Posted: 11/3/2008 7:11:05 PM EDT
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| My friend owns 3 shops and is opening a 4th. As of yet no price increases, tomorrow goes bad and they will skyrocket. He did $24,000 in one of his stores this afternoon. All black rifles, hand guns and shotguns. Nobody is touching hunting arms, and this is in upstate, NY. |
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I was going to buy 10 lowers for my business from one company I don't want to mention and they jacked the price up $30.00 and he said it would go higher tomorrow.
That means a regular lower that retailed for $120 went up to $150!! And maybe higher. Needless to say I passed on the deal and ordered more from Stag who has kept the price the same for now. |
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Its a shame supply/demand has to be explained but lets use an example.
Lets say I run a small gun store. On average I sell 15 ar's, 50 pmags, and 100 glock mags a month. I keep about a month's worth of stock on the shelves. Election goes bad, demand goes up, and my suppliers are backordered for 3 months. If I sell the products I do have at the old price, I'm not going to have any income for the next 2 months because now my orders aren't getting filled. I must raise the prices to help compensate for me not being able to get any more product in to sell until my backorders are filled. Of course a gun shop is going to sell more than just those products but either way we're still talking about what is probably a significant percentage of their income when most gun dealers aren't big money makers to begin with. No one likes higher prices but if there is a mad rush to buy it becomes a necessity of business. |