[skeet]

Hey Tooldummy,
Been doing this for a lot of years. Now think...in who's best interests is the gunsmith thinking. Most smiths sell guns ..or have close ties with gun shops so of course the dealer guns are "better made". Not! The way Walmart works their acquisition of stock, is in the business world, draconian..but sometimes they are the only game in town when you need to make a profit on inventory that may be languishing in the warehouses. The way WW works is they buy a large amount of goods at a set price...then in the contract there is a clause that states if they don't sell a very large percentage of the goods in a set period of time they will receive percentages back in the form of cash discounts..That is how they keep lowering prices on so many articles...to the loss of the manufacturer...not them. Good business sense for them...bad for the supplier for certain! But they have a very large order base. More than one company has gone out of business because of dealing with retailers like this.