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Posted: 11/24/2022 12:08:05 PM EDT

Seriously.
10 gen 2 Pmags AND a nitride MPI full auto BCG for

$129

https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-nitride-mpi-full-auto-5-56-bcg-10-magpul-pmag-30rd-gen2-moe-5-56-magazines.html

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:10:41 PM EDT

[#1]

And yes, I just bought 1 of the deals. Wanted an extra BCG to have around. I needed more Pmags like I need a hole in the head though.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:17:17 PM EDT

[#2]

Incomprehensible volume

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:18:41 PM EDT

[#3]

They're pretty straightforward about not maximizing profits.

https://palmettostatearmory.com/about-psa.html

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Posted: 11/24/2022 12:19:20 PM EDT

[#4]

I wonder if they’re gonna do that 50%-60% suppressor sale like they did a few years ago.

My wallet is lubed and ready….

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:22:40 PM EDT

[#5]

...Free advertising.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:24:43 PM EDT

[#6]

At that price they are still making money. Places that sell at higher prices are making even more.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:26:42 PM EDT

[#7]

Extra bcg you say? Have fun with your new build

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:27:11 PM EDT

[#8]

Sheer volume!

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:28:25 PM EDT

[#9]

I'd like to see the warehouse where all those Get II's that they've been trying to give away for the last two years are stored.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:29:39 PM EDT

[#10]

What they lose with their pricing, they make up for with volume. I guess. That or magic.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:31:50 PM EDT

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Sweet, sweet value filled volume.

I've done a couple fun builds I normally wouldn't have put together thanks to PSA.

On top of that, soon I fear I may acquire Dagger Madness...

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:31:50 PM EDT

[#12]

Probably a Toolcraft bcg too

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:32:01 PM EDT

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At that price they are still making money. Places that sell at higher prices are making even more.

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Because we are naive enough to think "places" that buy PMAGs by the thousand get the same deal as those who buy them by the container.

If the Magpul people are not buying golf trips for the McCallums, the world is broken.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:32:35 PM EDT

[#14]

Do you actually know anyone who makes parts for them?
No…

There is a reason for that…

I’m guessing their factory is staffed with Oompa Loompas or Minnions.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:37:36 PM EDT

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Do you actually know anyone who makes parts for them?
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There is a reason for that

I'm guessing their factory is staffed with Oompa Loompas or Minnions.

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Staffing their factory with Oompa Loompas is actually the only way to explain it.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:41:10 PM EDT

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Do you actually know anyone who makes parts for them?
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There is a reason for that…

I’m guessing their factory is staffed with Oompa Loompas or Minnions.

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Posted: 11/24/2022 12:41:18 PM EDT

[#17]

Well, there went $130.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:41:33 PM EDT

[#18]

My first Black Friday 2022 firearm related purchase. Thanks OP.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:41:51 PM EDT

[#19]

After I die one day and there is another weapons ban, my kids are going to thank me when they open random boxes in my basement and find endless Pmags still in the wrapper.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:43:57 PM EDT

[#20]

Sam Walton became a billionaire by making pennys of profit while his competitors went out of business trying to compete while making quarters and dollars.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:45:23 PM EDT

[#21]

I always used the little Ceasars vs. Papa Johns.
You can sell a $5 pizza and a ton of them or a $12 pizza and make less of them.
Compare business growth of spikes vs. PSA. Spikes lowers were always like $119 and PSA was blowing them out for $50 and the quality was the same. The lower profit margin that PSA uses has really worked well for them when you see how big they have gotten vs the guys that always tried to charge more and have not grown.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:45:49 PM EDT

[#22]

Because stuff at wholesale does not cost as much as stuff at retail. Psa generally sell direct to the consumer, which cuts out the distributor and retailers who also need to make a profit.

PSA is not losing money on anything that leaves their loading dock.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:48:17 PM EDT

[#23]

Like most large retailers, when you place orders for huge amounts of product, you get better pricing. PSA makes many of their parts and pieces of the guns they sell, they control the quality and pricing of these parts. I would wager that PSA has put more AR's in people's homes than all of the other manufacturers combined.

You make a quality product that functions, sell it for a fair price, give good customer service, you will do well. PSA has a lot of haters but PSA is a very successful company.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:53:50 PM EDT

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This BCG is strictly to be stored and used as a spare, just in case, in the unlikely event of one of my in use BCG's going down. I swear.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:55:24 PM EDT

[#25]

They just made some from me this week. And a few weeks before. Etc.

Posted: 11/24/2022 12:57:40 PM EDT

[#26]

they probably buy in such bulk I'm sure PSA gets stuff at almost cost from manufacturers.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:02:28 PM EDT

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Do you actually know anyone who makes parts for them?
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I’m guessing their factory is staffed with Oompa Loompas or Minnions.

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Oompa loompa, dunkity doo, we packaged your twenty PMAGs for you...

On a real note, how many Oompa Loompas die at the PSA warehouse on a yearly basis?

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:05:47 PM EDT

[#28]

A while back I bit the bullet and bought a lotta Gen 3 PMAGs.

Gen 2 non-windowed are for the poors.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:06:09 PM EDT

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Extra bcg you say? Have fun with your new build

This BCG is strictly to be stored and used as a spare, just in case, in the unlikely event of one of my in use BCG's going down. I swear.

I bought two Tool Craft BCG's from PSA on Tuesday.
No plans on building uppers around them,,, just spares.

Jay

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:07:28 PM EDT

[#30]

meanwhile, outside of PSA's headquarters.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:09:06 PM EDT

[#31]

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A while back I bit the bullet and bought a lotta Gen 3 PMAGs.

Gen 2 non-windowed are for the poors.

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I like gen 3 better too, but at that price I'll toss more gen 2's into the Pmag fort.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:13:12 PM EDT

[#32]

Volume.

First CityWide Change Bank 1 - Saturday Night Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXDxNCzUspM

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:17:00 PM EDT

[#33]

I don't think I've ever ordered from PSA. Not sure why not.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:18:08 PM EDT

[#34]

I've jumped on that deal a few times now and every time I see it I have to tell myself not to

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:20:01 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Seriously.
10 gen 2 Pmags AND a nitride MPI full auto BCG for

$129

https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-nitride-mpi-full-auto-5-56-bcg-10-magpul-pmag-30rd-gen2-moe-5-56-magazines.html

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"Pmag" takes $11 off and it ships free

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:21:21 PM EDT

[#36]

They lose $60 per order, but they make it up on volume!

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:21:30 PM EDT

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I know. You can get just the BCG for $59 but why not add 10 Pmags for basically $6 each.

Hey, my kids will love all the Pmags 20 years from now when mags are non-existant.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:22:17 PM EDT

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A little late telling me this.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:23:32 PM EDT

[#39]

Volume. They has it.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:25:30 PM EDT

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Indeed.

As many of those Gen2 mags they sell, I don't know why they don't just gobble up Magpul.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:25:38 PM EDT

[#41]

They certainly get a lot of my money. Still want one of their spikers. But I’ve spent a metric fuck ton on guns this year.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:25:45 PM EDT

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I know. You can get just the BCG for $59 but why not add 10 Pmags for basically $6 each.

Hey, my kids will love all the Pmags 20 years from now when mags are non-existant.

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I've jumped on that deal a few times now and every time I see it I have to tell myself not to

I know. You can get just the BCG for $59 but why not add 10 Pmags for basically $6 each.

Hey, my kids will love all the Pmags 20 years from now when mags are non-existant.

Yeah I can pretty much not pick up mags I drop at this point

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:26:49 PM EDT

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Do you actually know anyone who makes parts for them?
No…

There is a reason for that…

I’m guessing their factory is staffed with Oompa Loompas or Minnions.

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I don't know about that, but they hire gorillas to tighten barrel nuts.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:27:50 PM EDT

[#44]

Walmart strategy.

Sell alot of low cost items to get you in the store and get you on higher quality products for win.

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:29:14 PM EDT

[#45]

Volume and slightly lower on the quality, not junk airsoft quality, but like rails with the occasional rough corner or anodizing or hat isn’t quite as thick. I still buy their stuff and am a happy customer. Not ever firearm needs to be Gucci tactical $1,000 for a roll pin hand forged in the depths of Mordor kind of thing.

FWIW they have the same BCG on sale for $60 so that mags are $70 or $7 each

Posted: 11/24/2022 1:37:06 PM EDT

[#46]

They have ran that deal for a while. I have one of those nitride bolts in a suppressed 10.3 SBR and it is a solid performer. Has around 1500 rounds down the pipe. Gas rings are still tight. The only thing I did was swap the extractor spring out for a Sprinco 5 coil unit.