I have been buying powder, primers, brass, bullets, etc. throughout this whole deal and paying what I consider to be reasonable prices, never more then typical retail and often less. Reasonable enough that I could turn a profit on most everything in my reloading room. I choose not to because I don't know when I can replace it, I am in it okay, it doesn't go bad and I like to shoot.
Having said that... if manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers would move all of their inventory through bid sales at "market" then equilibrium would have been found long ago, there would be no margin for scalpers and you could walk into any store and see product on the shelf. Perhaps the normal retail chain is partially to blame for trying to sell at historical prices rather than actual value.
