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Cabelas buying guns from ?????
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Anyone know the procedure for Cabelas or other large store for buying guns from the manufacturer or do they buy them from a jobber? How is this done?
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Sadly, a lot of folks would rather patronize the big box stores to save a few dollars, rather than support the local guy who can give advice, mount a scope, or repair a broken gun.
It gets more complicated than that. A distributor uses the hard-to-get guns as an incentive to his best customers, so the gunshop that orders guns one at a time is unable to get the "hottest" items. And, a gunshop owner who orders a large quantity at the beginning of the year will get a discount.
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Additionally, the guns were often received under a 'dating' system: this meant that the guns were shipped to the outfit at no cost, with the bill for the guns coming due months later. This gave the outfit the advantage of being able to sell the guns before paying for them. The volume of guns which went through, was huge. The outfit also operated a retail outlet from which guns were sold locally to the general public, often at well below wholsale prices (Browning, however, did not want new products sold to the public by any dealer at anything below full retail, stating that they also wanted the customer to receive absolutely full service from the dealer when returning anything that was defective). Colt gave generous additional discounts when putting in the FULL line of Colts, including oddballs like Detective Specials in .32 New Police.
It is true that the operation severely distressed some other area gun dealers, but the owner had actually done only what the others always had the opportunity to do, and didn't, some for decades.
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