (That's another problematic issue best suited for some other discussion: ever increasing numbers of different taxes and/or increasing tax rates.)
Where I live, the sales tax rate is 7%. So an additional 1% feetax on the grabbing of the taxtax represents an increase of greater than 14% on the tax I'm already subject to: 1/7 = .1429. So GB just raised my tax rate by over 14% on any purchase made using their service. Hm. Methinks I'll reconsider my options.
Note as well that this increase in user costs comes after over a year of a surging legal traffic in firearms! People are buying guns, ammo, and accessories in record numbers, inventory is scarce, and prices are high -- and GB snatches a handful off the top of every transaction as the commerce floodwaters rise. It would be interesting to see how much GB's revenue has increased in the last 18 months, especially when most of their work is done automatically and electronically.
And they choose this time to increase the size of the scoop they use to dip into the fee river. Unless they've had to build a new cloud warehouse to store all the new 1's and 0's representing pew-pews they've been digitally picking up and dropping off, then it sounds kinda like greed to me.
Do they have the right to charge whatever they want? Yep. Do I have the right to shop elsewhere? Yep.
Final note: @tarosean , I don't mean to sound like I'm going off on you!
Your post was just a springboard for me to launch a flying rant at a rolling donut. Cheers, man.- Status
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