Another Gun Show Thread - THIS Time I've Seen It All!

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jad0110 said:
I might have that one beat: Raleigh NC gunshow earlier this year, a Russian SKS in good condition for ... $1,000 :barf: .
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Maybe he had no intention of really selling it? Told his wife when he got home, " I tried to sell it like you told me to, but must be the economy, nobody's got any money?"

;)
 
Knowing that someone has been in and out of a hospital isn't the same as really knowing why they make their choices as they do. It sounds like the fringe of more paternalism to me.

If you were a Smith follower you would start buying table space at the shows and charging what you think is a more fair price. If you were right, you would be able to sell a lot and save many people from overpriced junk.
 
In real life a real dad bought a real Jimenez for 300.00 for a real daughter that was moving out on her own. He's not a firearms hobbyist and, evidently, not much for research. Adam Smith would hold that if she's found strangled with a jammed zamak gun in her hand it's her and her father's fault for not researching the issue.
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Or... the gun didn't jam... I know, silly hypothesis for a Jennings, but sometimes they do fire. The bad guy ends up dead, the girl is safe and that $300 investment was the greatest thing since all you can eat pizza was developed.

Capitalism worked! YAY. go ME!
 
If you were a Smith follower you would start buying table space at the shows and charging what you think is a more fair price. If you were right, you would be able to sell a lot and save many people from overpriced junk.
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Smith has me engaged in other pursuits. Thus far it's worked out well.

I'll take care of the one situation that galled me personally and engage in the rare gun show shock thread - there are far more threads than I have urges to report.

"Fringe paternalism"? I hadn't considered it but you may be right. It doesn't feel like snobbery. It feels more like indignation and, possibly, paternalism in the one specific case.
 
As H.L. Mencken said: "Noboby ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
 
Ummm... actually that would be "ochocientos veinticinco dólares"
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So sue me! :p

I might have that one beat: Raleigh NC gunshow earlier this year, a Russian SKS in good condition for ... $1,000 .
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Maybe he had no intention of really selling it? Told his wife when he got home, " I tried to sell it like you told me to, but must be the economy, nobody's got any money?"
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Good point and good idea! :)
 
Sorry, I just don't see the issue. People offer products for what they think will get them the highest reward. They are betting the table fee on their ability to set prices people will pay. If they set their prices too high they won't sell anything and they'll be out their table fee. They probably won't show up at the next gun show. Problem solved. If they set prices too low they'll sell everything on their table without covering expenses and they won't show up at the next gun show. Problem solved that way too.
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The consumer is much more savvy now, not because people have gotten smarter (they haven't), but we all have access to the internet and know what certain items should cost. Gun Shows ceased being a place you could find good deals easily in the 1980's.
 
We have fairly decent shows in Alabama. Major ripoffs on reloading components but some decent prices on pistols and rifles. Last two shows I got an old Star PD for $300 and then a Garand built from Springfield parts with an unwelded receiver for $600.

Gotta walk the tables though because there is always overpriced crapola.

Tom
 
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