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I’ve been watching coverage of Shot Shot on YouTube. Generally, I like watching TFB’s 2-5 minute clips of the new products. Some of the products are cool, but nearly all of them have ridiculously high MSRPs and the vendors keep straight faces when they share the MSRPs.
For instance, KelTech has a striker fired 9mm pistol (P-15) with a polymer variant with an MSRP of $425 and an aluminum variant for $795. Although the gun is supposed to have the smallest dimensions of any 15-round 9mm pistol and street prices are generally lower than MSRP, I don’t find it to have any revolutionary and/or superior characteristics that warrant such a high MSRP. You can argue that such prices are in line with Glocks, SIGs, S&Ws, etc, but I generally find products from those makers to be of higher quality, time-tested through military/police service, and of reliable/proven designs.
This is only one example, but there are myriad items that are similar… products that do the same thing or are of the same design/operating system as existing products, but whose MSRPs double or triple the MSRPs of current offerings. It seems that nearly every PCC/rifle has an MSRP in the $2k range, despite current similar offerings falling in the $1000 range.
While some will likely blame inflation or the need to recover R&D expenses, I don’t totally buy that argument as there have been and remain many guns and gun-related products currently selling at or near pre-COVID/pre-Brandon prices.
This isn’t meant to be a complaint as nobody is forcing me or anyone else to buy things that we feel are overpriced. I just post this because I’m curious whether others have similar impressions.
What are your thoughts? Am I the only one that finds the MSRPs of new releases to be out-of-touch with what the average person is comfortable spending?
For instance, KelTech has a striker fired 9mm pistol (P-15) with a polymer variant with an MSRP of $425 and an aluminum variant for $795. Although the gun is supposed to have the smallest dimensions of any 15-round 9mm pistol and street prices are generally lower than MSRP, I don’t find it to have any revolutionary and/or superior characteristics that warrant such a high MSRP. You can argue that such prices are in line with Glocks, SIGs, S&Ws, etc, but I generally find products from those makers to be of higher quality, time-tested through military/police service, and of reliable/proven designs.
This is only one example, but there are myriad items that are similar… products that do the same thing or are of the same design/operating system as existing products, but whose MSRPs double or triple the MSRPs of current offerings. It seems that nearly every PCC/rifle has an MSRP in the $2k range, despite current similar offerings falling in the $1000 range.
While some will likely blame inflation or the need to recover R&D expenses, I don’t totally buy that argument as there have been and remain many guns and gun-related products currently selling at or near pre-COVID/pre-Brandon prices.
This isn’t meant to be a complaint as nobody is forcing me or anyone else to buy things that we feel are overpriced. I just post this because I’m curious whether others have similar impressions.
What are your thoughts? Am I the only one that finds the MSRPs of new releases to be out-of-touch with what the average person is comfortable spending?
