Originally Posted by
39flathead
The Monroeville show has piles of non-firearms crap mixed in with piles of over priced firearms crap.
However, if you are looking for a hard to find item, a show is a good bet that you will find it, however over the years instead of using shows to discount merchandise in order to move it, dealers now use them as a way to improve their profit margin and seem to mark stuff up in the hopes a sucker will impulse buy without dickering on price.
The PGCA show in Tarentum is slightly better but is still overwhelmed with old farts and their overpriced wares that they have been toting to shows for the past 15 years and that they refuse to budge on price with.
The sellers are more like pirates hoarding their treasures than actual sellers.
Years ago, at the old Greengate mall shows, dealers would take their overstock firearms and ammo as well as all their used trade ins and sell them at good prices to move them.
Now a days, with such a high demand for guns, this is no longer the case. Many dealers price their guns at MSRP or slightly below waiting for a sucker.
A good place to browse and sometimes you get a few decent small dealers and private sellers with good prices, but they are the minority.
Still probably worth the price of admission since you have never been to one if you have time to kill.