alex1128762000
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- Jul 13, 2014
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If you are opening anytime soon send a business flyer over to FOP35.
We are looking for the space now with March / April timeline in mind. What is FOP35?
If you are opening anytime soon send a business flyer over to FOP35.
My partner and I are planing to open a gun store in Germantown / Gaithersburg area. I am interested to see if this will be well received in the forum community and if there are any recommendations people would be willing to share.
There are a LOT of good gun stores in this area. And there are a lot of good IPs on the forum.
One thing that cheeses me off, is the "good ol' boys" hanging in the store, occupying the help, which leads to customers being ignored. I have walked out of so many stores on that fact alone. And many of them are IPs here.
If you want to understand "good" customer service, a trip to Engage or Hafers would help.
I think being a IP here is a good idea, but you will need to be constantly updating the forum page with dialog about available guns, services etc. Take a look at the IP page. More than half of them are "dead". They don't have the ferocity of the successful IPs, who keep a steady dialog going at all times.
Finally, your pricing has to be such that people feel it's a "good thing" to deal with you. There are SO MANY ways to buy guns cheaply these days. Brick and mortar doesn't always make sense.
So pretty much have told you what you likely already know.
Thank you. We have done a lot of internet and Gunshow business in the last 2 years. Now we are graduating to a brick and mortar store.
I agree; when I started with guns as an adult going for my CCW, it was intimadating. I don't come from a family of gun enthusiasts.
Gun shops tend to talk their own lingo.
I started out buying online but I try to buy locally when to makes sense. For example, a couple of moths ago I went to buy another 357. I knew what I wanted and the dealer had it in stock. When I said "you know I can buy this at Bud's for a couple of hundred less", rather than telling me the advantages of buying from him, he blew me off with "Bud's doesn't have rent!" and stormed off. He lost a customer for life.
My suggestion; treat everyone with respect and as a potential customer for life - speak their language, gain their trust.
Good luck!
If you really want to differentiate yourselves from other MoCo dealers I strongly encourage you to carry reloading supplies, poweder, bullets, cases etc.... Currently us reloaders have to go to AA or Charles county to obtain powders/bullets.
This would attract my business.I need a place around here that sells stripped lowers for ~$65. Do that, and be open in the evening, and I'll be there at least twice.
I need a place around here that sells stripped lowers for ~$65. Do that, and be open in the evening, and I'll be there at least twice.
That said, you are going to be facing a _lot_ of competition from UGS and Engage, both of whom are pretty good shops.
I need a place around here that sells stripped lowers for ~$65. Do that, and be open in the evening, and I'll be there at least twice.