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[EPS]

Come on man really 189 bucks for a .40 cal handgun .
When I used to go to bars and drink that was one night lol

 

[RVTECH]

Come on man really 189 bucks for a .40 cal handgun .

I've dropped a lot more on card tables and in fancy houses in Nevada and STILL got a better return on my money!

 

[Flopsweat]

What's changed is funding. A gun channel can be profitable doing historical, safety, and skills articles only if it is supported by the video watchers themselves. As gun channels have been demonitized by YouTube, more and more have made arrangements to get subsidized by gun sellers and manufacturers. That makes the gun stores and manufacturers into the real customers. And they will only reward articles encouraging the buying of guns, not ones on gun history, skills, etc. Furthermore, the emphasis will be on new models, as that is the most valuable with respect to advertising. It's not the tried and true that needs advertising. Furthermore, once a gun channel is subsidized, they can't really tell you the gun is a POS and you should buy it only if you're into expensive paperweights. So one cannot get an honest review from a gun channel subsided by gun makers and sellers.

In the pre-internet era, there was a similar problem. The big gun mags were full of both ads and articles and supposed reviews. And they normally never told us that any of the guns were POSs. Reliable reviews could be found only in small expensive gun mags that ran no gun ads and bought all their test guns over the counter, not got them free or on free loan from someone who had a vested interest, and could choose one of the better individual guns and even tune it before submitting it for review. Magazines almost never run articles that would make them loose an advertiser. But even the big gun mags were partly supported by subscriptions, so they generally had to give readers a large range of articles rather than just articles aimed at encouraging sales.

These days, if you want good gun articles and videos with a full range of topics and real reviews, consider supporting your favorite channels on Patreon.

When the gun mags started kissing up to the manufacturers we learned to read between the lines. If a gun wasn't crazy accurate, silky smooth and ergonomically perfect, but it was "priced competitively" it was a POS. We can do that again for a while until we work out how to deal with this economic persecution movement.

 

[Kruel J]

I've dropped a lot more on card tables and in fancy houses in Nevada and STILL got a better return on my money!

Fancy houses in Nevada?

 

[EPS]

I've dropped a lot more on card tables and in fancy houses in Nevada and STILL got a better return on my money!

Never went to the fancy house .
But card table yes how do you think I buy my guns well at least some of my guns .
Where bought with casino winning

 

[EPS]

Fancy houses in Nevada?

I have never heard them called that before.
HILARIOUS

 

[Kruel J]

I have never heard them called that before.
HILARIOUS

LOL neither have I. But I guess that's one way of putting it.

 

[EPS]

Lol when I was driving long haul years ago .
When you cross from Utah into Nevada .
There is some Fancy houses .and they get on the CB and talk to the truckers . and try to get them to stop in and have "lunch" or "dinner".
Lol hilarious.

 

[Member 34319]

I am not sure why I needed to get that PC Carbine, but your enthusiastic reviews may have had something to do with it.

Succumbing to peer pressure yet again

Seriously an example of the latest and greatest.

I didn't need mine either.

I find too fall prey to the game, I am becoming more aware of it though.

 

[Alexx1401]

Seriously an example of the latest and greatest.

I didn't need mine either.

I find too fall prey to the game, I am becoming more aware of it though.

I personally let a LOT of new and great pass. I did by my PC Carbine when you still had to order one in from the auction though and have not yet come to regret it. It made me want to sell a couple older PCC's I like it so much. Now and then they do come out with something they did their homework on and to me the new Ruger is that. Whoever designed it really did the homework!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

So speaking of which, my iphone 3s is buggy and was never jailbroke.. it always sucked.. and I got tired of paying $125 for cable I never even hooked my big-screen tv up to for the last 5 years.. so I gots me a Galaxy Note-9 on pre-order(ed) with unlimited data for cheaper than that.. and you can hook it up to a bigscreen or whatever and surf pretty easy just by connecting the two with a cable if you want.. without cable. anyhoo
maybe I'll click

 

[Member 34319]

So speaking of which, my 3G iphone is buggy and was never jailbroke.. it always sucked.. and I got tired of paying $125 for cable I never even hooked my big-screen tv up to for the last 5 years.. so I gots me a Galaxy Note-9 on pre-order(ed) with unlimited data for cheaper than that.. and you can hook it up to a bigscreen or whatever and surf pretty easy just by connecting the two with a cable if you want. anyhoo
maybe I'll click

I rode a 3g for like 5 years, I loved that phone.

If only they wouldn't do the whole upgraded software makes older versions suck thing, and I had some way of getting a new battery, I'd likely still be using it.

If only that were the case these days.

I've had like 5-6 cell phones over about 16 years. The first two probably went 4-6 years followed by the 3g I got when I started with a prior company. Then in the coarse of like 2-3 years it was like one would die a year.

I don't think cell phones count for the buy, buy, buy, mentality. I'm pretty sure the manufacturers ensure you get one every year or two now.

"Software updates" my bubblegum.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I rode a 3g for like 5 years, I loved that phone.

If only they wouldn't do the whole upgraded software makes older versions suck thing, and I had some way of getting a new battery, I'd likely still be using it.

If only that were the case these days.

I've had like 5-6 cell phones over about 16 years. The first two probably went 4-6 years followed by the 3g I got when I started with a prior company. Then in the coarse of like 2-3 years it was like one would die a year.

I don't think cell phones count for the buy, buy, buy, mentality. I'm pretty sure the manufacturers ensure you get one every year or two now.

"Software updates" my bubblegum.

Yea, when I got my "smart" phone, it was quite outdated really. Maybe this one will take a while to become a brick.. knock on wood fingers crossed.

 

[Member 34319]

Yea, when I got my "smart" phone, it was quite outdated really. Maybe this one will take a while to become a brick.. knock on wood fingers crossed.

Ya, I think they might actually be slowing down a bit, my 7 is already two years old and though they released the 8 and 10, other than the 10 which it sounds tanked in sales, the 8 was practically the same as the 7.

If only they made their phones like their computers, I'm still running a iMac that I want to say is 6-8 years old.

 

[Alexx1401]

So speaking of which, my iphone 3s is buggy and was never jailbroke.. it always sucked.. and I got tired of paying $125 for cable I never even hooked my big-screen tv up to for the last 5 years.. so I gots me a Galaxy Note-9 on pre-order(ed) with unlimited data for cheaper than that.. and you can hook it up to a bigscreen or whatever and surf pretty easy just by connecting the two with a cable if you want.. without cable. anyhoo
maybe I'll click

If you start streaming even a little they will throttle you way back. Unlimited on a cell is not really what they claim or people think it is. If you want TV without cable all you really need is high speed internet. If they offer cable broadband that is the easiest. Almost everything is there now. If not for 2 women living here who refuse to learn how I would have years ago dumped the cable here. I seldom ever watch anything I am not watching on line now days.

 

[Flopsweat]

So speaking of which, my iphone 3s is buggy and was never jailbroke.. it always sucked.. and I got tired of paying $125 for cable I never even hooked my big-screen tv up to for the last 5 years.. so I gots me a Galaxy Note-9 on pre-order(ed) with unlimited data for cheaper than that.. and you can hook it up to a bigscreen or whatever and surf pretty easy just by connecting the two with a cable if you want.. without cable. anyhoo
maybe I'll click

I got tired of worrying about losing or dropping my Surface at social outings so I picked up a Galaxy tablet for less than 1/4 the price. I put a nice shock resistant case on it and now I carry it everywhere - even to some business meetings. The Surface spends most of its time hooked up to the TV now because it's quiet. I learned from this and later "upgraded" my Windows phone to an Android (for about 1/3 the cost) with yes another shock resistant case. Unicorn Beetle by the way makes a really durable case for not too much money. I've dropped both devices on concrete, macadam and rocks without suffering so much as a scratch. And they look more expensive in the cases.

 

[Tony617]

Come on man really 189 bucks for a .40 cal handgun .
When I used to go to bars and drink that was one night lol

I bought an XD 40 Subcompact sometime ago it was over $400, but it only has a 3" barrel. For plinking I used 180gr FMJ but for self defense I bought some 180gr Speer Gold Dots for short barrels. Also found Barnes 40 S&W 140gr TAC-XPD. Pretty pricey for only 20 rounds but 140gr do not have that much of a kick either and it groups quite well at 7-10 yards. I took it the gun range on my last outing and it still shoots nice. I probably shot more than 3K worth of rounds over the years since it was my primary carry for a couple of years until changed over to a 9mm.

I recently found 5 boxes with 20 rounds each of my 180gr Gold Dot rounds for short barrel, They were very hard to find locally so I had to order some online instead.

 

[The Heretic]

This is something new?
Pick up a few magazines from the '60's and '70's and tell me they weren't doing the same thing.

Yes, nothing new here. I have read gun and car and truck mags since the 70s. The volume and frequency may have increased, but the concept is the same.

That said, people in general are indeed becoming much more consumption oriented, to the point that they get into financial trouble.

Easy credit (i.e., debt) has made instant gratification easier in the short term, and made the lending institutions a LOT of money, not just those who sell goods and services. With the exception of my mortgage, for the last 10+ years I do not purchase on credit (I do put purchases on credit cards, but pay the balance in full within the grace period, so I never pay interest, and if I get a discount for paying cash, I pay cash, and I get rewards on my credit and debit card).

I remember a time before the Visa/et. al. were a thing - the only credit cards anybody had was a 'revolving' credit that you had to pay off every month and they were gas station or dept. store cards meant to tie you into that seller and were not good anywhere else. The first credit card I had was a JC Penny card with a $200 limit.

Eventually I got a bank based general credit card with something like a $500 limit, and then more cards with higher limits. At one time I had like 3 or 4 cards with a total aggregate limit of $40K, and they were all maxed out. I lost my job and almost went bankrupt. I avoided that. It took me ten years (two of which I was unemployed), but I paid off all of my debt.

It doesn't help the economy in the long run to have so much personal consumption on credit. It encourages unnecessary consumption and debt. While that is good in the short term for the economy, it means people usually have more debt than they can handle, and results in boom and bust cycles, during which people cannot handle the downturns because they have too much debt and too little savings.

 

[partsed]

I want a phaser. And a tricorder.

 

[Member 5605]

I buy based on what works.