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Sounds crazy doesn't it? Yup, it's true....at least they are advertising it on the local radio stations up here. And on their website.

It's the Crazy Gun Dealer(yes that's the real name of the store), located in of all places, Alvarado. It's south of Ft.Worth about 50 or so miles.

http://www.crazygundealer.com/#!blank/ej6gr

Now where did I put my piggybank?

With ammo purchase, right. Now doesn't say how much ammo or at what cost. Read reviews about them first to be safe.

suthdj wrote:With ammo purchase, right. Now doesn't say how much ammo or at what cost. Read reviews about them first to be safe.

I know nothing about them, and never been down there to check them out. Maybe someone else has checked them out. I keep telling myself with all the advertising they do on the radio up here, it might be worth a trip down there. Can we say ROAD TRIP!

Might be worth a trip out there tomorrow, I don't see any other details on their site.

I went out there with a buddy several weeks ago. They have a tiny little shop.

Just for the record, they were at the top of the list of price gougers right after the Newtown, CT shooting asking >$2000 for a standard AR. I don't remember the exact price but the week before they were $600. I was standing there dumbfounded at the pricing when gentleman walked up and asked for a business card. He looked at it and promptly returned it and commented to the sales guy he now knew who not to buy from in the future.

Your money and your decision but they won't get any business from me. It's the free market at work. They're free to sell at whatever price they see fit and I'm free to find another dealer. My 2 cents...

I live about 2 miles from them. They do have good deals occasionally and will match the price of any gun.
They also offer range membership with gun purchase and free LTC class. Their ammo is higher so weigh the cost of the gun against one with no ammo purchase. Small store not a huge amount of inventory, but can order anything goes on the web site. Their store does get crowded due to its size, but the staff is very helpful. Usually when they offer specials it's not on top of the line guns. I was able to negotiate a Ruger American 308 Stainless with scope down almost $100.00 from asking price, so they will make deals.

I am not affiliated with them in any way, but I have been in several times.

Jusme wrote:I live about 2 miles from them. They do have good deals occasionally and will match the price of any gun.
They also offer range membership with gun purchase and free LTC class. Their ammo is higher so weigh the cost of the gun against one with no ammo purchase. Small store not a huge amount of inventory, but can order anything goes on the web site. Their store does get crowded due to its size, but the staff is very helpful. Usually when they offer specials it's not on top of the line guns. I was able to negotiate a Ruger American 308 Stainless with scope down almost $100.00 from asking price, so they will make deals.

I am not affiliated with them in any way, but I have been in several times.

Thanks for chiming in Jusme. I thought you lived down that way. The free CHL class with purchase of a pistol sounds like a deal to me...if the price of the gun is right.

lfinsr wrote:Just for the record, they were at the top of the list of price gougers right after the Newtown, CT shooting asking >$2000 for a standard AR. I don't remember the exact price but the week before they were $600. I was standing there dumbfounded at the pricing when gentleman walked up and asked for a business card. He looked at it and promptly returned it and commented to the sales guy he now knew who not to buy from in the future.

Your money and your decision but they won't get any business from me. It's the free market at work. They're free to sell at whatever price they see fit and I'm free to find another dealer. My 2 cents...

Not to be argumentative, nor to claim they didn't gouge prices, but they weren't open in 2012 after Newtown. They didn't open until the next year. I have found their prices to be very competitive, and I have personally seen them match the price for a gun a customer brought an ad in from Academy. Again, I have no dog in the hunt, I don't gain anything from them getting business, but I haven't been treated with anything but fairness from them . JMHO

Jusme wrote:

lfinsr wrote:Just for the record, they were at the top of the list of price gougers right after the Newtown, CT shooting asking >$2000 for a standard AR. I don't remember the exact price but the week before they were $600. I was standing there dumbfounded at the pricing when gentleman walked up and asked for a business card. He looked at it and promptly returned it and commented to the sales guy he now knew who not to buy from in the future.

Your money and your decision but they won't get any business from me. It's the free market at work. They're free to sell at whatever price they see fit and I'm free to find another dealer. My 2 cents...

Not to be argumentative, nor to claim they didn't gouge prices, but they weren't open in 2012 after Newtown. They didn't open until the next year. I have found their prices to be very competitive, and I have personally seen them match the price for a gun a customer brought an ad in from Academy. Again, I have no dog in the hunt, I don't gain anything from them getting business, but I haven't been treated with anything but fairness from them . JMHO

Perhaps they didn't have a store front at that time but I'm pretty sure they are one in the same. They're the one's dressed in day-glo orange at the local shows. If that's not them then I owe them an apology.

Even if I'm off on my previous assertion, and I don't think I am, they're not doing the gun community any favors. "Crazy Gun Dealer" plays right into the anti's hand. Guys, please come up with a better name...

lfinsr wrote:

Jusme wrote:

lfinsr wrote:Just for the record, they were at the top of the list of price gougers right after the Newtown, CT shooting asking >$2000 for a standard AR. I don't remember the exact price but the week before they were $600. I was standing there dumbfounded at the pricing when gentleman walked up and asked for a business card. He looked at it and promptly returned it and commented to the sales guy he now knew who not to buy from in the future.

Your money and your decision but they won't get any business from me. It's the free market at work. They're free to sell at whatever price they see fit and I'm free to find another dealer. My 2 cents...

Not to be argumentative, nor to claim they didn't gouge prices, but they weren't open in 2012 after Newtown. They didn't open until the next year. I have found their prices to be very competitive, and I have personally seen them match the price for a gun a customer brought an ad in from Academy. Again, I have no dog in the hunt, I don't gain anything from them getting business, but I haven't been treated with anything but fairness from them . JMHO

Perhaps they didn't have a store front at that time but I'm pretty sure they are one in the same. They're the one's dressed in day-glo orange at the local shows. If that's not them then I owe them an apology.

Even if I'm off on my previous assertion, and I don't think I am, they're not doing the gun community any favors. "Crazy Gun Dealer" plays right into the anti's hand. Guys, please come up with a better name...

That is them in the orange shirts, and I don't know about their pricing at the gun shows, but if so then they have changed their pricing, I can only speak for my experiences there. I agree, the name seems a bit over the top, but the owner started out as an auctioneer, and is big on promotions, I think he is trying to be an attention grabber, most gun stores don't do radio ads, but he has obviously put a lot of money into it. He also needs to expand his store, because the only complaint I have there is that it gets too crowded in such a small space, but he packs in the customers. The best time to go is during the week, early, I think they open at 10 am. by the afternoon it is really crowded, and the weekends are more so.
I am not trying to defend his business practices, I don't personally know the owner, other than to say hello. He may have thought that there would be a bigger demand for ARs after Newtown, and had to learn his lesson the hard way, no crime in that, as long as you learn from it and change how you operate. The last time I priced ARs there, they were within $10-$15 dollars of everyone else. My experiences may not be typical of everyone else's, but then I have had bad experiences in places other rave about.

I also live a couple of miles away and have bought a few from them but one thing you have to watch is their maker up , I usually pull a cables or acdemy ad and see what there price is then offer a little under that but with that being said after my last visit there I will not be going back ...... Major reason is the staff knows very very little about why they are trying to sell ....... Most of the time there are so many in the little little store it is impossible to get any type of service unless you stay for an hour ..... And the last one is that on my last visit there I bought a dig p938 and got them down about 100$ and didn't even look at other places for price like I usually do and I still got taken advantage of.

Drove by there about an hour ago. Cars parked hundreds of yards before and after their store. Looks like tents set up. Didn't stop, looks like a madhouse, not conducive to a relaxing shopping experience. But I guess their advertising is paying off.

Jusme wrote:Drove by there about an hour ago. Cars parked hundreds of yards before and after their store. Looks like tents set up. Didn't stop, looks like a madhouse, not conducive to a relaxing shopping experience. But I guess their advertising is paying off.

Hey, if you do go back there, suggest to the owner for me that I won't be back to his website until he removes that video that automatically starts playing on page load. It is possible for the website owner to configure the video player so that the viewer must click the play button to view it. I just really don't like it when I am assaulted by sound the minute I load a page. I just retired as a self-employed website design business owner and I can tell you that, in the design world, it is considered both poor design and rude to blast a new viewer with sound as soon as he/she clicks into the site.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Jusme wrote:Drove by there about an hour ago. Cars parked hundreds of yards before and after their store. Looks like tents set up. Didn't stop, looks like a madhouse, not conducive to a relaxing shopping experience. But I guess their advertising is paying off.

Hey, if you do go back there, suggest to the owner for me that I won't be back to his website until he removes that video that automatically starts playing on page load. It is possible for the website owner to configure the video player so that the viewer must click the play button to view it. I just really don't like it when I am assaulted by sound the minute I load a page. I just retired as a self-employed website design business owner and I can tell you that, in the design world, it is considered both poor design and rude to blast a new viewer with sound as soon as he/she clicks into the site.

Will do TAM!