Flash sale
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cptseawolf
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- Ottawa Area
10 mins was a bit rough for the middle of the day. I missed it by 5 mins.....
adamthebad
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- .here and .there
Stop looking at flashy promotional banners, pull out a basic calculator, and map out the actual industrial cost-accounting numbers on the Canadian catalog:
Example. MDT CHASSIS;
The 9-Month Price Illusion (The Corporate Shell Game);
The Original Value Baseline: Nine months ago, the standard factory retail price wall for a bare long-action chassis core sat at exactly $749.99 CAD (oct.2025).
The Permanent Markup: The manufacturer quietly executed a sharp 24.00% permanent price increase, driving that exact same bare metal shell up to an inflated catalog rate of $929.99 CAD (may -june 2026)
The 10-Minute Promotional Gimmick: 23June2026 they dropped a high-stress 600-second timer offering a "30% markdown." Taking 30% off that inflated $929.99 sticker drops the checkout cost to $650.99 CAD.
The True Net Savings from the Original Retail Price?
A mere 13.20%.
They artificially bloated the top-line numbers months ago by $180.00 just so they could drop a temporary promotional window to induce massive consumer FOMO and clear out backlogged warehouse inventory.
The Back-End Value Collapse (The Real Kick in the Nether Regions)
The financial trap snaps shut completely the moment you attempt to liquidate that hardware on the secondary market. Because anyone with a credit card can instantly buy a standard mass-produced drop-in shell off a commercial shelf, stamped factory chassis hold absolute zero equity or specialized value on the used board.
The secondary market is incredibly brutal to mass-market gear, enforcing a strict depreciation wall where real-world used resale value plunges well below 50% of the original buy-in.
Your Flash Sale Checkout Cost: $650.99 CAD
Real-World Used Market Value (Max): ~$375.00 CAD (For a bare, un-upgraded factory shell)
The Instant Equity Loss: -$275.99 CAD (A flat 42% asset wipeout the moment you open the box)!!
Setting phone alarms and pre-loading digital shopping carts to pay a premium for high-volume factory metal—only to watch nearly half of your hard-earned capital instantly vaporize into a stagnant used-board listing—isn't outsmarting the system. It is a textbook example of corporate consumer conditioning.
A eye opener on the used....when sites post a chassis as new (exception some dealers and factory)...its still USED!!
You are stripped of any fall back of warranty and support!
By the numbers ...worse then a highend diesel dually off a new car lot
Example. MDT CHASSIS;
The 9-Month Price Illusion (The Corporate Shell Game);
The Original Value Baseline: Nine months ago, the standard factory retail price wall for a bare long-action chassis core sat at exactly $749.99 CAD (oct.2025).
The Permanent Markup: The manufacturer quietly executed a sharp 24.00% permanent price increase, driving that exact same bare metal shell up to an inflated catalog rate of $929.99 CAD (may -june 2026)
The 10-Minute Promotional Gimmick: 23June2026 they dropped a high-stress 600-second timer offering a "30% markdown." Taking 30% off that inflated $929.99 sticker drops the checkout cost to $650.99 CAD.
The True Net Savings from the Original Retail Price?
A mere 13.20%.
They artificially bloated the top-line numbers months ago by $180.00 just so they could drop a temporary promotional window to induce massive consumer FOMO and clear out backlogged warehouse inventory.
The Back-End Value Collapse (The Real Kick in the Nether Regions)
The financial trap snaps shut completely the moment you attempt to liquidate that hardware on the secondary market. Because anyone with a credit card can instantly buy a standard mass-produced drop-in shell off a commercial shelf, stamped factory chassis hold absolute zero equity or specialized value on the used board.
The secondary market is incredibly brutal to mass-market gear, enforcing a strict depreciation wall where real-world used resale value plunges well below 50% of the original buy-in.
Your Flash Sale Checkout Cost: $650.99 CAD
Real-World Used Market Value (Max): ~$375.00 CAD (For a bare, un-upgraded factory shell)
The Instant Equity Loss: -$275.99 CAD (A flat 42% asset wipeout the moment you open the box)!!
Setting phone alarms and pre-loading digital shopping carts to pay a premium for high-volume factory metal—only to watch nearly half of your hard-earned capital instantly vaporize into a stagnant used-board listing—isn't outsmarting the system. It is a textbook example of corporate consumer conditioning.
A eye opener on the used....when sites post a chassis as new (exception some dealers and factory)...its still USED!!
You are stripped of any fall back of warranty and support!
By the numbers ...worse then a highend diesel dually off a new car lot
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adamthebad
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- .here and .there
the last I checked the price of bulk aluminum hasn't changed; only how fast one is ready to jump to the next modified aluminum popcan with *V* bottom bedding
adamthebad
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- .here and .there
You pulled the classic Company negotiation fall back! Outstanding!
No one is asking a multi-million dollar corporation to operate as a non-profit charity or sell their inventory at raw cost. Of course they have employees, automated machinery, and heavy marketing budgets to pay for.
At their prices the chassis should be what they supply to the pro shooters they sponsor!!!
NOT the aluminum swill thats out there now!
When a factory implements high-speed progressive automation, their production cost per unit drops to pennies.
The manufacturer used a high-stress timer to manipulate buyer FOMO, dumps their backlogged inventory of $30 automated popcans onto your credit card, and you show your gratitude by writing emotional forum posts protecting their executive balance sheet.
The cold secondary market doesn't care about buyer corporate loyalty—the second that box is unsealed, the lack of transferable warranties and retail protection strips away the artificial premium, inflicting an instant, unrecoverable 42% asset equity wipeout that caps buyer used value at a stale $375.00 maximum.
Buyers didn't "beat the clock they were simply conditioned to clear a warehouse floor while mistaking a permanent inflation gouge for an elite consumer victory.
Out of sheer curiosity; what’s your opinion on the best way to purchase a chassis like these, if not during a sale like this? We obviously won’t see prices from several years again and hoping for a magical return will simply result in you not ever owning one, unless you find a used one somewhere. So how do you suggest we go about it? Do you have a certain cheat code for getting better deals than this, other than not buying at all?You pulled the classic Company negotiation fall back! Outstanding!
No one is asking a multi-million dollar corporation to operate as a non-profit charity or sell their inventory at raw cost. Of course they have employees, automated machinery, and heavy marketing budgets to pay for.
At their prices the chassis should be what they supply to the pro shooters they sponsor!!!
NOT the aluminum swill thats out there now!
When a factory implements high-speed progressive automation, their production cost per unit drops to pennies.
The manufacturer used a high-stress timer to manipulate buyer FOMO, dumps their backlogged inventory of $30 automated popcans onto your credit card, and you show your gratitude by writing emotional forum posts protecting their executive balance sheet.
The cold secondary market doesn't care about buyer corporate loyalty—the second that box is unsealed, the lack of transferable warranties and retail protection strips away the artificial premium, inflicting an instant, unrecoverable 42% asset equity wipeout that caps buyer used value at a stale $375.00 maximum.
Buyers didn't "beat the clock they were simply conditioned to clear a warehouse floor while mistaking a permanent inflation gouge for an elite consumer victory.
What an #######.You pulled the classic Company negotiation fall back! Outstanding!
No one is asking a multi-million dollar corporation to operate as a non-profit charity or sell their inventory at raw cost. Of course they have employees, automated machinery, and heavy marketing budgets to pay for.
At their prices the chassis should be what they supply to the pro shooters they sponsor!!!
NOT the aluminum swill thats out there now!
When a factory implements high-speed progressive automation, their production cost per unit drops to pennies.
The manufacturer used a high-stress timer to manipulate buyer FOMO, dumps their backlogged inventory of $30 automated popcans onto your credit card, and you show your gratitude by writing emotional forum posts protecting their executive balance sheet.
The cold secondary market doesn't care about buyer corporate loyalty—the second that box is unsealed, the lack of transferable warranties and retail protection strips away the artificial premium, inflicting an instant, unrecoverable 42% asset equity wipeout that caps buyer used value at a stale $375.00 maximum.
Buyers didn't "beat the clock they were simply conditioned to clear a warehouse floor while mistaking a permanent inflation gouge for an elite consumer victory.
adamthebad
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- .here and .there
Outstanding question!!
Hoping for a corporate price rollback on a new box is a dead end...100%
Buying a standalone, bare factory frame at an inflated premium on a used board—where amateur sellers suffer from "sunk-cost blindness" and try to pass their checkout taxes and freight down to you—is an equally bad trap.
This whole stamped out chassis deal...
Falls into The Classic TRILEMMA
good fast cheap
pick two and go with it....along with hours of reseach...
And not pay blindly to in the instant.
LIKE some think it should be done ;*I got it* type of deal.
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- Location
- near Yorkton SK
baloney ...
You liked MDT enough to buy a rifle-worth of stuff from them recently.... but then you didn't read the terms and conditions and feel they ripped you off for following their own policy (which you say is secretly coded using a hard to find encoder ring not available to us mere mortals) and now you are their biggest critic. What a fun roller coaster ride we are on
adamthebad
Regular
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- .here and .there
Roller coaster.....
with missing track.
Prior to purchasing 30 days in advance the written response from MDT was a fitment go.
