Originally Posted by
BoringGuy45
Sales tactic. If a guy is spending the coin needed to get a Noveske, I'm 100% sure that he was just probably trying to get the gun off the shelf. Think about it this way: You're behind the counter, some guy comes in and says he wants to purchase his first AR. So, you recommend the Colt 6920 you have hanging there. He sees the $1000 price tag and says that's more than he wanted to spend, and do you have something in the $500-700 range? You say yeah, but they're all junk. But this guy's best friend has a DPMS he swears by and it was only $600. You try and teach the guy, but he just says he'll "think about it." He goes home and asks his buddy with the DPMS, who reassures him that DPMS is the top of the line and the Colt is just overpriced junk (lowest military bidder and all that). He goes to another store and the guy behind that counter says that DPMS is "not bad." So, the guy buys the DPMS and that's $600 you cost the store.
At the end of the day, I don't care if a person gets one of those Omni polymer receiver ARs or a KAC SR-15. I'll say that the Omni or DPMS is "okay," or "not bad" and "a good range gun". Let's face it, 99% of the people buying them are going to put between 20 and 50 rounds through them in a month, max. I have nothing to gain and everything to lose if I tell a guy the $600 he was just about to spend would be worth saving until he can get another $400 and spring for the Colt. He might not come back. Maybe he will buy the Colt, but he might buy it somewhere else. Now my boss is mad at me because I cost the store $600.
It's a soul sucking position, like I said. All retail is.