I hope everyone here has the good sense to avoid paying ammo scalper prices. When people go online and pay $1.50 or $2.00 per round they are feeding the scalpers and making it harder and harder for our little gun shop owners to purchase ammo. The ammo manufacturers will eventually get caught up and things will get back to normal. Do what you can to buy local and shut down the ammo scalpers.
Ammo Scalpers
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DeathGrip
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I live on the Treasure Coast.
Treasures be plenty.
Treasures be plenty.
LVSteve
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Never underestimate the "gotta have it" factor in the US.
Sellers can ask for any price they want.
Customers can either accept or decline.
Customers can either accept or decline.
Sandman4delta
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A previously reputable and reasonable online site that sells
"Less Expensive Than Soil" is now at 1.50 and up. Very disappointing.
"Less Expensive Than Soil" is now at 1.50 and up. Very disappointing.
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The way to determine what price is TOO MUCH is to see what buyers are WILLING to pay. If someone will pay the price - then we can't say it's too much.
Yes - I understand what scalping is, I see it all the time. Maybe it is morally wrong - but many around the world also see Capitalism the same way. If there were no buyers at a certain price then the price would drop - simple as that!
Yes - I understand what scalping is, I see it all the time. Maybe it is morally wrong - but many around the world also see Capitalism the same way. If there were no buyers at a certain price then the price would drop - simple as that!
Haven't bought any factory rounds in quite awhile. If i was one of the new comers to owning a gun, actually wanted to shoot it, needed rounds for defensive/practice purposes and had the money; would be paying the price.
A lot of these gun buyers ain't buying them to throw at people, need familiarity with their firearm, and need to know if the gun they bought actually works.
A lot of these gun buyers ain't buying them to throw at people, need familiarity with their firearm, and need to know if the gun they bought actually works.
Previously reputable? Just how long ago was that?
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The "trick " is to have enough Factory ammo for self and home defense, hunting and official sporting events and to roll your own for everything else. Of course in order to do that one would have had to have the foresight to set up and procure components before the crises hit.
You make a scalper or gouger if you buy, no one else.
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I have been shooting only 22 rimfires the last few years and they have gotten expensive and yes, I buy only locally. I know that the skills acquired will do more for larger calibers-and a well placed 22 will get an opponent's attention.
The first time I witnessed price gouging was right after the Clinton ban in 1994.
The same thing happened during Y2K.
Then again in 2008 and 2012
They spiked again in 2016 because most people thought Hillary would win.
And now it is happening again.
So unless you are a teenager, how can you let yourself be caught with your pants down.
The same thing happened during Y2K.
Then again in 2008 and 2012
They spiked again in 2016 because most people thought Hillary would win.
And now it is happening again.
So unless you are a teenager, how can you let yourself be caught with your pants down.
Jack Flash
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For whatever reason, some folks got caught short. One to two dollars a round may be tough to swallow but if you need it you need it.
I have plenty but I think it's poor form to pound my chest and gloat about it.
Jus' sayin'.
I have plenty but I think it's poor form to pound my chest and gloat about it.
Jus' sayin'.
All the small shops that I know, plus what friends have reported of other shops, is that they are doing a bit of scalping as well.
Thinking that a lot of ammo seen F/S on auction boards is coming from small shops.
Thinking that a lot of ammo seen F/S on auction boards is coming from small shops.
500SNW
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That's exactly right. And they are accepting! What irks me is that I am a reloader and I cannot get components because all the people who, despite the lessons of the post-Sandy Hook ammo panic and other recent event, lacked the foresight to be prepared and they have depleted the market of everything ammo. Let me say it another way. The only reason people like us cannot get ammo and components...is because of the people who didn't prepare
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Other than one local pawn shop, Sportsman’s, Walmart, Cabelas and LGSs appear to be keeping their prices at pre-Covid margins. Any increases are reflective of supplier increases. One LGS is buying from folks who are selling their stashes of ammo and components. Still exceedingly reasonable.
beaverislander
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That's exactly right. And they are accepting! What irks me is that I am a reloader and I cannot get components because all the people who, despite the lessons of the post-Sandy Hook ammo panic and other recent event, lacked the foresight to be prepared and they have depleted the market of everything ammo. Let me say it another way. The only reason people like us cannot get ammo and components...is because of the people who didn't prepare
It sounds to me like you lacked the foresight to prepare..... just sayin.
I learned my lessen in 2012.
Started in handguns later in life so it took 2012 for me to get a taste of fluctuating ammo prices. I have bought only by the case ever since.
