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Old July 7, 2010, 03:00 PM   #7
arcticap
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Because they're an importer and wholesale distributor, their website's retail prices are higher and equate to MSRP prices unless they're offering some sort of a special sale, bargain bin or clearance price.

And a Traditions distributor must go through hoops to become one of their affiliates and that can require doing a certain volume of business. That really limits the number of retail outfits that can receive wholesale pricing from them.
Their networking is based more on selling to gun shop distributors than to sell at retail themselves since they don't want to hurt their distributor's investment in their guns any. They're competing against the Uberti sales network, Cabela's, Taylor's etc... So generally Traditions just can't match that volume or the sales prices of the largest internet retailers. But since they are affiliated with Pietta, sometimes that do have some overstock guns that are very competitively priced. So always check out their bargain bin specials.

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