Petrol & Powder
Well-Known Member
I try not to be overly critical of companies that sell firearm related products but every now and then, I think some of them need to check their egos.
Today I received a catalog from Dillon Precision. I like the company and I like their products. However, they have become very proud of the products they sell, and not just the proprietary Dillon products. Their own products have always been costly, but that attitude seems to have spread to the other products they sell retail for other manufacturers. I don’t mind paying for quality but there’s a limit to what is reasonable. Particularly when there are equal (and I mean totally 100% equal) options for less money.
I will not go into a line-by-line breakdown, but this recent catalog appeared to be lot of glitz and not a lot of substance. I started comparing non-proprietary products that could be sourced from other companies and found significantly lower prices on everything I compared. The moral of the story there – always shop around.
Then I looked at some proprietary Dillon products and attempted to gauge how much the price of those products has increased. Now, I fully understand inflation and the decreased buying power of the dollar, but damn! Take their primer flip tray for example; $33 in the catalog, $29 on-line …….for a piece of metal with some concentric grooves! Probably groves that are just molded into the tray. That’s not exactly a high-tech piece of gear. It is for certain not $33 worth of zinc, iron, or whatever it’s made of.
OK, I’m done ranting.
I hope Dillon doesn’t shoot themselves in the foot with this glitzy advertising and boutique (read that as exorbitant) pricing. I don’t think that’s their customer base.
Today I received a catalog from Dillon Precision. I like the company and I like their products. However, they have become very proud of the products they sell, and not just the proprietary Dillon products. Their own products have always been costly, but that attitude seems to have spread to the other products they sell retail for other manufacturers. I don’t mind paying for quality but there’s a limit to what is reasonable. Particularly when there are equal (and I mean totally 100% equal) options for less money.
I will not go into a line-by-line breakdown, but this recent catalog appeared to be lot of glitz and not a lot of substance. I started comparing non-proprietary products that could be sourced from other companies and found significantly lower prices on everything I compared. The moral of the story there – always shop around.
Then I looked at some proprietary Dillon products and attempted to gauge how much the price of those products has increased. Now, I fully understand inflation and the decreased buying power of the dollar, but damn! Take their primer flip tray for example; $33 in the catalog, $29 on-line …….for a piece of metal with some concentric grooves! Probably groves that are just molded into the tray. That’s not exactly a high-tech piece of gear. It is for certain not $33 worth of zinc, iron, or whatever it’s made of.
OK, I’m done ranting.
I hope Dillon doesn’t shoot themselves in the foot with this glitzy advertising and boutique (read that as exorbitant) pricing. I don’t think that’s their customer base.