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Just curious. If I had a case of PMags that I could flip and quadruple my money right now I would. Can't see how it's any different for a business owner.

They're not price gouging food to starving orphans or your grandmother's heart medicine, just things that people really WANT to own right now. People who evidently have the money to spend on extra stuff right now.

Isn't this kinda what capitalism is all about...People with ingenuity making money?


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That question certainly took long enough to be asked.


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Smart business people will charge what the market will bare. Buy low and sell high.


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Stupid SHOULD hurt. I am doing my best to ensure that, at least for a few, it does.

It isn't my fault I was smart enough to buy PMags last Friday, and you are trying to buy them 8 days later.

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Originally Posted by Bluedreaux
Just curious. If I had a case of PMags that I could flip and quadruple my money right now I would. Can't see how it's any different for a business owner.

They're not price gouging food to starving orphans or your grandmother's heart medicine, just things that people really WANT to own right now. People who evidently have the money to spend on extra stuff right now.

Isn't this kinda what capitalism is all about...People with ingenuity making money?


"That question certainly took long enough to be asked."

But why did you ask? Are you looking for somebody's approval?


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Blue, are you the guy that paid 7K for PMags?

I could care less unless it follows a natural disaster.


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Originally Posted by RDW
Blue, are you the guy that paid 7K for PMags?

I could care less unless it follows a natural disaster.


Why? Should have been more prepared.


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Originally Posted by Bluedreaux
Just curious. If I had a case of PMags that I could flip and quadruple my money right now I would. Can't see how it's any different for a business owner.

They're not price gouging food to starving orphans or your grandmother's heart medicine, just things that people really WANT to own right now. People who evidently have the money to spend on extra stuff right now.

Isn't this kinda what capitalism is all about...People with ingenuity making money?


It is what capitalism is about, but notice that ingenuity is not necessarily involved, unless you are insinuating that someone knew about the Newport shootings in advance.

Buy low and sell high is the rule. Sometimes buying low is skill and sometimes luck.

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nothing wrong, lets you know who to deal with after the waves subside. If your local gas station jacked up gas to $10 a gallon after a natural disater would you find yourself stopping there in the future?


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These businesses will be out of any stock to sell and keep the doors open soon. I can't fault them for getting all they can right now.

The privateers burn my azz a bit. But, that's capitalism. whistle


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BB....I do seek the approval of some people, but certainly none here. And I'm not gouging, but sure would be if I had some to spare.

RDW...No, but I did buy 30 metal mags at $9 each.

Sycamore...Some folks have extra to sell, some don't. Seems some were better prepared / had more ingenuity / had a better sense of the market, etc.


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I saw five 30 rd AR magazines on Gunbroker for $345. Maybe someone will buy them. More power to them.


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Originally Posted by Bluedreaux
Just curious. If I had a case of PMags that I could flip and quadruple my money right now I would. Can't see how it's any different for a business owner.

They're not price gouging food to starving orphans or your grandmother's heart medicine, just things that people really WANT to own right now. People who evidently have the money to spend on extra stuff right now.

Isn't this kinda what capitalism is all about...People with ingenuity making money?
Nothing wrong with it. If anyone says there's something wrong with "price gouging," ask them if there's something wrong with paying bargain prices for things when the market is glutted with them (Remember $100.00 a pop for factory-new Russian SKS rifles?), which is merely the other side of the economic coin.

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nothing wrong, lets you know who to deal with after the waves subside. If your local gas station jacked up gas to $10 a gallon after a natural disater would you find yourself stopping there in the future?


This ain't a natural disaster.

Apples and Oranges.


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local store jacked up bullets when Obama first got elected, from ~$20/box to over $50/box. haven't been back since.


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Socialists call it price gouging, Capitalists call it supply and demand.


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Originally Posted by Cariboujack
Socialists call it price gouging, Capitalists call it supply and demand.
Yep. And folks who call it "price gouging" aren't moved, in sympathy for the poor merchants stuck with overstock on items widely available on a glutted market, to offer higher prices than the market supports for said items. Hypocrisy.

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What are PMags? AR magazines?






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Originally Posted by Pat85
What are PMags? AR magazines?
Magpull brand polymer AR magazines. Considered the latest and greatest in AR mags.

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Originally Posted by Cariboujack
Socialists call it price gouging, Capitalists call it supply and demand.


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