Ok just a few things from both sides of the fence.
yea lots of the same vendors at gun shows.
No one elce is dumb enough to get in the gun busniess Dam hard way to make a living.(hard to make a profit when wholsale prices are published in shotgun news every week.)
oh yea and tables are 60 to 80 dollars each depending on the show.
by the way you need to make 40 to 50% mark up to stay open.{min}
Lots more customers with no clue wich end of the gun is the front and tell me it must be that way because they read it on the internet.
yep lots of dealers who suck!!!
give us all a bad name.
so I recomend if you have a dealer you like and trust support them!!
for example dont buy that $225 sks when I sell better quality ones for 1$59.95
yes I see this happen a lot!!
moving on to the sales tax issue when was the last time you went to wal-mart and asked them not to collect the sales tax on your purchace.
dont like sales tax tell those gimps in the legeslature to stop spending money.
oh dont get mad at me if I offer you dealer cost for your gun what kind of dumb ass whould I be if I did not.
yea some dealers think there stuffs made of gold
but the worst ones are the Private guys who get a table and sell "private sale".
I realy would not mind this so much but it gives the gun grabbers another thing to hammer gunshows with.
help me out a little lots of dealers have the same stuff each show. What kinds of stuff would you like to see and buy at shows?
always looking for good imput.
man have I been rambling.
as a dealer I prefer the suncoast shows.
as a customer I prefer the lakeland pistol/rife club shows.
I'll get into why if you want.
but the most important thing to rember is to have fun at the shows work with your dealers and let the gimps in the legelature know we like our gun shows!!
just so you know ware I'm coming from about a year ago I stated doing shows for FAT phil at florida ammo traders befor that I was just another gun nut .
come to think of it I'm still a gun nut.
come see me at phils set up I try to make at least one day of all the shows in the tampa/orlando area. My name is Don.
ok it's time to shoot this post.
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