alan226
NES Member
My business model would be to hire someone for say $25 an hour. Do transfers Friday and Saturday from 9-5 and have a dedicated computer and employee just doing transfers. Any down time help out with ammo sales, stocking shelves etc.It varies depending on the gun, unfortunately, so I can't give a simple answer. Also distribution price tiers, etc. One shop mighy have better margins than another. One shop might be getting " buy X grand this month get a free gun" from manufacturer x or y. The only universal thing is that cheap stuff seems to have shitty margins, but that's kind of obvious EG, if you're selling a hi point your margin is probably still better than a $25 transfer but not by much. There are shitloads of guns that someone makes 50-150 bucks on. On the other end you have hi brow stuff that's hundreds of dollars (like for example, a high end O/U shotgun) but the pool of buyers for like, a $4000+ gun that has that much cushion built into it is very limited......
Transfers are definitely great, when a shop isn't busy. On the other hand they can tie up resources when you don't want them to be.... like if a shop is doing an inbound from tinbuk 4 and the customer calls 5 times and wastes a half hour of staff time trying to find his gun that doesn't exist yet, etc. Thays why as a point of etiquette I let the inbound dealer reach out to me when they're ready to have me pick it up.
Also any inbound private transfer where the seller doesn't put a full ID copy in the box with the gun... ill just say that those incidents are f***ing terrible....its almost workflow cancer......selling hi points all day is better than even one of those shit shows happening.....
