Saw that too… a little over the top I think. It will come back eventually. I guess having a good supply of what you need is a good idea assuming you know what you need. It would be almost impossible to get into reloading right now which is a little disappointing. It’s the gougers like the mentioned poster that create the panic in my opinion. Not worth getting excited about for me. Good luck to that guy! Maybe time to fire up one of the other hobbies for a while.
Price gouging
- Thread starter lwing
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- Kamloops, B.C.
Just been giving me more reasons to get the bow going again!
Frankly, it's easy to pick out the scummy retailers run by scummy people. If they do draws or auctions, there you go... As for gouging, not being able/willing to pay what some with significant buying power ask is not gouging, the proper term is profiteering. Powder is certainly harder to find but if you need to pay $120 for a pound of Varget then you are definitely the problem in one way or another.
I am ons as well. As much as I love shooting I do not have to send 1000's of rounds downrange every year. With the price of fuel, which is definately gouging my shooting will be even less. I will spend more time at the cabin, ride the pedal bike more, and paddle around the lake and river with the kayak. The day that things come back to normal I can shoot then or maybe have lost interest and sell it all off.
An auction is a fair thing. Maybe the fairest thing. What you may think as an unfair price is another guy's idea of fair for screwing up on not keeping up on their inventory. An pretty ordinary guy might decide that paying a high price for a pound of powder instead of working up a new load is an expensive lesson, but he'll get over it and strive to do better in the future.
I get people calling me looking for XYZ powder, or primer or any primer. Sometimes, it's a friend that screwed up and simply can't pursue his season of CAS without something that'll go bang, or maybe it's a friend that has a favorite hunting rifle and worked up load for a powder he just can't get. Or maybe it's a guy who thinks his lack of planning is my problem somehow.
If you're in the circle, and there is a circle a buddy might toss you a couple kegs for future considerations. If you're not, then pay for your lessons and be a man about it.
I get people calling me looking for XYZ powder, or primer or any primer. Sometimes, it's a friend that screwed up and simply can't pursue his season of CAS without something that'll go bang, or maybe it's a friend that has a favorite hunting rifle and worked up load for a powder he just can't get. Or maybe it's a guy who thinks his lack of planning is my problem somehow.
If you're in the circle, and there is a circle a buddy might toss you a couple kegs for future considerations. If you're not, then pay for your lessons and be a man about it.
I agree with ya, but under the circumstances we have a retailer that is buying out all the other retailers and putting his finds in his own auctions, look at the bidder names and it may also appear her has someone heling him drive the prices up........this isn't people auctioning off surplus, this a retailer buying specifically to auction it off.......powder and primers
Really???? Tell us how you know your dealer is ''gouging''
Do you know his immediate costs on acquiring that powder, shipping it to the store, putting it on the shelf, then factor in what it costs to keep the building maintained, heated, lights on, mortgage, employee wages???
The only way you're going to get a better deal is to get a business license and purchase directly from the manufacturer, who definitely will not allow you to purchase a pound of powder at a time or maybe a distributor that will allow you to purchase a solitary pound at a time but with his costs and the profit he needs to live on and maintain his business lumped in.
Some retail outlets ans LGSs put in orders for powder over a year ago and still haven't received their orders.
One of our local gunshop owners put in, what he considered to be a HUGE order two years ago at the Shot Show.
He got all of it within a couple of months. He still has some hard to find stuff available, but his prices have gone up to reflect what it's going to cost him to replace it and still maintain a profit level he can live on, after paying for all of the incidentals mentioned.
You whiners need to get real. Making it up as you go?????????????????????????
nowarningshot
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Being that the going price is 1.5 -3 x the already high prices I smell a rat. Guaranteed many of those "bids" are fake/shill bids, "setting" the going rate. You can't find staff in big box stores, basically zero chance they get caught by any regulator. Someone doesn't pay, what looks to be minimum $100 a pound, the powder or primer is in next week's auction.
Big bore dinosaur
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- NORT OF COW.TOWN.EH
^^^^^ 100% AGRREE.
Those guys run a cheating operation.. phoned in a while back , to ask them about there B.S. auction.. popcorn bidding!!!!!
What a ripp off of a company.. fack-um GREEDY FACKS
Emperor.45
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- Barrie Ontario
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Cocked&Locked
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- S. Ontario
Wow. I am so very happy I stocked up on a lifetime supply of powders (and primers and bullets) a long time ago when prices were reasonable.
Having said that, if one doesn't like the price now (auction or otherwise), don't buy it and take up quilting instead.
I'm not referencing any specific businesses or individuals but as a long time buyer / seller the practice is indeed very annoying to the knowledgeable consumer. The good news is that it's an easy fix: just spend your money elsewhere!
Unscrupulous people / businesses can ask whatever price they want : smart consumers don't buy from those characters.
Unscrupulous people / businesses can ask whatever price they want : smart consumers don't buy from those characters.
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