So I get a call from a CA gun dealer. The customer was in the store as they called me. The customer wanted a BCM lower shipped to his dealer. Once I answered the dealers questions, I heard the dealer advise the customer that the transfer fee was going to be $100!!! Are you kidding me??? That is more profit than what I make on the gun!!! :blink:
I think I am in the wrong business. Screw actually stocking firearms, I am going just do transfers. 
C4
I have a local shop that dose about the same, I dont shop there anymore. If people will buy anything with zombie biohazard slapped on it, why not 100$ to transfer those evil assualting machine guns and lots of bullets.
Unfortunately, this is all too common out there from what I hear. It’s a sellers market and California FFLs are in a position to charge what they want.
Shops do that all over the country to discourage the walk-in customer from ordering something online.
The shop would rather just sell them something that they keep in stock.
So, by making the transfer price so high, the customer does the math in his head and the $150 stripped lower on the wall at the shop is suddenly a better deal…
My VA gun shop charged $25 for a transfer. Out here in CA the cheapest I have found is $65 for a transfer with many over the $100 mark. Seems to be SOP for CA FFL’s.
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$100 was standard when I was shopping around in DFW. I found a guy who would do it for $25…he went bankrupt before my SBR paperwork went through…
The highest I’ve seen here in Tulsa is $35. Most are $20-$25. I have no clue on NFA stuff.
My LGS charges me twenty bucks.
Keep in mind that is CA where it is harder and more expensive to be an FFL. You could never make that much in transfers in your zip code.
My local FFL advertises them for $10 plus $2.00 for the state background check for a whopping total of $12.00 . Another shop in the area charges $35 and another one just flat out won’t do them if it’s a gunbroker sale and charges $50 for anything else. They’re in the process of slowly going out of business.
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Most gunshops in CA save for a select 1 or 2 (tenpercentfirearms) charge between $75 and $150 for any out of state transfer. Any good deal you get on a gun out of state is now more expensive than it wouldve been in their store. Thats why I retained my CO citizenship and just bought all my guns when I was home on leave.
$20-$25 is the going rate where I’m at. 2 or more and they’re $15 each.
Is that $100 transfer in CA exclusive or inclusive any state fees that get charged? Don’t they have extensive reporting and/or checking they have to do? (working vaguely from memory)
Here in Utah I know an FFL who charges $15 for the first and $5 for any additional done at the same time. If you don’t have a Utah CCW he charges you like $7.50 or whatever he gets charged for the state check in addition.
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DROS/Background Check (Dealers Record of Sale) is usually $25 and seperate of the $100 fee.
The $100 fee the dealers ask is pure profit that they want for the customer trying to save money by buying online instead of from their inventory.
So it is exclusive.
I know what transfer fees are for, especially high ones 
But there are dealers who wrap all the government fees into their transfer fee and there are others who have separate government fees from their transfer fee, which is why I asked.
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$75 is the going rate around my way…simply because the competition charges around that price.
Anything over $50 is unjustified, and even that is too much. Should be $30 maximum.
If they can charge that and make money, more power to them.
I just don’t know that I could look a customer in the face and say that too them. Is this why CA gun owners always seem pissed off? 
C4
My FFL charges $27. $25 for the transfer and $2 for the state fee. One of the reasons I stopped going to the last place is because the owner once told me he was going to jack up the transfer fees to force people to buy stuff from his shop.