What's Up With Bud's?

[oneounceload]

Remember, Bud's does NOT stock a lot of the items they offer for sale - makes inventory costs low and one reason they can price things the way they do, BUT, it also means they (and you) are at the mercy of their distributors

My LGS can beat Bud's pricing AND their delivery -even with tax, etc.......no two week delivery times

 

[Balrog]

emember, Bud's does NOT stock a lot of the items they offer for sale - makes inventory costs low and one reason they can price things the way they do, BUT, it also means they (and you) are at the mercy of their distributors

If something is not in stock, they list it as not in stock, and you can't order it. Pretty much if it is in stock, they say it is, and also note it is in their store.

 

[Panzercat]

This is going to sound a bit anti-social, and I don't like that, but at the end of the day its the truth: a lot of people simply don't want to talk to anyone in person. People tell stories, people waste time, people have limited business hours, and people make mistakes. If my goal is socialization then that's fine, but when I want to do a business transaction, the fewer people I need to deal with the better.

What, you don't like trying to coax a sale out of that crotchety prima donna gun store owner?

 

[oneounceload]

If something is not in stock, they list it as not in stock, and you can't order it

If their distributor has it in stock, then it is "in stock", doesn't have to be in their own warehouse. We did the same thing at a utility with local vendors - we had items "in stock" that were actually somewhere else

 

[Sgt.Murtaugh]

Local gun shops hate Bud's.

They undercut their business and hate having to do transfers from Bud's.

I don't mind Bud's but my local gunshop owner told me this.

Any dealers out there who concur?

 

[mgmorden]

Local gun shops hate Bud's.

They undercut their business and hate having to do transfers from Bud's.

I don't mind Bud's but my local gunshop owner told me this.

Any dealers out there who concur?

Just don't use people who do sales for your transfers. The guy I normally use strictly does transfers (and only at $15 per transfer so its a heck of a deal). He actively promotes Buds and other such shops as that's where he gets his business from (and he's doing enough that it's his sole occupation - he's doing several thousand of them per year).

Another local guy with similar prices is just a gunsmith. Naturally he has to have an FFL to conduct business, so he'll do transfers, but he doesn't care about it as he doesn't have a shop with inventory to sell - he just does work orders and the transfers on the side (and being the "go to" guy for almost every competition shooter I know in the area, he stays pretty well backlogged on work).

Personally, I've had primarily negative experiences with the traditional "gun shop". Stuck up stuffy old codgers who refuse to get with the times, price their inventory well above market rates, and act as if you've greatly insulted them if you DARE to enter their shop and be in their presence without throwing money at them the instant you walk in. They are naturally free to run their business how they want, but I feel absolutely no need nor desire to support them. The combined system of mail order vendors with dedicated transfer agents to handle their sales has worked much better for me, and as such I'd rather they get my money.

 

[oneounceload]

Local gun shops hate Bud's.

They undercut their business and hate having to do transfers from Bud's.

I don't mind Bud's but my local gunshop owner told me this.

Any dealers out there who concur?

Mine doesn't - he does transfers from them all week long - BUT, give him a chance and he will beat Bud's every time, even with sales tax figured in.

Bud's is nice, but those who think it is gun sales from Heaven are incorrect

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

oneounceload and the others that are saying their LGS's will meet or beat Buds, feel fortunate then fellas as we do not all have that. Every LGS within 100 miles of me here is at MINIMUM 40% higher than Buds. And half the online dealerships wont even sell to us here in Illinois! They hate dealing with all the BS that comes from this socialist states anti 2nd gun laws. Puts a lot of us between a rock and a hard place to say the least.

 

[gfanikf]

You must have missed the big pop-up notice on the front page, which says in part:

Let alone the start of Hanukkah!

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[TJx]

One of my local shops bumped their transfer fee from $20 to $50 on guns they could get primarily in response to people ordering from Bud's. He said he was tired of making Bud's money.
I just bought a PPQ from him and paid $7 more than Bud's. (which is just over an hours drive)

 

[wojownik]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ttolhurst
You must have missed the big pop-up notice on the front page, which says in part:

Let alone the start of Hanukkah!

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Or the Orthodox Christmas on the other end of the season, on January 7th. Just sayin' ... retailers - including gun shops in this case - often forget that there is a combined holiday market of some 10 million Americans of the Orthodox Christian and Jewish faiths that could be better considered...

And, I sympathize with TJx - most of my LGS' substantially increased their transfer fees over the past year - doubled in one case.

 

[gfanikf]

Or the Orthodox Christmas on the other end of the season, on January 7th. Just sayin' ... retailers - including gun shops in this case - often forget that there is a combined holiday market of some 10 million Americans of the Orthodox Christian and Jewish faiths that could be better considered...

And, I sympathize with TJx - most of my LGS' substantially increased their transfer fees over the past year - doubled in one case.

Damn straight!

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[CajunBass]

This is funny. If they had left them up and taken an order that did not get there by Christmas you'd be calling for their heads. From what I can tell Bud's has decent prices, better than any store in my area, which includes one of the largest gun stores in the Western US. They made a move to try to keep people from bemoaning them for not delivering by Christmas and people are bemoaning them anyway. Was it the right move? They thought so but the internet seems to think not. That being said I would agree with leaving the stock up but putting big flashing banner messages warning about delivery times. But people would still whine and moan... Cause as we know the customer is always right.

And for the record I have never bought anything from Bud's. Just thought it was funny...

Ain't that the truth? P&M, P&M, P&M. They ain't never happy.

I've never bought anything from them either. Probably never will.

 

[SSN Vet]

Buds? Bah Humbug!!

LGS? Bah Humbug!!

use taxes? Bah Humbug!!

Transfer fees? Bah Humbug!!

Christmas? Bah Humbug!!

Hanukkah? Bah Humbug!!

Epiphany? Bah Humbug!!

Kwanza? Bah Humbug!!

Cause as we know the customer is always right.

NOT!!!

No more so than the forum grumps

 

[Ben86]

They must have changed their minds because long guns are definitely up for sale now.

 

[Dnaltrop]

After the shipping charge my LGS comes darn close in price. Good shop though if you don't have a decent LGS beyond transfer paperwork.