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Old 04-30-2014, 10:05 PM
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During the weekly steel challenge match today an older gent comes straight to me with an offer to buy some 22lr's. Now I am really trying hard to work on my manners & people skills, so I oblige him and ask what brand and how much $? He says "75 $ a brick for Remington goldens". I had to bite my tongue from laughing in his face, and just told him I had FINALY used up the last of my GB's and if I never shot any more it would be too soon, AND I don't pay over 8 cents a round for the good stuff. I hope that wasn't too rude.
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Old 04-30-2014, 10:24 PM
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Recent "retail" price I bought at was under $70 for the 1400 round "Bucket O' Bullets", or about $.05/round. I thought that was bad enough.
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I just paid 58.00 for a brick of Wolf Match Target which means his price is about 50.00 too high. Considering the luck I've had with Remington I wouldn't buy them at any price.
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Old 05-01-2014, 08:54 AM
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I don't shoot that stuff, either.
If I had any, I would have sold them to him in a heartbeat.
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:19 AM
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One continues to hold the expectation that the scalpers will be left high and dry eventually. Good on you for not buying.
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:31 AM
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you did better then i would have. bags of poop like that don't deserve the politness we use with real people
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:46 AM
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So I'm going to presume you meant offer to sell to you???

AND I'm not taking sides on this whole non-sense of "gougers/flippers" because, as you point out, the BUYER sets the price. I personally buy to keep except with friends and it's usually a trade, my purchase price, or good will on something they'll have a later date, or they just need it and I give it to them. HOWEVER, that's not to say I wouldn't sell on the secondary market under other circumstances and, if I did, I'd set my price to the highest the market would sustain. AND, the more disrespectful or entitled you appear to be, the higher the price would be.

Let's look at it this way. You can buy ham, cheese, mustard, rolls, a bottle of water, chips, and foil for about $1 per serving in the right quantities. A "lunch truck" will charge you $6-8 for that order, Do you laugh at the lunch truck when it comes to you to provide a service? Sure, you could have packed a lunch but maybe you didn't have time, or forgot, or ...

It's very simple math and you exercised your power of the wallet as you should. Someone else may not.

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Old 05-01-2014, 10:57 AM
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For those of you who have a Cabela's nearby. They had bricks of CCI Blazer 40 gr. lead for $28 (limit 2) earlier this week. They're probably all gone by now but I see it as an encouraging sign.
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Old 05-01-2014, 11:07 AM
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I may have misunderstood the OP. This guy approached YOU and asked if YOU wanted to buy junk ammo for three times the price of good ammo?

I think I may have employed the language I learned from Sailors.
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Ad in a G.Jct.paper < New Federal 22 long rifle hollow point case of
5250 rounds $750 firm>.
I didn`t buy it.
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Paying 5 cents a round is too much for me, 4 cents is better and 3 cents better yet. I recently paid 5 cents a round for a brick of Remington Golden bullets but not because I personally like them, it's my Henry 22 levergun that likes them!

If I were there and that guy told me $75 for a brick I would have smiled at him and nicly told him he should be ashamed of himself, especially at a match of fellow shooters!
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Ah Capitalism at it's best. He was probably trying to supplement his SSI at someone else's expense. I'll wait till the prices come back down. Plenty of centerfire ammo out there now.

As for me I wouldn't be polite, Maybe I need some people skills but I say what I feel.
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Since most of my rimfire shooting is at paper targets I pay a little more for the European ammo some of which produces superb accuracy.
I still have the 17 rimfires for hunting the small critters.
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:33 PM
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For those of you who have a Cabela's nearby. They had bricks of CCI Blazer 40 gr. lead for $28 (limit 2) earlier this week. They're probably all gone by now but I see it as an encouraging sign.

Two bricks. That was the total 22lr delivery my local Academy received this past Wednesday. That and 2 cases of 223 was their total ammo delivery.
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Old 05-01-2014, 09:35 PM
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I haven't shot any .22's in several years so I didn't have any ammo. My daughter is going on 5 and bought her a pink .22 for her first gun (a real highlight of my life). Problem, couldn't find .22 ANYWHERE in my neck of the woods. So, went online and did something i'm not proud of, bought a Federal 525 round 'value' pack for around $80 plus shipping. Ya, its price gouging and I'm not proud of what I did, but I figure the fun times i'm going to have as a father with his daughter....priceless.
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For those of you who have a Cabela's nearby. They had bricks of CCI Blazer 40 gr. lead for $28 (limit 2) earlier this week. They're probably all gone by now but I see it as an encouraging sign.
Local Cabela's here had them too. They had at least 10 bricks on the shelf last night after I grabbed two. It was limit 1 per customer here... glad my wife wanted some .22lr to go with the candle she found on sale!

So with my in store pickup internet purchase, left out of there with 1500 rounds. And I have become one of those disrespectful ammo flippers too... already have a buyer lined up for these, plus another 500 rounds. My son's Boy Scout troop!
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Old 05-02-2014, 12:19 AM
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Judging from some of your responses I was a regular Emily Post. When I was working I had to be nice & polite to ALL, no matter what they might have said about my Mother. Now retired I don't HAVE TO BE NICE, and it's certainly not always easy, like today at Rural king when a 20-ish girl is ignoring the signs & handling the cute little baby ducks. Or while driving, I have more control over my mouth than a certain finger, it has a mind of it's own.
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Funny thing, when I get an unsolicited offer for something I may be interested in, it calls for a bartering situation, where the seller usually starts too high and I counter offer too low and at some point we come to a meeting of the minds.

And if I'm not interested, I politely say: "No thanks" and move on.

Apparently in the 21st century I'm doing it wrong - I'm supposed to call him names and get all indignant about it...
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I think that's what happens in the "get a trophy for showing up" parallel universe!

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Funny thing, when I get an unsolicited offer for something I may be interested in, it calls for a bartering situation, where the seller usually starts too high and I counter offer too low and at some point we come to a meeting of the minds.

And if I'm not interested, I politely say: "No thanks" and move on.

Apparently in the 21st century I'm doing it wrong - I'm supposed to call him names and get all indignant about it...
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Old 05-02-2014, 12:39 PM
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Scalpers are scalpers, no matter what they're selling. I have no problem with them offering their overpriced wares as long as it does not come in the form of a personal solicitation. Anyone approaching me at a range event, social gathering, or random encounter with a scalping opportunity for .22 ammo would be told to go pound sand.
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I run into ticket sellers every week in front of the hockey arena. Complete strangers. Walk right up to me right before the hockey game. Asking all kinds of stupid prices for tickets.

Same for OSU football. Or basketball.

I can only assume the smart vendor is going to hawk his wares when and where they are most desired.

Again, if I'm interested, I bargain. If not, I politely say "no thanks".

It is nothing personal at all and is the way things have always been done, for the time I've been on this planet anyway...

Unless we're talking about that oh-so-precious 22 ammo.
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That Old Coot was trying to make you pay for his early rising to get to Wally Wold first. I`m glad you passed.
I wonder why so many on this forum are so down on Rem Golden bulletsI bought a bucket full and they shoot just fine. Last time out I was shooting them thru my Anschutz M-58 Sporter and I was able to put one on top of another with no failures of any kind. They also work well in all of my revolvers. I don`t remember if I have tried them in a semi-auto though, maybe that will be different, but so far so good and no complaints from me on the Rems.
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Ah Capitalism at it's best. He was probably trying to supplement his SSI at someone else's expense. I'll wait till the prices come back down. Plenty of centerfire ammo out there now.

As for me I wouldn't be polite, Maybe I need some people skills but I say what I feel.
Referring to to OPs dilema as capitalism is like saying that borrowing from the Mafia is like getting a loan from your friendly local savings and loan.
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Default DOWN ON REMINGTON GOLDENS

FOR ME the big problem is not accuracy, or reliability, but the GOLD FAIRY DUST that they give off that gets on your hands & wreaks havoc in many semi's, plus they are dirty shooters as well. YMMV. I gave the guy some respect, for his age, nothing else. Had he a better quality ammo the encounter would have been different, but I wouldn't pay 75$ a brick for ANY 22lr, especially now when bricks have shrunk to 300+/- rounds. I was neither rude nor impolite! He approached me in the middle of an event & I gave him MY honest opinion of rem goldens, what's the problem? I never claimed to have a halo over my head.
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Goldens work fine in my rifles,pistols and revolvers.It isn't target ammo,but at $25 for 525 I wouldn't expect it to be.Cabelas gets it in all the time 22LR AMMO OPPORTUNITY
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I have run at least several thousand Rem GBs through several handguns and rifles and aside from the pixie dust and they are not the cleanest burning I have used - for $20 a box of 525 I don't mind at all. Of course the first batch of em I got at that price was in early Dec 2012 - a long ago and nearly forgotten time when the shelves at Gander Mountains were flush with 22lr in many brand and package size. and then in Nov 2013 when Dick's had em on sale on black Friday.

I have bought the odd brick of 22 for around $30 and maybe one at $40 - but since I started reloading - I can reload my 9mm brass for around 11 cents a round - so no need to pay more than that for 22 - and hopefully can stock up on it again next time it is on sale or if we get break from the nut jobs in the world for long enough for in stock supplies to return to sanity.
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I wonder what he paid, I bought a brick of goldens last summer for 21.99, I will say they are 100% better than thunderbolts.
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Referring to to OPs dilema as capitalism is like saying that borrowing from the Mafia is like getting a loan from your friendly local savings and loan.
If you look into the compound percentage charged by those check cashing places, the Mafia offered better rates!
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I knew several Italian Mafia members who were produce distributors in my home town as a kid. They were pretty decent guys. As a teenager, my mother was a nanny for the Mafia Don's family in her home town. She went on some really cool vacation trips with them and even got a "to die for" recipe for Sicilian spaghetti.

Sorry to get seriously off topic but couldn't resist.
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Again, I received a product arrival e-mail for .22LR. Again, I responded within a few hours. Again, "it looks like we are sold out of this product". This is with "no backorders" and "one brick limit". Frustrating. Do people have alarms on their computers? What am I not seeing or not comprehending?
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shil. I get the exact same thing and have responded within seconds to no avail. I think it's some sort of a sick game they like to play!
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Again, I received a product arrival e-mail for .22LR. Again, I responded within a few hours. Again, "it looks like we are sold out of this product". This is with "no backorders" and "one brick limit". Frustrating. Do people have alarms on their computers? What am I not seeing or not comprehending?
Well, yes. Midway Product Arrival Notifications can be set up as text. (ding) Less than 60 seconds later I have placed the order with my iPhone and that's all there is to it. If it's a high demand item a "few hours" just don't cut it.
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I didn't consider the iPhone angle. Oh, well. I don't own one, am unlikely to own one, so, I guess, no reasonably-priced .22LR for me until the mad demand diminishes or I get lucky. Sorrow.
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Again, I received a product arrival e-mail for .22LR. Again, I responded within a few hours. Again, "it looks like we are sold out of this product". This is with "no backorders" and "one brick limit". Frustrating. Do people have alarms on their computers? What am I not seeing or not comprehending?
I frequently use the free GunBot 22lr rimfire ammo for a realtime look at prices of ammo. I will buy in quantity and share with friends in need or willing to trade. I still have several bricks of Federal with WallyWorld price stickers of about $8 on them but paying upwards of $50 per is insane.
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shil. I get the exact same thing and have responded within seconds to no avail. I think it's some sort of a sick game they like to play!
I have been online received the notification, clicked it, signed on, and it is out of stock, within seconds also So I know how you feel. But I do manage to get the numerous emails everyday from them with things to buy other then ammo with no problem.
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