Gun show insanityThis is a discussion on Gun show insanity within the AR Talk forums, part of the Long Gun Talk category; Went to a gun show today and the prices were insane
DPMS uppers priced as much as a complete DPMS rifle
Lowers anywhere from $500-$650
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12-06-2008, 10:52 PM
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Gun show insanity
Went to a gun show today and the prices were insane
DPMS uppers priced as much as a complete DPMS rifle
Lowers anywhere from $500-$650
Pmags $35
Used glocks for $600
And the entry fee went up to $15
Did get a little poetic justice took some stocks with me to sell and one vendor asked what I had so I pulled it out and showed him when he asked how much I looked around his table (he had one of the $625 DPMS lowers) so I told him $550 and he was like are you craze msrp is only $265 I said yea I know and msrp on a complete lower is only $280, he said yea but it's supply and demand, I told him that maybe he should go a head and try and order one online and walked away leaving him standing there with a dumb look on his face
Guess we are suppose to surrender to their gouging and give them good deals on our stuff so they can turn around and gouge someone else
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12-06-2008, 11:00 PM
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**** every damn one of them. Seriously, But anyone who buys that crap at the price is even more of a ***.
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12-06-2008, 11:17 PM
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Wow.
Just got a lower on Gunbroker last week, $170 incl shipping. I didn't feel good about paying that price at the time, but now I feel a bit better about it. 
The upper is on backorder but supposedly a couple weeks away.
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12-06-2008, 11:24 PM
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I dont even want to know, we have a gun show here this weekend and I made a stand and said I was not going. It is killing me because I always go to all the gun shows. But I need to be good and save money.
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12-06-2008, 11:28 PM
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I wanted to go to the local show this morning but didn't.
Maybe I should have went for a good laugh. 
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12-06-2008, 11:35 PM
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It was worth the price of admission to leave that scum bag standing there with that dumb look on his face
I actually did pretty good I sold 4 CTRs 2 ubrs 3 bolts and a couple of mounts only took a beating on one UBR sold it to marshal luden with TDSA for $245 + a free T-shirt
But that was only because marshal is such a bad a$$. He has ARs that put everything we own to shame and when he shoots he is a machine he had one AR that he has almost $10k invested in
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I wanted to go to one today as well. My bud had to work, so I stayed home....probably for the best, too. This dang BRD I have is getting to me, but I don't want to pay 450-500 bucks for a 290-320 buck lower. 
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12-06-2008, 11:48 PM
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i havent even bothered to go to the gun shows lately, i would only go if i had something to sell. if you sell stuff at a good price i bet you would be able to sell everything you had very quickly
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The gun show I went to last weekend went up in admission and anything black and semi-evil looking was marked up 50%. AK mags 20-30 bucks up from 15 three gun shows ago, PMAGs 25 bucks up from 15 three shows ago, AK's thru the roof the only thing that stayed the same price were the mosin's, might be time to invest in another two or three of those.
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The last gun show I went to had a factory Hi-Point 995 9mm carbine for.... $350.
We won't even get into the AR15 prices....
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