GhostlyKarliion
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This will be mostly rant, the question is at the bottom.
Saw this today on a certain website:
A search on gunbroker shows that the KSG is selling (with actual bids) for almost double MSRP. If you can find one you can literally double your money in a week. Same is true for the PMR-30, and I'd suspect other guns. The only KelTec firearms that I ever see available are their .380, .38, and 9mm handguns.
I want a KSG, I want a RFB, I want a PMR-30, but there is no way I can afford to pay 2x retail for them, and even if I could, I can't find one locally anywhere.
I really don't understand this. I have run a company before and if I could not meet demand I expanded until I could. Responsible businesses don't just leave customers wanting their product indefinitely, they know that their customers will find a competitor that can supply them, at this point I am hoping that Beretta or Mossberg or Benelli or someone else starts making a bullpup shotgun to compete with KelTec so that I can actually get my hands on one.
The question is this: Why? Does anyone know the real reason that they haven't expanded their manufacturing capabilities? It can't be for lack of demand or profitability, the equipment would pay for itself in a couple of product runs. KelTec has the potential to be one of the most successful firearm businesses around, so why don't they?
Saw this today on a certain website:
keltecweapons.com/about said:Kel-Tec continues to grow and expand at our Cocoa facility... to keep up with demand.
A search on gunbroker shows that the KSG is selling (with actual bids) for almost double MSRP. If you can find one you can literally double your money in a week. Same is true for the PMR-30, and I'd suspect other guns. The only KelTec firearms that I ever see available are their .380, .38, and 9mm handguns.
I want a KSG, I want a RFB, I want a PMR-30, but there is no way I can afford to pay 2x retail for them, and even if I could, I can't find one locally anywhere.
I really don't understand this. I have run a company before and if I could not meet demand I expanded until I could. Responsible businesses don't just leave customers wanting their product indefinitely, they know that their customers will find a competitor that can supply them, at this point I am hoping that Beretta or Mossberg or Benelli or someone else starts making a bullpup shotgun to compete with KelTec so that I can actually get my hands on one.
The question is this: Why? Does anyone know the real reason that they haven't expanded their manufacturing capabilities? It can't be for lack of demand or profitability, the equipment would pay for itself in a couple of product runs. KelTec has the potential to be one of the most successful firearm businesses around, so why don't they?