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Curious if people have any thoughts on why so many good quality rifles that are sold used have such cheap scopes mounted on them? Is it that people don't understand or don't care about quality optics?
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Wal-Mart.
No, seriously, sorta. One of the big reasons people haven't realized just how much inflation we've had - aside from the gov't monkeying with the numbers - is the fact that they keep paying the same prices for cheaper and cheaper made-in-China crap from places like Wal-Mart.
People don't know the value of the dollar anymore, and they're not educated enough to understand what it is they're buying. Here is a couple of hints for people:
- If you even bother looking at the price tag on something, then you're not spending anywhere near enough money to be "paying extra for a name".
- You might not get what you pay for, but you never get what you don't pay for.
Combine this with people who are really only buying firearms as toys to show off to their friends, and you get all sorts of silliness.