Thread: PRICE INCREASE

Originally Posted by res

Digit is a one man band(who hires extra help when needed) who operates out of a glorified garage on his property, who imports and sellers direct.
And until very recently it was a side business and he had another full time job.

I'm not knocking him at all, in fact I think he needed to be commended for doing an amazing job.
But to compare him to a normal retail shop is not fair to either.
I think we are going to see more and more of his sort of business model, it's just harder for things other than guns.
We are also going to see more of those soulless vertically integrated big box stores that people love to hate.

Yes real competition is like that. Considering the size of New Zealand we probably don't need much more than smaller outfits for many products. Firearms and associated items are really a niche market.

I have brought in a number of things including firearms for the US and my very small scale imports including tax and fees still came in at roughly 50% the local retail cost. Yes Retailing from a shop is not easy (been there worked in that) but it is interesting that even for Auckland which is a small city we seem to have a large number of gun stores. Cant be too bad for them.

I have become jaded over the years from paying top dollar and getting poor service.