Wolf Armouries selling up?

[Lozart]

Just got a clearance sale 30% off promotion email from Wolf, but at the bottom was a banner;

 

 

 

Anyone heard anything about this?

[BigStew]

They have been try to sell up for a while now.

[Lozart]

1 minute ago, BigStew said:

They have been try to sell up for a while now.

 

That's a shame. I know they haven't had the best reputation for customer service but it'll be a shame to see another brick and mortar shop shut down.

[rj1986]

I found with them they were pretty decent if you knew what you wanted and were willing to spend - they didn't like window shoppers as much.

 

Also the sale is pretty bare bones - most decent stuff has either been sold or returned to the distributor i think. But still some gems in there,

[novioman]

Looked through there pistols and revolvers, everything marked with a reduced price,  and practically everything out of stock, bit of a waste of effort. 

[MistakenMexican]

2 hours ago, novioman said:

Looked through there pistols and revolvers, everything marked with a reduced price,  and practically everything out of stock, bit of a waste of effort. 

*stock clearance sale*
*miffed that lots of stock is cleared out*

 

 

They used to be really good for Gucci TM glock upgrades. I feel a bit bad as I haven’t bought from them in a while, but used to buy all my guns modify parts from them.

Edited April 7 by MistakenMexican

[Cannonfodder]

As posted the owners have been trying go sell the business for a while.

 

I haven't shopped there for years as my loyalty is to my bank account and their high prices tend to make me look elsewhere.

 

5 hours ago, novioman said:

practically everything out of stock,

Their website was always like this, I remember seeing some guns listed as out of stock that in reality had been discontinued years ago

[Krisz]

I wanted to say focusing mainly on Maruis might be not the best business decision when people are more skint than ever but then I remembered that Eagle6 is doing just fine.
 

[Colin Allen]

Losing a shop is a shame, but it was a rather unfriendly place.  I suspect that more shops will close over the next few years; rising costs and competition from online only retailers will drive them out of the market.

[Dentonboy]

Not been there for ages. Back in the day - 2005-07 - the showroom was absolutely stunning and stocked with loads of cool bits.

 

But the prices couldn't compete with others online.

[Anonymoose]

Shame, they're about 15 minutes from me but i've never gotten round to going there. Driven past loads of times but never gone in.

 

Pretty awful location for an airsoft shop though, parking's terrible around there (as is most of this shithole city) and i bet the rent/rates are horrendous.

[Jez_Armstrong]

14 minutes ago, Anonymoose said:

Shame, they're about 15 minutes from me but i've never gotten round to going there. Driven past loads of times but never gone in.

 

Pretty awful location for an airsoft shop though, parking's terrible around there (as is most of this shithole city) and i bet the rent/rates are horrendous.

Plus it's in Camden ?

[Anonymoose]

1 hour ago, Jez_Armstrong said:

Plus it's in Camden ?

 

I'm from Camden borough and went to school in Camden. It's actually quite decent around Camden town, but a shit location for an airsoft shop.

[TheFull9]

I honestly thought the physical business would have gone by now, pretty shocked it's even still clinging on at all being that far in to London. First gun I bought for myself was from there in 06, took the train one evening after work when they had a late opening. Box thoroughly wrapped up in opaque plastic bags and nobody cared, but felt very paranoid on that trip home. Of course just my luck there had been some sort of incident at the station where I got off so a few of the fuzz floating around, to just to make teenage me extra tense.

[ButcherBill]

Oh, I know that feeling... Back in about 1994-95 I picked up a deactivated Bren Mk1 from a shop in London (Angel Islington I think), it was in a long cardboard box but it was still in the IRA era and I must have been sweating buckets carrying this on the underground, once I got to my destination station Euston (again I think) I went to the transport police to ask if they wanted to hold on to it till my train to Edinburgh in a few hours. Their answer was no, just leave it in left luggage.

 

I was astounded TBH.

[Cannonfodder]

Going to their website via google it brought up their opening times.

 

Monday    11 am–5 pm
Tuesday    Closed

Wednesday    Closed
Thursday    12–7:30 pm
Friday    Closed
Saturday    11 am–5 pm
Sunday    Closed

 

I'm guessing either they're not getting enough walk in customers to justify opening monday to saturday all day or they're trying everything to stop the business going bankrupt. The fact they're trying and failing to sell up makes me think the second one is more likely 
 

Edit: I now remember another reason I didn't shop there much. God that site is a pain in the arse to browse on a phone

Edited April 9 by Cannonfodder

[Rogerborg]

20 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

The fact they're trying and failing to sell up makes me think the second one is more likely 

 

"Please buy our failing part-time business with a patchy reputation" is a tempting pitch, but I reckon I'll pass.

[Pseudotectonic]

No London fields, no London business...

[Galvatron]

On 09/04/2025 at 16:22, Cannonfodder said:

Going to their website via google it brought up their opening times.

 

I'm guessing either they're not getting enough walk in customers to justify opening monday to saturday all day or they're trying everything to stop the business going bankrupt. The fact they're trying and failing to sell up makes me think the second one is more likely 
 

 

 

Going by a few items they have on clearance, they look like they have some debt in items they can't even give away for people to find use in them. Just about all of the phones for those Magpul cases are obsolete where today's apps won't run on them and/or they would be useless for data out of the home or office because they only don't have 4G or 5G connectivity.

[Cannonfodder]

9 hours ago, Pseudotectonic said:

No London fields, no London business...

I wonder if Bunker 51 closing had any effect

[Galvatron]

Just now, Cannonfodder said:

I wonder if Bunker 51 closing had any effect

 

Wolf Armouries put itself up for sale before Bunker 51 went under though you can't see the closure helping matters.

 

AGL Airsoft is also just 5 minutes away on foot and while it's not sprawling with products, it has value-added services with a shooting range. I haven't been there but I'd imagine its staff are less... curmudgeonly than those at Wolf Armouries.

[Cannonfodder]

Good points, I'd forgotten how long they'd been on the market.

 

I've haven't heard of AGL before I'll have to have a look

[BigStew]

Well a bit disappointed. Order turned up today. They phoned yesterday to say a few items weren't in stock so did a few substitutions. Well substitutions present however pistol order was not and obviously they aren't open today so awaiting an email response.

[Colin Allen]

12 minutes ago, BigStew said:

Well a bit disappointed. Order turned up today. They phoned yesterday to say a few items weren't in stock so did a few substitutions. Well substitutions present however pistol order was not and obviously they aren't open today so awaiting an email response.

That is worrying!  I have just put in an order for BBs, which are very well priced in the sale.

[Rogerborg]

28 minutes ago, BigStew said:

Well a bit disappointed. Order turned up today. They phoned yesterday to say a few items weren't in stock so did a few substitutions. Well substitutions present however pistol order was not and obviously they aren't open today so awaiting an email response.

 

Might as well get the chargeback started while you wait.