Frank46
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Cheaper than dirt is up to their old tricks again. They raised their ammo prices and once again are taking their customers to the cleaners. Seems every time there is a crisis they raise their prices.Frank
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Fishinfool
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Last time around, if I remember right, they were getting $1200 for a case of 5.56 ball ammo.
I guess there are two ways to look at it. Price gouging, or maintaining availability.
The shops that kept normal retail, or close to it, were sold out. No ammo available.
Places like CTD had ammo in stock, and available.
You could claim that CTD was actually providing a service, in that for a lot of people who were unprepared, ammo was available if really needed. An empty gun is little more than a paperweight.
To those of us who keep a reasonable stock of ammo on hand for our firearms, their pricing seems excessive, but for those who were unprepared, it represented availability...
I am kind of running into that problem myself. Bought my first 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle last week, and ammo is hard to find, and expensive when you do. Bit the bullet, and over paid for 4 boxes of ammo, and now have reloading dies and bullets on the way. Gunna make those 80 cases last.
Larry
I guess there are two ways to look at it. Price gouging, or maintaining availability.
The shops that kept normal retail, or close to it, were sold out. No ammo available.
Places like CTD had ammo in stock, and available.
You could claim that CTD was actually providing a service, in that for a lot of people who were unprepared, ammo was available if really needed. An empty gun is little more than a paperweight.
To those of us who keep a reasonable stock of ammo on hand for our firearms, their pricing seems excessive, but for those who were unprepared, it represented availability...
I am kind of running into that problem myself. Bought my first 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle last week, and ammo is hard to find, and expensive when you do. Bit the bullet, and over paid for 4 boxes of ammo, and now have reloading dies and bullets on the way. Gunna make those 80 cases last.
Larry
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slickracer
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I really wish Jerry M. Would get rid of them as a sponser.
Nothing personal, it's just business.
gwpercle
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You don't have to buy from them . I owned a small business...
If nobody buys your product...you lower prices or go out of business...
simple as that.... Solution is ...don't buy high priced ammo .
Take that money you spend on ammo and buy a reloading kit...
Become the master of your own ammo supply .
Gary
If nobody buys your product...you lower prices or go out of business...
simple as that.... Solution is ...don't buy high priced ammo .
Take that money you spend on ammo and buy a reloading kit...
Become the master of your own ammo supply .
Gary
There is no price gouging going on by them. If you think their prices are too high, don't buy from them. No need for cry babies, though.
^^^ If hoarding ammo is so important to you, then why didn't you do it before this current round of panic buying hysteria?
To each their own but I NEVER trade with CTD and never will.
You're kidding, right? 
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IMHO------- Having a lot of ammunition is not hoarding. Its just good business. We buy it cheap because as history has told us either through politics or as now a pandemic these essentials are going to fly off the shelves. Only issue "How much is too much". Personally I do a lot of reloading, a couple of friends of mine buy in quantity and it works out well.Just my two cents. Jim
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Another of the regular and semi-regular threads that many like to expound on, no one solves, and some get hurt feelings. Other strongly opinionated topics include:
-usefulness (or lack thereof) of Lee factory crimp dies
-using +P ammo in J-frame .38 Special guns
-using Hoppe's #9 on nickel finish
-jello testing handgun bullets
-obsession with removing burn rings on cylinder faces
-Tyler T-grip adapters: "I ordered one three days ago and it didn't arrive
in today's mail!"
-powder coated cast bullets vs. conventionally lubricated cast bullets
-usefulness (or lack thereof) of the .40 S&W cartridge
-laser sights vs. learning and practicing shooting skills
-perceived usefulness (or lack thereof) of bobbed hammers on snub nose guns
-I get misfires with CCI primers in my tampered-with revolver
-best way to "surgically" clean brass
-light trigger pulls, high-magnification scopes, and other gimmicks vs. developing good shooting skills first
I'm sure I've missed many and I've also been guilty of falling in this hole that serves little purpose and has no bottom.
-usefulness (or lack thereof) of Lee factory crimp dies
-using +P ammo in J-frame .38 Special guns
-using Hoppe's #9 on nickel finish
-jello testing handgun bullets
-obsession with removing burn rings on cylinder faces
-Tyler T-grip adapters: "I ordered one three days ago and it didn't arrive
in today's mail!"
-powder coated cast bullets vs. conventionally lubricated cast bullets
-usefulness (or lack thereof) of the .40 S&W cartridge
-laser sights vs. learning and practicing shooting skills
-perceived usefulness (or lack thereof) of bobbed hammers on snub nose guns
-I get misfires with CCI primers in my tampered-with revolver
-best way to "surgically" clean brass
-light trigger pulls, high-magnification scopes, and other gimmicks vs. developing good shooting skills first
I'm sure I've missed many and I've also been guilty of falling in this hole that serves little purpose and has no bottom.
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By your logic there is no such thing as 'price gouging' - it's all just simple capitalism.
Keeping/losing customers is not just a matter of pricing. Piss them off - they leave and they never come back. They tell other people and those people never even walk in the door. Good business owners understand this.
If their model of price-gouging during tough times is working for them, then fine. But they've obviously upset some potential customers who not only won't buy, but have told me and now I won't buy. I say "tell everyone" and let's kill as much of their business as possible.
Now it's no longer about price, right?
...and there are several suppliers that I will never do business with again because of the way they stuck it to us during the last 'mass hysteria' event. I'm still mad at myself for paying a major supplier $180 for 3 pound of Unique in 2010. Nothing personal though.
After screwing people during the last "shortage" I swore they'd never get a nickel from me.........And they haven't.
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The simple solution is not to play their game.
Factually speaking, scalping wouldn't be nearly as prevalent if folks simply refused to do business with scalpers, but most folks lack the necessary will-power, patience, or level-headedness to do so, thus they often succumb to panic and give in to the demands of scalpers although they're well aware of the fact that they're being ripped off, driven by a false sense of urgency which they use to convince themselves that it is a necessary sacrifice.
Factually speaking, scalping wouldn't be nearly as prevalent if folks simply refused to do business with scalpers, but most folks lack the necessary will-power, patience, or level-headedness to do so, thus they often succumb to panic and give in to the demands of scalpers although they're well aware of the fact that they're being ripped off, driven by a false sense of urgency which they use to convince themselves that it is a necessary sacrifice.
Green Frog
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^^ What he said.^^
Following the old classic values of the Boy Scouts, “Be Prepared.” This will vary with regards to what your perceived wants and needs will be during a time of stress. Only you can decide what you are likely to “need” and what resources you are willing to tie up being prepared for what you estimate to be your “worst case scenario.” Not willing to store up what you may need? Join the queue with cash in hand and take what’s available at whatever the market is bringing. Think of the extra cost as your unpreparedness tax!
Don’t want to pay it? Ask whether you really need it. 
BTW, I’ve got an extra bulk package of toilet paper I’ll trade you for that worthless 639 you can’t get ammo for, or I’ll dole out some of my supply of 9mm at a price that would make CTD blush. Your choice.
Froggie
I'm one who will never buy from Lower Than Dirt after they canceled existing orders, put the inventory back into their stock, and relisted it for 2x-4x the price after Sandyhook. That is unethical no matter how you slice it. There is capitalism and there are unfair business practices and price gouging.
They will never get a dime of my money unless they are literally the ONLY place to get something I absolutely can not do without. Even if their price is lower during the good times, I simply will not buy from them.
My choice. Free market works both ways for both the buyer and the seller.
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