When is the gouging gonna stop???!!!!

[markl]

Link RemovedWalked into a local shop here in Lakewood WA and wow, they had 22lr, federal bricks, I thought yes! But when I got up close enough to see the price OMFG!!! $75 for 525 rounds, WTF? I will never buy from these greedy bastards again.

 

[Michael Ramsey]

Bloody hell, maybe 30 - 35 tops.... NEVER 75

 

[ironmike86]

What store? Was that?

 

[CarryNM]

When we stop paying the outlandish prices, and they are stuck with a ton of stock, they will come down on price, or go out of business. Think about it. Many stores have kept prices at an affordable level.

 

[HoJo]

The gouging will stop when people stop buying every round of ammo they can find whether they need it or not.

 

[Purple]

Supply and demand is what's driving the costs. Not enough supply of the demand guarantees the seller to be able to set any price they want. If you want the gouging to stop, you stop the demand (buying), the supply will come up, the market will be glutted and the sellers will adjust the price so the stuff will sell.

 

[4liberty]

Reason why things cost so much

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This chart shows how the money supply has almost doubled since Obama's first term. There is more money chasing fewer goods, that will make the cost of things (especially sparse things like ammo) go up. As others have said, shop around get the best price possible.

 

[markl]

This is at a place called Surplus Ammo.

 

[father-of-three]

I thought $75 for a transfer fee was a bit pricey too!

 

[dgifted]

This is at a place called Surplus Ammo.

Usually "surplus" would indicate "bargain". These bozos give it a whole new meaning. I saw boxes of the Remington with 10 x 50 rounds or 500 for $40 at the local gun show over three months since November and refused to pay that as had paid $22 at Cabelas in September for the Remington bricks. At that time, and there was probably more than 50 bricks on the shelf. I bought two then and later wished I had bought more. I have around 1600 rounds now but hope I catch the local Dicks Sporting Goods Friday delivery when they get more. If I am waiting in line when they open up on delivery day, there usually is something that matches a caliber I need and the local store does not inflate prices, charging the same prices they did before the run. The key is to be there to get to the front of the line.

 

[ironmike86]

Guess I won't go to there new store. saves me a trip

 

[mappow]

Just spent $ 234.00 (tax incl) at Gander Mnt for 400 rounds of 45ACP FMJ, Brass casings. A deal, no. On hand and available, yes. Plus I had a 100.00 gift Cert from x-mas so what the heck. I usually CC JHP's which I have a plethora of just needed some range ammo.

 

[Andrew49417]

Check closer. Could it have been bird shot? Those are about $10 per box of 50.

 

[2Adefender]

Wow, $75 is crazy. I've seen $50 and while 2.5 times the price it was a year ago, it's at least somewhat reasonable considering you can shoot all day with 500+ rounds. $75 though...yikes.

I doubt we'll ever see those at $18 again.

 

[golocx4]

Last week at a NY Gun Show a brick of CCI lead nose 22 was selling for 80. But I thought it was because of being in NY.

 

[markl]

It wasn't bird-shot, I paid $22 for the same brick a month ago at sportsman's warehouse. These same ass-clowns were charging $80 for this or any brick of 22lr at the local gun show, didn't matter what brand, or 500, 525. They had the highest priced 22 lr in the whole place. I lucked out yesterday, went to Wallymart(I never go there) to check their ammo and picked up 3 boxes(their limit) of Winchester white box 45 acp for $40 a 100 round box.

 

[schadenfreude]

This will all stop when folks stop buying ammo at such ridiculous prices.

We (gun owners in general) ultimately control the price of ammo.

If some of us continue to buy ammo at these prices, the folks selling it at these prices would be foolish to lower their prices. That is afterall, the point of a business- to make as much profit as possible per unit of merchandise. If the market will bear it, they will charge it.

On the other hand, if those purchasing ammo at these elevated levels were to stop doing so, the folks selling it must then lower their prices to bring us back into the marketplace.

Will this happen? Sure, but not until those panicked by the current state of affairs either run out of money or come to the realization that ammo supply will return to their shelves if they just let up a little.

 

[jcreek]

This is at a place called Surplus Ammo.

Usually "surplus" would indicate "bargain".

Usually surplus would indicate they have a surplus. But I don't feel like that's true either lol. Greedy pigs.

 

[nca_mm]

I have enough that I'm refusing to buy unless it's selling @ pre-11/2012 prices. If millions of others would do the same, the gouging would stop & prices would drop.

 

[anvil6]

The gouging will stop when sales of their other store items decline significantly and the (gouge-priced) items completely fail to sell at that price. If we continue to subsidize the gougers, they we are simply being foolish. Yes, prices will rise - but there is a limit for REASONABLE increase.

It appears that recent Government-Agency purchase contracts are shrewedly-constructed multi-year contracts that RESERVE large quanties of ammo, but only OBLIGATE PURCHASE (and payment) for comparitavely minimal quanties. This puts the bid-winning ammo company in the position ramping up production to both meet civilian demand and set aside the required "contracted reserve". What to YOU think will happen to the price of ammo when the contract term expires and the ammo companies are sitting on large quanties of "undelivered" (and unpurchased) ammo?