New, but "pre-agreement" S&W

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What is the general feeling about buying a S&W product that was already in dealer's stock at the time of the "agreement"? Note that the dealer has explicitly stated 1)No "deals" on these products since he paid the regular price for them, and 2) No more S&W after these are gone.
 
If it is still NIB and at a stocking dealer he (the dealer) can send it back to his distributor. His distributor can return it Smith and Smith can....well.....you know where Smith can put.
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Personally, aside from a feeling of dislike for anything marked "S&W," I don't have a problem buying a new Smith from a dealer who already had the gun in stock, or who got it because it was in the pipeline when the announcement was made--and not because he's going along with the agreement.

As an example, I ordered a 625 Mountain Gun from the local gun shop before the agreement was announced. I placed the order in good faith, and the dealer and I considered it a done deal at the time. The dealer paid his distributor up front to get the 625 for me. The agreement was announced just before I went to pick up the gun. But I proceeded with the purchase so as to keep my word to the dealer, who I've been doing business with for many years.

However, I will not now be ordering two other S&Ws (4006 and 4506) that I'd hoped to buy. So, since my dealer will not go along with the agreement, my 625 sounds like the last new S&W he or I will ever get.

Just my $0.02.
 
I bought a S&W Super 9 that a local dealer had in stock already. I'd been drooling on it for 3 months already, so I figured I'd go ahead and buy it. Hey, it needed all my fingerprints cleaned off of it!
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I'm very fond of S&W pistols as I know of no other maker who offers stainless steel full & compact size autos with a manual safety/decocker -- Sig's only have a decocker and Beretta's aren't very big with stainless steel. As my dealer will not be ordering any new pistols from S&W (and I'm not really going to be interested in their new "smarter & safer" guns anyway), I put deposits in a number of different pistols that he had in stock so he could put them aside for me and I will be slowly buying them as the money becomes available. I figure these guns have already been paid for and it's unfair for a dealer to get stuck with them.
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This is my rule structure:

1. The gun was in the pipeline before
Traitor day
2. The dealer isn't trying to scalp with
exhorbitant prices.
3. They will not restock SW

Then, I have no trouble buying it.

Why doesn't SW just sell the rights to their
guns and the machinery to someone like Glock or Kahr and then fade away. Only their revolver line is worth keeping. Their semis are redundant.
 
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