Off-roster profiteering?

[JDW67]

Some funny posts in this thread. Good to know that the Calguns crowd has a sense of humor...

[pablo7]

THIS THREAD IS FULL OF WIN....









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[CSACANNONEER]

I'm just going to leave this here. It was posted right after the importation ban.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=967909

[451040]

[flypops]

Basic law of capitalism.

Nothing is worth more than anyone is willing to pay!

[giv1tatry]

come on guys, we were all newbies at one time or another. this is the most popular posts, over 100 replies. my first calguns post got me an infraction hahaha, so this isn't anything. if you can't afford my gun, or want it enough, it is not for you. a few years ago, before obaman go reelected, I tried to get rid of a cheap ar complete upper I purchased for about 450 bucks, people kept telling me why would they buy my upper for that when they could get them online for 430, well, two weeks later, the panic hit, I upped the price, and they were begging me to sell it to them for 600 dollars. ended up getting 800 dollars for it, did I feel guilty? no! the guy who was able to afford the thing made 10 times the amount of money I made, and he could afford it. I stocked up on sse guns, so could all of you, im still paying on them with a 16% apr. if you can't afford my gun, its not for you.

[Bullitt01]

Who, then, should dictate the price we can sell things we own?

Who will protect the innocent from unscrupulous gougers?

YOU...
(ha, this is getting stupid. MODS///help!)

[bonusweb]

You should be thanking the flippers, just think of how many off roster handguns that were brought in under SSE. That number would have been much lower without flippers.

[chairmnofthboard]

I rather have an over priced option than no option at all.

[CalAlumnus]

You should be thanking the flippers, just think of how many off roster handguns that were brought in under SSE. That number would have been much lower without flippers.

Exactly. Any what motivated them? Hope for a profit.

Paradoxically, the flippers helped keep prices down. If, somehow, no one had purchased SSE guns to flip, only the people who truly bought them for their own use would have off-roster handguns. There would be far fewer in California and the owners would be less interested in selling. Both of those aspects would have produced higher prices than we see today.

[Champagne-N-Beer]

Hahha, hey Bullitt01 - glad to be of assistance and bring some smiles to your life

Do as you will with your pricing, no sweat of the back of the one not willing to pay, but all this trying to explain it away as free market economy bs is just silly.

[champu]

^^^ Indeed.

It's funny to see people rag on others, "don't you know about supply and demand, fool?" and then describe the situation as a "free market" in the same or next sentence.

It's not a free market. That's the point.

Stocking up and selling to those who did not on items that are not necessities is not "evil" or "gouging" but if you do it to the point where you lose your disgust for the people who put the roster and the rules on it in place, or you find yourself rubbing your hands together when the new bills come out each year then you are being a scumbag.

I think most flippers are actually "true gun people" though, and if the roster were gone tomorrow they would shrug and say, "well I lost a way to make a buck but more important is we got some of our rights back."

[Canadadry]

^^^ Indeed.

It's funny to see people rag on others, "don't you know about supply and demand, fool?" and then describe the situation as a "free market" in the same or next sentence.

It's not a free market. That's the point.

Stocking up and selling to those who did not on items that are not necessities is not "evil" or "gouging" but if you do it to the point where you lose your disgust for the people who put the roster and the rules on it in place, or you find yourself rubbing your hands together when the new bills come out each year then you are being a scumbag.

I think most flippers are actually "true gun people" though, and if the roster were gone tomorrow they would shrug and say, "well I lost a way to make a buck but more important is we got some of our rights back."

You really think there are people out there that don't want the roster to go away? There is no one out there that can bring in that many off roster guns that it would be profitable for them to do that. You make an lot of assumptions.

Why is it that you never here anyone complaining when someone post a gun in the classified for less than it's worth and it gets purchased immediately. You never here anyone having an issue. So it's okay for someone to get ripped off because they might not know the true value off a gun.

[Mayor McRifle]

I think most flippers are actually "true gun people" though, and if the roster were gone tomorrow they would shrug and say, "well I lost a way to make a buck but more important is we got some of our rights back."

I'm not so sure. I don't think "true gun people" would take advantage of a situation like this to profit off of fellow members of the gun community. In my experience, "true gun people" share a camaraderie with other gun people, and they stick together and try to help each other out. Just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

[champu]

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No. My last paragraph intended to explain that I don't think there are a significant number of people here on calguns that don't want the roster to go away.

I was trying to explain that people that start these threads probably don't do so because they're completely ignorant of how economics work. I think they do so because they're worried there are a bunch of scumbags who put a buck above fighting for rights. They're still wrong, so maybe it doesn't matter, but it's harder to correct people if you don't get to the real root of the problem.