Once fired brass..how do you set a price for it??

[woodsltc]

I have brass to sell locally. I'm not a hand-loader, but I do save my brass. As of now I have a couple thousand rounds of 30.06 & .243 as well as a couple thousand of various hand gun rounds (.380ACP, .357Mag, .40S&W,.45ACP,.38SPL, .44SPL, .44Mag) to sell.

How do you set a price?? By the pound or per cartridge case?? What do others do??

Thanks for your suggestions in advance.

Don

 

[Hack]

See what your local metal recycler is paying for brass. Add a bit of a premium for being what it is (re-loadable brass), and go from there.

 

[dswancutt]

Most generally it is sold by the piece. Do a google search for "once fired brass" and you will get an idea what it is selling for from the commercial sellers.

 

[Alpo]

Nickel for a pistol, dime for a rifle. If they want more than that I won't buy it. Too much out there to pay premium prices for used brass.

Just 'cause someone SAYS it's "once-fired", don't mean it is.

 

[woodsltc]

Nickel for a pistol, dime for a rifle. If they want more than that I won't buy it. Too much out there to pay premium prices for used brass.

Just 'cause someone SAYS it's "once-fired", don't mean it is.

Thanks for the pricing guide......I know that my mine is "once fired" as I'm the one that bought it as factory loaded and then fired it.

Don

 

[Geno44]

I have disposed of some from a late relative for his children. I posed that question on a couple of forums and got prices that reflected ammo prices of 10 years ago. Some of you may have noticed ammo has gone up in price. For example, I was told 5 cents each for .45 auto. I had no trouble selling it for 10 cents each for about 3000. Unless you have too much money, I wouldn't be in any hurry to give it away. Common rifle calibers were going for 10 cents 15 years ago. You ought to be able to get half the new price shown in the Midway catalog and they probably don't have it.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Midway sells once fired brass. Most of it is out of stock so I guess they don't have a problem selling it for the price they ask.
http://www.midwayusa.com/find?dimensionids=4294846293

 

[MITCHB]

once fired brass

i bought 3000 pieces of 40 cal brass from a forum member for 130 shipped wasnt polished but great shape, its worth what someone will pay, the forum member has an indoor range

 

[Mcwsky09]

I just got started with reloading - and while I have a bunch of factory loads at the moment that will become my once fired brass - if I had to buy once fired I would be looking for sources in the 5 to 10 cents per case range depending on pistol vs rifle and overall condition.
As others have said - what you can charge depends on what the market will bear - but doing research on what others are selling for is a good start.
What I base my purchase price on has also to do with the cost to reload vs cost of factory load. If the cost to me is 5 cents per primer and 5 cents of powder and 10 cents for a projectile - that is 20 cents in consumable components - meaning that the additional price off the brass when combined with that 20 cents in consumables - must well below the cost of a factory load for reloading to be cost effective. No way I am paying 50 cents a case plus 20 cents consumables for 70 cents overall if I can buy a factory load for 40 cents.
Pistol and Rifle are different of course and many reload for reasons other than cost per round.
Most of the factory loads I have now cost between 40 cents and $1 depending on caliber. and the cost to reload each (when I ramp up to buying primers and such in bulk) could be less than 20 cents per round using my own spent brass.
There is also the cost of the tools and other consumables such as cleaning media and case lube - but some of that is spread over the entire lifetime and maybe tens of thousands of rounds ultimately. My $500 or so investment in a press and dies etc has cost me about $5 per round so far but I have only made about 100 rounds - by this time next year that will have dropped to maybe 50 cents per round produced and at that rate in 10 years it will drop to 5 cents per round - but likely will get even lower as I ramp up production for more calibers and family members bring me their spent brass.