Proper Gun Dealer Etiquette?

[inherentical]

And you'd quickly find yourself without a dealer to do business with.
That would go for your friends and relatives too.

Hell, I can get an FFL if I need one. Apparently your dealer doesn't need customers.

 

[Zoidberg523]

I would like to make one thing clear about my posts - I am not saying that all dealers ought to pay everyone top dollar for their guns, and I am not saying that dealer should turn down a great deal if the customer throws one his way.

What I have issues with, and what all of my comments are based upon, are dealers that are actively trying to screw unknowing customers through lowballing. The difference is subtle, yet important, and must be judged on a case by case basis.

 

[Gouranga]

are dealers that are actively trying to screw unknowing customers through lowballing

Honestly, it is the customers job to know what his stuff is worth. If I am going to the dealer (and paying him/her) to get an accurate appraisal of a weapons value than I expect it and I am paying him/her for that service. If I go to a dealer with the intent to sell, his intent is going to be to get that weapon as cheap as possible, mine is to make as much as possible. IMO, the obligation of the gun dealer is to pay me what price we agree on.

 

[natman]

What I have issues with, and what all of my comments are based upon, are dealers that are actively trying to screw unknowing customers through lowballing. The difference is subtle, yet important, and must be judged on a case by case basis.

Clearly that is not the case in the example from the OP, since the guy who saw fit to butt in made an offer within $50 of what the dealer offered.

Even if it were the case, you would be out of line to say so while in the dealer's store. You want to complain about the prices a certain dealer pays for used guns, feel free to tell your friends, post notices on the internet, whatever, but not under the dealer's own roof.

 

[buck460XVR]

I think the dealer did what any legitimate dealer would do. He tried to sell bullets that would work just fine and he gave what he thought was a price he could afford to pay for some guns that he may or may not be able to resell within a reasonable time. Unlike many of us want to believe, all gun shop owners are in the business to make money......if they don't, they aren't around very long. Iffin I remember correctly, that's the way it works in our capitalistic society. I'm thinkin' this particular owner was reasonably sharp and was able to "read" the customers in his shop that day. Whether it was a shell game the two others were trying to pull or whether the wanna-be buyer was just stupid, is irrelevant, and the owner had every right to ask them to leave.

 

[Bubbles]

What I have issues with, and what all of my comments are based upon, are dealers that are actively trying to screw unknowing customers through lowballing. The difference is subtle, yet important, and must be judged on a case by case basis.

Maybe it's just because I'm in a place with a "smaller town" feel (though we're growing), but... if we pulled that stunt, word would get around pretty fast that we'd screwed old farmer Jones's widow on the deal, and we wouldn't get any customers.