Gun Show Gouging

[TAB]

your not going to get a bluck discount anytime soon.  shop around, you will find it, might not like the price, but there is still tons of ammo out there.

[Thanos]

Oh, I know that now is not the time to buy. A very wealthy hedge fund guru told me, when everyone say's buy, you sell. When everyone say's sell, buy.

But when you are looking, where do you go? Which websites or stores?

[alfsauve]

I don't like the high prices, but this dealer wasn't taking advantage of anyone.  (Unlike the dealer who lied and used fear to make a sale.)    You said ithe same ammo was available much cheaper at the same show, so those that bought at the inflated price have nobody to blame but themselves.   I do worry about your blood pressure though.   I see overpriced stuff at gun shows all the time.   Don't take it so personally.  (or did I read too much emotion into your post.)   

For some comparison shopping, check out

http://www.ammoengine.com

 

[TAB]

i'd start buy opening up the phone book and start making phone calls to your local gun shops/ sporting good stores.  I've not had a prob finding any of the more common stuff, now the more odd ball, has been rather hard.

[Pathfinder]

I went to a gun show this weekend too, in Detroit Lakes, MN, a resort area about an hour east of Fargo. Admission was $3, and was held in a NG Armory with really cool vehicles in the chained and barbed wired lot outside. Show was very well attended.

Mostly no ammo, other than collector items. One seller had limited ammo - $50/100 round Federal FMJ boxes (and yes, I bought 2), no .308, no .45ACP, and only Wolf 9mm. One dealer had 1 - count 'em 1 - .50 cal ammo can, which I got. One dealer (getting the point - these were all different dealers, but onesies, not a bunch) - had 5 boxes of small rifle primers, refused to sell them to me as he "had not priced them yet" - and when I went back about 15 minutes later he had already sold all 5 to one buyer for $5 a box.

Smattering of pistols, maybe 20 all told, evenly split between semi-autos and revolvers. Mostly shotguns and bolt-action rifles, only 4 AR uppers, no full rifles. The uppers were priced at $475 each, mix of M4 and A1. If you wanted the bolt carrier and charging handle, that brought the price to $600.

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[Ping]

I bought the same type of ammo .40 S&W American Eagle for $27.50 a box at the Gun Show here in Indiana Saturday. Bought two boxes and the guy only had 10 boxes. There were people with booths set up who were reloaders. They were rather busy selling their ammo. Weren't very many booths at the show which surprised me.

[jimbob_texas]

Here's some simple math.  I reload my own ammo.  I get brass for next to nothing, and bullets are not as scarce as they used to be.  I've been shooting lead bullets for practice, and I can get 2000 bullets shipped to my house for $154.  I use VV N320 powder, about $100 for 4lbs.  Primers (Winchester small rifle) are the rare component, and they're the subject of current scarcity and speculation.  The going street price is between 34 and 39 bucks per thousand (I used to get them last fall for $120/5000).  Given all that, it only costs me around 9 cents per round to make .40 ammo.  At 20,000 rounds/year, that adds up.

One dollar per round for American Eagle ammo is nothing more than greed and exploitation.

You can take emotion and store it someplace safe.  This is all about one of your seven deadlies here.  I'm not supporting anyone who preys on shooters, and I'm admonishing others to do likewise.  Nobody's holding a gun to anyone's head, but if you think for one nanosecond that it's okay to screw other shooters, well - I just feel sorry for you.

Anyone who defends these people is no better than they  are.

And like it's already been said, we'll remember.

[ericire12]

Obama is reading this thread and laughing his ass off......


*Get your feet off the desk, dip shit....... you are only gonna be there for one term!

[fightingquaker13]

Jimbob has it right. After Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, Scotty's, a big box hardware chain that had been around for years, was selling plywood at about twice the going rate (before anti-gauging laws were passed). Home Depot was selling at cost. Scotty's is no more, and you can throw a rock from one Home Depot to another. There was more going on than just this one well publicized event. Still, after the dust had settled the memories remained. There isn't enough advertising money in the world to make people forget it. The problem with capitalism is that it provides a great temptation to put short term gain over long term calculations (cf the bad mortgages). The problem is, that foks tend to have long memories and these guys etter hope they make enough short term to make the ill-will worth it.
FQ!3.

[Green Mountain Gringo]

The great thing about this was that there was OTHER ammo to buy for less than half the price.  So give that guy your business.

The first guy may have been gouging, OR he might have bought the ammo that he had at a rediculously high rate and was just trying to turn a profit.

Either way, the ability to just walk away is very liberating.

And I'd NEVER stick my finger in the face of a guy at a GUN show.