But the Chinese are steadily improving their firearms, unlike the Americans, which seem to be going the other way.
This is a very inaccurate statement.
Western market firearms continue to IMPROVE; but the rate at which they improve is slowed by market consumers.
China/Russia have cheap labor, cheap materials, and massive booms to their manufacturing divisions. China is basically the USofA at the end of the Second World War, but even that is changing fast.
Western Markets have access to much larger edge than red rifles do; BIG Military budgets. The USofA and pretty much NO Nato military is going to be purchasing Chinese made firearms any time soon; Russia has already produced a massive supply of its own brick bulldozer a million times over and has secured markets in every sand hut there is.
The war for market now is over civ consumers; at least to which anyone on this site would ever be concerned over.
The reality is that rednecks, hunters, weekend shooters, guys with no gf's, guys with too many gf's ((may your wife never meet them)), and just plain guys and gals of all grounds agree on one thing when it comes to guns... they love em cheap. Because then you can buy more! It's the same adage that you don't save money reloading ammo; you just shoot more.
The reality is that if Marstar closed its doors tomorrow that someone would come a long and start the importation of red rifles fast! The consumer has been exposed and they like it. Name one rifle that is as reliable ((goes bang when you pull the trigger)) as the SKS at less than $600? ((NEW)) in a 7.62 caliber? Even going to .223 you won't find much in that neighborhood. This means that if Marstar took off; someone could come in, and state a reality "Well we're just starting so we can't buy as much so fast, so price goes up." But even at 100% increase there's just nothing that competes with the likes of the SKS or SVT etc etc. Rem 750's start at what $800? So you're still saving $200 and the reality is, you could probably argue that one may be able to get just as accurate results with the SKS as the Rem 750 but then you'll be spending a lot of time with that SKS.
John needs to do something VERY simple to rid himself of the "headache." Turn to CGN admins and say "Look, you want my money; I want your business, but Marstar doesn't need a website to continue supplying retail locations." And with that add these changes to his section:
- When Marstar starts a new thread all responses be less than 500 characters; this leaves enough space for simple questions and the odd "I jizzed my pants that's awesome" comments that the fan boys give. And enough that "anti's" can make their point on the product and move on.
- Users can START a thread, but only THEY and Johnone can respond to it; so if a complaint wants to be made public it CAN. And the two can discuss all they want with out anyone else polluting the thread.
- Create a subsection for the above threads
- Create a single thread that is stickied where ALL users can go to ask questions to Marstar/Johnone instead of creating a new god damn thread that asks "JOHN! M14's!?" "JOHN! SIG'S?!" JOHN! JW14'S!" "JOHN! M14's!"
These are simple changes that are easily capable of the forums programming ((Yes, the admins might need a bit to figure it out if they don't know, but I don't want to assume they do, or brush em with mud claiming they don't)) and all are changes that will curb all the negativity for Marstar AND JOHN.
I LOVE Threads that show consumer had a problem; because when I see resolutions it makes me want to deal with them. But with Marstar on CGN there has been a disconnect from ALL parties. And to hell with the finger pointin' cause WE, yes I said WE including ME, are guilty of bad comms.
The last thing you can start doing John is not reply to randoms. Say Billy starts a thread and calls it "Marstar lost my order" and he puts up everything; talk to god damn Billy and ignore Joel, Ratpak, Dipsh**, FunBags, and *ssClown because you gain nothing but an advil bill. And it starts up so much more bad #### with out helping you OR Billy and since Billy is the customer and you are a man of words to make sure Customers are satisfied ONLY TALK TO HIM! The rest don't want to buy? Good. Let someone else deal with em.
I thoroughly hope some of this made sense because typing on a Tablet sucks.
Yes, I still think you're an ass John cause I've taken several shots across the bow from posts that were genuinely trying to help/promote your position. I hope you're still reading and see that I am saying that a large portion of constant disconnect is because so many times these threads just get filled with #### that everyone jumps in from both sides the coin.
So much so that I find replying to some of them, only to stop typing have a coffee and close the window cause I see it's not helping.
/rant
Also.... Sig and Norc 14 combo... when?
