C*ck Blocked at the Gun Store

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Is that really a Glock qualifier? Asking because I honestly don't know. I know it's meant for all first responders and paramedics and fire department are always annoyed because a lot of dealers don't know they qualify.

Yes after signing up for a 2 yr membership you will get a coupon mailed from GSSF good for a blue label gun, the problem is some blue label dealers are a bit clueless about the GSSF coupon. Luckily some in my area are aware of it and I don't have issues buying Glocks with the coupon. If a blue label won't give you the discount with the coupon call GSSF who will get it straightened out....

You can also pay and get into a Glock Armored class...if you are a GSSF member. I have to sign up this year.

[SteyrAUG]

I think that was OP point. It was not about pricing, but availability.

Well not much I'd be able to do about that. I'm pretty much a special order dealer anyway.

[SteyrAUG]

Yes after signing up for a 2 yr membership you will get a coupon mailed from GSSF good for a blue label gun, the problem is some blue label dealers are a bit clueless about the GSSF coupon. Luckily some in my area are aware of it and I don't have issues buying Glocks with the coupon. If a blue label won't give you the discount with the coupon call GSSF who will get it straightened out....

You can also pay and get into a Glock Armored class...if you are a GSSF member. I have to sign up this year.

Well now I'm up to date. If they have the coupon, I have to figure they qualify.

[Alex V]

Join GSSF....get blue label pricing...works for me

I feel like that would be disingenuous, I’m not going to compete in their competitions. Plus that requires some kind of “coupon”

I think that was OP point. It was not about pricing, but availability.

Exactly. I’m not salty about the price, if Glock wants to provide a discount to LEO, fine. But it’s dumb that the store can’t sell me the gun because of the color of the sticker on the case. Charge me the Joe Blow price and sell it to me. It’s like two different inventory systems.

Reminds of me grocery stores in the USSR that were open to Communist Party members. The prices were the same as regular stores, but those stores actually had products where as the stores reserved for proles had empty shelves.

[SteyrAUG]

I feel like that would be disingenuous, I’m not going to compete in their competitions. Plus that requires some kind of “coupon”



Exactly. I’m not salty about the price, if Glock wants to provide a discount to LEO, fine. But it’s dumb that the store can’t sell me the gun because of the color of the sticker on the case. Charge me the Joe Blow price and sell it to me. It’s like two different inventory systems.

Reminds of me grocery stores in the USSR that were open to Communist Party members. The prices were the same as regular stores, but those stores actually had products where as the stores reserved for proles had empty shelves.

Honestly, Blue Label program is a PITA. My personal LE discount is usually more than the 10% difference of the Blue Label program. Blue Label Glocks are like $398 vs. Red Label Glocks at $440. The entire thing is stupid. If dealers want to be LE/MIL suppliers and offer LE discounts, that should be up to the dealer to work out in house programs.

Blue Label programs end up making guys on the Fire Department go from gun store to gun store hoping to find somebody that realizes they qualify for 10% off.

Additionally, if I provide a LE discount, my Glock availability should still go to who has "money in hand" right now. I shouldn't have to have six dusty Glocks on the shelf (all in .40 that nobody wants anymore) because of some stupid Blue Label program. The only thing worse is stocking dealer programs where manufacturers like FN make you buy a bunch of their crap that never sold in order to get one or two of whatever they made that everyone wants.

All manufacturers need to go back to simple retail vs. FFL prices where the retail price isn't ridiculously high to the point that nobody will ever sell one for that much and then offer stocking dealer pricing for those who are actually buying 10 or more of whatever model they are selling.

When big names decide you must be a stocking dealer in order to get any of their guns, I simply stop selling their guns because I'm not gonna buy 8 of something nobody wants that is never gonna sell.

Also FFLs prices are hardly confidential, they are published in Shotgun News and everywhere else. My markup is 20% and if people aren't willing to pay HALF of standard retail pricing, then those guys don't give a shit if I'm in business or alive next month anyway. Buy a LOT and you get 10% pricing because you are a serious buyer and I will treat you accordingly.

I also have a "you are a pain in my ass price" but that usually amounts to me referring you to another dealer I know who might be able to help you with that gun at that price and I send them down to the most full bang retail price / pain in the ass to deal with guy I know. These people really need to meet each other.

I also have a "you know what you are doing price." You email me with the CORRECT model number of exactly what you want, ask what my price would be vs. telling me how much it would cost at Buds / Botach and every time you fill out a 4473 correctly and you have your DL and Carry Permit ready and you come in and get things done...well you are going to get some consideration and a price adjustment because you are easy to deal with. Doing NFA stuff, my cost for a Form 4 transfer can be anywhere from the cost of a pizza to $100, it's mostly up to the buyer.

Attitude equals money and my shop IS a meritocracy. And that's so much more fair than any Blue Label program in the world.

[AndyLate]

Would it not be more accurate to say you were Glock blocked?

Was it already said?

[ARx3]

Well now I'm up to date. If they have the coupon, I have to figure they qualify.

GSSF price is slightly higher than Blue Label
http://www.gssfonline.com/GSSF_Pisto...nformation.pdf

[ABNAK]

It's a Blue Label gun.

In addition to LEOs, the program is available to GSSF members, honorably discharged vets with a DD214, as well as Fire/EMS personnel with credentials.

Yep, have bought several myself under that qualification (you're limited to 2 per year though).

[SteyrAUG]

Yep, have bought several myself under that qualification (you're limited to 2 per year though).

Geeze that's even dumber. Either you qualify or you don't.

Just more "you only need so many guns" mentality. If a honorably discharged vet is eligible for the program and wants to buy 10 Glocks, I can't think of a single valid reason why he shouldn't.

[Pachucko]

Geeze that's even dumber. Either you qualify or you don't.

Just more "you only need so many guns" mentality. If a honorably discharged vet is eligible for the program and wants to buy 10 Glocks, I can't think of a single valid reason why he shouldn't.

I believe it’s to help stop resale.


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