Local Gun Shops Spamming Armslist

[voidsherpa]

Is it just my area or what? 56 back to back listings today from a single LGS for NIB items. Makes me never want to enter their shop, ever. 30-40 every single damn day.

Sure I can block the premium vendors, but then I miss out on other local shops deals/used listings.

 

[indiucky]

A business taking advantage of inexpensive advertising to sell their product...Oh the humanity...

Forget listening for the trumpets...The end is here...Wow...Thanks for sharing....

 

[voidsherpa]

...Thanks for sharing....

You're welcome. Hope I was able to brighten your day.

 

[Mgderf]

Damned free market...

 

[voidsherpa]

Damned free market...

Alright you explain to me how this is a free market issue, when all I'm saying it's an annoyance that this guy made 73% of today's Armlist postings with his MSRP shenanigans.

 

[kramer5702]

If he gets 1 sale from those ads, then he got his job done. I'd do the same thing, post various guns I have for sale and if I sold ONLY 1 from those ads, it was still a success because I paid $0 in advertising fees.

 

[level0]

Alright you explain to me how this is a free market issue, when all I'm saying it's an annoyance that this guy made 73% of today's Armlist postings with his MSRP shenanigans.

With you 100% on this. I understand the free market and all...I prefer Armslist for private, person to person transactions. I wish the LGS would just stay out.

 

[calcot7]

I don't like it either but you don't have to read everyone of them. Just click through the pages until you get back to individual sales and take a deep breath.

 

[Joniki]

I don't like it either but you don't have to read everyone of them. Just click through the pages until you get back to individual sales and take a deep breath.

Not when the LGS lists in the private party sales.

 

[Restroyer]

With you 100% on this. I understand the free market and all...I prefer Armslist for private, person to person transactions. I wish the LGS would just stay out.

I agree with you guys also. Armslist should be for private sellers. For the LGS if they want to disagree that we don't like it then the LGS should work harder at making their websites better (if they even have one). It's called Marketing. Instead the LGS high jack Armslist with MSRP advertisements.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Takes me 2 seconds to scan through the extra page. Not worth the tiniest bit of worry or fuss. It's a free service to me, I expect advertising to pay for it.

 

[wizardfitz]

i just hit private party and thats what i get. and as others have said free advertising

 

[indy1919a4]

I am sorry, but I do not see anything but good from more people, businesses listing more firearm choices, Just search for the firearm you are looking for skip the ones that are outside your range...

 

[Mgderf]

Alright you explain to me how this is a free market issue, when all I'm saying it's an annoyance that this guy made 73% of today's Armlist postings with his MSRP shenanigans.

If you don't see this as a free market issue, then you don't understand the free market.

 

[CampingJosh]

It's a free service to me, I expect advertising to pay for it.

This.

Armslist exists to make money on the facilitation of gun sales. Making money is the goal.

 

[sig-man]

I don't mind LGS's posting on armslist to an extent. I must agree it does kind of irk me when they post their entire inventory almost daily at close to MSRP.

If they want to highlight a good deal or show off some rare or desirable firearms I am fine. But the entire inventory on two pages? C'mon

 

[223 Gunner]

I just click the private party button. But sometimes, if I don't want to do a bunch of research and check a price, it's nice that it is available so that you can see what retail is, when lets say some guy has a Glock 30S out at $525 ( currently running) in the private party when I can buy a brand new one for the same or close to his price.
I can't/won't keep up on what retail is for every firearm or accessory. I rarely look at the dealer listings, as I do not like to pay sales tax on top of full retail.

 

[CZB1962]

While 30-40 post may be excessive I actually have found some deals from dealers in other states that I never would have found without them being on Armslist. I bought a CM9 brand new for $319 from a dealer in Florida. Even with a small shipping fee and transfer it was still quite a bit below what everyone else was selling them for at the time.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Remember when you had to drive to the gun store to look at guns? Or purchase Shotgun News to see what out of area dealers had?

The huge PITA of having to click through 2 extra pages seems like a lot less of a PITA now, eh?

 

[funkeecowboy]

I agree with you guys also. Armslist should be for private sellers. For the LGS if they want to disagree that we don't like it then the LGS should work harder at making their websites better (if they even have one). It's called Marketing. Instead the LGS high jack Armslist with MSRP advertisements.

Sounds like you need to look 'marketing' up in the dictionary... Marketing is exactly what the LGS is doing when it posts on Armslist and free/low cost marketing is a huge blessing for small businesses.