Posted on 04/18/2013 6:35:16 PM PDT by servo1969
Jeff Quinn ( http://www.gunblast.com ) discusses widespread price-gouging of guns and ammunition by unscrupulous dealers.
-I've heard of people charging $70 for brick of .22lr and actin' like they were doing someone a favor.-
-I've heard of 15 guys standing in line at 7:00am in Wal-Mart and buyin' 3 boxes of ammo apiece. Then they all go outside and put the ammo in the same vehicle. They're buyin' for some dealer who's gonna jack it up for 4 times what they paid.-
-You walk into some place and some guy wants to charge you $2000 for a $800 AR, well, what you say to him is your business but I can guarantee you I will never spend a single cent in that place.-
-Gun and ammo manufacturers have not raised their prices 400%. It's the dealers who have been taking advantage of their customers during this Constitutional Crisis. There are some dealers who have not raised their prices this whole time. It's a free market, sure. But the market will return to normal and, when it does, remember the folks who did you right and the folks who tried to stick it to you. Those places that did good by their customers are where you need to be spending your money in the future.-
And there is no such thing as me walking out of your store and never returning, ever.
I’ll bite. What’s the Constitutional Crisis?
If arms are selling out constantly for months on end at crazy high prices, people sure think there is one.
The same gun was on Gun Broker with a buy now price of $2,300 the day I picked mine up. That's the price you pay to not have to wait 3-12 months for your rifle I guess.
If you wish to distribute ammunition you own based on “the cut of someone’s jib,” rather than price, then you should be free to do so.
Or free to not do so.
I’m just glad I have a few thousand rounds for each caliber.
right on Farmer!....Send me everything you grow minus your cost of crop insurance and any other unrelated costs to you..U need my address??...Didnt think so...*S*
But if you disagreed with it, you were free to drive by and not buy, or to drive by, fill gas cans, and return to compete.
Higher prices are the surest way of creating greater supply. Greater supply is the surest way of lowering prices.
Raising the price only decides WHO can buy it, limiting amounts doesn’t do that.
When amounts are limited, then I can purchase some rather than Jane Fonda or George Soros, or Barbara Streisand getting it all.
You described your feelings on hoarding, Now describe your feelings on price gouging.
If you have a product people want bad enough is it wrong to raise the price.
How much can you raise it without it being called gouging?
Who gets to define price gouging?
Demand sets the price.
I’ve recently thought where is there a good deal on any firearm?
The timing is awful, but the reality is a recent widow might have a husband’s collection and not want it after his death. Or the reciprocal. Anyone seen this or have any good ideas on how to approach someone delicately, etc.
My wife works in a local Church office and knows of funerals as they are involved.
and...A thing is worth what someone will pay you right now.
How much would you pay for a box of ammo if you didn't have any?
500 round bricks of .22LR are selling for $150 and selling out in minutes...
They were around $20-40 in December.
I was/am also free to never do business with themagain.
I was at Bass Pro Shop in CA last weekend, (rather like Cabelas in AZ but with more tattoos among the customers.) and they had shortages of most kinds of ammunition.
That is an indication that their prices are too low. If their prices were higher, perhaps people would show up in their parking lot to sell previously purchased ammunition and make a profit.
Consumer: (To Butcher 1) Your sirloin costs too much. $15 a pound is too much. Butcher 2, down the street only charges $10 a pound.
Butcher 1: Why don’t you buy it there?
Consumer: But he is out today.
Butcher 2: Our sirloin is only $5 a pound when we are out.
I don’t get to set the price of the grain I grow,I have to take what price is offered.You realy don’t know how farming works do you?
If....
I thought freedom was just another word for nothing left to lose.
I don’t know what Bushmaster is doing this time around but in round one with krinton, Bushmaster tried their best to screw people after freezing deliveries and then jacking up prices - on sold weapons. At the time, this was news. Now, not so much. Bill Ruger, too, seemed ready to go the way the gub’mint was pushing and held a fence sitting stance for some time.
Some folks have long memories.
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