Nope, and honestly that's not much more than the cost of a 2 boxes of 9mm ammo right now- you'd eat that up in a single range visit in normal times. The reality is that if you have $650 and you want that gun- paying a little more for it now, when lots of people can't even find one, is no big deal.The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:35 am I paid almost $600 out the door for a Gen4 G17 a few years ago, back when they were fairly easily available and not in the middle of a panic buying period. So $650 for a Gen5 G17 in the current market doesn’t seem that inflated to me.
Guys, let me play devil's advocate for a moment......
I don’t see the market recovering any time soon, if ever. We can’t even get Glocks for our shop right now. Our distributor simply don’t have any they can sell us. That’s not going to change any time soon. If the OP can get a new Gen5 G17 for "only" $650 right now, and he has a real need for the gun, I’d say jump on it and the price be hanged. He may not be able to get his hands on another one at that price for months....or maybe even years. And even if availability goes up and prices go down in 6-12 months from now, is the $50 worth agonizing over if the need is right now?
Buy it, shoot it, and forget the price.
