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Just checked my cart from yesterday. 6.5 nosler bt went from 19.79 to 24.99. 6.5 127 gr barnes was 37.00 now 44. 243 eldx was 41 now 48. I expected better from midway

They should. They need to mark it up enough so that people aren’t buying it to flip. They should double the price every two weeks until it stays in stock more than a few hours.

May be because Midway is having to pay more for the product!

Yep.

People are lining up to buy this stuff faster than they can make it. Manufacturers will raise there prices as they should. Prices generally go up after the first of the year anyways. I wise mine once told me if you are too busy to keep up you are not charging enough. Once this craziness slows down or the prices reach more than people are willing to pay. Product will start appearing on shelves and prices will start coming down.

Increasing prices is how demand is tempered to to stimulate increased production and availability. I don't want to pay more, but some mechanism has to be in place to establish and maintain a balance. Free enterprise works---IF you leave it alone to truly be FREE enterprise.

They also limited the number of boxes to two per purchase. Glad I hit the buy button a couple days ago. I’m not happy about how much I’ve spent on projectiles lately, but glad I could find them so I’m set for a year or so. This is looking to be worse than when Obama got elected.

You have much higher reverence for Midway's ethics than I do.

Ole smilin Larry gettin his..

Which better did you expect? That while the total number of dollars in circulation went up by 20% the last 14 months or so that it wouldn't affect the value of each dollar? That would be nice, but if you expect that, you'll be disappointed every time. When the government spends money it doesn't have, we all lose, and in several ways. Since Trump didn't get back into office, Midway has likely decided they were going to have to keep up with inflation. They were likely not making near as much as they could have the last 10 months. I know I got plenty of good deals.

He thanks you for your business.

Yep. Wait until the politicians start clamoring about gun control and the media starts talking about it all day every day. It is going to get much worse.

I've always had good luck with Midway's customer service and no problem with their ethics. Not always cheaper, but good service and fair prices. If the manufacturers are actually working around the clock and incurring more cost with overtime, I expect prices to eventually show that.

Local shop in my town also sells on Gunbroker. He was selling CCI BR4 small rifle primers for 12.99 per 100 in the store. Sold 40000 in 2 weeks.

Again, if retailers are gouging, everyone needs to remember these people if things ever get back to "normal".

Colleague bought a belt from them. They sent the wrong size. He sent it back.

They sent the *same* wrong belt back to him as a replacement.

He says they acted like it was his fault...that THEY sent the wrong size...repeatedly.

Gouging isn't a thing.....but entitlement sure is.

I don't know how anyone can criticize Midway for the prices they charge, not knowing what Midway is paying for the products in the first place, or what their expenses are. If you don't like their prices, don't buy their stuff. It's that simple. Just like you, they've got a right to offer what they've got for whatever price they want to charge. What do want, some governmental mandate that tells them what they need to sell stuff for? The cost of everything is going up, or haven't you noticed? It's going up for Larry Poterfield just like it is for the rest of us. The best way to bring the prices down is for everybody to just stop buying the stuff.

You ain’t seen nuttin yet!!!

I manufacture a loading aid for Ruger MK1-IV. Ruger sells them and Brownells. I contacted Midway in hopes they'd add them to their product line. They wanted to know who bought them and how many. I don't sell to Midway because of that. Potterfield is all about himself. He's made a tremendous business but none of it has included being decent to others.