High Prices Thread -- Vent Your Frustration

[littlebuddybr]

Yeah, we are getting some 9mm this week. I bitched because our cost is now over what we sold it for 6 months ago. So a 50 round box will be $20 for Fiochi 115 ball. Meanwhile at the local flea market.............$80 a box. Screw these people, don't buy at those prices!
Edit to add - as an LGS that serves a large rural community ( parts of 4 counties ) I am a staunch defender of small Local Gun Shops. However, this has become increasingly harder to do due to this behavior, I am a capitalist, not a profiteer.

Where are you located?????

 

[243Mendoza]

The gouger may be your fellow gun club member.

 

[rebel]

Where are you located?????

Western NC

 

[tac284]

Just an observation, ... guy on "local" sellsite Zidaho has 8 lbs H1000 for $1,000 and 5 lbs Retumbo for $1,000!

Wow! Tits ona' Ritz!

Everytime I get on there I just shake my head.... I did pickup some 38 super ammo from a guy in N. Boise for a good price.

 

[hoz53]

I’m not buying anything for a year! I have enough supplies to get me there. Hopefully things will have calmed down by then.

Thats what Im doing - not buying any components from now until 2022--

 

[Matt in Virginia]

FWIW & IMHO,
I like gunshop's who don't overcharge for ammunition as well. I'd also DEARLY LOVE a brokerage house who would sell stocks to me at the price that was the going rate ten years ago. Plus or minus of course depending on what is most favorable to me. That being said I would rather have the CHUMPS who have failed to read the abundantly clear writing on the wall, to learn to deal with the REALITY of ammunition availability & pricing increases. Rather than having the ubiquitous shop on the corner from going out of business.

I wonder if these same folks are pissed at those of us how bought Apple and Amazon when they were at their most ripe? Do you honestly think I would sell my stock to you cheaper than the going rate? What because you are a shooter and hence a buddy? Insert LOL here...

Regards, Matt.

 

[justpassinthru]

If people didn't panic and hoard, prices would not be so high. Just sayin'. It ain't the government doing this; it's us. WH

There's nothing wrong with hoarding, just do it when things are plentiful.
Some of us have seen this several times now and were prepared for it.

 

[Dgd6mm]

My LGS TRYING to sell Armscor .22rf ammo for $200.00 a brick.

 

[NorCalMikie]

My LGS TRYING to sell Armscor .22rf ammo for $200.00 a brick.

And the problem is??? Somebody will pay that much.

A little off topic but, there's a pretty new Chevron Mini Mart/ Gas station at the local Truck Stop. Gas is $4.05 a gallon. I know they need to pay for the new building but fuel cost $3.45. across the street and a little less further down the street. At any given time you may see one vehicle at the pumps?? Gouging or just a tough nut to crack?? And NO I won't be paying that much for fuel. The other day I DID pay $3.79 a gallon on the main drag when on a road trip. Didn't want to be running all over to save a few cents. You pick and choose before you NEED fuel. Plan ahead.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Actual components cost must be increasing. Not in stock, but have been looking for 6mm 107 SMK. Brownell’s has been $175 on 500 box, yesterday switched price to $197.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

I have been trying to work out what is going on, not just in our world but overall. How can so many people get forced out of work, businesses closed, money printed, ext. And yet so many markets are booming. Look at the housing market. Prices are high and overall many people have less money. I think inflation is already here and we dont know it yet.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Thats what Im doing - not buying any components from now until 2022--

Put me on that list too! I’ve got plenty and it may be a lifetime supply the way this world is headed.

 

[chop house]

I think inflation is already here and we dont know it yet.

oh, we know it... we're just trying to deny it

 

[22DASHER]

If they keep handing out money left and right we are going to have a lot bigger things to worry about.... you remember 2008? It’ll be much worse then that.

 

[BigJohnson2]

And the problem is??? Somebody will pay that much.

A little off topic but, there's a pretty new Chevron Mini Mart/ Gas station at the local Truck Stop. Gas is $4.05 a gallon. I know they need to pay for the new building but fuel cost $3.45. across the street and a little less further down the street. At any given time you may see one vehicle at the pumps?? Gouging or just a tough nut to crack?? And NO I won't be paying that much for fuel. The other day I DID pay $3.79 a gallon on the main drag when on a road trip. Didn't want to be running all over to save a few cents. You pick and choose before you NEED fuel. Plan ahead.

Gas is under $2.50 here.

 

[GAnderson]

Went to the Indy gun show and saw an 8# jug of 4350 priced at $600...yes, you are reading it right...$600

His other 8# jugs of various powders were $375 and 1# jugs were $45

All 223 ammo was $1 a round...same for most all handgun calibers.

 

[skeeljc]

$1.00 per round seems to be the norm for 9mm and 5.56mm. Who is buying it at these prices? I can see a guy with a new gun buying one or two boxes. All the reasonably priced stuff is going to the hoarders.

 

[Pawnee Bill]

There is an old adage that applies in business it is , "Whatever the market will bear", That in a nutshell is where we are in today's reloading/ammo market. Brought on by fear, panic & hoarding.

 

[mills braswell]

It's so easy for the seasoned reloaders with tons of supplies gathered over an extended period of time to say that the newbie reloaders who have spent a small fortune buying all the necessary equipment to get started only to have to succumb to the overly inflated price of a pound of powder or a brick of primers available nowhere else that they are the problem.
Likewise for those that have shot guns all their lives and have boxes upon boxes of factory ammo think that we should place blame on a new gun owner trying to buy ammo to protect their family in times such as these.
At the same time, it's unfair to call the seasoned reloaders for having 10,000 primers as being hoarders. These folks didn't buy them all at once (mostly) and have prevented their own crisis by accumulating components over time. Newby gun owners/reloaders did not cause this situation, the situation was thrust upon them. People are desperate. I don't blame them. Surely the gang members have all the ammo they need and are not buying any today. They aren't helping to contribute to this situation. No need to point fingers at them, just your fellow Patriot Americans.

 

[joshb]

Put me on that list too! I’ve got plenty and it may be a lifetime supply the way this world is headed.

I think the second part of your sentence is the core “fear” that is driving the current situation. Some people believe that this is the beginning of the “END” of firearms in America. We’re living thru a time that most sane people would have thought impossible. Seeing what has happened destabilizes our core beliefs and moves the “impossible” to possible.