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Not sure if all you nutz are aware of what is going to happen to retail rifle pricing in the coming months as new stock arrives for 2015 store inventories. I hear we are looking at a minimum of products all being20% higher and rimfire ammo crazy prices are coming, Like Bricks of Remington for in excess of $90 freaking dollars. Be cashing in all of my canadian Tire money on ammo very soon.
I was looking to pick up a Weatherby 30-378 for a buddy's 50th birthday present, so naturally I went to P&D and told them that this is what I am looking for and that Epps has on now for just under $2 grand. Iget a phone call from the mgr at P&D and he says you better buy it from Epps as it is priced at $500 less that he can buy a new one for. So that tells me a lot of items are going to be very expensive in 2015. FS
 
IT's the US$ vs C$ again as it continues to cycle. We have worked around this before many times, it will boil down to supply and demand. If the gun nuts don't buy price toooo high, prices will come down.
Enjoy
 
I was at my local dealer 2 weeks ago , and thankfully I just got in under the rope. Thankfully their held stock keeps the old pricing (good or bad). They mentioned the Stoeger group will have a 10 percent price increase starting this month ( i think that includes Stoeger, Beretta, Sako, Tikka and maybe CZ?)
 
I recently purchased a new rifle from a dealer here on Gun Nutz without the increase. Best to purchase ASAP.
 
It seems interesting to me, Some time ago, when the dollar came to be at par from being low for quite a while the prices of goods did not go down but now that the dollar is going down again the prices are certainly climbing. All in all it will be the consumer that will always be the one to pay.
I believe that the Industry is creating the shortages as well. I have heard that Browning is only making so many fire arms and when they are gone they are gone.
Going to start hording a few items as I find them myself.

David
 
It's going to be interesting by late July, early August what the prices will bring.
Cabin fever is set now waiting to thaw and we ain't seen n'utt'in yet.

With any luck, our dollar will escalate back up and keep the GO's lacking customers.
One can only wish.

:cheers:
 
257Roberts said:
It seems interesting to me, Some time ago, when the dollar came to be at par from being low for quite a while the prices of goods did not go down but now that the dollar is going down again the prices are certainly climbing. All in all it will be the consumer that will always be the one to pay.
I believe that the Industry is creating the shortages as well. I have heard that Browning is only making so many fire arms and when they are gone they are gone.
Going to start hording a few items as I find them myself.

David
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that in the bold is what bothers me. I went into a gun store an hour from where I live and stated that same thing, the answer I got left me dumb founded. The gun store owner says, and I quote " the prices that have been effect for the last 10 years have been dirt cheap! It really bothers me when people say that because they don't realise how cheap everything has been!" Now, myself being fairly outspoken, was able to keep my mouth shut, laugh and leave. Maybe the prices that they have been getting items for has been "dirt cheap" but the prices written all over the items on the shelf sure as hell arent. It just amazes me the way people think some times.
 
kamlooky said:
It's going to be interesting by late July, early August what the prices will bring.
Cabin fever is set now waiting to thaw and we ain't seen n'utt'in yet.

With any luck, our dollar will escalate back up and keep the GO's lacking customers.
One can only wish.

:cheers:
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LOL!!! By golly, you can speak English.;)
 
Unfortunately, the prices on firearms work very much like the prices on gasoline -- the vendor's cost is set by the distributor, with the retailer then having to mark up from that cost to make sufficient profit on each item. When the Canadian dollar reached parity with the US currency, the majority of prices DID decline. Witness Beretta 92 pistols that were selling for $715, but have since jumped up to $856 for the same pistol. This price increase happened without warning, and took effect on a specific deadline from the distributor.

We in the retail business hate seeing price increases just as much as our customers. Contrary to popular belief, we do not simply raise prices to increase our profit margins. Percentage mark-ups are handed down from the manufacturer to the distributor, then from the distributor to the retailer. For the firearms already in stock when those price increases occur, the raised values for those sales allow us to continue to purchase new products at the higher prices listed from each distributor until such time as the next price increase occurs, or the dollar rises in value and the prices do finally come down once more.

Of course price decreases NEVER happen as quickly as price increases. We all know this. Not fair, but a fact of life.
 
Some of the used gun pricing involves some Creative Accounting 101

I paid $1000 for this rifle; I have seen prices as high as $1500; With the Canadian dollar being what it is worth today I have to get $2000.
 
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