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Posted: 6/14/2022 1:00:10 PM EDT
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Zanders.
Really it has little do do with you being a kitchen table and everything to do with how much you are spending with that distributor. If you aren't spending $$$$$$, you aren't getting allocations. What you see on a distributors website is what's left over from their allocated product. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 1:34:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Zanders. Really it has little do do with you being a kitchen table and everything to do with how much you are spending with that distributor. If you aren't spending $$$$$$, you aren't getting allocations. What you see on a distributors website is what's left over from their allocated product. Reason I mentioned Kitchen Table is that disqualifies you from some distributors. RSR will NOT give you a firearms account without a brick and mortar store. I told them that I sell out of my home, keep inventory, and sell online, and they said not good enough. My account rep at Lipsey's is lying to me then (not that I doubt it), told me the guns I keep asking for haven't been seen in months. So my potential customers keep going to GB instead. 
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Posted: 6/14/2022 2:30:28 PM EDT
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I like Zanders, and Interstate Arms has been good to work with (their new website is almost unusable though so I go through sales rep for most stuff with them). Lipseys won't ship to my UPS store box even though it's my FFL's listed mailing address so I don't order anything from them. RSR is great for accessory stuff, and you can actually order guns from them if you have a drop ship account along with the regular accessory account.
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:54:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Reason I mentioned Kitchen Table is that disqualifies you from some distributors. RSR will NOT give you a firearms account without a brick and mortar store. I told them that I sell out of my home, keep inventory, and sell online, and they said not good enough. Quote HistoryQuoted: Reason I mentioned Kitchen Table is that disqualifies you from some distributors. RSR will NOT give you a firearms account without a brick and mortar store. I told them that I sell out of my home, keep inventory, and sell online, and they said not good enough. <---Kitchen table, have a firearms account with RSR since 2008. My account rep at Lipsey's is lying to me then (not that I doubt it), told me the guns I keep asking for haven't been seen in months. So my potential customers keep going to GB instead. Surely you knew before applying for your FFL that this is common. It's discussed weekly in this subforum. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:12:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: <---Kitchen table, have a firearms account with RSR since 2008. Then they changed their policy. I'm not just making this shit up over here. My application listed my home address with the hours of 5pm-10pm M-F and 9-9 S/S and it was denied as it's not an actual storefront.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:21:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Then they changed their policy. Yes they did. And they should be ashamed because RSR got its start as a home based business. |
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Posted: 7/12/2022 12:52:14 PM EDT
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I'm home based and started my account with RSR in early 2012.
I think the only sell to brick & mortar came in 2014. At first they were talking about dropping all home based dealers. They eventually grandfathered current home dealers. A few years ago there were ways around the B&M rule. I know guys that have a nice wood building (large shed) in their back yard that was accepted as B&M. This was 5 years ago when I was doing a lot of gun shows. They may have got more strict on the rules since then. But it may be worth checking into. |
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Posted: 7/16/2022 12:37:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm home based and started my account with RSR in early 2012. I think the only sell to brick & mortar came in 2014. At first they were talking about dropping all home based dealers. They eventually grandfathered current home dealers. A few years ago there were ways around the B&M rule. I know guys that have a nice wood building (large shed) in their back yard that was accepted as B&M. This was 5 years ago when I was doing a lot of gun shows. They may have got more strict on the rules since then. But it may be worth checking into. I signed up with RSR in early 2021 as a home based FFL and never had any issue ordering whatever I wanted from them. I just switched from a Sole Proprietor FFL to an LLC and now hope that I can transfer my account over, because I am still home based. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 4:45:20 PM EDT
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I have a full rsr account and a home based set up in May. I think it has to do with how rural you are, maybe. They asked for pictures of inventory and store front. I took a picture of our house and the 2 guns I had in inventory at that time.
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Posted: 7/19/2022 5:05:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have a full rsr account and a home based set up in May. I think it has to do with how rural you are, maybe. They asked for pictures of inventory and store front. I took a picture of our house and the 2 guns I had in inventory at that time. Seriously? What the hell lol *Off to take a picture of my house and inventory wall* |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 5:46:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have a full rsr account and a home based set up in May. I think it has to do with how rural you are, maybe. They asked for pictures of inventory and store front. I took a picture of our house and the 2 guns I had in inventory at that time. I joined rsr in January of this year and they never asked for pictures of anything. Full access to their inventory at approval. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 5:59:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I joined rsr in January of this year and they never asked for pictures of anything. Full access to their inventory at approval. I'm going to call my AE and ask him I guess. See what he thinks. |
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Posted: 7/20/2022 7:33:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm going to call my AE and ask him I guess. See what he thinks. It was the same with Zanders, 2nd amendment wholesale and MGE. Sign up for pawholesale as well. It's Primary arms wholesale site. Cmmgdealersales.com Aeroprecisionusa.com |
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Posted: 7/20/2022 9:45:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was the same with Zanders, 2nd amendment wholesale and MGE. Sign up for pawholesale as well. It's Primary arms wholesale site. Cmmgdealersales.com Aeroprecisionusa.com I had zero issues getting Zanders, Lipsey's, and Davidson's. Also have Anderson which must have tiered pricing. My AR lower price is higher than Aim sells them for. RSR is the only one this far that gave me trouble. Which sucks as they seem to be the best stocked. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:26:33 AM EDT
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get the RSR accessory account anyways.
silencershop, allen arms. also direct with geissele, aero, BA, griffin, YHM, primary arms wholesale. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 11:05:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was the same with Zanders, 2nd amendment wholesale and MGE. Sign up for pawholesale as well. It's Primary arms wholesale site. Cmmgdealersales.com Aeroprecisionusa.com Any company that has their own retail, web or any type of direct to consumer sales means they are competing with you. Be sure they wont undercut you when $$$ runs short. I ordered a bunch of lowers from Primary at the supposed dealer discount and two weeks later they had them on sale on their retail site for less than I paid. That doesn't engender dealer loyalty.  Rebel tried that with silencers. Begged for dealers, then started selling direct off their website. I sent them an email saying you keep doing that and I'll never place another order. They stopped. Rebel Silencers.....nice guys but a model of how not to run a business. |
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