What is the most overpriced handgun?

First, change price to COST; secondly - even if it did have the lowest production cost, that has nothing to do with the retail price or the expected value

In a beer or a soft drink, the container costs more than the contents - so what? The value is the content and what you pay for.

It doesn't matter if it costs Gaston $52/Glock - there is R&D, marketing, discounts to groups, all of the other costs and then PROFIT - called capitalism. Just because someone doesn't think it is "fair" or whatever does not mean it isn't worth the price charged

Take a gallon of water to some barren wasteland and discover just how valuable it can be........
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The "Cost" of the plastic as a resource will be less than the "Cost" of steel. I was not discussing useability or functionality. If your plastic gun works for you and you like it, no worries.... Its your money and your choice, for myself, I generally like more steel and less plastic but that isnt to say some level of plastic isnt involved in some of my firearms but usually much less than most plastic craptastic..
 
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Ive paid almost $1000 for a Kimber that didnt work
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My buddy paid $2500 each for a couple of Night Hawks
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IMHO those are the two worst overpriced 1911s in their respective classes.
Kimber saves enough using MIM and apparently gives all their quality control inspecctors 1 day a week off. They could lower their price.
And while I don't think a full length guide rod and ambi safety are required on a 1911, It should be cheaper to build one without them.
 
Probably Glock. Didn't someone mention a few years back that it only takes $90 to make one?

EDIT: I see it's already been mentioned.
 
I almost hate to say it because it's just about my favorite pistol ever, but my vote for most overpriced gun goes to the Browning Hi-Power.

For the nearly $900 [$850 + tax for a MKIII] price of a Hi-Power you can buy so many other pistols with so many good and useful features. And you'd be hard pressed to find a worse out-of-the-box trigger than the Hi-Power on any pistol anywhere. Browning has had 75 years to do something about it, but they keep selling the same-old, same-old year after year. Bad triggers, crummy sights and that thick silly-putty baked on epoxy finish...on a very expensive pistol that they moved production of to Portugal to save themselves money.

I think if they wanted to Browning/FN could make the Hi-Power a real competitor to some of the updated, upgraded 1911s hitting the market these days, like the Ruger, good trigger, good sights, etc. And they could probably do it for a competitive price, but they seem happy to keep on doing what they're doing.

I guess it's because folks like me keep buying them. Capitalism at work. I have no problem with that, but I think I've bought my last Hi-Power until something changes.
 
I agree that, from an economics point of view, there is no such thing as overpriced. I was referring to the guns that make you think, 'why does this gun cost so darn much :confused:?' But, like I said earlier, I have a few 1911's that are 'overpriced' (cough, cough, Kimber) so obviously I wanted them enough to pay that price!
 
I disagree with this statement. Regardless of how much you can spend, if a restaurant charged you 10 bucks for a toothpick, this would be overpriced. The price of a product used to be the equivalent of labour time that was bundled in it (the labour time to dig iron ore, to purify it, to transport it, to make it into a gun, ...). Due to our modern economic system (that has some very flawed concepts in it) this is not always true
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No, it wouldn't, because YOU have the choice to pay the 10 bucks or not.

The price of the product has NOTHING to do with the cost of production - perhaps you have forgotten about all of the other aspects of owning a company (or perhaps you are simply unaware of them as most here seem to be)

Hospitals charge about $5-$10 for Tylenol they get for free - is that overpriced?

If you really thought that way, then you must never eat at a restaurant for what they give you in relation to the price they charge, or buy ANYTHING sold in any store.............
 
The one you never use.
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This.

And people who say semi-custom/custom 1911's and Glocks are overpriced obviously don't like'em enough to know the difference or care. So of course they think they're "overpriced". The person who buys a Wilson Combat won't trade it for 2 or 3 SW1911's. And the person who chose a Glock won't trade it for another gun that cost @$500 and maybe even more.

If guns are primary a tool/instrument, "Value" is ultimately determined by the end user, not the market or public opinion. The person who can afford a $3000 1911 or the person who spends $600 on a Glock that cost $75 to make doesn't care what you think. They want the Wilson. They want the Glock. You don't like them and you don't like the fact they chose them. That's what it means.
 
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I have read a few different places that it cost between 20 something and 40 dollars to produce a Glock. I cant speak for the validity of the sources but certainly plastic is cheaper than steel in producing a given item.

I would expect the plastic craptastic overall to have the lowest actual production price.
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Oh, you heard it there. You heard it "somewhere". Well, I guess we should just take your word for it? You don't think your pre-existing prejudice against Glock colors all your opinions about them? How about all the other companies that make "plastic craptastic" pistols, H&K, S&W, Walther, SIG, Beretta, XD, what do you thing their margins are? What's the margin on comparably priced steel and aluminum guns.? How much of a difference is there? Why do you always single out Glock? Just a one track mind? Can you say honestly say you can have anything close to an objective opinion about Glocks? How about craptastic opinions?
 
Ouch! people are getting a little miffed here. Yes, there are some over priced"domestic" pistols made right here, but the imports,European, don't they have import to here[USA] tariffs, labor costs and other duties that bring the price up? Just wondering, could be wrong.
 
Over-priced is a concept relative to your financial resources. To some $3,000 is not a lot of money and a fair price for a custom high-end 1911. To others with less money it is too much.

A better way to ask the question is which guns offer the least value for the purchase price.

Personally, I think a cheap gun that causes hassles offers much poorer value for money than an expensive one that is reliable.
 
I have read a few different places that it cost between 20 something and 40 dollars to produce a Glock
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If you believe that then you've not a single clue of how intensive milling is.
 
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