RFD charges....
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:50 pm
This is going to be a contentious one!
I buy and sell a lot of guns. I'm not a dealer, I'm an enthusiast. Something might catch my eye, yep want to give that a go! Could be calibre, could be make or model, whatever, doesn't matter, it will take my fancy, so have it. Use it, enjoy it, pass it on. Hence, I end up speaking with a fair few dealers and their costs. I've found somewhere around the 25 to 35 quid will see a dealer send a gun to my dealer. The lowest was 15 quid to send to me! Obviously, there's my dealers costs as well. But given the custom I give him, they are very favourable, so not the issue.
Dealers as well are now going back to what they should have been doing all along. See a gun, send your ticket to the dealer, they fill in, comes back to you under separate cover, gun goes to your RFD. Usually part and parcel of the "service" of sending.
But all along these fees have to be considered when buying a gun. A little bargain is sometimes not that good a bargain.
So today I speak to a dealer to send me a rifle he currently has custody of. 36 quid he says, no problem at the top end, but fair enough. And you must send me your FAC, yes, of course, not a problem. Pay the fees by BACS. £36 to ship, £25 to fill in FAC, £5 special delivery getting your FAC back to you!
So I make the quip, "No surprise the gun trade is dying, you're killing it!" (I do apologise later) but he goes apoplectic!!! Some tit for tat, then he says, "Well there's no standard"....
Is that not the issue? Should the GTA have a handle on this? Now I'm not saying dealers should be doing this for free, but surely, with some charging 15 quid to fill your ticket in and send it, and others wanting £66 and of course , if you have someone on the other end wanting 60 quid as well...
This isn't a bash RFDs, we'll save that for another "Half-witted, dangerous dealers strike" thread, but, a little bit consistency. And £25 for filling in the ticket that you have to send to him... I don't even think solicitors pull your pants down that far!
I buy and sell a lot of guns. I'm not a dealer, I'm an enthusiast. Something might catch my eye, yep want to give that a go! Could be calibre, could be make or model, whatever, doesn't matter, it will take my fancy, so have it. Use it, enjoy it, pass it on. Hence, I end up speaking with a fair few dealers and their costs. I've found somewhere around the 25 to 35 quid will see a dealer send a gun to my dealer. The lowest was 15 quid to send to me! Obviously, there's my dealers costs as well. But given the custom I give him, they are very favourable, so not the issue.
Dealers as well are now going back to what they should have been doing all along. See a gun, send your ticket to the dealer, they fill in, comes back to you under separate cover, gun goes to your RFD. Usually part and parcel of the "service" of sending.
But all along these fees have to be considered when buying a gun. A little bargain is sometimes not that good a bargain.
So today I speak to a dealer to send me a rifle he currently has custody of. 36 quid he says, no problem at the top end, but fair enough. And you must send me your FAC, yes, of course, not a problem. Pay the fees by BACS. £36 to ship, £25 to fill in FAC, £5 special delivery getting your FAC back to you!
So I make the quip, "No surprise the gun trade is dying, you're killing it!" (I do apologise later) but he goes apoplectic!!! Some tit for tat, then he says, "Well there's no standard"....
Is that not the issue? Should the GTA have a handle on this? Now I'm not saying dealers should be doing this for free, but surely, with some charging 15 quid to fill your ticket in and send it, and others wanting £66 and of course , if you have someone on the other end wanting 60 quid as well...
This isn't a bash RFDs, we'll save that for another "Half-witted, dangerous dealers strike" thread, but, a little bit consistency. And £25 for filling in the ticket that you have to send to him... I don't even think solicitors pull your pants down that far!