A lot of people thanked me over the weekend

Forrest r · #1 03-07-2022, 07:39 AM

Been slowing down with my shooting over the last couple years. Started taking a good look at what many would consider hording. Had piles of brass laying round in multiple calibers. Extra primers and powder along with firearms I haven't shot in years. Had 3 cases of the cheap 22lr blammo ammo
and shooting jackets, spotting scope stands, shooting mats, slings/gloves/ETC.

I decided to get a table at a gunshow this last weekend and sell things off. Priced the primers at $60/1000. 48,000 primers sold in 1 hour. 60+# of powder sold for $25 a pound in less than 2 hours. The $40/500 bricks of 22lr ammo took longer to sell (1 day). A lot of buyers were still stuck in the 90's wanting ammo for +/- $10 a brick. The local fin fur feather gets the same federal 510's in (+/- every 6 months) and sells them for $49.99 + tax with a limit of 1 per person.

I priced the firearms more than reasonable selling them out by noon on both days (9 to 4 saturday/9 to 3 sunday).

Brought over 200# of brass and it all sold fast at very good prices.

I made the $$$ I wanted for what I was selling. Didn't gouge anyone and had tons of people thanking me for having realistic prices. Was bought a bunch of coffee and gained a couple pounds on the lunches people bought me. Heck 1 guy bought a free pistol off of me on saturday (sold it for what it cost me) and came back in on sunday with a couple targets that him and his son shot. He tried to give me $20 telling me to buy lunch/beer/whatever I wanted on him.

Just made me feel good to pass it along to other shooters/reloaders.

zwartepiet · #2 03-07-2022, 08:32 AM

Wow! Good for you on the fair pricing! Wish you did gunshows in MI!

We just went to one last weekend and saw only 5k different primers. All over $100/K and one guy selling them for $15/100.

Kudos!

reddogs · #3 03-07-2022, 10:11 AM

Hope that end users bought your primers.

rockquarry · #4 03-07-2022, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Forrest r

Been slowing down with my shooting over the last couple years. Started taking a good look at what many would consider hording. Had piles of brass laying round in multiple calibers. Extra primers and powder along with firearms I haven't shot in years. Had 3 cases of the cheap 22lr blammo ammo
and shooting jackets, spotting scope stands, shooting mats, slings/gloves/ETC.

I decided to get a table at a gunshow this last weekend and sell things off. Priced the primers at $60/1000. 48,000 primers sold in 1 hour. 60+# of powder sold for $25 a pound in less than 2 hours. The $40/500 bricks of 22lr ammo took longer to sell (1 day). A lot of buyers were still stuck in the 90's wanting ammo for +/- $10 a brick. The local fin fur feather gets the same federal 510's in (+/- every 6 months) and sells them for $49.99 + tax with a limit of 1 per person.

I priced the firearms more than reasonable selling them out by noon on both days (9 to 4 saturday/9 to 3 sunday).

Brought over 200# of brass and it all sold fast at very good prices.

I made the $$$ I wanted for what I was selling. Didn't gouge anyone and had tons of people thanking me for having realistic prices. Was bought a bunch of coffee and gained a couple pounds on the lunches people bought me. Heck 1 guy bought a free pistol off of me on saturday (sold it for what it cost me) and came back in on sunday with a couple targets that him and his son shot. He tried to give me $20 telling me to buy lunch/beer/whatever I wanted on him.

Just made me feel good to pass it along to other shooters/reloaders.

That's certainly a commendable manner of selling. I'd like to do the same at an upcoming area gun show. I have lots of stuff including guns, scopes, brass, etc.

Many persons here are up on current prices. I'm not. I haven't bought any guns in more than five years and except for a few pounds of Bullseye powder, I haven't bought any components, including primers, since well before all the shortages and market instability occurred. I've always tried to stay pretty well stocked with components, particularly after the first of these four or five shortages happened in the mid-'90s.

Pricing everything to sell and pricing everything fairly are probably not synonymous terms, but I'd rather not carry things back home from a gun show, especially things I won't use again.

ArchAngelCD · #5 03-07-2022, 05:14 PM

@Forrest_r, when you do good things it will come back to you twice fold. That was very kind of you, well done Sir!

CH4 · #6 03-07-2022, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rockquarry

That's certainly a commendable manner of selling. I'd like to do the same at an upcoming area gun show. I have lots of stuff including guns, scopes, brass, etc.

Many persons here are up on current prices. I'm not. I haven't bought any guns in more than five years and except for a few pounds of Bullseye powder, I haven't bought any components, including primers, since well before all the shortages and market instability occurred. I've always tried to stay pretty well stocked with components, particularly after the first of these four or five shortages happened in the mid-'90s.

Pricing everything to sell and pricing everything fairly are probably not synonymous terms, but I'd rather not carry things back home from a gun show, especially things I won't use again.

It's commendable and pragmatic. Scalpers often go home with their stuff with little to show for their efforts.

sourdough44 · #7 03-10-2022, 07:02 AM

I bought some primers from a guy the other week, he’s moving, scaling back. I really didn’t need any but settled on $50 per 1k, trying to be fair to both sides. I bought 4K, mostly rifle.

pharman · #8 03-10-2022, 08:40 AM

What gun show in Ohio did you set up at??? Just curious...I was at Lima and did NOT see a "feeding frenzy" at any of the tables there...

Thinking about doing the same thing...when it's time to get out it's time to get out..."GOOB" sale (going out of business)...

bananaman · #9 03-10-2022, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by zwartepiet

Wow! Good for you on the fair pricing! Wish you did gunshows in MI!

We just went to one last weekend and saw only 5k different primers. All over $100/K and one guy selling them for $15/100.

Kudos!

Haven't seen a good Michigan show since I moved here! Maybe I'm in the wrong area. I do cross the line into Ohio. Bob

The Norseman · #10 03-10-2022, 11:33 AM

Forrest r - That is Commendable of you for
your fair Gun Show pricing!

I quit going to Gun Shows years ago. Maybe
I should check them out again.

Thank you for the story and report.

Tim Stapp · #11 04-03-2022, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bananaman

Haven't seen a good Michigan show since I moved here! Maybe I'm in the wrong area. I do cross the line into Ohio. Bob

It's been a few years myself. I had to work this weekend, but there was one in Kalkaska, MI this weekend. Not one of the
"Corporate Shows." but one where a number of local guys selling off excess to their needs, getting out of the sport, etc.

Those are the ones that I used to get the best deals at.

Interestingly, some of the best deals that I made were when I rented a table myself. After set up and before the doors opened, you could find the special thing that you wanted/needed or something that just caught your eye, or that rare bullet mold that was obsolete but someone getting out of the hobby was unloading.

Then Sunday, if a slow show you could make some REALLY GOOD DEALS because guys hadn't done well and needed gas money to get home.

Man, I miss those days!

Forrest R: Good for you. When I did the same thing twenty years ago, I sold out of everything of any value before the show opened to the public. My best friend was a vendor right next to me and bought half my stuff, paid for my table and sold from it with his prices.

He was a good egg (may he rest in peace) and split the difference between what he paid and what he sold for. He was just like you, a good man.