Re: CHL products for consumers..frustrated
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:14 pm
I appreciate all the interest. This is pretty much what I am saying. A new store opened in plano this week and the only gun belt they carry are Galco which I would assume is their top of the line stuff.JALLEN wrote:It would drive you crazy trying to stock all the sizes, colors, varieties etc of belts, holsters etc. Kydex, nylon, rich Corinthian leather, in several colors, left and right hand, all the different shapes of holsters. I looked all over the place out here, admittedly not the greatest LGS in the country out here, for a black kydex left handed IWB holster for a P7M8. Not many have ever seen one! A couple of places online wouldn't even make one without a several months wait, until more orders came in, I guess!
It is much easier to order online, tell them what you have, what size you are, what color you want, and pretty soon a package shows up at your door.
Comp-Tac, right there in Spring, made one and had it to me almost before I could get my credit card back in my wallet. They made one for my Sig 226 Navy as well, great service every time.
Given the volume, and the variety of products, my guess is that it would be extraordinarily inefficient to try to stock all the possibilities.
OTOH, maybe the demand would grow once the word got out. 50 or so years ago, my dad was asked to handle tuxedo rentals in our small hill country town. He had one of the larger dry cleaning/laundry businesses then. He took it on. I thought he had lost his mind. Nobody wore tuxedos back then, it turns out mainly because the only ones you could get were black double breasted coats from the '40's that reeked of moth-balls, and made you look like Frank Nitti or something. Once he was providing modern, well fitting, colorful, stylish models, it took off. He booked weddings, some Quinceañeras which rented ~150 suits, hundreds of suits every prom season. It became a lucrative sideline. You never know!
5.11 and other people that offer lower end could easily become mainstream. There would obviously be a lot of issues to sort out when it came to inventory and actually making a solid sell. That is why I would basically reach out to all the state wide makers to offer a placement of their products and request a small kick back after a certain amount of sales. I doubt I ever try to even make this happen. I am just saying there is a strong need for something LIKE it. Fun idea to at least think about.
I will check out GT's thanks.