Price gouging

conor_90 said:
^ not everyone can afford to “stack it deep”. Many were affected financially by covid.

Surprised so many are justifying blatant profiteering. Life’s not all about making a buck

The more who get priced out of the hobby the less the young generation gets involved in the hobby.

How many hoards get tossed by clueless widows when guys buy “lifetime supplies” they never shoot?

The lack of empathy in this thread is disturbing. I love the free market as much as anyone with half a brain but it’s not an excuse for unethical behaviour
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I agree 100%. I have enough to last 20 plus years likely but I would rather have put that money in my savings and just bought as I needed it. Every time people hoard it comes back on the shelves inflated much higher than inflation and harder to find.
 
I blame the millennials… money has no actual value anymore. It’s the dollar figures that we’re all upset about. Housing, gas, food. It’s all the same really. My neighbours $600k house just sold for $950k. $400 keg of varget/h1000/h4350 sells for $750 now. Better get used to the insanity. Can’t go back now!
 
I guess I must be a hoarder. I'm so ashamed. So I was digging through my stash of reloading components and decided I have way more 7mm bullets than I need. Somebody else might need some with all these supply chain shortages. I could advertise on the EE, and then deal with multiple emails and text messages and PM's to haggle and eventually get them sold, and then make multiple trips to the post office and waste a lot of time to package up each order. Or take a single load to Extreme Range Outfitters.
But should I worry about what some whiner thinks about the bids that I might get for my stuff? I'm really concerned. ;-)
 
Longwalker said:
I guess I must be a hoarder. I'm so ashamed. So I was digging through my stash of reloading components and decided I have way more 7mm bullets than I need. Somebody else might need some with all these supply chain shortages. I could advertise on the EE, and then deal with multiple emails and text messages and PM's to haggle and eventually get them sold, and then make multiple trips to the post office and waste a lot of time to package up each order. Or take a single load to Extreme Range Outfitters.
But should I worry about what some whiner thinks about the bids that I might get for my stuff? I'm really concerned. ;-)
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Not sure what your point is? Is this some kind of social media status update? I’m going to go with troll…
 
conor_90 said:
^ not everyone can afford to “stack it deep”. Many were affected financially by covid.

Surprised so many are justifying blatant profiteering. Life’s not all about making a buck

The more who get priced out of the hobby the less the young generation gets involved in the hobby.

How many hoards get tossed by clueless widows when guys buy “lifetime supplies” they never shoot?

The lack of empathy in this thread is disturbing. I love the free market as much as anyone with half a brain but it’s not an excuse for unethical behaviour
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It is all about priorities and this goes back way before covid so forget about that
How many get tossed . Here none they call other friends that shot with their husband and they take care of it and sell it for them. Unfortunately at my age I get too many now to do or some give to the club
The same guys that say they cannot afford it to stash still smoke, drink with a ton of other toys and drive $80,000 trucks and owe the bank their life. Know a lot of theses guys here
Yep had money for golf all season playing all over canada and now cry over the prices of reloading components. PLEASE
No life is not ALL about making a buck but sure was the reason I got out of bed and went to work for over 40 years and if the opportunity is there take it again I say Kudos to those that did

Cheers
 
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sharp shooter said:
I agree 100%. I have enough to last 20 plus years likely but I would rather have put that money in my savings and just bought as I needed it. Every time people hoard it comes back on the shelves inflated much higher than inflation and harder to find.
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How is that working out for you. Not us hoarders looking for hulls :) Got ya :)
 
3macs1 said:
How is that working out for you. Not us hoarders looking for hulls :) Got ya :)
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I shoot that 20 gauge about once every three years and never planned on loading for it but found a bunch air HS-6 and Longshot for cheap so you have a no right to comment. Also, my LGS just got some Cheditte primers in and are now $110 plus tax per brick. They were half that before the recent shortage. Everybody hoarding DOES drive the prices up. I’m a hoarder too but would rather have spent my time and money on other things.
 
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sharp shooter said:
I shoot that 20 gauge about once every three years and never planned on loading for it but found a bunch air HS-6 and Longshot for cheap so you have a no right to comment. Also, my LGS just got some Cheditte primers in and are now $110 plus tax per brick. They were half that before the recent shortage. Everybody hoarding DOES drive the prices up. I’m a hoarder too but would rather have spent my time and money on other things.
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WOW cheddite. I would not give 5 cents for 1000 of them. I can comment as I see fit it is a public forum
Sorry if the shoe fits and like I said all about one's priority
Hoarding in canada has almost nothing to do with the prices we see now but yanks hoarding sure does
To each their own
Cheers

Plus IMO
If one wants to see true gouging check out some guns on that gun post unreal

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I wish everyone well this year, finding components required for at least the hunting season. I'm dubious that there will be truckloads of powder, primers, bullets and brass cases arriving from the USA. Furthermore, they will be more expensive. I'll encourage everyone to keep in touch with their LGS et al in Canada. Head-out to gun shows, there is always something available to purchase, if not, it's fun to BS with the vendors and consumers.
 
Longwalker said:
I guess I must be a hoarder. I'm so ashamed. So I was digging through my stash of reloading components and decided I have way more 7mm bullets than I need. Somebody else might need some with all these supply chain shortages. I could advertise on the EE, and then deal with multiple emails and text messages and PM's to haggle and eventually get them sold, and then make multiple trips to the post office and waste a lot of time to package up each order. Or take a single load to Extreme Range Outfitters.
But should I worry about what some whiner thinks about the bids that I might get for my stuff? I'm really concerned. ;-)
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Exactly. Another big load goes there this week.
 
3macs1 said:
It is all about priorities and this goes back way before covid so forget about that
How many get tossed . Here none they call other friends that shot with their husband and they take care of it and sell it for them. Unfortunately at my age I get too many now to do or some give to the club
The same guys that say they cannot afford it to stash still smoke, drink with a ton of other toys and drive $80,000 trucks and owe the bank their life. Know a lot of theses guys here
Yep had money for golf all season playing all over canada and now cry over the prices of reloading components. PLEASE
No life is not ALL about making a buck but sure was the reason I got out of bed and went to work for over 40 years and if the opportunity is there take it again I say Kudos to those that did

Cheers
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I don’t drink, smoke or have any debt but I feel you on that one. I think we have quiet an age difference. Maybe I simply haven’t had time to accumulate a sufficient hoard. Most of my stuff got hocked at the start of covid to keep my head above water when the company I worked at started tanking.

But I still have enough powder, components and guns to hunt any tag I could draw this year and shoot a couple of times a week till I go back to school in the fall for a change of career. Replacing my truck (25k and bought and paid for) with a Subaru Forester may be more of an issue for access to the areas I like to hunt but we shall overcome.


I don’t think auctioning off your stuff is a jerk move either; it’s a company buying stuff retail in bulk and sending it off to auction that pisses me off. Sure business is business but that is what I have no issues calling blatant profiteering. This thread almost had me buying every magnum rifle primer I could find last night; so maybe I’m just a hypocrite.
 
conor_90 said:
I don’t drink, smoke or have any debt but I feel you on that one. I think we have quiet an age difference. Maybe I simply haven’t had time to accumulate a sufficient hoard. Most of my stuff got hocked at the start of covid to keep my head above water when the company I worked at started tanking.

But I still have enough powder, components and guns to hunt any tag I could draw this year and shoot a couple of times a week till I go back to school in the fall for a change of career. Replacing my truck (25k and bought and paid for) with a Subaru Forester may be more of an issue for access to the areas I like to hunt but we shall overcome.


I don’t think auctioning off your stuff is a jerk move either; it’s a company buying stuff retail in bulk and sending it off to auction that pisses me off. Sure business is business but that is what I have no issues calling blatant profiteering. This thread almost had me buying every magnum rifle primer I could find last night; so maybe I’m just a hypocrite.
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Yep unless you have been collecting since the 60's we sure do have an age difference and that is huge when we talk stashing components. Stuff I paid 10 for you would need 100 today
Plus in all those years and yes I have lost jobs many times due to mines closing I have never sold off guns or reloading gear not saying I would not have to keep my family afloat but found other means by cashing in investments etc and had a wife with a good job teaching

Plus where I live even back in the 60's you had one chance a year to get free shipping and bulk pricing if you added your powder etc to the club order so we all stashed since there were so few places to buy anything here if you ran out

You have to remember these business are trying hard to stay afloat also. Just think what the banning of the last round of guns did to some and then add covid many are lucky to be still with us
Take care

Oh yes no smoker or drinker here either and I hate golf :) and I had no debt until the mrs ordered a new SUV last week :( yes hers was 5 years old mint and 58K but had to go LOL Women :) no wonder I am gray
 
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A smaller retailer who happens to have some "old" stock pretty much has to look up his current replacement cost and mark it up accordingly based on the "new" price . This can seem unreasonable to some deal chasers but prices have gone up so much in the last few years that an old "retail" price may not even reflect the current wholesale price . Unless you are closing your shop up you cannot sell below replacement cost !
 
rgwhitman said:
A smaller retailer who happens to have some "old" stock pretty much has to look up his current replacement cost and mark it up accordingly based on the "new" price . This can seem unreasonable to some deal chasers but prices have gone up so much in the last few years that an old "retail" price may not even reflect the current wholesale price . Unless you are closing your shop up you cannot sell below replacement cost !
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I am not sure that I completely buy that story - so guy gets his old stock and adds his mark-up and puts out for sale - say he added 25% over his cost. Not seeing a whole lot of examples where his expensive stuff, with its 25% mark-up, goes down, when his replacement cost drops. At that point, the story changes to something about having to pay for the costs that he has already paid.

Pretty much in my face every few months when I read what is going on with oil prices, but then have to fill up the truck at a gas station. Some USA oil in 2021 was going from refineries at a negative price - refinery was paying customer to take it - I never, ever came away from a gas station with a full tank and more money than I went there with.
 
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I dabble in sales of some hobby stuff and can tell you it makes no sense to sell my old stock at $10 for a $2 profit and then buy new stock at $16 and sit on it for a year and hope someone buys it.

It does need to be relabeld. If the local guys don't like it they can shop somewhere else with the price of gas have fun. :)

As far as gas, try driving to the refinery and picking it up. Someone has to pay for transport, facilities, taxes. Oh the guy also has to fill the windshild washer bucket so you can use it and buy a squeegee or two.
 
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Insane what people will pay, but great if you're getting out of shooting.
Went through the gun room last fall and brought in 4 boxes of stuff I'll never use. Came home and $4700 in cheques in the mail.

As for the buying and putting it in the auction, how is it different than buying something off the EE and relisting it for a profit?

Let's hope auction prices stay high.
 
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