Yes, my local dealer/club make nothing from me. Aside from powder, primers, RFD transfers, .22RF ammunition, shotgun cartridges, etc., etc.Alpha1 wrote:Personally I would rather pay my money to a English gun dealer. If that costs a little bit more then so be it. Iv tried buying stuff from abroad and its fine if you are prepared to wait months for it to arrive and some times it does not arrive at all.
We're not talking about "a little bit more", in the case of the .30 bullets I was talking about above it would have been almost exactly double the price to buy locally and in the case of my slugs I bring in, when was the last time you saw an RFD selling 12 bore slugs (not loaded slugs, though they're also fairly rare).
Do you apply the same logic to secondhand sales?
As above, aside from the slight issue with the bullets (on which it was made clear there was going to be a delay, I suspect a good part of which was on royal mail's end (a "good british company") and lets be honest for that sort of saving I don't mind the delay) all of my European orders have been pretty damn good (Siarm arrived within a week) and they actually reply to emails.phaedra1106 wrote:It's a global economy, I've spent many thousands of pounds with UK firearms dealers and will continue to do so, BUT, when a UK importer tells me it costs twice as much to import bullets from the US into the UK as it does to any other European country I tend to think someone is telling porkies.
When it comes to some items we're not talking about paying "a little bit more" (which I have done and still do) we're talking paying over double the EU market price, one dealer, when asked, was suddenly able to offer a 30% discount after telling me they made almost nothing on bullet sales, does that sound right?.
The sellers I use in Germany and Luxemburg are excellent, deliveries are within 4-5 working days, I've only had one delay of around 4 weeks from a seller I won't use again. I've had worse service here in the UK, a set of dies required urgently took over 2 weeks to be despatched despite being told over and over again that they had been, an order to another UK large dealers for an in-stock item had to be cancelled when after 10 days they eventually admitted they didn't have the item in the first place.
Perish the thought that the british gun trade might have to up its game. We wouldn't want that.
