On the opposite end, i used a new to me FFL for a trade i did last week and when i went to pick up the shotgun last night he just tells me,"first one is on me". not to mention his price he quoted me was 5.00 cheaper than the place i normally use. i'm working for a new company and this ffl is just a block or so down the road from the office so i figured, what the heck i'll give them a try. i thanked him and hope to do some more buisness with him in the future.
That's an excellent way to treat customers.
Local fellow charges $20 for transfers but lowers it to $15 for current law enforcement, firefighters and current or ex-military. Most other places around here want $25 minimum and it goes up from there.
But he must be having some personal problems or something because he used to be a fairly decent guy but the last few times I dealt with him he's been curt and downright grouchy in person or in any replies to emails I send. You get the idea he's always about two words from saying "f*** you and your transfer, just go away". Ten bucks is ten bucks but he's become such an unpleasant person to deal with it's worth $25 for me just to get reasonably courteous service.
Thinking of that, there is an FFL dealer literally three blocks from me who used to charge $20 and to my knowledge still does but I had to quit using them. It's a pawnshop owned by a woman and she actually knows what she's doing but she hires her father and trailer trash sister to run the store and they are dumb and dumber, they truly are not competent enough to fax out a copy of their license to someone. I will say that the sister is sort of hot if you're into the tattooed, slutty look.
