It does when it no longer sells. Matt
You know there was a time when I would believe that. Today, no. So many companies closing there doors due to online sales kicking there azzes. Rather than the companies reducing prices, they'd rather call it quits. Don't get it. CEOs so used to living at a level that dropping prices isn't an option. I guess going out of business is more profitable.
There is a difference between being sold online and closing the doors. Back in 2008 I bought Norma 300 WSM brass for 56.00 a hundred. In 2013 it sold for 200.00 a hundred. Price of materials or labor didn't drive it up. Sales drove it up. Other cartridges didn't go up 400 percent. Some only doubled. Some only went up a little. The demand drove it up. The companies that make most the powders and brass are almost all foreign. Matt
Prices aren't going to go down. Like you said demand runs them up. Demand will not drop on powder. Unless another company starts selling powders for less, we'll just be reaching deeper into our pockets. I bought an RTIC cooler for half of a yeti. Every bit the cooler at half the price. Yeti lost 50% of there sales when RTIC started selling coolers. My point is, powder companies wont close up shop because there's no replacement for it. Like gasoline, it's an item that we will all just dig deeper to afford.
But the problem is people were buying way more then needed because they were afraid they couldn't get what they wanted. I know guys that are sitting on hundreds of pounds of powder. They have 20 thousand or more primers. Then you have the ones that were buying to make a profit. This will slow down when they become available. Powder around here is not scarce. Every shop has it sitting on the shelves. That means buying has slowed down. H4350 AND Varget are the hardest to find and they are showing up regularly. Primers that you couldn't find for years are here also. The Federal match and BR4 are even here now. I believe the panic buying will stop. The only one that is scarce is 22 Ammo. But when the government stops buying the millions of dollars worth it will become available. Sooner or later the warehouses they have sitting full will have to be sold. Some of the surplus has been hitting the market already. Matt
All you can do is keep your fingers crossed. Crazy the price of .22 rimfire ammo. I still have 500 Rd bricks of .22 ammo with stickers marked 7.99. Hard to find it for under 30.00 today. Just 8 years ago before our last president it was 8.00. Just hard to swallow.
My property taxes dropped too and so did my SEV. I'm not happy with that. They go hand in hand. Typically when we want things to go our way, they don't. Occasionally we get lucky but it's the exception not the rule. It's never the norm nor has it ever been that any munitions or components decrease in price. Not even if a Republican is elected. Definitely are we happy with the sudden availability of otherwise absent items from the market while a Democrat sits in the whitehouse but it's never the norm that a Republican elect causes a decrease in price for these things we all purchase regularly. Sales, discounts and closeouts all happen. By the way, my stocks are up 30% since this time last year. Yes, I'm very happy.
But you never had a president that sold more guns, ammo and reloading items. It was record pace for the last 8 years. This was all historical highs. Matt
Your right about that !!! But I would just as soon forgo another 8 year presidency like we had with the last president. Probably will be shooting myself in the foot by saying that since it's early in this presidency but it's on the record anyway.
After 3 pages of long and rambling responses to this thread it all comes down to this single sentence response that we all have heard for years.
