Thread: retail gun prices

how flexible are the major stores on their listed gun prices? after a new finnlight and buying with cash, will they generally knock a hundred off / should you insist on this or you're getting ripped or is there not much margin in a retailer for selling a new rifle?

Insist politely...

Cash should get you a finnlight at around 2900 if the store knows you Dave
There not worth 3300 or whatever rrp is


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My past dealings with HnF they wouldn't even match another stores price for the same thing...very money hungry hence go elsewhere when I can. Depends on the store, but like all retail theres margin to move to a cheaper price if they choose too. Depends on whose running it and if they want your business or not....always support the ones that look after you. Lack of comp around our area and the HnF stores think they can dictate the price to you

Just go straight to Taihape Sports, and ask for best price. Ive been getting top deals for 30 years.

Originally Posted by deer243

My past dealings with HnF they wouldn't even match another stores price for the same thing...very money hungry hence go elsewhere when I can. Depends on the store, but like all retail theres margin to move to a cheaper price if they choose too. Depends on whose running it and if they want your business or not....always support the ones that look after you. Lack of comp around our area and the HnF stores think they can dictate the price to you

Nelson HnF store(s) shitness is legendary , rumor has it even the staff cant get a discount.

yeah interesting replies, @BRADS all the h&f stores have put the price up to $3499 now so no chance of $2900 aye... .. you're probably right about them not being worth it too haha. ill have to ring around a few more shops. the ones i have rung all said they'd chuck in a sling or box of ammo but none have said they'd give it for less than retail. taihape sports sounds a good bet ill try them next

Originally Posted by ARdave

yeah interesting replies, @BRADS all the h&f stores have put the price up to $3499 now so no chance of $2900 aye... .. you're probably right about them not being worth it too haha. ill have to ring around a few more shops. the ones i have rung all said they'd chuck in a sling or box of ammo but none have said they'd give it for less than retail. taihape sports sounds a good bet ill try them next

Don't buy at h&f.............ever


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Love it when people say what's ya best price for cash, I ask what the alternative is lol

No offence ARD

As others have said if you have a good report you may get something, best just ring all gun sellers and ask what there best price is ( don't mention the cash bit) even email each of the h&f guys on the one email asking the question. Someone will do you a deal

Hamish

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haha i give an awesome wristy... i feel when i say cash tho it means i have the money in my wallet to buy it outright now rather than lay by etc

As a ex retailer I used to hate it and hardly ever bothered replying, but almost every day I used to get a email from someone out of town asking what my best price was for item X shipped to them-it was very obvious that the email was sent to every shop in the industry they could find a email for.
I have since used this tactic myself and found some interesting results, mostly it has given me lists of retailers in several fields that will do very good deals on clip the ticket type sales for things they haven't had to pay to stock.

For shooting stuff I do find it hard to go past forum member herbmister at nzrac, his website only has a few things on it but he is fantastic to deal with if you know what you want and the importer has it in stock.

Originally Posted by res

As a ex retailer I used to hate it and hardly ever bothered replying, but almost every day I used to get a email from someone out of town asking what my best price was for item X shipped to them-it was very obvious that the email was sent to every shop in the industry they could find a email for.

isn't that kinda your job though...? not trying to be cheeky or anything either

@ARdave what cal are you after? I might
Be able to help

heya camo, 7mm rem mag

As a retail manager it was my job to run multi million $ business, emails from randoms that offer very little opportunity for profit or repeat custom (and most of the time from people who don't end up buying as they are "just wondering") only got felt with if there was time. Often there wasn't.
In the biz I was in it was normally kids with very little chance of a sale, shooting stuff is a completely different demographic.

Chasing down costs and availability plus shipping of stuff you don't have in stock can take a real amount of time,if I had owned the biz I would have done some of them after hours-but still a lot were for stupid small shit that you know they will get cheep from a web retailer. Time is $ and I'm not going to spend 15-30 min to have a chance at earning $5 for s one off sale unless I have nothing better to do.