First of all, yes, I still have a flip phone. This is the text I sent the Ammo guy an his response. Kinda cryptic.
my guess at translation:
Translation: "These MA shows suck badly enough that I am seriously debating on whether or not to even burn the diesel to come up to them"
Think about that truck he has and how many tables he has to rent. And even as one of her "Pets" hes still going to get boned on his
table costs. Let's do some math.... so he has, what, at least 9... tables at the $80 rate. That's $720 just for his tables
before he even drives down there. His warehouse (based on my internet divining rod) is about 250 miles from Marlburrah. So that 26K straight job he
drives, , on a good day probably gets 10 mpg (I'm being optimistic). At current diesel costs thats another $225-$250 in diesel round trip. I'm not even including the lodging
cost for him and whoever his helpers are. Don't forget the wages of any helpers he brings. He's probably gotta have at LEAST one other guy to prevent
shrink if it actually did get busy. (If you don't watch people like hawks they will steal shit, guaranteed). Let's say thats another 200 bucks for 2 nights of
lodging. Another few hundo for helpers. (even under the table hes gotta pay them at least 10+ an hour or they'll never show up) So he's spent probably over a grand
just to SET UP at the show before he's sold a single box or crate of ammo.
Now if he has a show like what Marlburrah was, would you think he would even break even? Now supposedly there were more people sunday, so he probably would
have made money... but I would bet that even if he discounted, he still would have ended up making "punch yourself in the dick" type of money. In other words, you turn a
profit but you're like "why the f*** did I even bother" etc. There is a lot of business that is "more expensive than its really worth".
In order for someone like Chris to make money there better be long-turd-cord lines of people queued up in the parking lot each day, then he has a chance of making real
money, because 80% of the people who come through the door aren't going to buy anything regardless of the price, but if you have a few thousand people come through, your profit
increases dramatically.
Honestly I hope he is "working" that stupid bitch- maybe to get cheaper tables or something, without him there its eventually going to hurt her attendance. (I realize Chris is
controversial at these shows, but IMHO he is not really the root cause of any of these shows sucking, frankly. )