Is it Gouging or....?

[Michael]

About 90 minutes ago I'm in a small local gun store looking for a taper crimp die.
The place had a decent crowd, all with cash in hand, well, plastic in hand, the economy doesn't have cash any longer,
and watched as remanufactued, non-name brand 223 was going for a doallar a cartridge. No one questioned the price point of the material. Folks farther away from the counter were offering to buy from the buyers at more than they had paid.
Store owner said he's sold over 200 guns last weekend at current market price. Store owner was down to 1 case of 16 FNH AR mags, at $90.00 per each. Estimated they would not last the entire day.

So if one walks into the store willingly, stands in line patiently to pay current asking price..................is it really gouging or just good economic conditions.
I mean, W.C. Fields made an excellent point.

 

[Veer_G]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Michael</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I mean, W.C. Fields made an excellent point. </div></div>

All in all, he rather would have been in Philadelphia?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W.C._Fields

 

[EddieNFL]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So if one walks into the store willingly, stands in line patiently to pay current asking price..................is it really gouging or just good economic conditions.</div></div>

No.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I mean, W.C. Fields made an excellent point.</div></div>

So did P.T. Barnum.

 

[herro_prease]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: EddieNFL</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So did P.T. Barnum.</div></div>

lolz. unless, of course, the panic is justified and new ARs become unavailable. wait til everyone gets a load of the "gouging" that will happen then.

 

[E. Bryant]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

Is this just another fuckin' topic on the same subject as another thread that has been on the front page for the past few days, or...?

 

[High Binder]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

Do people equate the stock market to gouging? Nope. The rules are simple, buy low sell high. Now as to whether or not its fair or even moral, well that's an entirely different question.

 

[EddieNFL]

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I'm amazed folks are surprised dealers are taking advantage of the climate. These are the same dealers who cried like babies when the AWB sunsetted. They are not on our side...unless it is financially beneficial.

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

My local shop is oldschool. We were discusing this the other day and he said he will not go over suggested retail. He is usually at internet prices or better.
he gets alot of my business and will continue to.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

I think it is a predictable demonstration of the laws of supply and demand.

I think it is also a demonstration of the degree of resolve Americans have about resisting being unilaterally disarmed by a cabal of opportunist media and political manipulators who insist on imposing their revisionist interpretation of the long held and revered beliefs and traditions that have steadfastly held each individual to be the arbiter of their own destiny.

I think it is a Newspeak clarification of the hypocrisy that pitches curtailment of personal liberties as a paragon of liberal thinking.

I think it is a Pavlovian confirmation that panic is both the first and last resort of those who refuse to think ahead and exercise operational prudence.

I think it s a litmus test exposing those who will and those will not fold to greed and extort their peers for the last dollar and pence that the market will bear.

I think it is a moment in history which we will all remember as the exact point when things were different after, than they were before; never again to be for the better.

I think it is the point where we will all agree that things in general leveled off and began that inevitable and irreversible slide toward the diminution of hope and the marginalization of humanity as a rational species.

We did it to ourselves; in that we allowed it to happen.

Greg

 

[EddieNFL]

Re: Is it Gouging or....?

I "think" you pretty much nailed it, Greg.

Especially, <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We did it to ourselves; in that we allowed it to happen.</div></div>

 

[Veer_G]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: EddieNFL</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I "think" you pretty much nailed it, Greg.

Especially, <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We did it to ourselves; in that we allowed it to happen.</div></div> </div></div>

I was waiting to hear what he thought about the DH rule ...