Shooters taking advantage of shooters

Originally Posted By: GerbsSo if I start an auction on GB for 1,000 rounds of .223 at $300 and it sells for $800, I'm not a "price gouger" or am I?

Depends on the reserve you put on it.
 
Well I did just find a guy with 600 40gr Mini Mags down at the corner gunshow last night. He has 'em priced at $23.75/100 so I left 'em there. I'm sure he may sell for $20 or 200/$40 but I'm still not that desperate yet.

I did find a nice beater Mossberg 500 I may pick up and pimp out. It has a new $150 accessories/upgrade package on it and the guy says buy that and I can have the gun for free!

I have bought 2 shotguns this week already, but sold both already.

2MG out...........
 
Originally Posted By: 2muchgunWell I did just find a guy with 600 40gr Mini Mags down at the corner gunshow last night. He has 'em priced at $23.75/100 so I left 'em there. I'm sure he may sell for $20 or 200/$40 but I'm still not that desperate yet.

I checked last night and all I have are the 36gr HP. If those will work, drop me a line and I'll send some your way.
 
I very much appreciate the kind offer.

That rifle will shoot 40s dang near into one hole @ 100yds, so that is all I feed it.

I have other ammo I can use if I have to, so no need to take someone else's. If they were 40s, I'd happily trade you something.

Thanks though.........
 
Next time ammo's low, stock up - don't wait till an economic cycle like now to complain. And take the next truck or car you get rid of, and give it away for thousands less than it normally would get if you want to stimulate the economy. And make sure you can only heat your house with oil, so when the price of oil goes up, you don't have access to wood/coal/gas/solar/etc./etc. to help your financial self out.
 
This is what I see happening with all ammo.
The companies have seen what idiots will pay for it right now, next when they are back up to having the shelves in stotres back to normal stock level & the madness over the prices will not come down to what we have all been used to. Happend the 1st time when 22lr was under $9 per 550, now its about $20, next time it will be $30 in the stores.

WE bring it upon out greedy selfs and have no one to blame but the person in the mirror.
I have pms from a few guys after I said I had 65 bricks (550 fed bulk)of 22lr stocked for me & my kids & grandkids as I bought a few every month for years on end. I have not sold any, BUT could have sold them all at $80+.
 
How much do you shoot in a year? Buy enough ammo or components to support that habit for a year and then you will be able to hold out for a year if a shortage comes again. Just consider it part of the expense of the weapon-if I can't support it, I can't afford it.
Without ammo or components, a firearm is just an expensive club.
By the way, in my opinion, if $5 is keeping you from enjoying your hobby, it's not really the $5 stopping you, it's your stubbornness. Personally, I'd rather be shooting than breaking a sweat over $5.
 
If someone is stupid enough to pay $5,200+ for 65 boxes of .22 ammo I would have sold it to them! There is plenty of the same .22 ammo out there for $40 a box of 550 Feds. My case in point. Price gouging doesn't exist without a buyer in the equation.
 
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Originally Posted By: 2muchgunThanks though.........

No problem. I didn't even realize there were two different types of Mini-Mags until this thread. I bought a bunch a few years ago on sale at WalMart so I knew I had some to spare.

Good luck on your quest to find more.
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Originally Posted By: GerbsIf someone is stupid enough to pay $5,200+ for 65 boxes of .22 ammo I would have sold it to them! Price gouging doesn't exist without a buyer in the equation.

My sentiments exactly.
 
Let's use silver as an example. Say I own 100 oz. pure silver valued at $xx per oz. Then for some reason the market goes crazy and the value of silver goes up considerably. As a friend, would you expect me to sell my silver to you for less than the market value? Sounds crazy doesn't it.
 
Originally Posted By: BroncoGlennI thought capitalism was all about selling a product at whatever price the market will consume it at?

I think that's a fair analysis.
 
Originally Posted By: claimbusterLet's use silver as an example. Say I own 100 oz. pure silver valued at $xx per oz. Then for some reason the market goes crazy and the value of silver goes up considerably. As a friend, would you expect me to sell my silver to you for less than the market value? Sounds crazy doesn't it.

Take the reverse position...

You bought 50,000 rounds of 223 Mil-surp when the price was high (65 cents), and then we leave Afghanistan, and the military dumps 200 hundred tons of 223 on the surplus market (like what happened a year ago, when it was 23 cents).

Do you expect people to still pay you 65 cents each?? So why would someone expect to get it at 23 cents, when there is a shortage and it goes back up to 65 cents?

Ammunition products are a commodity, just like corn and oil - it goes up and down, based on availability and demand.

If the military dumped 200 tons of 223 on the market tomorrow, the price would crash.

Our BIGGEST problem is the AH in the white house!!!


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Originally Posted By: CatShooterOriginally Posted By: claimbusterLet's use silver as an example. Say I own 100 oz. pure silver valued at $xx per oz. Then for some reason the market goes crazy and the value of silver goes up considerably. As a friend, would you expect me to sell my silver to you for less than the market value? Sounds crazy doesn't it.


Our BIGGEST problem is the AH in the white house!!!


Got that right! He ain't worth a plug nickel!
 
For the most part I have no problem with any body sellin anything for what they can get for it. Someone offers me twice what my house, truck, gun, etc is worth I'd be a moron not to take it. And if offering for sale I'd be a moron not to ask top price.

Where I draw the line is RETAILERs (term used lightly) buying out all the stock from other retailers creating a "local monopoly". I have no time for gun show sharks buying up everything in sight and putting a 100-200% mark up on ammo. They make it so if you want it you HAVE to buy it from them and I'd just as soon spit on em as buy anything from em.

If you're one of these buzzards circling Walmart, farm stores, box stores, etc everyday to get to ammo before I can and then want to sell it to me at three times the price you need drop kicked into a very deep hole. (Circling for personal use is another matter and OK by me).
 
Maybe it's the N.R.A. by starting a panic to get people to by a/bunch of stuff from these defence companies just for these companies to make millions and millions of bucks !
 
We need to think about this! Why should the suppliers of powder, bullets, lead shot, wads, primers, etc. bust their tails to produce product when they can charge twice as much money for it when there is a shortage. About 1973 there was a gas shortage and shortly after a meat shortage and after that a paper shortage when people hoarded these product the prices went up exponentially and never went back down. Bullets that I bought in October 2012 for 18.81 per hundred are now 33.00+ (and unavailable) I will be very surprised if I ever see those prices again once they do become available. Is it greed, is it hoarding or is there truly a shortage? I guess it doesn't matter they have already figured out were are prepared to pay and I suspect we will!
 
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