22LR AMMO OPPORTUNITY

[hangnoose]

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.

 

[Robotech]

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.

 

[pownal55]

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.

 

[gm272gs]

I don't shoot that stuff, either.
If I had any, I would have sold them to him in a heartbeat.

 

[Murdock]

One continues to hold the expectation that the scalpers will be left high and dry eventually. Good on you for not buying.

 

[poorjohnny]

you did better then i would have. bags of poop like that don't deserve the politness we use with real people

 

[smokindog]

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.

Everything that happens to you in life is the result of a decision you made at some point.......

During the weekly steel challenge match today an older gent comes straight to me with an offer to buy some 22lr's.

 

[gen3guy]

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.

 

[gm272gs]

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.

 

[vrichard]

Ad in a G.Jct.paper < New Federal 22 long rifle hollow point case of
5250 rounds $750 firm>.
I didn`t buy it.
Dick

 

[ArchAngelCD]

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!

 

[gdnagle]

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.

 

[pownal55]

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.

 

[ladyT]

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.

 

[mjlabs]

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.

 

[cyphertext]

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!

 

[hangnoose]

IT MUST BE WORKING

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.

 

[blujax01]

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...

 

[smokindog]

I think that's what happens in the "get a trophy for showing up" parallel universe!

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...

 

[mc5aw]

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.