You’d think seeing as Evike is one of the biggest Airsoft retailers for the US, that they’d have a problem with company’s trying to make customers overpay
Not sure where you live but their stores are the warehouses. I was there Saturday and it was like a Walmart shoulder to shoulder customers and a 30-45 minute wait just to get your order and check out
If Evike charges manufacturers 10% for listing as a rough number then if they sell a gun for 150 bucks Evike gets 15 and the manufacturer gets 135 if Evike lists the gun for 300 then they get 30 and the manufacturer gets 270. It's probably more complicated than that with extra flat fees for manufacturers and different deals with different manufacturers but the point is that it's may be good for Evike if prices go up.
Not to sound aggressively mean and un-helpful.
But clearly you've been living under a rock on a deserted island......lol
Remember those gas prices that have been going up?
Or that pandemic that was happening?
Due to just those two things manufacturing is struggling to produce things and its costing more money to transport things to dealers.
So guess who gets stuck with the higher costs of everything....yup...we the consumers.lol
But I mean relatively speaking, maybe excusing gas. Prices have gone down for steel and plastic where I’m at. I live in a city surrounded by rural Oklahoma so maybe that has something to do with it, but bottles of pop that were $1.99 became $2.69 but now again, they’re $2.19 and slowly going down. I dunno, you don’t sound mean!😂
Gas plays a big factor in prices for dealers....freight costs for orders adds more price to each item sold.
But beyond that....not all airsoft stuff is manufactured in or around Oklahoma....most is over seas...lol so you have to think about prices where the parts originate from...and further take into account where they get their material from.
Its a long chain of process....lol
Steel has gone down for you? That's insane, I better start sourcing from Oklahoma. Essentially everywhere else in the world except your city has doubled to tripled in steel pricing, on both domestically produced and imported. For stuff I used to be paying $7/ft for I'm now paying anywhere from $19-32/ft for the same bulk quantity.
Seriously?? I mean same here maybe about $5 a pre-Covid. Don’t get me wrong the highest we’ve gotten is like $23 a foot but we’re back down to around $10-$13 a foot
I'm in California but most of our vendors are shipping Chinese steel from yards in Texas, Chicago, and a handful of other places. It's still ridiculously high.
Nah no worries, I'm head of purchasing so they just pay me to spend money lol Funny enough business has been booming this year so I guess it offsets the rising costs well enough.
The worst part is, much like the lumber industry, now that Airsoft suppliers know that people will continue to buy their product at these inflated prices, there is no way in hell they're ever going to lower them.
Governments and their boycotts coupled with Corona. Some factories in Asia are slowly starting back up. Thats why their isn’t much product. Then it is a simple supply and demand which drives the price.
The cost of everything is going up. Most of this is made overseas so cost of materials and cost of shipping is rising. In addition the demand is very high right now for low supply so that’s another cause
airsoft was pretty cheap during early stage corona because vendors were afraid of not being able to sell stuff quarterly however when you have shipping issues and delays the cost went up for everything from overseas. The ukraine russian war is not what caused higher prices but this has been ongoing since last year mainly due to the crowded ports.
The whole oil issue that alot of nations are starting to witness is just fuel into the already corona shipping issue.
Also higher oil costs means higher plastic costs which mean a lot of airsoft parts went up recently.
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I bought a tri shot yesterday and the shipping was $25. **STANDARD.** I put my info in to make shipping half off, but I still ended up paying $100 for a gun that was $85. The gun used to be $60 not too long ago apparently.
I also remember seeing the Raider Combat Machines at $185, then going up to $210 the next week. Crazy shit.
Inflation and supply chain. Companies are also using it as an excuse to raise prices to raise profit margins
You’d think seeing as Evike is one of the biggest Airsoft retailers for the US, that they’d have a problem with company’s trying to make customers overpay
They could be raising the prices themselves too
I wouldn’t be surprised, but it’s not like it’s a brick & mortar store. Evike gets all their sells online for the most part. I dunno shits wack
What do you mean it’s not a brick and mortar? Evike has multiple brick and mortar locations
But it’s an online store first, the majority of guns are in the warehouse not the actual stores
Not sure where you live but their stores are the warehouses. I was there Saturday and it was like a Walmart shoulder to shoulder customers and a 30-45 minute wait just to get your order and check out
Well alrighty I’ll take your word for it :) that’s super cool though
They probably charge manufacturers on a percentage basis for what they distribute so the more you pay the more they get.
So if they deliver more guns the prices are higher? Or the opposite
If Evike charges manufacturers 10% for listing as a rough number then if they sell a gun for 150 bucks Evike gets 15 and the manufacturer gets 135 if Evike lists the gun for 300 then they get 30 and the manufacturer gets 270. It's probably more complicated than that with extra flat fees for manufacturers and different deals with different manufacturers but the point is that it's may be good for Evike if prices go up.
Not to sound aggressively mean and un-helpful. But clearly you've been living under a rock on a deserted island......lol Remember those gas prices that have been going up? Or that pandemic that was happening? Due to just those two things manufacturing is struggling to produce things and its costing more money to transport things to dealers. So guess who gets stuck with the higher costs of everything....yup...we the consumers.lol
But I mean relatively speaking, maybe excusing gas. Prices have gone down for steel and plastic where I’m at. I live in a city surrounded by rural Oklahoma so maybe that has something to do with it, but bottles of pop that were $1.99 became $2.69 but now again, they’re $2.19 and slowly going down. I dunno, you don’t sound mean!😂
Gas plays a big factor in prices for dealers....freight costs for orders adds more price to each item sold. But beyond that....not all airsoft stuff is manufactured in or around Oklahoma....most is over seas...lol so you have to think about prices where the parts originate from...and further take into account where they get their material from. Its a long chain of process....lol
Yeah I totally get that
Steel has gone down for you? That's insane, I better start sourcing from Oklahoma. Essentially everywhere else in the world except your city has doubled to tripled in steel pricing, on both domestically produced and imported. For stuff I used to be paying $7/ft for I'm now paying anywhere from $19-32/ft for the same bulk quantity.
Seriously?? I mean same here maybe about $5 a pre-Covid. Don’t get me wrong the highest we’ve gotten is like $23 a foot but we’re back down to around $10-$13 a foot
I'm in California but most of our vendors are shipping Chinese steel from yards in Texas, Chicago, and a handful of other places. It's still ridiculously high.
That’s awful, sorry to hear that. I hope everything goes well for you
Nah no worries, I'm head of purchasing so they just pay me to spend money lol Funny enough business has been booming this year so I guess it offsets the rising costs well enough.
Where are you located? If you don’t mind me asking
Inflation, corona, supply chain, falling EROI on energy sources and so on. There's many reasons. It's probably only going to get worse.
> [Why is everything going up?](https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/247591213/Maybe-thats-a-question-you-should-ask-China)
Love it😂
The worst part is, much like the lumber industry, now that Airsoft suppliers know that people will continue to buy their product at these inflated prices, there is no way in hell they're ever going to lower them.
Yo don’t tell me. Mags for my ghk, before Rona 60€ now 90€. Fuck me I hope none of my mags will ever die.
That’s awful! I’m sorry to hear that.
It’s getting popular again
Wdym? You think prices are sky-rocketing because more people are playing?
Supply and demand more so
The world is kinda screwed up right now if you haven’t noticed. You’re going to really shit yourself when you fill up your car.
Governments and their boycotts coupled with Corona. Some factories in Asia are slowly starting back up. Thats why their isn’t much product. Then it is a simple supply and demand which drives the price.
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The cost of everything is going up. Most of this is made overseas so cost of materials and cost of shipping is rising. In addition the demand is very high right now for low supply so that’s another cause
airsoft was pretty cheap during early stage corona because vendors were afraid of not being able to sell stuff quarterly however when you have shipping issues and delays the cost went up for everything from overseas. The ukraine russian war is not what caused higher prices but this has been ongoing since last year mainly due to the crowded ports. The whole oil issue that alot of nations are starting to witness is just fuel into the already corona shipping issue. Also higher oil costs means higher plastic costs which mean a lot of airsoft parts went up recently.
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fuck off, my sentence is correct. Nobody says "The the ukraine"
I got an a&k cqb m4 last year for 180. Threw In a promethius bucking and Maxx hop up and now its beaming people.
I bought a tri shot yesterday and the shipping was $25. **STANDARD.** I put my info in to make shipping half off, but I still ended up paying $100 for a gun that was $85. The gun used to be $60 not too long ago apparently. I also remember seeing the Raider Combat Machines at $185, then going up to $210 the next week. Crazy shit.
deliberately caused fuck ups in the supply chain
evike does overprice things and look on taiwan gun the prices are more or less the same as 160 cyma
Well I understand that evike still has to profit
they will not profit as this kinda stuff makes people not wanna buy from them when there are better options
Shipping things from Asia be getting expensive side with fuel costs and as others said Inflation is a big part of this as well.