When someone gets out there going to a bunch of gun shows, estate sales, gun shop closings, auctions and going over the classified adds for hours at a time, spending who knows how many hours and dollars for entry fees and gas and commisions and then finally finds a gun for maybe a couple of hundred dollars cheaper and then fails to include all that time and money spent when bragging about their "savings". That is what some people are referring to on some of these internet boasts. Someone having to put that much effort in to "saving" one or two hundred bucks is not actually getting a great deal. If you happen to fall into a deal right off the bat, that's differnent. Of course people run into great deals. But not all of these deals are actually that great.
I've seen guys who have credit at a shop or trade in a gun on a deal and then they will claim that the amount of cash they paid is the price they got the gun for, conveniently forgetting to include the tradein or the credit they had.
If I find the gun I want at a decent (not fantastic) price, I'm not going to spend months and a couple of hundred dollars searching to not actually save any money. Mark