Why is the ammo situation in Canada so horble??????
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DaveMachine
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That can sell to civilians.
No one would be willing to pay the prices.
I seriously doubt the price would be that much different in Canada to manufacture versus the US at this point in time. The exchange is basically even when you consider what a company here is forced to pay for benefits versus what a US company needs to pay for. My company routinely wins contracts to supply the US automakers all the time competing against US, Mexican and even Asian suppliers. We have fair margins and run a tight business.
I go back to my previous points, retailers in Canada are out to make much more profit than in the US. Forget guns, ammo or anything like that. How can I get a top of the line Honda mower for $400 less all in with taxes, exchange and all the other stuff than I can get it for here? Why are circuit breakers 50% less at Home Depot? Both countries build the same houses? The reality is that the margins demanded here are more and the exchange rate gap has never closed because it is more profit and what does a consumer do if they cannot go to the US?
Forget ammo I would be interested in some of the Sponsor comments as to why simple presses, dies and reloading hardware are so much more here when there are no export controls at all?
I go back to my previous points, retailers in Canada are out to make much more profit than in the US. Forget guns, ammo or anything like that. How can I get a top of the line Honda mower for $400 less all in with taxes, exchange and all the other stuff than I can get it for here? Why are circuit breakers 50% less at Home Depot? Both countries build the same houses? The reality is that the margins demanded here are more and the exchange rate gap has never closed because it is more profit and what does a consumer do if they cannot go to the US?
Forget ammo I would be interested in some of the Sponsor comments as to why simple presses, dies and reloading hardware are so much more here when there are no export controls at all?
i've raised this exact same point many times in other forums, relating to other products. as far as i can tell, it boils down to greed, holding the consumer hostage in a way because we have minimal consumer protection bodies and canadians as a whole are MUCH less action-driven than americans (we write to complain, we don't ACT to change things), some whiney-ass excuse that since canada is so freakin' huge the transport costs are a major factor (cuz we ALL live on the north pole and NONE of us live within 2hrs of the US border), and of course high income taxes (which cause the dealers to overcompensate and charge more so that their own after-tax income is nice and comfy)
the exchange-rate excuse is one that seems to only fly in one direction - when rates go UP the price HAS to go up, but when rates come DOWN then the prices stay up just in case the rate goes back up again.
i used to like this country, but the way in which the canadian consumer is being ROYALLY hosed on a regular basis makes me plan to move.
Am I the only one here who notices that our prices are being kept high by the US government, not the Canadian one? If we could convince the US government to open up personal exports of moderate quantities of ammo we could almost immediately reduce retail prices here. Look at how fast the price of books came down last year when the media pointed out that the dollar was at par, but books were still double the price. Suddenly every Canadian retailer was selling the books at US prices. Perhaps we can start lobbying the US government as it would help their businesses as well as CDN customers.
personal exports have nothing to do with business / commercial stuff. the US Gov't has ZERO control over what the canadian business owner decides to charge for products (beyond the need for permits, and that my dear friend is only for SOME products, not all - certainly things like books don't need an export permit)
the US Gov't has little incentive to listen to Canadians when it comes to the vast majority of products as we are 1/10th their population. the pricing problem isn't restricted to ammo, it's an issue right across the board (even for products that are MADE in Canada)
you remember the car situation at around the same time? didn't take long for Canadian dealers and "Toyota Canada" and others to state that cars bought in the US will NOT have their warranties honoured? how about that little law that was quickly put in place about immobilizers that MUST be present and oh-gee-whiz-look-at-that only Canadian cars were equipped with it? prior to the exchange rate hitting par for so long, immobilizers were a non-issue. coincidence?????? it was the Canadian side that put a stop to people importing cars from the US - the US dealers would have loved more business, but OUR side didn't want to adjust our prices OR permit us to shop at more competitive places.
greed, pure and simple.
