Local gun store selling on gunbroker for absurd price

[clowdis]

At $300/1,000 (.30 ea.) a primer could be the most expensive thing you shoot, costing more than some bullets. If that becomes the normal I'll find something else to do.

 

[jlshaw]

I'm preparing to sell a bunch of rifle primers - and it will be at a high premium. I have helped a lot of my friends with components over the last many years so I don't feel guilty about making a few dollars on the effort.
Instead of gathering dust in my shed, the primers will go on consignment with a local shop - mainly so I don't have to illegally ship HAZMAT. The shop will take its cut and I will push some supply out to (hopefully) help even out prices over the long run. I'll keep a few cases in backup too - there's no point in being completely foolish. With any luck some speculator will buy the consigned primers and lose money on them.
I figure that so long as we're all above board on what we're doing there's no dishonor on turning a few dollars on some components - particularly when it's too cold to get out and shoot.

 

[danny]

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?

My thoughts:

You did the correct thing by catching him in his lies and shoving it right in his face.

Danny

 

[muleman69]

MOM and POPS should at the very least give there local patrons a chance no matter what the price. After all they may not be in business if it weren't for the locals. What goes around always seems to come around.

 

[BigJohnson2]

It looks like the majority of primer listings on gb are small gun stores. Probably the same for powder.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

They could at least change their names. Just that level of thinking should get them what they deserve when this is over

 

[BigJohnson2]

Vihtavuori over at midway​

 

[FNSafari]

Yesterday a LGS had 30 sleeves of federal 205 primers for $7 per 100. That works out to $70 a thousand. The owners comment was all I want to do is make my usual profit above my increasing cost. No I didn’t buy any. Don’t need them but someone else does.

 

[BigJohnson2]

Yesterday a LGS had 30 sleeves of federal 205 primers for $7 per 100. That works out to $70 a thousand. The owners comment was all I want to do is make my usual profit above my increasing cost. No I didn’t buy any. Don’t need them but someone else does.

$70 doesn’t sound bad, I’d pay that.

 

[Reload Newbie]

Well guys, I guess my screen name says it all!! I have a cousin who is into long distance shooting and reloading and he has tried to get me involved for 5-6 yrs and now I decide to jump in! Having just purchased a 6.5 creedmoor to get my feet wet and a Hornady AP press I am left trying to scrounge components. I have resorted to GB to get enough material to at least get started. Powder $100+ per pound, bullets, $1.00 ea, primers $325 for 1k, brass $1.00 ea. It makes me feel better when I don’t go to the on line sites and see what I should be paying. When I get enough to start I will stop buying and wait for it to come back to earth. And it will one day. The stock market and real estate have taught me to be patient. In the meantime I will read your posts on reloading and shooting and learn what I can. As to the start of this thread, it was obvious after a short time that many shops are not stocking their supplies and selling on GB. If I had to make my living selling these items I honestly don’t know what I would do BUT I wouldn’t lie!!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Well guys, I guess my screen name says it all!! I have a cousin who is into long distance shooting and reloading and he has tried to get me involved for 5-6 yrs and now I decide to jump in! Having just purchased a 6.5 creedmoor to get my feet wet and a Hornady AP press I am left trying to scrounge components. I have resorted to GB to get enough material to at least get started. Powder $100+ per pound, bullets, $1.00 ea, primers $325 for 1k, brass $1.00 ea. It makes me feel better when I don’t go to the on line sites and see what I should be paying. When I get enough to start I will stop buying and wait for it to come back to earth. And it will one day. The stock market and real estate have taught me to be patient. In the meantime I will read your posts on reloading and shooting and learn what I can. As to the start of this thread, it was obvious after a short time that many shops are not stocking their supplies and selling on GB. If I had to make my living selling these items I honestly don’t know what I would do BUT I wouldn’t lie!!

Maybe you could find a mentor close to you to help flatten your learning curve a bit so you dont sit and stare at those new components waiting to find more. Can your cousin who tricked you into this game spare any of his components to help?

 

[JimSC]

you know what I don't get is the lack of ammo on the shelves. Back in 2008/Sandy Hook etc the lack of ammo on the shelf was mirrored by the lack of rifles on the racks and pistols in the display cases. I was at a Sportsmans Warehouse yesterday and the racks and display cases were full. Not so the ammo and powders shelves.

Just seems strange that all those rifles and pistols were in stock but the ammo shelves were empty

 

[BigJohnson2]

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[Lefty Trigger]

My brother went to buy a revolver at a local gun shop and he knew it would have to be ordered in. He called asked me what I thought about a 15 month wait on a new gun? I told him to keep his money and not buy one because they could be out of business in 15 months.

 

[BigJohnson2]

I’d like to add a few of my own pictures to the daily main page bulletin.

Blast from the Past — Old Prices on Powder and Primers​

Blast from the Past — Old Prices on Powder and Primers « Daily Bulletin

Yes we miss the good old days... when reloading components were readily available and very affordable. Today, on Gunbroker, a single 1000-count box of primers may sell for well over $300. And some vendors are asking $90 for a single pound of powder that sold for $30 per pound just last year.

bulletin.accurateshooter.com

I think these were bought around 98-99

 

[Old Salt]

I can't be mad at the market value going up. But what has me mad is the lying. And why not sell it for that on your store to locals?

I get it, I know gun manufacturers who went from spending 1 cent per primer, to 4.5, and when it got to 14.5 they said enough was enough.

So I'm sure store owners are paying close to 15 cents. ($150 a brick). So asking $300 is fine, due to the market has gone up.

Not trying to start an argument but I don't know where you got the information that dealers are paying $150.00 a brick but that is not correct. I work at a local gun store and the last primers that we had a few weeks ago (early Feb. 2021) were sold $4.99 for a box of 100 (one box per customer) and we made the same profit margin as usual. We sell at this writing 9mm ball ammo for $19.99 for a box of 50, one case a day for as long as they last. We are expecting another price increase of up to 15% on ammo and reloading components in the near future but nowhere near $150.00 a brick of a 1000. I expect that some folks who are defending absurd prices may own or work at gun stores that are charging these prices, price gouging is price gouging.

 

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[kelbro]

My local gun shop says he is seeing hundreds of 'locals' more every week now stopping by to buy ammo and components. They never spent any money with him before.

Pretty tight network of gun stores here says these same 'locals' are going from store to store buying up all they can and then selling on FB Marketplace. They may be locals but they are not 'regulars' and they feel no loyalty to them so they hold back some ammo and components for 'regulars'.

 

[mashburn82]

Not trying to start an argument but I don't know where you got the information that dealers are paying $150.00 a brick but that is not correct. I work at a local gun store and the last primers that we had a few weeks ago (early Feb. 2021) were sold $4.99 for a box of 100 (one box per customer) and we made the same profit margin as usual. We sell at this writing 9mm ball ammo for $19.99 for a box of 50, one case a day for as long as they last. We are expecting another price increase of up to 15% on ammo and reloading components in the near future but nowhere near $150.00 a brick of a 1000. I expect that some folks who are defending absurd prices may own or work at gun stores that are charging these prices, price gouging is price gouging.

Thanks. Where I got my info was an ammo manufacture in Georgia that I know well. He used to pay a penny a primer. Then it went to 4.5. and he stopped when it got to 14.5. but maybe I heard him wrong. Because I can't see him paying that and you're not for selling it.

Also can I get a brick.

Also which state are you in?

 

[mashburn82]

My local gun shop says he is seeing hundreds of 'locals' more every week now stopping by to buy ammo and components. They never spent any money with him before.

Pretty tight network of gun stores here says these same 'locals' are going from store to store buying up all they can and then selling on FB Marketplace. They may be locals but they are not 'regulars' and they feel no loyalty to them so they hold back some ammo and components for 'regulars'.

Good point and I believe that.