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April 30, 2023
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Ok ok 49 million to get in, final offer.
November 1, 2013
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The folks who ship our guns do a pretty good job most of the time but I wish they could understand that to us every Winchester is special and many are irreplaceable. TXGunNut said
You’re turning a blind eye to the hostility that I & many others have personally experienced dealing with UPS. (Tim, it’s time to share your horror-story.) What ELSE but a deeply ingrained corporate antipathy to the 2A would motivate UPS to cave-in to that infamous letter written by a mere FIVE rabidly anti-gun Senators? UPS was LOOKING for an excuse to hurt gun-owners anyway they could. PLEASE don’t make excuses for the spiteful actions of our enemies!
December 9, 2002
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Clarence,
You do make some very good points. Lest we forget.
It makes it a lot easier for me to use some of the smaller auction houses nearby to sell and ship, and paying their smaller fees, from my perspective.
Sad to think that this is what it’s come too!
We have rights also!!!
Antonio
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TXGunNut said
Gentlemen, I’ve been very much involved in the logistics of shipping parcels and LTL freight for quite some time. It’s tedious, labor intensive and very expensive to operate. Trucks, terminals, employees, unions, IT, administration, government regulations, insurance, weather…the entities involved ship millions of packages every day but if it’s your package that’s lost or destroyed it’s personal, especially if it’s a collectible Winchester. The folks who ship our guns do a pretty good job most of the time but I wish they could understand that to us every Winchester is special and many are irreplaceable. Sticking your foot in that door will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and the folks who know what it takes are having a hard time making a profit. Good luck!
Mike
I’m not thinking anything near so grand as a nationwide logistics shipper….I”m thinking a one or two-man show who works directly with RIA in Bedford (right next to me) to drive around their high dollar stuff to winners…..as a contractor though, not an employee. 🙂
November 1, 2013
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Jeremy P said
I’m not thinking anything near so grand as a nationwide logistics shipper….I”m thinking a one or two-man show who works directly with RIA in Bedford (right next to me) to drive around their high dollar stuff to winners…..as a contractor though, not an employee. 🙂
Good idea…& point out they won’t have to be colluding with enemies of the 2A by hiring you.
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clarence said
Jeremy P said
I’m not thinking anything near so grand as a nationwide logistics shipper….I”m thinking a one or two-man show who works directly with RIA in Bedford (right next to me) to drive around their high dollar stuff to winners…..as a contractor though, not an employee. 🙂
Good idea…& point out they won’t have to be colluding with enemies of the 2A by hiring you.
EXACTLY!
December 21, 2006
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OK good idea, So how much to drive the ’94 s.r.c I bought today up to Ontario 
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Henry Mero said
OK good idea, So how much to drive the ’94 s.r.c I bought today up to Ontario
A lot….but I will care for it and nurture it all the way! 
November 1, 2013
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Jeremy P said
A lot….but I will care for it and nurture it all the way!
Think of the dough you could make by returning with a car-load of dry-backs! It’s a thriving business in NYS–at least 1 G per head, they say.
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December 21, 2006
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Geez Clarence They’re going both ways, You only hear about the south bound folks, there are a lot with the name Mohamad, and We only hear about the north bound folks, a lot of them with the name Manuel. However Jeremy You could make a trunk load buying up antique firearms here at the Canadian $ and take ’em home for a very large profit, about 40% exchange right now
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April 30, 2023
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Henry Mero said
Geez Clarence They’re going both ways, You only hear about the south bound folks, there are a lot with the name Mohamad, and We only hear about the north bound folks, a lot of them with the name Manuel. However Jeremy You could make a trunk load buying up antique firearms here at the Canadian $ and take ’em home for a very large profit, about 40% exchange right now
I’ll add that to the future business model….make return trips not be for nothing! 🙂
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clarence said
Jeremy P said
A lot….but I will care for it and nurture it all the way!
Think of the dough you could make by returning with a car-load of dry-backs! It’s a thriving business in NYS–at least 1 G per head, they say.
Had no idea they were coming in from the north as well. The invasion from the south has me a bit distracted, I suppose.
Mike
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TXGunNut said
Had no idea they were coming in from the north as well.
In droves. Because Canada hands out visas no questions asked. Once in Canada, they can walk across the un-fenced & un-guarded border to the Promised Land of generous welfare benefits, welcoming traitors, & Sanctuary Cities.
December 21, 2006
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Like I said , that works both ways Clarence.
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Anyone who executed on your business model would, in the fullness of time, likely receive a call from someone whose English was excellent but for a slight softening of consonants. He would offer to invest in your business. If you hesitated, he might ask if you understood the expression, “Plata o Plomo?”
“Bienvenidos al cartel.”
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
