WARNING - Added $9 Turner's Operations Dealer Handling Fee

[TheCommonDenominator]

I guess we go to different gun stores...

Funny how Turner's doesn't charge this $9 fee for PPT's when it's the SAME process and paperwork -- Oh yea, because they cannot LEGALLY charge more than $10 for providing a PPT service. Buying from a store and utilizing their services is two different things. I can understand paying a fee for a legitimate service, but charging a person an additional $9 to do business with them - I'll pass.

[waygeekierthanu]

We will price match any in stock item from any store, including Turners

[The Gleam]

The $10 fee is nothing new. If you buy a pistol at any gun store, it costs about $50 out the door to transfer a firearm ($37 DROS + "dealer fee"). Look at your receipt. Nobody is charging a flat $37.

This thread is not referring to PPTs or outsourced transfers. The $9.00 is being charge on inventory purchases from Turdners.

Very few dealers actually charge a 'dealer fee' on guns purchased from their store stock/inventory.

For that matter, they have historically disclosed their dealer fee in their seasonal sales catalog/mailer, as well as disclosed it in their weekly ads for more than 15 years.

This is an old hot-button topic that often catches people off guard, but I recall discussing it back in the mid-2000s as well as showing that it's disclosed and stated in all of their advertising.

However, I suppose if you were not familiar with Turdner's tactics like this, and were to just walk in and browse into making an in-store purchase, the seemingly underground dealer fee will catch you off guard because it's certainly not overtly conspicuous within their store nor pointed out by their counter jockeys, that the fee is going to be charged.

Then again, they also don't disclose that you are in for:

- a large helping of FUD (with or without purchase),
- a talent for making up their OWN laws, merely based on 'they think it's the law, because it sounds logical in CA',
- high frequency of mistakes on paperwork or DROS processes,
- 'losing' accessories that were physically WITH your gun when you bought/DROSed it,
- giving your DROS'ed gun to someone else for their DROS pick-up even though protocal is to verify the gun's serial number to the DROS/paperwork on pick-up,
- fingering of your gun after the sale and while sitting in their store during your waiting period, whether used as a demo item or to exhibit it to others if something unique or rare, like it's subject of a 3rd grader's show-and-tell presentation,
- nor disclose that they like to pull bait-and-switch games with sales on hot items that are severely underfortified in their inventory (that's if they ever had ANY inventory of that item at all in the first place),
- not telling you a gun you bought from their chain inventory was a display gun at another store,
- extremely bad information, even dangerous,
- among other greatest hits that go undisclosed.

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[BigMac90660]

F Turners! IMHO. Shop anywhere else!

[zatoh]

They've always done that haven't they? There's max they or any FFL are legally been able to charge, in fact that's always been the case. It sounds like they are trying to itemize the costs. My only complaint is the wait time. Take a number and wait whether it's pick up, kicking the tires or an ammo or gun purchase/transfer.