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On 11/03/2018 at 01:52, Lloyd90 said:

Apart from the other sales section here and the SD optics sales page, can anyone recommend any other sites that are worth checking for good spec optics? 

Worth calling around shops/dealer.

We have a fair few scopes that we just don't get around to advertising  (our website is woefully underused by us) and we have a few decent scopes on guns that we would split. Plenty of smaller shops like outs would often split packages to sell the scope.

 

Edd

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14 hours ago, eddoakley said:

Worth calling around shops/dealer.

We have a fair few scopes that we just don't get around to advertising  (our website is woefully underused by us) and we have a few decent scopes on guns that we would split. Plenty of smaller shops like outs would often split packages to sell the scope.

 

Edd

This. I’m a great advocate of buying from actual RFD outlets rather than online.

I know gun shops should make more of their websites and social media, but as an artist I know how time consuming it is, especially as a one man band. 

My local RFD has a large collection of new and used ‘scopes, but for him to constantly update his online stock would leave him with little time for anything else. 

I also know money is tight and we all like a bargain, but at least we can ring round to see what our local RFD’s have got. 

I love a good ratch around a gunshop, but if we shop online for that cheaper item from the specialist companies who possibly don’t even have the item in stock anyhow but just order it in on demand ( which your RFD can do ) then we’re going to lose them. 

There are very few good art material shops less than at least an hours drive away from me now; there used to be four.....all closed down now because they can’t compete with online prices. 

The biggest money making retail outlets out there last year ( according to a property developer I know ) were bookies, charity shops and Greggs. 

We used to have a small fishing and shooting outlet in my home town and an art materials shop. We have neither now, but at least four charity shops. Just a thought. 

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14 hours ago, Scully said:

This. I’m a great advocate of buying from actual RFD outlets rather than online.

I know gun shops should make more of their websites and social media, but as an artist I know how time consuming it is, especially as a one man band. 

My local RFD has a large collection of new and used ‘scopes, but for him to constantly update his online stock would leave him with little time for anything else. 

I also know money is tight and we all like a bargain, but at least we can ring round to see what our local RFD’s have got. 

I love a good ratch around a gunshop, but if we shop online for that cheaper item from the specialist companies who possibly don’t even have the item in stock anyhow but just order it in on demand ( which your RFD can do ) then we’re going to lose them. 

There are very few good art material shops less than at least an hours drive away from me now; there used to be four.....all closed down now because they can’t compete with online prices. 

The biggest money making retail outlets out there last year ( according to a property developer I know ) were bookies, charity shops and Greggs. 

We used to have a small fishing and shooting outlet in my home town and an art materials shop. We have neither now, but at least four charity shops. Just a thought. 

I messaged my local RFD’s - one I asked to get me a price for a scope that they’re a registered seller of, several times - they replied they were on it - then repeatedly never got back to me. 

The other repeatedly told me the old “you don’t want that one, you want this one” - the one they recommended just so happened to have been sat on their shelf for many months with them being unable to shift it... 

I get what your saying, but sometimes the shops are their own worse enemies. 

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