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03-24-2012, 11:55 PM
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Mfg. list price vs. distributor vs dealer
Is there any published info( like with automobiles) that gives the relationship between the factory list price the dist. price and the dealer price so a person could say( for a gun with normal demand) $X would be a good price for a paticular new firearm.
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03-24-2012, 11:57 PM
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yes, there is a blue book of firearms such as that with automobiles. Hope this helps!
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03-25-2012, 03:54 AM
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The Blue Book of Gun Values will not have the info the OP is looking for. Even getting "Dealer Price" is an iffy thing because large dealers may get addition, unpublished discounts. Distributor price numbers are extremely confidential.
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03-25-2012, 05:43 AM
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The Blue Book of Gun Values will not have the info the OP is looking for. Even getting "Dealer Price" is an iffy thing because large dealers may get addition, unpublished discounts. Distributor price numbers are extremely confidential.
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That is also prevalent in the car bidness as well. While a car may have one itemized price on the invoice, all the added incentives and such are grouped at the end of the bill for the entire order. The invoice price is the highest price a car dealer pays the manufacturer for a car. That is only the case if the car dealer is small and only orders one car at a time.
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03-25-2012, 05:49 AM
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Check out Bud's Gun Shop online for buying and pricing. They are located in Lexington, Kentucky, home of the "Kentucky Wildcats".
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03-25-2012, 08:37 AM
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The Blue Book of Gun Values will not have the info the OP is looking for. Even getting "Dealer Price" is an iffy thing because large dealers may get addition, unpublished discounts. Distributor price numbers are extremely confidential.
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yeah but the blue book is about as good as its going to get o wpi;d assi,e/
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03-25-2012, 06:17 PM
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Thanks to all.
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03-25-2012, 09:03 PM
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Watching the auction and online sites will give you a pretty good idea as to a fair price. But no matter what, someone will have bought one for hundreds less no doubt!
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03-25-2012, 10:02 PM
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Watching the auction and online sites will give you a pretty good idea as to a fair price. But no matter what, someone will have bought one for hundreds less no doubt!
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That was the issue an LEO friend said he could get what I got for 200 less. BTW. Are you close to Burlington? My mother was from there.
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03-26-2012, 02:16 AM
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yeah but the blue book is about as good as its going to get o wpi;d assi,e/
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I have to tell you; "good" and "Blue Book of Gun Values" are definitely not two terms which are used together very often.
Further, you cannot get either a dealer or distributor price in the Blue Book. Gun stores have Blue Books just as all car dealers used to have NADA books. There are better than nothing at best and using the numbers in the Blue Book of Gun Values will work in the dealer's favor about 98% of the time because they are generally obsolete before the book is printed.
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the OP asked for published info though, is there any other published info out there?
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the OP asked for published info though, is there any other published info out there?
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No...............
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When I was a dealer, I recall S&W price jumps were 22% distributor to dealer and 22% dealer to retail. Of course there are special deals at times but that was rule of thumb.
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03-27-2012, 05:06 AM
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When I was a dealer, I recall S&W price jumps were 22% distributor to dealer and 22% dealer to retail. Of course there are special deals at times but that was rule of thumb.
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That's a fair approximation I think. However, back in the day when I was a dealer, different wholesaler's had different prices for the same guns so that tends to muddy up the water. RSR Wholesale used to be the biggest S&W wholesaler in the country and their prices were very good but not uniformly the best for all S&W. Also, less popular guns seemed slightly less costly than popular or new models.
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