Yet an importer & wholesaler can import new guns from Turkey & sell them at $700.
The cost of the fee for a second hand auction item.
Yes, I don't like that it costs you $700. SKB, even before you lay a hand on it. I know it is your business & fair margin is fair. The rip is way before it got in your hands & the auction is getting a cut coming & going, seller & buyer. Man if I ran my business that way I would have no work.
I don't deny anyone, all I ask is a "fair suck of the saveloy," eh.
I might not know that much about it canvasback, however what I am saying is "the hurdles are ridiculous"& too costly". IMHO
By what you say the smell that I am smelling did not go away.
Moses, as you are rightly surmising, it is the regulatory hurdles that make it so costly. But shipping can be a big component as well. Do one gun with a freight forwarder and it might be $300-400 freight alone depending on where it's coming from. Now do 15 guns and the freight component is the same because it's still under the minimum weight charged by the forwarder. When you are importing a full, 40 foot container of guns, many of the costs are the same or quite similar so the "per gun" cost drops dramatically. So what can cost $700 in total for one gun drops to maybe $30 per gun when you bring in 500 guns.
Note...the numbers are used to describe the scenario....not to be completely accurate examples of real costs importing from Turkey.
I spent 35 years as an importer. it's the economies of scale that are at work. Unless postal services can be effectively used (rarely) the cost of importing any one thing is usually dramatically higher than bringing in 1000 of the same.
