M+M M10x FRT 153447
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People vote with their wallets - else irg would be out of business.
No manufacturer of anything should be rewarded for boosting Canadian prices to subsidize pricing elsewhere. We are not a corporate welfare herd.
They were $2200 when the dollar was at parity, but even that was too high for what an xcr is. Hence why I won't buy one.
If a type 81 is profitable at $1000, I fail to see a market for $2400 rifle's whose most desirable feature is it looks like a Kalashnikov... Sorta... But not really.
It is in my opinion too yet people still buy em up new and do despite the way Alex Robinson treated his customers
Canadian firearms owners are by and large, a bunch of notoriously tight-fisted consumers pursuing what is in reality, an expensive hobby. This to me, explains the numerous posts bemoaning the purchase price of firearms in little Canada, as compared to the biggest market in the world which just happens to be right next door. Sometimes "mass" and associated buying power allow a cost-savings to the consumer that is simply not feasible in a tiny market with specific, special requirements such as a custom barrel length. By and large in Canada, you have to pay a premium to play on the same field as our US cousins. That's just the reality of our situation as a small market in a big, cold and cut-throat buisness world. Don't want to pay to play? Cool - you can always collect stamps or pennies instead of guns...
Even people were mad when these came out cuz they were 250$ more then the 308 version.
Yet people are still buying them
Artificial separation of US and Canadian market is done specifically to price gauge the Canadians.
This gauging is done to keep old establishment's revenues steady. These guys all have their little fiefdoms established on our backs: dairy and poultry farmers, telecoms, auto manufacturers and the gigantic waste of taxpayers monies called Bombardier.
At the same time corporations under NAFTA are enjoying almost no barriers in cross-border trades.
Every time i go get petrol and dairy in the states I feel i giving them a little birdie. I gonna get my next car in the states too. Same model locally is 10K more expensive. Why? Because Canada!
This gauging is done to keep old establishment's revenues steady. These guys all have their little fiefdoms established on our backs: dairy and poultry farmers, telecoms, auto manufacturers and the gigantic waste of taxpayers monies called Bombardier.
At the same time corporations under NAFTA are enjoying almost no barriers in cross-border trades.
Every time i go get petrol and dairy in the states I feel i giving them a little birdie. I gonna get my next car in the states too. Same model locally is 10K more expensive. Why? Because Canada!
Prices can and do fluctuate, but what rustles my jimmies primarily is not the cost of the actual rifle (although I hold a belief of what the rifle is worth, and what I want to spend on it) – it's how Mickey + Mouse and our silent distributors could have easily cleared this whole mess up, yet seemingly have chosen not to. I've written this before, but I'd gladly pay a premium to IRG if they bring in this firearm at US MSRP and toss in an extra barrel to make it NR.
Sure the money ultimately goes to M+M but at least I feel like my anus wouldn't have been as ravaged as it could've been if they release a ridiculous CDN MSRP and I flock to pay it with a smile.
But why didn't people who wanted this rifle jump on the pre order then at Wanstalls price when they had the chance when they knew CanAm price was 2400?!?!?
Oger then Wanstalls saying the preorder would go on for another week or what ever.
I didn't want to take that chance so I ordered ASAP
We have established that paying more is elite and wanting a good price means the poor house.
Yes but it doesn't mean just THIS one firearm. It is literally almost EVERYTHING in Canada
Yes that's right and are people still buying them???
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