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Local gun store selling on gunbroker for absurd price

nakneker said:
Hard position to be in if your the owner of a local small town gun shop, we have one guy here still selling things cheap, his shelves are bare and he isn’t getting more to replace it and I doubt he makes it 2-3 months unless he has a good stash of capital somewhere. At first I admired him for holding his prices, I still admire him but I’m not sure it was the smartest move in the long run. What a crappy position ton be in, sell cheap and everybody loves you but you may have to close your store or sell for flipper prices, stay in business and be the bad guy. No win situation.
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Understandable. My thing is don't lie. And tell us you have to go up on prices. And at least give us a chance to buy it at the mark up price before you go to the internet.

I would rather spend $300 at the gun store vs on the internet. Heck, it might encourage me to grab some other stuff to purchase as well. Oh and gunbroker I'm sure charges then fees. So he would probably get more for selling in the store.
 
We have a local shop that was always known for having very fair prices on guns and plenty of reloading supplies.

They did the same thing with not putting any product on the shelves and telling people who called that they didn't have any in stock. They started selling it all on gun broker for the current prices.

I don't blame them for getting current rates, but it would have been nice to stick with limited sales in person at market rates too.

I do see where they would be in a tough spot from both sides. People would complain they are gouging if they raised prices. This way the buyer is anonymous to them and most likely not a local customer to piss off. Unfortunately, they seem to be dishonest with you and I can't deal with that part.

I suppose the owners are assuming the old timers will be replaced with younger/newer gun owners eventually. Or even that with more laws/restrictions coming that they'll be closed in the future anyway. While, we all want to believe local shop owners are our friends, they are in business to make money. It's their livelihood, mortgage, and food, and they have to protect that, and we have to understand that.

This crisis is causing a lot of problems for small business owners, especially local gun shops. But maybe that's what the crazy lefties wanted to begin with.
 
Bottom line of this feed is that
NO ONE LIKES A F$/@^*G LIAR !!!

I shoot for a nice relaxing hobby a should have enough primers to last for this season.
While shooting and hunting are a passion , i will not pay a gouging prices, ill just do some more paddling and play with my cars some more.

If people quit paying unbelievably high prices, they will come down, we all know how how supply and demand works.
Patience is a virtue.
 
Walk a mile in their shoes before you condemn them. I'm condoning what was done, but by selling this stuff via the internet they don't have to listen to what goes on here frequently, accusations of price gouging. No one gets gouged on the GB site, the market and want/need control how high the prices go. The mind set of what transpired may have been, to keep the lights on and people working this stuff has to be sold for the maximum amount of profitability, via the internet and insulate my local customers from the ridiculous prices. Business' sometimes have to do what may seem as unsavory to some to stay a business.
 
mashburn82 said:
On gunbroker I was looking to see what places in Georgia was selling primer from. (Good way to call stores in that area to see if they have any in).

Anyhow I see a store name as the username for selling the primer. Which is the absurd price of $300+ for a brick.

I call the store, ask to speak to the owner and asked if they had any. The guy laughed, like they all do. He explained he hasn't seen them in several months. I let him Yap my ears off on his Conspiracy theories what is going on.

So I then asked him, are you username "x" (which is the store name)? And he hangs up on me.


How messed up is that?

Also the quantity he is selling is 10+ bricks of ten different types of primers.

By the way. I'm not one to expose the name of the place I've seen. But search your own state and look at the username. You might be shocked just like me discovering it's your local gun store.

What are your thoughts?
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GREED
 
Bojo said:
If people quit paying unbelievably high prices, they will come down, we all know how how supply and demand works.
Patience is a virtue.
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But that was back in the day when we enjoyed free markets. There's a new game coming to town known as socialism. Now black markets will eventually be the source of our politically UNcorrect and banned toys.
 
I’d guess $5 or less to the distributor. Maybe it doesn’t matter because it’s all just manufacturing overrun in normal times.
 
It looks like some of the primers on gunbroker are going unsold at the prices they're asking. Maybe we're getting to the point that people have had enough. If gunbroker charged to keep the ads running you'd probably see a lot of this stuff come down and prices start to get in line. Too many items are listed at top prices with sellers fishing for a dummy to pay that price, it has always been that way.
 
Nick Caprinolo said:
Lets say, you sold 100,000 bricks of primers at $33.00 a brick and made X dollars in profit. They become scarce and you can only get 1,000 bricks, How much do you need to sell to earn the same X number of profit, in order to stay in business?

Or would you rather the same retailer go out of business. Don't forget, anything to do with ammunition, is in short supply.
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There you go again, introducing sound business logic and common sense into the argument.
 
LuvDog said:
We have a local shop that was always known for having very fair prices on guns and plenty of reloading supplies.

They did the same thing with not putting any product on the shelves and telling people who called that they didn't have any in stock. They started selling it all on gun broker for the current prices.

I don't blame them for getting current rates, but it would have been nice to stick with limited sales in person at market rates too.

I do see where they would be in a tough spot from both sides. People would complain they are gouging if they raised prices. This way the buyer is anonymous to them and most likely not a local customer to piss off. Unfortunately, they seem to be dishonest with you and I can't deal with that part.

I suppose the owners are assuming the old timers will be replaced with younger/newer gun owners eventually. Or even that with more laws/restrictions coming that they'll be closed in the future anyway. While, we all want to believe local shop owners are our friends, they are in business to make money. It's their livelihood, mortgage, and food, and they have to protect that, and we have to understand that.

This crisis is causing a lot of problems for small business owners, especially local gun shops. But maybe that's what the crazy lefties wanted to begin with.
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Agreed.

But I don't see the young generation replacing the old timers. I super early know a child who learned to hunt that continues to go.
 
BigJohnson2 said:
I wonder how much it costs to make a thousand primers?
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A manufacturer of ammo typically pays 1 cent. For Federal to make it cost a fraction of a cent.

However the price for manufactures went up to 4.5 cents in April-ish. And November-ish it went 14.5 cents. And I'm unsure how much more it has gone up.

It was blamed on supply and demand. There was no primers being shipped from outside of America. Not even Canada. And still not happening.

And something is going on with China in our trade deals. But I don't understand that.

So I'm assuming a business owner was paying last month $200+/brick. So to sell it at $300 is ok.

Also it is worrisome what laws will happen. And honestly no one knows. So do you grab it now and realize you're still able to make a bullet starting out at 30 cents? Or wait for shipment to come in and hope no laws happen on restrictions on buying primers, ammo and etc?

*I have family as machinist.
 
you still haven't posted a link to his sale
 
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