Cimarron vs. Buffalo Arms?

lukewepy · June 23, 2010, 05:42 PM

What's the deal with these two importers? I see that Buffalo Arms actually sells guns that are imported by Cimarron. Are these leftovers from Cimarron? Is that why the prices are so much cheaper?

Please illuminate me.

Thanks

Fingers McGee · June 23, 2010, 06:57 PM

Cimarron is the importer and prices on their web page are MSRP. Buffalo Arms is a retailer and charges their wholesale cost plus. The folks at Buffalo Arms are great to deal with. My Cimarron Man With No Name Navies were bought from Buffalo Arms.

FM

Gaucho Gringo · June 23, 2010, 08:11 PM

Cimarron is an importer, wholesaler and a dealer in that order. Buffalo Arms and whoever else buys from Cimarron are retail dealers. Cimarron prices their guns for retail sales to the public higher than the retail dealers they sell to are pricing their guns for sale. They do not want to undercut their retail dealers. To put it in perspective would you buy your guns for resale from someone who was selling them for the same or less than you in the retail market? I think not unless you were stupid, crazy or wanting to go bankrupt.

June 23, 2010, 05:42 PM	#1
lukewepy Member Join Date: June 7, 2010 Posts: 24	Cimarron vs. Buffalo Arms? What's the deal with these two importers? I see that Buffalo Arms actually sells guns that are imported by Cimarron. Are these leftovers from Cimarron? Is that why the prices are so much cheaper? Please illuminate me. Thanks

June 23, 2010, 06:57 PM	#2
Fingers McGee Senior Member Join Date: March 19, 2008 Location: High & Dry in Missouri Ozarks Posts: 2,113	Cimarron is the importer and prices on their web page are MSRP. Buffalo Arms is a retailer and charges their wholesale cost plus. The folks at Buffalo Arms are great to deal with. My Cimarron Man With No Name Navies were bought from Buffalo Arms. FM __________________ Fingers (Show Me MO smoke) McGee - AKA Man of Many Colts - Alter ego of Diabolical Ken; SASS Regulator 28564-L-TG; Rangemaster and stage writer extraordinaire; Frontiersman, Pistoleer, NRA Endowment Life, NMLRA, SAF, CCRKBA, STORM 327, SV115; Charter member, Central Ozarks Western Shooters Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision see things as they are, not as they should be. Ambrose Bierce

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Gaucho Gringo Senior Member Join Date: May 17, 2007 Location: Vancouver, WA Posts: 366	Cimarron is an importer, wholesaler and a dealer in that order. Buffalo Arms and whoever else buys from Cimarron are retail dealers. Cimarron prices their guns for retail sales to the public higher than the retail dealers they sell to are pricing their guns for sale. They do not want to undercut their retail dealers. To put it in perspective would you buy your guns for resale from someone who was selling them for the same or less than you in the retail market? I think not unless you were stupid, crazy or wanting to go bankrupt. __________________ 357 Taurus Gaucho, 22 Heritage RR, 2-Pietta 1858 44 NMA Remingtons, Pietta, Euroarms & ASM 36 1851 Navies, 31 Uberti 1849, 12 ga H&R Topper, 16 Ga Western Field, 43 Spanish Remington Rolling Block, 44 ASM Colt Walker, High Point C9 9mm, Winchester 1906 22, Rossi 62 22 rifle, Uberti 1860, H&A & IJ 32 S&W BreakTop, 36 Euroarms 1858, 32 H&R 04, 22mag NAA SS BP revolver, .44 Rodgers & Spencer, IJ 38 S&W BreakTop, IJ 22 Sealed 8