Thank you very much Michiana for gracing our pages and allowing us to transfer guns through you for $20. Since INGO is such a small part of your business I'm surprised you are so upset that you can no longer post whatever you want for sale on here.
If you don't think $1 a day or about 1 tansfer and 1/2 per month is worth it to you to reach thousands of Hoosier Gun Owners I'm sorry about that. Our advertising rates are incredibly reasonable given the amount of traffic this site receives. If you think I'm "all about the money" like another FFL on here for asking people who use this site to make money to $tep up think again. I have spent hundreds of hours turning INGO into what it is and for a long time I lost money running this site and giving us all a place to hang out. INGO has grown to be so big I need to run it like a business to keep it going just like you run your FFL. You have made it clear $1 / day is not worth it to you. Fine, please move on.
Best of luck to you on GunBroker!
Fenway
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Originally Posted by Michiana  Personally speaking I have tried to do a service to my fellow INGO members and offer them first shot at anything I have to sell at prices below those I list on Gunbroker and am now told I have to pay $360 a year for that "privilege”. Being a very small FFL dealer specializing in transfers I do not sell enough to warrant that kind of “advertising cost” while other non licensed individual are continually holding so called group buys on INGO and raking in the bucks with no licenses and zero overhead costs.
Ninety percent of my customers are from Gunbroker so that site must be offering people some value for their money or they wouldn’t keep buying there. I can make another ten dollars on a LPK by selling on Gunbroker vs. selling locally to INGO members so why do I want to pay thirty dollars a month for that privilege? Maybe the storefront dealers sell enough to cover this cost but not us little guys. The way I see it no longer listing on the classified page INGO members will be paying more and I will be making more.
As people try to explain to the members crying about high prices on Gunbroker.com or the INGO Classified Section, you don’t have to buy it if you don’t like the price. If people are abusing the INGO site by constantly reselling guns at a profit they are running a business without a business license and are not collecting IN sales tax. If they are selling guns on a regular basis they are probably also putting themselves in a precarious situation with the BATF by conducting a gun selling business without having a FFL. |