Was this place that bad?
From what I've read by digging through alot of old threads, the owner earned every bit of his rep.
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Was this place that bad?
Fraternizing with the enemy!! Derek should award you with a two day suspension and you should start a new post and write 100 times "I should slap myself for being weak"
Fraternizing with the enemy!! Derek should award you with a two day suspension and you should start a new post and write 100 times "I should slap myself for being weak"
LOL!!!!!Translated: If Carl really wanted to open Four Seasons - South Armpit Region Edition - he could have done it a long time ago.
Bingo. Carl has it made in the shade with one (very overcrowded) shop in one more-or-less semi-accessible location. He sets the market for half the state. I'd love for him to open one or two more locations in strategic spots. But for Carl personally, I don't think it would make any sense at all.Re-translation: If Carl wanted to destroy the existing small gun shops in the Armpit Region, he could have already done it.
What's with all the bad Karma in regards to northeast trading? I've purchased a few firearms over the years and have always had great customer service and felt his prices were competitive. Every time I have entered the shop I was greeted and asked if they could help me. I can't say that about other shops in area.
Jim
What's with all the bad Karma in regards to northeast trading? I've purchased a few firearms over the years and have always had great customer service and felt his prices were competitive. Every time I have entered the shop I was greeted and asked if they could help me. I can't say that about other shops in area.
Jim
Ok, I have no idea whats up with this guy.... anyone share via PM?
he isn't a friend to gun owners. For one, he ratted out Bass Pro when they were selling firearms they shouldn't have been selling. On top of that, he sells items in an industry that he wants to see more regulation in. Eff him and the pigmy goat he rode in on (lets face it, no way he is getting up on a horse LOL)
No way there's 375000 worth of inventory in that place, even with his $45 a pound powder prices
maybe you could get a deal if you negotiated the price in cheese....
I see a bigger picture here.
I just lost a local gun store up here in Dracut. (Ron's)
So now this shop (NE Trading) is trying to sell off. Most likely will be going out of business.
Who's next?
Maybe not Carl, but...
This smacks of the AG's stopping the sales of ARs/AKs and the like.
Most of these small shops can't stay in business selling deer rifles, 12 gauge pumps or single-shot .22's.
The big sellers these days are the black rifles and the ammo/accessories for them, and if you don't sell the rifles who's coming in for the go-withs?
And even if you do sell all the accoutrements, the internet beats their price every time.
Maura knew what she was doing.
By bleeding off the bread and butter of the Massachusetts Local Gun Stores and the money it brings in, these small shops are doomed to perish.
Her game plan all along. Choke off the profit, kill the gun business in Massachusetts.
I don't mind seeing a gunstore going out of business because of poor judgement, or poor attitude. But not this way.
I'm pissed
Not sure if serious, ted has ratted to the AG on more than one occasion. No great loss here, it means more business for other shops that need it.
So what exactly is the $75k getting you? the name and a POS machine? Can't be the building at that price. You get to inherit his badly negotiated lease? In a crap location?
A boss of mine once said "goodwill is the dollar value assigned to the F'ing you willingly took."
You never pay book value for inventory in a purchase. Typically take a discount. Review on hands and write down obsolete or unsalable crap to get to a more reasonable/realistic value.
Very serious, but not about Ted. More about the state of Local Gun Stores in Mass. NE Trading deserves what it is getting. I went off on a tangent with my post...
THE Rat said:"one of the most successful guns dealers in MA even with their crazy laws".
this is a great opportunity for a 4 seasons south...
The problem with most gun shops is there is stuff in the inventory in these places where I wouldn't give them 10 cents for it never mind a discount. Lots of them have junk all over the place.
Unless the location is particularly high profile or theres some enormous reputation attached to the business, it's not even worth buying out a gun shop 99% of the time. The enormous amount of capital you wasted buying the shop out could have been used to buy new inventory, etc- and you can buy stuff that you know will move, not junk from a failing LGS.
The hilarious thing is at one time NET was probably worth something, I remember years ago he used to come in like 3rd place behind FS and Ware for S&W sales volume in MA. Granted it was a distant third but it used to be a prominent shop. Now it's probably somewhere in the shitter because Gartman and a bunch of others have slowly taken all his business away.
-Mike
The hilarious thing is at one time NET was probably worth something, I remember years ago he used to come in like 3rd place behind FS and Ware for S&W sales volume in MA.
-Mike