Thread: Firearm Dealer to Dealer transfer prices.

Originally Posted by Hermitage

Couriers don't have to have a F/A license to carry a firearm.
If you purchase or sell a F/A and need a courier, a Police Form 43a needs to be done, which discloses the contents.

Does that mean one has to disclose contents to courier?

Readjust what NZ post will not send, very tough and in some cases stupid, woke rules

Originally Posted by Maca49

Readjust what NZ post will not send, very tough and in some cases stupid, woke rules

I read one time their rules and one cant even send stamps via NZ Post...had a chat to them one time about sending a bayonet and was told if parcel goes through any major city the sniffer dogs will pick up the gun oil and parcel is destroyed without opening it.

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

I read one time their rules and one cant even send stamps via NZ Post...had a chat to them one time about sending a bayonet and was told if parcel goes through any major city the sniffer dogs will pick up the gun oil and parcel is destroyed without opening it.

Well my box of small engine bits turned up at the destination, I used the same oil I use for everything on those (including guns). Guess the dogs took the day off that day!

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

I read one time their rules and one cant even send stamps via NZ Post...had a chat to them one time about sending a bayonet and was told if parcel goes through any major city the sniffer dogs will pick up the gun oil and parcel is destroyed without opening it.

That sounds like made up cr*p they told you.

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

I read one time their rules and one cant even send stamps via NZ Post...had a chat to them one time about sending a bayonet and was told if parcel goes through any major city the sniffer dogs will pick up the gun oil and parcel is destroyed without opening it.

"I heard" that the main NZ Post sorting facility in the Sth is has human powered x-ray scanning, so they miss most naughty stuff, but the Wiri one (where most Nth Is parcels end up regardless of destination) has AI x-ray scanning which is very good and doesn't miss much!

Originally Posted by Tentman

"I heard" that the main NZ Post sorting facility in the Sth is has human powered x-ray scanning, so they miss most naughty stuff, but the Wiri one (where most Nth Is parcels end up regardless of destination) has AI x-ray scanning which is very good and doesn't miss much!

Wow, lucky the o the day then, I sent a cylinder, with a hole in the centre, a very dangerous hunk of steel and holes

H&F recently quoted me $70 within the same island. I don't recall if there is a collection fee on the other end.
SAI charged me a $30 collection fee to receive a firearm recently.
Reloaders quoted me $70 on the phone last year. When I went into the store to send the firearm off, Scott overheard what was happening and came storming out from the back and decided the price has just gone up to $100 because he was annoyed about it.
SAI is much nicer to deal with.

I'm guessing some Retailer dealers in the D2D system get a bit upset about people using them for purchases from outside their stores

You go in and do the D2D and don't spend anything else.

That's a shame for both parties and purely transactional.

I like to ring ahead and enquire what the service might cost and what and how they want the items presented to them.
Generally its worked out being perfectly straight forward.
43As and delivery dealer info all clear and easy.

No one has ever changed the price or the rules.

One gun with a 36 inch barrel came to Gunworks from Carvells in the biggest box you have ever seen because they couldn't work out how to take the fore end off and take the tip down barrel off.
Pretty good value for money when the box was big enough for 3 or 4 guns !

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I'm guessing some Retailer dealers in the D2D system get a bit upset about people using them for purchases from outside their stores

You go in and do the D2D and don't spend anything else.

That's a shame for both parties and purely transactional.

I like to ring ahead and enquire what the service might cost and what and how they want the items presented to them.
Generally its worked out being perfectly straight forward.
43As and delivery dealer info all clear and easy.

No one has ever changed the price or the rules.

One gun with a 36 inch barrel came to Gunworks from Carvells in the biggest box you have ever seen because they couldn't work out how to take the fore end off and take the tip down barrel off.
Pretty good value for money when the box was big enough for 3 or 4 guns !

Not sure if your reply was aimed at me or not but for your information I have never done a D2D transaction without spending money on something in store as a way of saying thank you. I also have rung up each time to confirm how they would like firearms presented / packaged. At Reloaders the price was increased in front of me because someone was in a bad mood.

Originally Posted by Fatberg

Reloaders quoted me $70 on the phone last year. When I went into the store to send the firearm off, Scott overheard what was happening and came storming out from the back and decided the price has just gone up to $100 because he was annoyed about it.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I'm guessing some Retailer dealers in the D2D system get a bit upset about people using them for purchases from outside their stores

You go in and do the D2D and don't spend anything else.

Originally Posted by Fatberg

...the price was increased in front of me because someone was in a bad mood.

It makes you wonder how Dealers/Gunshops set their transport charges... seems sometimes it depends on the mood of the manager.

A similar situation occurred at my local H&F.
They never charged a $30 firearm pick-up fee until a month ago.
Turns out the manager has been all pissed off at the private sale out-of-region firearms turning up to his inwards goods.
I suppose margins are tight at the moment in certain retail stores (esp the firearms market), and he seemed to look at each out-of-region firearm as a potential lost sale.

You'd turn up there to pick up a firearm, and unfortunately, the manager would treat you like a second-class citizen, using his store like a registered charity pick up point.
Hmmm...I suppose the one benefit of the $30 pickup charge is that now I should be treated like a paying customer...

Had a 22 sent from Kilwell Rotorua to Taumarunui Outdoors and the cost to me was the staggeringly amount of $18! The courier fee alone. Can't fault that at all.

Parmy h and f charged me $60 many times to send and never charged me for pick up, I wouldn’t risk sending anything though nz post any more lucky it was only projectiles they found


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My pick up dealer is always Gunworks and its impossible to go there and not purchase anything else

The $30 fee would make me reconsider why I would want to be a customer.... As a customer I am free to buy or not buy .

H and F are not - literally - the only fish in the sea , and they did throw gun owners under the bus back in the aftermath of the mosque shootings..... Never forget that.

Nor the fact that the Dealer Network was set up to specifically exclude H and F as a shipping agent - again - as a consequence of that being thrown under the bus issue .