I know several dealers have gone up across board and some have only gone up on certain people. The paperwork is time consuming and can be an inconvience if te the tranferee comes in immediately after getting a notification from fedex or ups that their item has been delivered without giving the dealer a chance to recieve it.
Most dealers are losing money doing transfers. Most do it hoping that the person receving the trsnsfer buys something while in their store.
I tried explaining this years ago on this board, didn’t go well. Ironically I make 4X as much money mowing lawns, with 2X less stress as compared to revenue generated from having an FFL. $10-$20 per transfer on a gun someone ordered in to avoid paying your cost, which already wasn’t netting you much return is just fighting over scraps with the mice.
When I did transfers, I’d make far more money just telling people I took tips to do such, versus charging $15-$20. Something about burdening people with having to make them consider what someone else’s time should be worth worked favorably.
People don’t realize there’s more to a transfer than just paperwork during the purchasers pickup, and calling NICS if required.