griff said:
Clem,
perhaps the poll should have how much does it cost to import legally from outside the UK...
On personal basis and on a business setting...
Because there is no way the two are comparable..
and when it comes to firearms you haven't got a hope in hell without proper documentatiion..
regards
griff
Griff
You can't directly compare retail and trade prices, sure there are cost involved for the importer.But then they aren't paying retail prices either! As I have said elsewhere.
If you are importing to retail here in the UK you should be buying at trade prices, other wise what's the point.
All this codswhollp about "but I have cost you're not aware of" is in reality just a smoke screen to jack up the price. Fortunately slowly but surly buyers in the UK are becoming more switch on to just how much they are being ripped off, and quite sensibly are voting with their credit cards.
The old myth about importation of firearms from the US is another one that is being broken down There is a every informative thread on GT about the process. I agree its not as easy as it once was but its not impossible and neither is it excessively costly once you have the right paperwork in place and the right company on board over in the USA.
There are also considerable saving to be made if you look to other international sources.
The longer the UK retailers and suppliers fail to get the message that they compete on price the more people will buy elsewhere. The sooner the UK guntrade understands that they are over pricing themselves out of the market the sooner they and their customers will be better off.
So we loose a few local shops in the process, so what? Some of those who have jumped on what they perceived to be the gravy train of rifle smithing find themselves going to the wall, so what?
Neither are major losses, neither are irreplaceable, neither will ultimately be missed.