Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ammo price gouging sucks...

Agreed.

Don't think of it as gouging. Think of it as the current price.



Travis

I prefer to think of it as scumbags just being scumbags. Why should the "shooting community" be any different.

I don't buy at more than 10%-15% of 2012's price

Snake

You should really think twice about shooting your stash next time.

If they want to shoot they will pay it, if they want to drive they will pay the price of gas. Like joy rides in the country, the days of blowing through a brick of .22 on a Sunday afternoon for 12 bucks are over. I think when the dust finally settles, $30-$40 a brick will be the price.

How much should they sell it for?


Travis

Who, the scumbags ? When you buy up [bleep] and sell it for 3x what you paid for it, you're in solid scumbag territory.

+1

So where should the line be drawn? The dividing line between being a good Capitalist and a Scumbag.?

10% Profit.?
20%
35%
100%..?

You mean the new price!?

Face it boys there's a new price on 22's and I would say it will settle in the 50 bucks per brick range. Did you ever stop and think that maybe you were simply getting a really good deal before? Everything from fuel to labor costs have increased. Why should 22's be immune to the increased costs to manufacture goods?

The problem is your complaining about a known issue.

Not really. I get bricks for $25 to $35 pretty regularly now. Can't get it every time I go, so stop in at more stores more often now.

Best advice, DON'T BUY IT if you don't like the price. And if the price is good and you don't need it, buy it anyway and offer to friends and youth organizations.

People love the fact that when they take their scrap brass and copper to the metal recycler they get 5 times the price they got ten years ago. Doesn't sink in that new brass and copper products have to go up to cover the additional expense.

Oh yeah, the "shooting community" is no different. Scumbags that gouge ammo. Scumbags that take money for a scope and don't send it. Scumbags that send something other than described. Scumbags all.

Some people are raised different. If I tried that scumbag behavior when I was a kid my old man would have booted me in the ass but good.

When I was first buying 22 ammo, I worked all winter delivering papers on a paper route. All my money was saved to buy 22 ammo that cost 55-65 cents a box for 50 rounds. Gasoline was 33 cents/gallon then.

After I got married, I kept buying 22 ammo at an average cost of $8.50-$9.00/carton of 500 or about 85-90 cents/box of 50. Gasoline was then around 65-70 cents/gallon.

Today, gasoline is about $3.00-$3.25/gallon, an increase of almost 10X that of what it was when I was buying 22 ammo at 55-65 cents/box.

Simple math would say that a box of 22 ammo should cost about 9 to 10X what it did when I was a paperboy which would be $5.50-$6.50/box of 50 or about $55.00 to $65.00/carton of 500.

Gouging hasn't occurred, the ability to keep everything in perspective has been forgotten.

2 things can be realized from this; gasoline is not any more expensive in relation to how much labor it takes to earn that gallon of gas than it did over 40 years ago, neither has the labor cost of a box of 22 ammo. Just because something has not increased at the standard rate of inflation doesn't mean it is a bad deal to actually pay the commensurate rate for the ammo. Be happy you can still get it, and be certain it will slowly become more available and at an un-inflated price when it stabilizes.

Buy it and shoot it, and stop this infernal gouging, whining syndrome...

It's not just the scumbag pricing, but also the fact that you have a hard time even finding any. How many posts have we seen here where some poor bastard is just trying to locate ammo so he/she can take their kid(s) shooting ? How about hunter/shooter education courses ?

Randy,
Gimme a few days to get back to town.
For a kid I can probably spare a 500 round can.
P.M me.
Mike

I ask because I have a bunch. If you think I'm selling what I have, for 2012 prices, you are high. So what is a fair price?


Travus

Why aren't you on the NBTE???