Is it Eastman's doing these poor tactics or the retailers? I've been to several gun shows and it is a far cry from what I knew growing up. I guess everything has gotten in such high demand that they feel they can charge admission; don't mind this tactic that much especially for the charity ones like the Shriners (please, I don't want to hear how I need to stop buying their pecan logs and they're not a real charity; I had referred several children that had no health insurance and were part of a major investigation and they got major treatment and other medical equipment for nothing. If I am slowly paying toward the cost of those success stories then I'm fine with that).
To be honest, I don't mind paying the nominal fees if they put together a decent show. They are saving me much more gas by trying to compare all of this under one roof and that's how I've come to use them,as a shopping tool.
The paying sales tax thing kills many deals and for some reason nobody, nobody speaks the language of cash at these things. I've tried everything form bundling, talking reason ( I know what it takes to break even on most of these and always keeping enough meat on the bone, to offering to buy multiple of the same item.
I know there is some reason behind it(maybe for example H&K protecting brand integrity and not allowing pistols to be sold at a certain point or some hidden fees I'm not calculating in their profit like taxes or an Eastman charge per unit sold) but they either react like I'm crazy (not far from the truth) or as if I told them I have photos of their mother "with" a senator. I don't want to insult a man but I'm not going to pay higher retail from some guy at a table operating 50 miles away then what I can get at my LGS...sorry for the rant but trying to get a grasp of this.
Anyone here actually go to this thing? Good to know I'm not the only lazy bastard
