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price seem to go up across the board, hard to find bargain anymore
maybe they think after they establish their name, time to make more profit but these days bargain hunting is just a few clicks away and unlike amazon, their customer service which builds loyalty is truly lacking I hope PSA stay smart and maintain their low price advantage |
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Lowers are still dirt cheap -
Uppers are the same, if not cheaper. Not sure what you're talking about? But personally I'm looking more at their CHF offerings. Which no one comes close to in that price range. |
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Just wait a day or two, everything goes up and down. There are still lots of deals (lower build kits for $79 and $84 this week)
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personally, its harder for me to find better deals than i ocne did, as the deals i find are things not needed anymore. its a fishing game.. you have to be patient and find something you need on sale.
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I don't think they have great prices on ammo anymore(but then it's hard to compete with SG) but I think they still have the best bang for your busk on AR stuff.
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I think things are already dirt cheap anyways considering what it was just a couple years ago.
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I'm still happy with their prices. I've been a customer since they were a new company. I will continue shopping with them. You'll find screaming deals if you have patience.
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I think prices have gone up 5 or 10%. I have just bought all of the AR parts that I need at the moment. I do need a CHF PA10 upper though in the 20 inch flavor!
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ive bought from them since jamin was a table at the local gun shows. that being said, times have cahnged greatly. prices, events, availablity, product selection.
some prices are way high. some prices are great. I personally shop like i vote, with my wallet. this means, i buy low and ignore the high priced things. |
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just an example, lowest price of complete upper now is $279, WITHOUT BCG and CH, it used to be easy to find $199 or $189 for that
brick of 150rd green tip now is $89.99+shipping, that's gander moutain price (minus shipping) |
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just an example, lowest price of complete upper now is $279, WITHOUT BCG and CH, it used to be easy to find $199 or $189 for that brick of 150rd green tip now is $89.99+shipping, that's gander moutain price (minus shipping) View Quote your example is flawed. the $279 upper you mention is a chf fn barrel vrs the $189 - $199 melonite ptac barreled upper. so to truely compare this upper you would need to compare it to the spikes tactical's closest product (their stripped 14.5" mid length chf FN made barrel is $10 more than psa's complete upper). if we compare with the complete upper from spikes (subtract the price of the bolt carrier group and charging handle psa is somewhere close to $300 dollars cheaper. in short you could buy 2 fn chf barreled psa uppers for the price of 1 fn chf barreled spikes upper. ask yourself again is psa still a deal? i dont know what the deal is with ammo it is retarded everywhere, someone the other day posted a link to xm193 that had just sold on gunbroker for about a buck a round. i guess there is a rush on 5.56 ammo ![]() ![]() |
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Gas used to be under $1 per gallon. Milk used to NOT cost $4 per gallon. What's your point? Prices across the entire industry have gone up over the past years. So has the cost of living. In some cases, wholesale prices are higher than retail price was on the same product even 5 years ago. Welcome to supply and demand and the world known as capitalism.
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Gas used to be under $1 per gallon. Milk used to NOT cost $4 per gallon. What's your point? Prices across the entire industry have gone up over the past years. So has the cost of living. In some cases, wholesale prices are higher than retail price was on the same product even 5 years ago. Welcome to supply and demand and the world known as capitalism. View Quote i still think this shit is CHEAP, the first ar i built i remember the dpms bolt carrier group cost $189 ![]() the first lower i bought was $125 ![]() the last 10 lowers i bought were $60 (shipped and ffl included) ![]() last 10 (at one time) bcgs $79 (free shipping on orders over $100) ![]() shit a year ago you couldn't buy either one, nor ammo everyone, everywhere was out of stock. these are still the salad days. |
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i still think this shit is CHEAP, the first ar i built i remember the dpms bolt carrier group cost $189 ![]() the first lower i bought was $125 ![]() the last 10 lowers i bought were $60 (shipped and ffl included) ![]() last 10 (at one time) bcgs $79 (free shipping on orders over $100) ![]() shit a year ago you couldn't buy either one, nor ammo everyone, everywhere was out of stock. these are still the salad days. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Gas used to be under $1 per gallon. Milk used to NOT cost $4 per gallon. What's your point? Prices across the entire industry have gone up over the past years. So has the cost of living. In some cases, wholesale prices are higher than retail price was on the same product even 5 years ago. Welcome to supply and demand and the world known as capitalism. i still think this shit is CHEAP, the first ar i built i remember the dpms bolt carrier group cost $189 ![]() the first lower i bought was $125 ![]() the last 10 lowers i bought were $60 (shipped and ffl included) ![]() last 10 (at one time) bcgs $79 (free shipping on orders over $100) ![]() shit a year ago you couldn't buy either one, nor ammo everyone, everywhere was out of stock. these are still the salad days. agreed on that. hell you can get 50.00 bcgs from psa if your lcuky watching with the blem sales. when shit gets up in price, say 200 a bcg or more like it was in jan of 14, well, then, we're in the hurt locker for parts and guns. the ammo though, since they cant ban the guns, they'll try the ammo. thats where the worry is now. .22 and 5.56 makes no sense to me to be "a scarce" other tan the government making it that way.. which obamas administration has been doing for years now.. remember all those billions of rounds that were bought by the government for what reasons? as for cost of living, archers right, it has gone up exponentially.. along with everything else... EXCEPT the US workers wages. |
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inflation, small scare over m855, gas bounced back up $0.50 which eats into the profits they were earning on inflated shipping, and they're still usually the cheapest around.
I can't complain. Wait a week for a sale. |
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your example is flawed. the $279 upper you mention is a chf fn barrel vrs the $189 - $199 melonite ptac barreled upper. so to truely compare this upper you would need to compare it to the spikes tactical's closest product (their stripped 14.5" mid length chf FN made barrel is $10 more than psa's complete upper). if we compare with the complete upper from spikes (subtract the price of the bolt carrier group and charging handle psa is somewhere close to $300 dollars cheaper. in short you could buy 2 fn chf barreled psa uppers for the price of 1 fn chf barreled spikes upper. ask yourself again is psa still a deal? i dont know what the deal is with ammo it is retarded everywhere, someone the other day posted a link to xm193 that had just sold on gunbroker for about a buck a round. i guess there is a rush on 5.56 ammo ![]() ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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just an example, lowest price of complete upper now is $279, WITHOUT BCG and CH, it used to be easy to find $199 or $189 for that brick of 150rd green tip now is $89.99+shipping, that's gander moutain price (minus shipping) your example is flawed. the $279 upper you mention is a chf fn barrel vrs the $189 - $199 melonite ptac barreled upper. so to truely compare this upper you would need to compare it to the spikes tactical's closest product (their stripped 14.5" mid length chf FN made barrel is $10 more than psa's complete upper). if we compare with the complete upper from spikes (subtract the price of the bolt carrier group and charging handle psa is somewhere close to $300 dollars cheaper. in short you could buy 2 fn chf barreled psa uppers for the price of 1 fn chf barreled spikes upper. ask yourself again is psa still a deal? i dont know what the deal is with ammo it is retarded everywhere, someone the other day posted a link to xm193 that had just sold on gunbroker for about a buck a round. i guess there is a rush on 5.56 ammo ![]() ![]() Yeah people don't get it. |
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I don't think there is much difference except that everything I ever go to buy is out of stock.
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I don't think there is much difference except that everything I ever go to buy is out of stock. View Quote everything is in stock right now, i just checked they have pencil uppers, 10.5" uppers, 20" uppers, lower build kits, bcgs. it is the most i have seen in a while, it looks like walmart on stock day ![]() |
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This is the LOW price days for AR stuff (get it while it's cheap!). That being said, with a saturated retail market, PSA prices seem to me as good as always. I think what you're seeing is OTHER retailers catching up, price wise. AIM, DSG, Primary Arms, etc are all matching (if not slightly bettering) PSA prices on CERTAIN items. That's just the nature of the beast. We've hit "rock bottom" for AR pricing. Everyone's at their LOWEST. NOW is the time to stock up, build, get spares, etc.
Don't forget, don't pay normal PSA price... wait for it on sale. Especially their complete uppers.... hard to beat those prices. |
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Prices are higher than 2014. The majority of my builds were
$49.99 lower $29.99 Blackhawk LPK $29.99 Blackhawk stock kit with an assembled upper. I bought 3 CHF midlength at $417, $341. $359 shipped (the last two were blems) right now it is probably $75 to $100 more to build one similar (would have a "better" stock kit and LPK) |
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everything is in stock right now, i just checked they have pencil uppers, 10.5" uppers, 20" uppers, lower build kits, bcgs. it is the most i have seen in a while, it looks like walmart on stock day ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I don't think there is much difference except that everything I ever go to buy is out of stock. everything is in stock right now, i just checked they have pencil uppers, 10.5" uppers, 20" uppers, lower build kits, bcgs. it is the most i have seen in a while, it looks like walmart on stock day ![]() huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines |
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huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I don't think there is much difference except that everything I ever go to buy is out of stock. everything is in stock right now, i just checked they have pencil uppers, 10.5" uppers, 20" uppers, lower build kits, bcgs. it is the most i have seen in a while, it looks like walmart on stock day ![]() huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines For PTAC maybe. |
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huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I don't think there is much difference except that everything I ever go to buy is out of stock. everything is in stock right now, i just checked they have pencil uppers, 10.5" uppers, 20" uppers, lower build kits, bcgs. it is the most i have seen in a while, it looks like walmart on stock day ![]() huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines ptac pricing. |
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huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I don't think there is much difference except that everything I ever go to buy is out of stock. everything is in stock right now, i just checked they have pencil uppers, 10.5" uppers, 20" uppers, lower build kits, bcgs. it is the most i have seen in a while, it looks like walmart on stock day ![]() huh? it used to have $189, $199 uppers or $299 uppers with BCG/CH, now nowhere to be found, and mostly mid length, no carbines last night most of the hot shit that every third post used to be about was in stock. 20" a4 uppers were $299, 10.5" carbine upper were in stock ($299 i think), pencil profile barreled upper in stock and under $300 these are some of the hottest upper that people have always created thread asking when is this upper gonna be back in stock, some of these we haven't seen in months some even at lower prices than we have ever seen (20" upper for $299, cheapest i have ever seen has been $320). there were several carbine uppers in stock last night (there were no $189, or $199 ptac upper nor did i see any $299 uppers with bcg / ch). there were also bcgs, lower parts kits, and lower build kits in stock, these are items that i and others were complaining about not being in stock. i figured your "everything I ever go to buy is out of stock." would be meaning it would be usual hot ticket stuff like everyone else. i didn't know that "everything" referred to only ptac or the first wave of freedom carbine uppers (the $189, $199, or $299). sorry to have mislead you with my "everything is in stock right now" |
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I don't have a problem with their prices, but I do with the lack of inventory...and LOOONNNGGG wait times for shipping...and piss-poor QC on assembled uppers.
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I don't have a problem with their prices, but I do with the lack of inventory...and LOOONNNGGG wait times for shipping...and piss-poor QC on assembled uppers. ...just sayin' ![]() View Quote That's kind of why I tend to shy away from anything that's not a PA15, which are usually good to go. I'm definitely going to hold off on the PA9 and PA10 until all the kinks are worked out... |
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That's kind of why I tend to shy away from anything that's not a PA15, which are usually good to go. I'm definitely going to hold off on the PA9 and PA10 until all the kinks are worked out... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I don't have a problem with their prices, but I do with the lack of inventory...and LOOONNNGGG wait times for shipping...and piss-poor QC on assembled uppers. ...just sayin' ![]() That's kind of why I tend to shy away from anything that's not a PA15, which are usually good to go. I'm definitely going to hold off on the PA9 and PA10 until all the kinks are worked out... ![]() |
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