avoid buying overpriced ammo from gun broker

[Electraclyde]

I have not bought or sold any ammo on GB. However, IF I decided to buy, it is MY money and I will spend it any way that I please. IF I decided to sell ammo, (or anything else), you are NOT forced to buy.
Free market system, no one forces anyone to buy or sell. (Except for Obamacare!!)

 

[erick1987]

Don't apologize because you had the foresight to stock up and are now making money.
All these guys moaning didn't.

I bought houses ten years ago and sold them for double... Maybe I should have sold them to my fellow homeowners for what I paid.

These people will be whining and complaining about how life is not fair for the rest of THEIRS.....

Congrats on making a few bucks.

i'm betting u didn't sell them over market/appraised value though. if u buy a box of ammo at $20 dollars and it retails for $30. sell it for $30 and make a buck, but don't expect to buy a house that appraises for $100k and sell it for $200k. get what i'm sayin.

 

[erick1987]

I have not bought or sold any ammo on GB. However, IF I decided to buy, it is MY money and I will spend it any way that I please. IF I decided to sell ammo, (or anything else), you are NOT forced to buy.
Free market system, no one forces anyone to buy or sell. (Except for Obamacare!!)

asking to AVOID. read

 

[358156hp]

I do auctions occasionally. I start my auctions out below current market value, and let the bidders decide how much they're going to pay. It's called free enterprise, I'm not selling a damn thing, simply giving people the opportunity to purchase what they want, and I'm allowing them to decide what they're willing to pay. And this makes me a vulture?

 

[rwsmith]

Money to burn

Some people have plenty of money to burn. I'm not one of them.

 

[beemerphile]

how much of that cci ammo u think really hits the shelves before being picked up in the supply chain?

MidwayUSA and Wal*Mart can't get enough to hold stock and you think some small time freak on Gunbroker can intercept it? There are monsters under your bed who come out at night and eat it from the store shelves. It is your fault for harboring the ammo-eating monster. My story makes as much sense as yours does.

 

[erick1987]

MidwayUSA and Wal*Mart can't get enough to hold stock and you think some small time freak on Gunbroker can intercept it? There are monsters under your bed who come out at night and eat it from the store shelves. It is your fault for harboring the ammo-eating monster. My story makes as much sense as yours does.

well i know it happens at some walmarts because a friend of a friend does it. also we have a rural king in my town(a farm/sprting goods store). they got a whole pallet of .22 and some of the employees bought it. never seen the shelves.

 

[normanlclark]

Someone telling me I can't buy or sell, is analogous to the government telling me I can't buy a gun.

 

[skypilot7103]

Gun show in Deland, Fl. 550 rds. Federal 22lr. one seller $110.00 another seller $90.00 what a buy!

 

[fyimo]

I have a well-stocked reloading bench and my only purchases are 22LR ammo and even with that I have 8K as a minimum inventory of them.

 

[blujax01]

i'm betting u didn't sell them over market/appraised value though. if u buy a box of ammo at $20 dollars and it retails for $30. sell it for $30 and make a buck, but don't expect to buy a house that appraises for $100k and sell it for $200k. get what i'm sayin.

Here's what we're sayin'

Market value is market value. The same for retail. I bought my first house for $50K and sold it for $125K. Should I have set the price at $60K and said: "Good enough?" or set it at $150K (which I did) to see how much I could get? I had to come down to $125K as that was the true market value of my house at that time, and in turn, the retail price.

Houses, ammunition, bread, toilet paper - IT'S ALL THE SAME THING! Either you believe in the free market or you don't.

 

[MichiganScott]

well i know it happens at some walmarts because a friend of a friend does it. also we have a rural king in my town(a farm/sprting goods store). they got a whole pallet of .22 and some of the employees bought it. never seen the shelves.

Unless a product is advertised in a sale flyer to the general public and it's needed to be on hand for the sale, it makes absolutely no difference at all to the store management or owner. The product is sold, the profit is made, the sooner the better. End of story. It's no different than someone with no life waiting outside since the middle of the night to get in and buy it as soon as the store opens. Product sitting on the shelf only has negative effects on your bottom line.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) stated, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." I have little sympathy for those shooters that got caught short unless they have come of age since 2008. I learned my lesson when the gun control act of 1968 was passed. The original ban in 1994 only enforced that lesson.

I can't help but wonder how many of the people that are doing most of the complaining and whining about shortages and the high prices voted our current leaders in office because of the promises of more free stuff. To quote Nancy Pelosi, "Elections have consequences".

 

[arjay]

I would bet the people complaining about prices have more pressing financial concerns than stocking up on ammo.In other words, they do have their priorities in order as opposed to the nitwits sitting on 20k rounds waiting for all hell to break loose.

 

[beemerphile]

I would bet the people complaining about prices have more pressing financial concerns than stocking up on ammo.In other words, they do have their priorities in order as opposed to the nitwits sitting on 20k rounds waiting for all hell to break loose.

And now we know that whining means you have your priorities in order and being prepared makes you a nitwit. Glad we cleared that up.

 

[arjay]

I'm glad to hear you don't whine about rising gas prices,groceries or utilities.Yes "preppers" are nitwits and have caused the shortages and silly prices.The people playing on those fears and profiting off of it are pathetic.

 

[Arik]

And now we know that whining means you have your priorities in order and being prepared makes you a nitwit. Glad we cleared that up.

Thats not what he's saying. He's saying you got people who will max out their credit card buying ammo and will forgo paying some utility. I saw it a few months ago at an LGS. Guy pulled out a bunch of cards and proceeded to buy $2k 1911s, a few ARs & cases of ammo. He made it very clear that he was expecting civil unrest and didnt really care about bills since there wouldnt be a point to paying anyway. That was before xmas.

I wonder if he had anything repo'd



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[hammer22801]

if anyone is buying overpriced ammo from gun broker, AVOID buying overpriced ammo from them or other auction sites. this is great insight on why things are the way the are.

The Ammo Shortage is an Illusion - YouTube

I feel the same way. I keep an eye out and I've been able to get a few good deals at Walmart, sportsmans guide, and cabelas. Its out there you just have to be diligent and hold off until you can get it. My limit so far has been .07 cpr, but I haven't paid over .06 so far.

 

[erick1987]

Here's what we're sayin'

Market value is market value. The same for retail. I bought my first house for $50K and sold it for $125K. Should I have set the price at $60K and said: "Good enough?" or set it at $150K (which I did) to see how much I could get? I had to come down to $125K as that was the true market value of my house at that time, and in turn, the retail price.
Houses, ammunition, bread, toilet paper - IT'S ALL THE SAME THING! Either you believe in the free market or you don't.

that's exactly what i said. buy low and sell at retail, not buy at retail and sell at 2-5x retail.
by the way, i was able to get right under 1K rounds of .22 and 150 rounds of 9mm from cabelas and bass pro this morning. if your patient u can find it. 5 box limit on 9mm and a long line for it. i only picked up 3 and let some others get it so they can also enjoy their firearms.

 

[blujax01]

But if someone offered to take the house At $150k I would not have said "nah that's too much profit." No one bit at the higher price. The market determines the retail price not folks complaining on an Internet forum.

 

[Dezfan]

I'm in no way thrilled with the lack of availability at the retail level or with the prices of what is available in the secondary market. But it's a free market, and no one is being forced to purchase this astronomically priced commodity.

If the market will bare the price, then so be it.

I had a stockpile of 22LR that was greater than 2 thousand and less than 10 thousand rounds before this mess started.

Being diligent I'm my search, I have more than doubled my cache and not bought a single round that cost more that 5 cents.

I have also sold a small quantity of my stock. At my descrecion, I made the desicion to help a few local shooters who have just recently joined our ranks and have been unsuccessfull in acquiring ammo without resorting to the secondary market.

Now I chose to sell it at cost, but if I had chosen to take a profit, I could have and I wouldn't have had an issue with that decision.