TGO David

I've added this to my "It would be nice to have" list but that's all I can promise at this point.

As my Scottish relatives were prone to say... Jesus Murphy.  :wall:   I already posted about this elsewhere so I don't think we really need another thread about this.  Here's what I said then, and what I'm saying now as the "Official Word" on this topic, after which point I am closing the thread:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/56695-when-is-it-going-to-be-ok-to-sale-magsammoand-ars-for-the-going-rate/#entry865843         Folks, tensions are high enough as is among the pro-2A community right now.  The last thing we need to do is start fighting among ourselves over pricing of things here or elsewhere.  Supply of previously plentiful items has dried up.  Retail prices have climbed.  Private sale prices have climbed.  Some pricing has climbed into the stratosphere.   If you were well stocked to begin with, you probably don't care.  If you weren't, then you probably do and you probably regret the lack of preparation and regret the high prices.  Hindsight is the mother of all bitches sometimes and this would definitely be one of them.  Were I short on ammo, short on mags or short on black rifles, I'd be a bit upset as well, but my anger would be directed at myself.  Trust me; there are a few rifles I'd still like to own and assumed I'd have plenty of time to pick them up in the future.  I'm kicking myself, but I'm not pissed at the world or pissed at the people who had more foresight than I did.   I don't even believe it is morally or ethically wrong for people to make a profit on these things now.  Why should it be?  It's no more wrong for them to do that than it is for me to turn a profit on shares of Apple, Inc. stock when the market is strong.  These things are all commodities at the end of the day, and right now it's a seller's market.   The truth hurts sometimes.  Sorry.   My advice for folks is to just band together the best we can and stop taking pot shots at people for "buying low and selling high".  It's their prerogative to do it, and frankly a lot of these people are going to feel like world class morons when the market tanks and they barely brake even... or worse yet Swinestein gets her way and bans the hell out of everything this side of a slingshot, and these fools suddenly realize that the $5,000 they pocketed selling that AR-15 isn't worth the now-irreplaceable AR-15 that they sold.   Hopefully some of these items will start reappearing in stores before Congress gets a chance to fuck us in 2013.  If you see a rifle or other item that you can afford in the stores between now and then, you'd be a complete fool not to jump on it.  You may not get that chance again if the assclowns our country has elected get their way.       /thread

Obviously you're not restricted so just ignore it for now.  Apparently it is taking into consideration that your secondary member group on the administrative side is "Member" and showing it to you anyway.   I'll have to see if I can change that behavior.

Send me the transaction #.  If you paid as an e-Check instead of money that came out of your PayPal account or as a debit card transaction, it's going to take some time to process and clear.  When it does it will update automatically.   This was covered in a FAQ entry too I think.

It sounds to me like you should take out the necessary loan to open your own shooting range and then price the memberships however you see fit.

Gotta say... this is the first time I've had someone say it was our web site's fault that they didn't read the multitude of announcements, FAQs and even the notice posted at the top of every single Trading Post page stating that only Benefactors can respond publicly to threads.   This is an Internet forum.  The requirement that you engage in reading things is sort of a given, considering the nature of the medium.   Just saying.

I used to wonder at what point the American people would topple these little tyrants at the voting booth and then it occurred to me that with 50% of the public sucking at the government tit, that's just not going to happen.  Now I'm starting to wonder at what point the minority of Americans who still believe in the value of the Constitution are going to reach their limit and start imparting "change" by more dramatic means.

Best recommendation I can give is to not skimp.  People often skimp on the safe and then fill it with things of value worth many times what the safe itself cost, let alone what a good safe would cost.

People who go on and on and on about how honest they are, never are.

Merry Christmas, folks!

Meh... Target does the same thing.  Policies are what they are, I suppose.

I'm hoping to capitalize on some of the poor judgment these assclowns have shown by picking up a rifle or two for a fraction of the price come Februrary or March when they realize that Obama can't get jack shit pushed through Congress and folks start dumping them to pay off their credit card debt.

This past week my wife and I have stopped in a few gun shops just to witness the madness.  Everyone from vendors here to big box stores like Academy are picked clean on rifles.  Handguns, not so much.  But if you want a semi-automatic rifle of any kind, you're pretty much screwed at this point.   I've seen crap that people wouldn't have spent a nickle on two weeks ago flying off store shelves and demanding top dollar on GunBroker.  It's been eye opening.

  Highly insulting to gays.  Likely many of them don't want to be associated with him either.

Love my ZT 0350 enough that I've given them as gifts too.  One will be opened tomorrow as a matter of fact.

Forum Admin uses Executive Order to change thread title to keep from scaring people to death....

I did a quick glance at my usual sources and they're bone dry.  I'd wait out the current panic before I seriously tried to find any at this point.

  Kind of seemed that way.  Maybe you should think before you post something like that again.

:lol: Nice... they called me about that Shield right before they called you I guess.  We had put our name on the list a while back but after picking up the XD-S for pocket carry, I just couldn't bring myself to do the Shield right now.   Congrats!  I'll be interested in hearing how you like it long term.

Good job!

Might want to see the other thread about this.

Man I really hate to hear that about your truck but you know, God works in mysterious ways and I bet He knew you could use a little down-time to rest and recover.  :)   Our '04 F250 used to give me fits.  Overall I love Diesels but occasionally they just decide to puke a part and you're stuck for a while.  Here's to hoping they get you back on the road sooner than expected.

I picked up two more mags each for my M&P 9mm and .40SW but that's about it.  I was meaning to grab more of them anyway so I went ahead and ordered them from Midway on Wednesday while they were still available.   I've been eying a new rifle but I refuse to pay post-CT pricing on one.  I'll either wait for a more realistic price or I'll just abstain.

So I listened, I watched and I read.  I'm still not crazy about the pop-culture slant they went with but all in all it was a good reply.  Good enough that I have upgraded to Life Member.

So here's my take on this...   Something is only over-priced if it is above fair market value.  Right now the market will sustain quite a bit of markup over what it did last week.  If you're really wanting to part with some items that are in high demand right now, you would be silly not to ask the current going rate for them.   It doesn't matter if you are asking a fair price now or three weeks ago, someone out there is going to bitch because they want the best deal possible and feel like you somehow owe it to them to give them that deal.  Don't worry about that.   I would caution you against selling something today that you might not be able to replace again later, though.  Unless you're hurting for cash, I'd sit on those items and see what happens.  It could come to pass that you would end up really, really regretting it later.