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  1. Nah, rose gold is just a copper-gold alloy. This allows the manufacturer to keep the gold look for less money.

  2. When I worked in the gun biz, colors that were terrible made the rounds every now and again

    Robins egg blue (a light blue color) and pink came out every now and again to appeal to females. As if these colors would make someone’s buy a gun that was in the fence. These colors in my opinion were butt ugly.

    Sometimes cool colors came out. I always liked the dips of camo (the dips were done in a bath like container). I never bought one but should have. Some of the camo dips are neat.

    Overall this is typically about two things 1 – to get a customer to consume more of the same (here’s the same thing in a different color and 2 to pay a little more to manufacture a different color then charge a premium price to sell this customized item.

    blued, stainless and black colored guns always remain in style. Other colors come and go.

    YMMV

  3. The custom shops (S&W performance center for example) would let customers send in guns for work, paid for of course (it’s all about the almighty dollar). You could get trigger work, new sights, engraving and re blueing or other cosmetic or functional work. Some people even had gold mounted to the guns after engravers removed metal for the gold to fit into. $$$. I never understood it. However I am not wealthy.

  4. Yep, not my thing, either, that would have been right pretty in stainless or chrome.

    I have a question not about the gun, but about marketing. And since you’re kind of a marketing expert, who better to ask?

    The $999.99 pricing thing has always baffled me. It’s $1,000, why not mark it as such? Are there really people stupid enough where the $999.99 ploy influences their decision? Everyone does it, so i figure it must have some utility, but then I ask how stupid do you have to be to be influenced by the penny?

    You see this all up and down the price spectrum. Note the MSRP of $1,399.99. You’ll see items marked $799.99, or $9.99. I’ve always been curious about this stupid habit.

    1. Psychology. Period

      It’s not one thousand dollars. It’s nine hundred and ninety nine and ninety nine cents.

      Or ninety seven or six at Walmart cuz they usually don’t end prices in 9

      Similar but slightly different fucking bullshit scam when the media says oh my fucking god trumps tariffs will triple prices or maybe more.

      So, an iPhone that was 999 could be 2999. So buy now. Buy a new one now while we are full of old stock of the 16 model but in 5 months or so we will be selling the 17 model. Same shit. Few more features.

      Some marketing tricks.

      Make the price seem lower to make the idiots think they are getting a better deal.

      Make the consumer feel as though there is a current shortage or a coming shortage, real or imagined, so they buy now.

      Get the consumer to buy more of the same thing they have now by creating artificial demand. New color. Slightly larger. New and improved. (Other than the sticker there might be zero actual improvement).

      That being said. 999 for an all metal gun like the 1911 these days ain’t bad. But that color is vomit inducing butt ass fucking ugly as a bag of smashed assholes.

  5. On my wall is a SR1911, 5″, 9mm, with black anodized alloy frame and black grips, and satin stainless slide for $200.00 less…..Just saying.

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