Need a new gun or rifle?

[Deako 0]

Lads,

 

Just to let you know that we are now authorised dealers for Beretta, Sako, Tikka, Ruger, Remington, Nightforce Scopes, etc, etc...

 

Although our normal 10% discount won't apply to guns and high end scopes, we will try to beat ANYONE on price and can normally have your new gun delivered to your local RFD within 2 days if you can't collect from our shop.

 

So, get your best price locally, then give us a bell!

 

[Boghossian 0]

CZ 550 caliber .243

 

What is your best price?

[Deako 0]

I'll give Edgars a call in the morning and get back to you, but it'll be around £400

Edited December 4, 2006 by Deako

[Simoman 110]

Will they be on the website Deako?

[Deako 0]

As soon as I get the time to update the site mate, I'll get 'em on there, but its a lot of work to upload all the pics and text, especially now when we're mad busy with Crimbo orders...

[Guest baldie]

£400 ? Deako, with all respect , cutting everyone else,s throats, will do you no favours mate, ask people like the sportsman, who are fecking crippling the gun trade, just who will accept guns from them, in the trade, for a customer, cos very, very few will.

[Deako 0]

Hi baldie,

 

Our local gunshop, McAvoys, sells the sime rifle for £405, and Edgars say they have no problem with his pricing...

 

In order for us to compete with him and pull the local lads into the shop, we need to do the guns at similar prices, at least for the next 6 months.

 

I TOTALLY agree with you on pricing though mate...I only realised today that by price matching Litt's and Optics Warehouse on Nightforce scopes, we would make around £15 on a £1200 scope!!!

 

Buying and selling 25,000 victory cartridges would have made us a profit of just £25!!!

 

Seems to me that profit is a dirty word in the gun trade...

[Guest baldie]

People can maybe now understand, why no one wants to actually stock nightforce scopes on the shelf.Firms like the sportsman etc, are destroying the trade mate, there is nothing wrong with wanting a decent profit.The shop i work at is not the cheapest by a long shot, but neither is he the dearest.What we have though, is the best customer service you will find anywhere, a no quibble guarantee on parts and guns, that far outlasts any manufacturers guarantee,s too. This is what brings customers in mate, and keeps them coming back.I had a guy in the shop saturday, who was admiring a badger tactical knob for a remmy bolt.Not a diy job at all, and very difficult without a jig [which i have made] I told him to nip home and fetch his bolt back, and did him the job, whilst he waited, on a busy saturday afternoon, thats the sort of service that brings them back mate. You would be amazed at how many of the really big "gunshops" do not have a gunsmith, or even anyone remotely qualified to advise on such matters, they are basically retail outlets, and could just as well be selling tins of carrots.Forget shotgun cartridges mate, they are a loss leader only, and airguns will fill your shop full of knobbers on a saturday afternoon, our local airgun shop, is full of them , all week, and i,m not having a go at airgunners, its just the airgun scene, has more than its fair share of dicks, or possibly its just the barnsley airgun scene? I had a chap in a couple of weeks ago.His first words were, i like that rifle rest, but its plastic, there will be some discount then?.........no sir, there wont, thats the price. Then he wanted to look at a sako quad we have, with an unbelievably good walnut stock, really exquisite.He said, i,ve been to 5 different shops today [my eyes started to droop] you are 40 quid dearer than so and so.... yep, so what? he hasnt got one with a stock like that has he? We knocked the price down a little, but he was haggling over a fiver, and he walked out without it.A man who will pass up a damn near exhibition grade stock, for a fiver, is a grade "A" c**t in my book and i,m glad he didnt buy it, because he obviously didn,t appreciate it. Guess what i,m trying to say buddy, is dont discount heavily, the only winner is the customer, they cant buy mail order firearms [unlike airguns, but not for much longer] if you have the guns on the shelf, at a reasonable price to you, and the customer, they will sell.There is nothing wrong with making a living, and if the public realised that the average mark up in the gun trade, is just 18% they might understand a bit better, that we also have to eat. Very best wishes in your new ventures, if i can help at all, shout up.

[Deako 0]

baldie,

 

Thats probably the most honest and useful post I've ever read on any forum.

 

I've quickly found out about the airguns, your comments are SO true!!...needless to say, we've only got a dozen cheap ones in stock.

 

Although the mail order stuff has been going for several years, the shop side of the business is only a few months old and still a MASSIVE learning curve, so any advice I can get from you will be greatly appreciated.

 

As for the 'screw you for the last penny' discount hagglers, they really do piss me off ...one of the main reasons why we have dropped our game fairs next year from 12 down to 4...after 5 years in the game, I have become more than a little cynical.

 

Already found though, that service really does come before price for lots of people and they're the ones who make the job worthwhile. :thumbs-up:

[Guest baldie]

You will do well buddy, i,ve had stuff from your stand in the past, and the service was good, and the products excellent, that is all you need.Shout up if you want a chat.

[Guest scraget05]

i must say baldie that was a very honest post nice to hear it!! and yeh the service does count!! my old man has taken his gun to our local shop its a big name shop. He took it there 2 weeks ago on a monday to have new pins put in they told him to phone on the friday but he was busy so i said phone monday so he did when he phoned they said that they havent started it yet so he phoned the following monday just gone and they still havent touched it what a load of b*****ks if your not speanding thousands down there they dont wanna no!!