Lucky gunner

[aherring1983]

Check out luckygunner.com. Awesume deals on ammo

 

[mb504]

Here is some interesting info about lucky gunner and the other online companies owned by the same people:

http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2011/07/online-ammunition-retailers-a-hypothesis.html

http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2011/07/lucky-gunner-hypothesis-confirmed.html

While if that info might not affect their service, I do think it points to some of their underlying business ethics.

 

[Peashooter]

Is any of this illegal? Of course not – all of those sites, so far as I know, are independently-incorporated companies who pay the same exact warehouser / order-fulfiller to do the heavy lifting. Is any of this unethical? Well, that entirely depends on your concept of "ethics", but Google certainly seems to think so – why else would they have chosen to use the words "manipulate our rankings and deceive our users" (see above quote) or "manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries".

And that choice of words completely describes why I am writing this post – I consider it manipulative and deceptive for one company/organization/entity to maintain four separate storefronts that are all basically the same exact store, and not make that connection clear to its consumers. I have only briefly touched on the number of ways that kind of situation could be exploited, but i am sure you can imagine additional twists on the theme

Hmmm