anyone ever been a vendor at a gun show?

[TAB]

I am in bend and love it.    Its a great place to live, if you don't have to work.  Employment is hard to get,  I work about 1 week a month as a  contractor, don't gross a quarter of what I did in sacramento and make about 75% of what I did.  Only do to the cost of living being less I have more money in my pocket.   Our house alone was cheaper then a lot in gang land. Just about paid off too.  My goal is 2015 to have it paid off. I am currently making 3 mortgage payments a month and its cheaper then the rent I paid 15 years ago for a one bedroom apartment.

[ellis4538]

Wish I could find .22 for $40/500.  Guy I mentioned in an earlier post is willing to go $60/500 for resale at the show.  I could make $$$$ and not have to sit at the show.

Richard

PS:  I'm willing to do that to gouge them!

[blackwolfe]

If I could convince you to ship it, I'll take some and donate it to my Sportsman's Club junior rifle program
or Project Appleseed shoot.
Appleseed is another worthwhile cause to support.
Maybe one of these shoots is near you and you can contact them to donate some.
http://www.appleseedinfo.org/search-states-display.php?qstate=OR&statename=Oregon

[tigerclaw]

I know a lot of the dealers/ scalpers will hate me, but I don't care. Yes I get it, you are there to make money, but 100% mark up and buying every thing you can get your hands on is wrong.  I remember all the dealers that jacked their prices to crazy levels and will never give them a dime.

Hey TAB,

I think that doing it this way is the right way.  I agree with you that trying to take advantage of the current market situation by double the retail price of hard to get items is absurd.  Good on you.

[kmitch200]

I don't want to sell to vendors, I want to sell to shooters.

So if a guy comes over to buy 8 bricks are you going to grill them to find out if they have a table?
What if he lies? Are you going to take it back by force?
If you're selling it, you sell it. You don't get to dictate to the buyer what he does with it after you parted with it for cash.
I understand the reasons you have but the real world isn't as rosy as we'd like it to be.
As Blackwolf said, an Appleseed donation would be excellent!

In the custom knife show world this is called "brown bagging", ie not paying for a table/vendor space and selling out of your car in the parking lot.  This is the fastest way to piss off guys to do these shows for a living as they've paid money to present their products.

Well that's just too bad...boo hoo for the vendors that mark up stuff to 110+% of retail.  
I've been to many gun shows that forbid parking lot sales. Not one has stopped someone from walking around with product for sale and a sign saying it's for sale. They followed the rules and did it in the building, not the parking lot.

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