Selling components at market prices

[carlsbad]

I want to encourage people not to frown on people selling ammo and reloading at market prices. The free market that we have in these United States sets fair prices for the conditions. Generally, it causes us to have low prices that benefit everyone. During shortages, things will change. Try not to get caught needing things in a time of shortage.

Here is my experience. I don't shoot enough pistol lately because I spend all my time on F class rifle. But when I do shoot pistol, I've become very fond of 45 ACP. A buddy asked if I had any 9mm and I said yep, come on over. He took a couple hundred rounds and asked what I wanted for it and I told him he was a friend so I wasn't going to charge the high prices things are going for now. He insisted on paying me 50c a round because that is less that he would have paid for it in a local sporting goods store. He isn't poor and I accepted it and we did the paperwork required in California....

So while I had my ammo out I decided to list it on a local gun website. Now you might think people paying 50c a round for 9mm would grumble and complain bit the first guy smiled from ear to ear, happy he found it. I've had to stop selling it because in CA you can only sell 500 rounds/month but next month I'll list some more and make another guy happy. Win Win.

Now I know that most of you wouldn't pay that, and I wouldn't either. But I just ask you to recognize that there are people right now that are very happy to.

Some of you may say that I should sell it for what I paid for it. I wouldn't bother to list it for that, I'd just keep it. I am a busy man. and I don't want my for sale thread going viral and getting 1000 emails in my box.

20c each for primers seems to many people ridiculous. But if the price of primers permanently went up to 20c, it wouldn't keep any of us from shooting....this too shall pass, however. Right now if I was out of primers, I'd buy enough at 20c or what ever I could find them at to last me a few months.

--Jerry

 

[john 800]

I dont have an issue with you taking a few boxes of ammo out of your stock and selling to a friend in the least, and i dont care in the least what he paid for it, and can’t imagine anyone that would. What does frustrate me is people that buy off the shelves just to list it at inflated prices, although I really do think that is a pretty small percentage of the people in line buying ammunition

 

[davidjoe]

I wouldn’t expect gas stations to sell gas based on what they paid. They should price it based on what the expected replacement cost is going to be. The same gas they have in the ground might change prices several times and that’s just fine.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I asked a guy buying 9mm ammo last week when was the last time he even shot a 9 and he said he didnt even own one

 

[carlsbad]

I dont have an issue with you taking a few boxes of ammo out of your stock and selling to a friend in the least, and i dont care in the least what he paid for it, and can’t imagine anyone that would. What does frustrate me is people that buy off the shelves just to list it at inflated prices, although I really do think that is a pretty small percentage of the people in line buying ammunition

I see your point there. People churning like this can cause artificial inflation in prices.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Im not a business man, and I work to stay above water. But if you could retire on the ammo you sell I'd be happy for you. Sad to see how fast people adopt socialist views when it benefits them at that point in time.

 

[rockrat]

50 cents a round is CHEAP nowadays. Around here its 80 cents a round from the one store that has some. Same price as 223 ammo

 

[Alex Wheeler]

No one bats an eye when you buy a stock at one price and sell it for 10 times more than you paid for it. Thats just how it goes. And no I dont own any stock, nor do I sell components at a profit. But I do not have an issue with those who do. Good thread Jerry.

 

[hogpatrol]

My neck of the woods, 9mm ammo is $50.00 a box or a buck a round. I've noticed at the range, the mag dumpers have pulled in their horns.

 

[DangerRanger]

I’ve been the black sheep on other forums when I say it, but a lot of gun owners are flat out being hypocrites about ammo prices.

don’t say the government can’t do anything right and then beg them to punish people for charging “mean” prices for what they have that you want.

further, the fact that people are mad about jack down the street making a mortgage payment buy flipping some ammo is frankly ridiculous when they get off their computer and drive to Walmart.

I could not care less what people sell their stuff for, if I have the money and I’d rather have the item I’ll buy it. If I don’t I’ll not buy it. Later on I’ll reevaluate and make the same decision again. It’s not that hard.

 

[Straightshooter1]

Yeah, it's just too crazy seeing what is being asked for these days. This is the kind of prices I see when I look on Wikiarms.com:

.22LR


9mm

 

[gunnermhr]

The price based on the market is a fair price, gouging is not and there is a lot of that going on, which drives the market price that much higher. A local gun shop is asking $50lb for VihtaVuori, now one might think he's the only game in town, but fortunately I live close to a supplier and bought an 8lb jug last week for $200. So then, is it fair for me to buy them out and resell on here for $400, I think not. I simply spread the the word among my friends of who has it and how much their asking. There has to be some decency left in this world!

Recently on here someone had 8lb jugs of Hodgden listed for $400 or $500 dollars and told everyone how great of a guy he was because he found it and was selling it here first giving fellow shooters first chance. He was doing everyone a great favor in doing so instead of selling on gun broker. Many thought he was a good person for doing so. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong?

A good argument no matter what side of the fence your on! I'll continue to pass along saving to my friends, but that's how I was brought up

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Elections have consequences, we have not seen anything yet.

 

[The boogalorian]

I am less concerned about the price that you are selling your ammo for that the fact that you are awaiting permission from rulers to do something with YOUR own personal property. That is what seams crazy to me.

 

[gunnermhr]

Elections have consequences, we have not seen anything yet.

Unfortunately I believe you are 100% correct. But then I look back at the Obama era and that only lasted 2 years or so. But he didn't have Camel Harris for a VP.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Mr. Obama didn't even say gun for 6 years. Mr. Biden has ran on it.

 

[XTR]

I paid $1550 for 350 rounds of 40S&W......

Not really, I paid that for an STI Edge 40 and the seller tossed in the ammo, but I thought it really sweetened the deal.

 

[Jet]

Elections have consequences, we have not seen anything yet.

agree

 

[X-Caveman]

Very timely thread. Just this morning we pulled out 2,000 rounds of 9mm and 2,500 rounds of SS109. Stuff that I NEVER shoot. I don’t know why I have it, really. I suspect I bought it after the last scare. If it weren’t for the stigma, I’d sell it in a heartbeat for inflated/ yet somewhat reasonable prices. Prices that people would be happy to pay.

What if I sold it and turned it into a 300NMI barrel for my 338LM that I NEVER shoot because local ranges won’t allow it... Does that make me an opportunistic A$$ if I keep the proceeds within the community, so to speak?

 

[dellet]

Last time around I would stop any place that might powder, primers or bullets and if they had something I might be able to use, I would buy it. A pound or two of powder, some primers what ever.
I was called a hoarder, denying others the opportunity.

When that cycle broke, I was buying primers for 2-2.5 cents without Haz-Mat because 5 years of back orders all showed up at once, possibly once in a lifetime prices.
I was a hoarder. or a prepper or maybe just plain stupid for buying the amounts I did.

I got caught short this summer and did not buy the cases of 22LR I normally do, soon enough. Paid 1.5X normal.
I was part of the problem by paying gougers.

Now because I won't sell for the prices that some of these same name callers know I paid, I had to join Ancestery dot com to find my heritage, join a yoga class to be able to do some of the things I've been told to do, I even tried to turn myself in at immigration because I was told I'm un-American.

Gave 1000 primers to someone who "really needed them". Came back a few weeks later asking if I could spare some more. Earned a new nickname that afternoon. Funny thing was, I had already heard from someone else's wife, who I offered to help, that they were fine. Found 500 primers at just a bit more than pre-panic price. Not many secrets in a small town.

Doesn't seem to matter which end of the deal I'm on, to half of everyone else, I'm the stupid a..hole.

Sometimes the shooting community truly are their own worst enemy.