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Arms dealers; by all accounts a glamorous and exciting lifestyle (fit women, loads of cash, folk trying to kill you etc) but how does it work?
Do you sit there in your heavily guarded compound and wait for calls, buyers flicking through the equivalent of of an argos catalogue filled with tanks and other exotic hardware or do you go out selling?
When you have sold, where do you get the stock from? Do you ring up manufacturers and try to get a bulk discount, and if you can get the goods from arms manufacturers why don't the buyers just cut out the middlemen?
I know there are a few people bring stuff in from eastern europe but I'm thinking more like your Adnan Khasoggi types.
I would also like to say that this is yet another career that was not discused with me at school/college. Those careers advisors were bl**dy useless! I could be doing something really glam now instead of this (waves hand languidly across desk) ..........
Do you sit there in your heavily guarded compound and wait for calls, buyers flicking through the equivalent of of an argos catalogue filled with tanks and other exotic hardware or do you go out selling?
When you have sold, where do you get the stock from? Do you ring up manufacturers and try to get a bulk discount, and if you can get the goods from arms manufacturers why don't the buyers just cut out the middlemen?
I know there are a few people bring stuff in from eastern europe but I'm thinking more like your Adnan Khasoggi types.
I would also like to say that this is yet another career that was not discused with me at school/college. Those careers advisors were bl**dy useless! I could be doing something really glam now instead of this (waves hand languidly across desk) ..........
MacW said:
There was a great documentary a few years ago called Lord of War, narrated by everyone's favourite erudite Nicolas Cage Esq.
Should answer some of your questions.
Rather a movie than documentary, but based on some true stories I believe.Should answer some of your questions.
Quite good as well. Especially the opening sequence.
227bhp said:
SpeckledJim said:
You start in the pub with a sawn-off BB, offer a good returns policy, and take it from there.
Ask me how I know.
How do you know?Ask me how I know.
Yeah and don't point that thing at me like that, it might be loaded.
I sell all my sawn-off BBs at cost. When I finally find a buyer for all the left-over barrels I'll be set-up for life.
As long as I die Tuesday-week. Which in this game is quite possible.
Well I inadvertently discovered that one of my clients is an arms dealer - organised a meeting with him last week , he asked if I could meet him at the novotel near excel so I did. I wasnt expecting the London arms fair and the protesters, and the military ships, helis, Eurofighter etc that were all outside Excel.
Anyway turns out thats his main business and what I supply for him is a parallel product thats life saving instead of life ending.
Had to laugh at the protesters giving me dirty looks as I left the arms fair, I was tempted to lob my briefcase in their camp and shout FIRE IN THE HOLE!
Anyway turns out thats his main business and what I supply for him is a parallel product thats life saving instead of life ending.
Had to laugh at the protesters giving me dirty looks as I left the arms fair, I was tempted to lob my briefcase in their camp and shout FIRE IN THE HOLE!
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