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4/1/2003 9:13:43 AM EDT
How do you pay for your gun purchases?
4/1/2003 9:21:47 AM EDT
[#1]
I've used cards and cash.  
4/1/2003 9:29:06 AM EDT
[#2]
Cash or Money Order/Cashier's Check's.  More secure this way.
Less of a paper trail for the wife to follow!!
      [:D]
4/1/2003 9:36:49 AM EDT
[#3]
Cash. The only paper trail is from hand to pocket.
4/1/2003 9:42:43 AM EDT
[#4]
I beg.
4/1/2003 10:27:29 AM EDT
[#5]
Depends on what I think of the seller...

CC can always be disputed.
4/1/2003 10:31:34 AM EDT
[#6]
I use my CC because I get miles credit for travel. I almost always pay off my card at the end of the month.
4/1/2003 10:43:05 AM EDT
[#7]
Cash only. [forATFlurkers]Not that I buy any guns[/forATFlurkers].

I did by a scope with a credit card, and some m14 mags with a check, but I mostly deal with a couple of friends, and there is no paper trail therre. If someone starts asking about it, there is no memory of a sale either.
4/1/2003 10:45:06 AM EDT
[#8]
I have no guns. Honestly.
4/1/2003 11:07:34 AM EDT
[#9]
I use a credit card for everything that will take one because I have a First USA card that refunds me cash on all purchases.  It refunds 1% of the total purchases.  I put everything on it and then pay it off at the end of the month.

A word of warning for you young guys.....if you don't have the discipline to pay the card off [b]totally[/b] at the end of the month, don't use one.  The interest on credit cards is terrible.  You would never go into a bank and borrow money at 22% interest, so don't borrow money on the card.

I made myself a promise that if I ever cannot pay it off at the end of the month, I will cut it in half.

4/1/2003 11:11:16 AM EDT
[#10]
Both. I prefer to do cash.
4/1/2003 11:15:28 AM EDT
[#11]
I try to buy them all with cash/money order.  If a really good deal comes up and I don't have the cash handy I'll use the CC, but I always pay it off within 2 months at most.
4/1/2003 11:17:54 AM EDT
[#12]
Guns.... What guns... No guns here.
4/1/2003 11:19:00 AM EDT
[#13]
I've used all methods available including one you have not listed.  TRADES or Trade-ins.
4/1/2003 11:52:46 AM EDT
[#14]
You have to pay?  I never pay for it.
4/1/2003 12:00:25 PM EDT
[#15]
Small denomination unmarked bills.
4/1/2003 12:25:33 PM EDT
[#16]
This is a gun site?
4/1/2003 12:36:51 PM EDT
[#17]
Voted other - the last rifle, mount, rings and scope cost me an arm and a leg and kidney.

4/1/2003 2:57:42 PM EDT
[#18]
Quoted:
I use a credit card for everything that will take one because I have a First USA card that refunds me cash on all purchases.  It refunds 1% of the total purchases.  I put everything on it and then pay it off at the end of the month.

A word of warning for you young guys.....if you don't have the discipline to pay the card off [b]totally[/b] at the end of the month, don't use one.  The interest on credit cards is terrible.  You would never go into a bank and borrow money at 22% interest, so don't borrow money on the card.

I made myself a promise that if I ever cannot pay it off at the end of the month, I will cut it in half.

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Listen to this man, he is wise. [^]

I use a Cabela's Club VISA, otherwise ditto.

There is always a paper trail in RI, so there is no reason to avoid using the card.
4/1/2003 3:19:56 PM EDT
[#19]
I pay for all purchases, gun or otherwise, with a very low-interest, cash-reward credit card.  Since I adhere to a budget, stay at or below it, and pay off my balance every month, why not???
4/1/2003 3:36:01 PM EDT
[#20]
If I order online I use my credit card.  At gunshows I usually use cash.
4/1/2003 3:42:52 PM EDT
[#21]
What is this "gun" of which you speak?
4/1/2003 11:42:45 PM EDT
[#22]
Cash and credit cards mostly, sometimes layaway..
4/1/2003 11:55:39 PM EDT
[#23]
Both.
4/2/2003 1:46:59 AM EDT
[#24]
so far I've used check (effectively cash) for the actual firearms, and debit/credit for accessories.  I will use debit/credit for the actual firearms in the future, but haven't really had the option as of yet.
4/2/2003 1:51:05 AM EDT
[#25]
Quoted:
A word of warning for you young guys.....if you don't have the discipline to pay the card off [b]totally[/b] at the end of the month, don't use one.  The interest on credit cards is terrible.  You would never go into a bank and borrow money at 22% interest, so don't borrow money on the card.
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very very true.  I had a couple of summers where I couldn't find a job and had to live off credit (or under a bridge; take your pick, eh?).  paying it back is a pain in the neck.  do whatever you can, short of actually living homeless, to avoid a situation like that.  it sucks bad.