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Midway Eliminating 5K Primer Lots?

In todays market, with the scarcity of so many items, I agree with Midway's new policy. Yes it is more expensive but it increases the chance of everyone, to obtain primers. Almost every seller is placing limits on scarce products today.

Competition shooters are the ones who will suffer because of this new policy but there are far more casual shooters out there. Most won't use 5,000 primers for years to come but going to the range is recreation to them and they are just as worthy as the competition shooter.

Most of the very active shooters complain that "Larry" is over priced on all of his products and only use Midway when there is no alternative. I am one of those guys. His delayed delivery and higher delivery charges, turn me in other directions. Like most of us, that only holds true until I can't get it anywhere else.
 
Midway posted a 20 rd box of .308 brown box LR-118 for $62.99 that's over $3.00 a round.
The New guy will put Midway out of business by next year if this keeps up.
 
In the long term, quantity limits and higher prices help us as shooters because they both limit demand. The important thing to get pricing and availability back closer to normal is first that primers be widely available-- at any price. Only once primers are on shelves everywhere at inflated prices will priced then be able to come down to whatever new normal.

I don't think we'll ever see 4c/ea again, though.
 
Midway is a business, and they are doing what they should be doing. Why should they sell a brick of spp for $40, when they can ask $75 for it, and they still are sold out of them. It just takes a day or too longer. If anything, the higher prices slows down the turnover, and gives more people a shot at what they want. What good is a cheap product if you can’t buy it because the bots constantly clean them out?
 
Supply and demand. In some ways I don’t blame them but I am taking notes on who is keeping their prices close to normal. Placed a big order with blue collar reloading yesterday, got a nice email from them today and exchanged a couple emails more. Nice people who Genuinely care for their customers. Refreshing. I will try and support those types when the supply line fills again and pricing becomes a factor again.
 
Marketing tactics aside Federal has announced two price increases to their distributors. As it stands now any back orders will be invoiced at the new price not the old price when they were ordered. I'm sure there's some gouging but some of it is CYA.
 
I too agree with the policy. Primers are going for $300 for 1000 on gunbroker. This prevents them from stocking up cheap to resell and allows the people in need to pay a little more for them (way less $$ than gunbroker).
 
Everyone who had 5k primers on notification got this email.
Helps spread the primers out, but kills you on shipping.
I was buying primers in 15 to 25k lots as I'm one if those guys who runs 9 to 12k rounds just on pdogs, so I need to have 30k or more on hand to feed my needs.
Midway raising prices to nutty cost is not different than many companies these days.
 
In the long term, quantity limits and higher prices help us as shooters because they both limit demand. The important thing to get pricing and availability back closer to normal is first that primers be widely available-- at any price. Only once primers are on shelves everywhere at inflated prices will priced then be able to come down to whatever new normal.

I don't think we'll ever see 4c/ea again, though.

Exactly this. We have a true supply and demand issue. Midway prices are higher, yes. But they are not gouging.

Limits are good right now. People are hoarding just for the sake of hoarding. People who will never shoot 20k primers in their lifetime are buying 20k at a time because they can and they think they'll be valuable.
 
Everyone who had 5k primers on notification got this email.
Helps spread the primers out, but kills you on shipping.
I was buying primers in 15 to 25k lots as I'm one if those guys who runs 9 to 12k rounds just on pdogs, so I need to have 30k or more on hand to feed my needs.
Midway raising prices to nutty cost is not different than many companies these days.
The haz mat charge gets spread over a smaller base. All in all a terrible thing to do to high volume shooters.
 

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