Is this ignorance or just plain stupidity

[Mike1234567]

"Why keep it anymore?" asked a gray-haired man from Tavares, who would not identify himself. "I had it for probably 40 years, probably just to have. Never used it. So why keep it? I can make better use of $50 at Walmart."

"I thought our education system was considered top notch 60 years ago? He needs a lesson in basic economics."

I knew an older gentleman in his mid 80's who returned a $1.29 spark plug and drove a 60 mile round trip in his Lincoln Continental to buy an identical spark plug for $.99 so he could save $.30. Sometimes there just isn't any logical explanation for others' actions. When we get old we often lose our ability to reason.

So, IMHO, those beurocrats took advantage of a senile old man. I consider that criminal.

 

[macadore]

I wonder how many of those were stolen or used in crimes?

 

[HOOfan_1]

I knew an older gentleman in his mid 80's who returned a $1.29 spark plug and drove a 60 mile round trip in his Lincoln Continental to buy an identical spark plug for $.99 so he could save $.30.

My dad said his grandfather wasted more gas riding from store to store looking for deals on items he could have bought at the first store.

I think my dad is actually getting to be like that for gas though....he will pass by a perfectly empty gas station selling gas for $3.40/gallon, to go another 5 miles to a packed full gas station selling it for $3.37/gallon, and wait 8-10 minutes before he can even get to the pump. At a 20 gallon fill up he is saving 60 cents. I asked him one time "if someone offered you the chance to go to the front of the line if you gave them 60 cents, would you do it?" He said yes....so he might as well have gone to the empy station that was charging 3 cents a gallon more.



ANYWAY. Maybe when a gun buyback is being advertised the local pawn shops and gun stores should get together and put an ad in the paper and run TV and radio ads that tells people to bring their guns to those shops for evaluation before deciding to turn them in for a $50 gift card. Make them aware that they could possibly get far more than $50 and that it is perfectly legal.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

$50 gift card, I could go to Wal-Mart, buy a bunch of $20 Daisy Red Ryders and bring them there for $30 profit each. FREE MONEY!

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I wonder how many of those guns will be linked to murderers, shootings, and other crimes if they ran the SN's.

LOL, I didn't realize that guns imprint their serial numbers on bullets when they fire them so that they can link shootings and murders with the guns.

 

[steelbird]

That's a great idea, hoofan, but I think when the gun buybacks are announced, there's not enough time for an LGS or pawnshop to place an ad giving people another option to sell their guns ( which I suspect is a deliberate move on the part of those who run the buyback programs ). The only way to speedilly promote a counter-offer by a pawnshop or an LGS would be through the social media outlets.

 

[303tom]

It is a damn shame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HOOfan_1]

The only way to speedilly promote a counter-offer by a pawnshop or an LGS would be through the social media outlets.

I bet the older gentlemen and ladies who were turning over their relics are not great followers of those.

I've never heard of a gun collection (buyback is a disingenuous term) in my area...or even my state, but I bet they are very common in cities like Detroit, Chicago and LA. Maybe if it were cost effective the shops could just keep up permanent bill boards offering to evaluate and buy used guns for higher prices than one would get at a gun collection. It is my understanding that the gun stores make a good deal of money on used guns, so it could be a win win situation.

 

[steelbird]

Hey hoofan,

Yeah, "buyback" isn't the best of terms, but it's the one I've heard most often when these things come up. I forgot to mention that part about how seniors are probably not plugged in to social media ( I'm still many years from that myself, and don't get social media stuff myself ). A regular ad placement is also a good suggestion ( here in the JAX, Florida area the local pawnshops do advertise that they buy guns so a "buyback" probably wouldn't work here ), but I think advertising would depend on how often the "buybacks" occur and how aware the public is about getting a better deal. AFAIK, no such events occur in the JAX area, as people here know they have better choices.

 

[Mike1234567]

Maybe the best way to handle it is peaceful protests across the street from the collection areas with big signs informing folks of better options.