Terrible gun show,

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

tha worst I've seen in close to 40 years, Including some real disasters in California.  They have a show about once every six weeks and they just keep getting smaller.  The vendors are unfriendly, pushing junk or very over priced products.  Lots of .50  BMG guns, including a semi-auto version of Ma Deuce.  Also a dozen or so PPSh 41 SMGS, a MP 38, and a herd of hime grown crap, and one guy offered me $250.00 for my Colt .380 Govmt Model in a solid 90+% condition while he had one at a much worse for wear POS gun for $700.00.  He got piXXed when I walked away laughing.

 

Another guy was offering some sub-standard holsters and touting them as CCW APPLIANT.  I pointed out to him and several people drooling over his crap the my pants pocket was also CCW Compliant and told him (and anyone listening ) that it was a bold-faced scam.  He send the security idiots after me and I backed them down when one reached for my arm.  I told everyone in range of my voice that this guy had NO AUTHORITY to arrest me, nor detain me, and that, if he laid a hand on me they'e have to clean him up with a mob and a sponge.  (A phrase I only recently heard, but it seemed appropriate).

 

$16.00 and I'll never go back.

[Dilli GaHoot Galoot]

But how were the Beanie Babies and random animal jerky vendors doing?   

[Eyesa Horg]

12 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

If he laid a hand on me they'e have to clean him up with a mob and a sponge.  (A phrase I only recently heard, but it seemed app

I always liked "freeze or you're garbage"

[Subdeacon Joe]

16 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

, and one guy offered me $250.00 for my Colt .380 Govmt Model in a solid 90+% condition while he had one at a much worse for wear POS gun for $700.00.  He got piXXed when I walked away laughing

 

Bet he has a pawn shop and is used to being able to talk people who are desperate for any cash down to almost nothing, and how dare anyone turn him down. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

For a real crappy "Gun Show", drop in to a Canadian one.

SHUDDER.

You can find a few fudge dealers though.

[Widder, SASS #59054]

14 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

For a real crappy "Gun Show", drop in to a Canadian one.

SHUDDER.

You can find a few fudge dealers though.

 

Down South, lets not forget the 'flavor roasted peanut' vendors at the gun shows....... along with pocketbook vendors for women

who are looking for a pocketbook to carry their EDC piece.

 

I will admit that a good many of the gun show vendors here in E.TN are legit and courteous.   Prices often seem high, but eh,

everything else is also.    

 

..........Widder

 

 

 

[Matthew Duncan]

I went to a gun show once.  I didn't realize I’d have to pay admittance to look over the merchandise.  Seem like a scam to me.

[watab kid]

iquit going to them in the last couple years unless i was off work and had nothing else to do or a friend / family member said "lets do it" for all pof your reasons above , never took a table but have some id like to sell off , 

[Rye Miles #13621]

I go to them when I can, some are good some not. I’ve never got into any arguments with anyone. The vendors pay a lot of money for tables so they can ask what they want. If it’s too much it doesn’t bother me I just ignore them. It’s called capitalism! 

[Rip Snorter]

If you paid for a table you are a vendor / retailer.  Customer service wins the day.

[watab kid]

i have NO problem with charging what you feel you need , i can choose to buy or not , that has nothing to do with why i do or do not go to them , i go to amuse myself and look at interesting things , if i find something to buy i guess i win , normally i dont as i generally already have it or dont want it , im a capitalist - i believe in it to the core ,  

 

what im finding less than inviting are the rows of tables with stuffed animals , and fantasy items , trinkets , costume jewelry , clubs and fundraisers i could care less about , i pay to get in im not looking for that crap , but then again they paid for their tables .......so perhaps i should just let it go and not go , bottom line is no one forced me to go , no one forced me to pay , i can go buy beer instead and be just as happy in the end smoking a cigar with my friends , 

 

please note that im al for the hey day of gun shows coming back , woith all the other stuff to , just dont leave out the guns and associated items , as well as the deals we used to see , 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

I was lucky and found an on line Canadian site, that provides Trader Ratings etc. for buyers and sellers in it's wide ranging offerings.

I have been able to buy and sell all sorts of things, including knives, camping gear, rifles, shoguns and prior to the "Freeze" on legal handgun sales, a number of handguns, including my SASS guns.  

Is there something like that in the USA?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

7 hours ago, Dilli GaHoot Galoot said:

But how were the Beanie Babies and random animal jerky vendors doing?   

Nor even many of them showed up.