Let’s try to have an opinion on a forum without rudeness and insults. It’s called being polite.
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You clearly have never studied supply side economics.....
When the demand of something increases what happens to price along the supply curve?
It increases....
When the demand of something increases what happens to price along the supply curve?
It increases....
I see you’re from California and I’m not, I really can’t speak for what’s going on there, but I can tell you as a dealer that our cost of ammo has gone up anywhere from 25 to 40%, we could buy 6.5cm hornady match for 14-17 dollars a box, now our cost, when we can get it,mind you, is 22-25 dollars, popular firearms have gone up also, so yes there has been an increase, now whether or not it’s due to increased manufacturing cost or just supply and demand, I do not know. I’m guessing the answer lies somewhere in the middle, but like I’ve said on other posts, you can’t bitch about communism and capitalism in the same sentence.
There is far more surplus capacity to manufacture firearms than ammo. Anyone with a CNC mill and a lathe can start making guns if the market demands them. You need a lot of chemical type processes to make ammo. These cost a lot to set up. Investors hesitate to build that kind of capacity for intermittent demand.
Start saving up now. After Trump wins gun grabbers will unload their surplus at a steep discount and manufacturers that ramped up production will continue to contribute to a surplus that will drive prices down. It happened after Sandy Hook and history appears to be repeating itself. Just be patient and profit.
Make lemonade from all these lemons.
Make lemonade from all these lemons.
Hi,
LOLOLOL Holy crap, what is this???
Government should regulate prices, Communism check.
Manufacturers should show you their costs, Communism check.
You are a scammer if you do not sell to me at the price I feel I should pay, Communism check.
How about you setup an ammunition manufacturing plant and take my PO right now?
Show me my price!!!
Sincerely,
Theis
LOLOLOL Holy crap, what is this???
Government should regulate prices, Communism check.
Manufacturers should show you their costs, Communism check.
You are a scammer if you do not sell to me at the price I feel I should pay, Communism check.
How about you setup an ammunition manufacturing plant and take my PO right now?
Show me my price!!!
Sincerely,
Theis
Look at Target Sports and Palmetto today for ammo in supply...
They have nothing.
Insane.
They have nothing.
Insane.
Hi,
But..lets play the information game for a minute, lol.
1. My software cost for 2021 is going up 35k per year.
2. My product liability and general liability for 2021 is going up 4k per year.
3. My payroll is going up TBD for 2021 because supply going up.
4. My alloy cost is going up 1.3% for 2021.
AND I have not even released products to the market yet, lol.
GUESS WHAT???? Companies start implementing product price increases the last quarter of every single year to account for the upcoming years increase in cost of business.
It is just you evidently have never really payed attention to it.
Sincerely,
Theis
But..lets play the information game for a minute, lol.
1. My software cost for 2021 is going up 35k per year.
2. My product liability and general liability for 2021 is going up 4k per year.
3. My payroll is going up TBD for 2021 because supply going up.
4. My alloy cost is going up 1.3% for 2021.
AND I have not even released products to the market yet, lol.
GUESS WHAT???? Companies start implementing product price increases the last quarter of every single year to account for the upcoming years increase in cost of business.
It is just you evidently have never really payed attention to it.
Sincerely,
Theis
You should carry around a nice, green plant with you 24/7/365, so it replaces the oxygen you fucking steal from the rest of us.
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Nothing more than what the market will bear. Put a little fear out there in the people's minds and I will horde up and over pay.
What's funny is when they try to offload the overpriced items they bought. Typically, they can't and have to take a significant loss. Been in various gun shops when somebody has come in trying to sell something that they overpaid for... The look on their face is priceless when the store gives them the reality check... LOL
The best ones are when the wife sends hubby to sell the gun at a loss... LOL
What's funny is when they try to offload the overpriced items they bought. Typically, they can't and have to take a significant loss. Been in various gun shops when somebody has come in trying to sell something that they overpaid for... The look on their face is priceless when the store gives them the reality check... LOL
The best ones are when the wife sends hubby to sell the gun at a loss... LOL
Just a quite obvious troublemaking troll. You called it, Theis. Recent member, few posts. Probably Chinese. Just stirring the pot, on all the forums. I'll wager the crocheting forums get this too.
What in The Fuck are your injecting into yourself.
Look I am frustrated and tired of high ammo prices. Its not a scam. People are idiots and buy WAAAAY more than they need (aka Hording).
But Hording is not illegal (until you get enough to corner the market--looking at you Hunt Brothers). Basically a bunch of idiots are buying all the ammo. No law against that. Nor should their be. Do you have to like it? Nope.
Ammo dealers have to pay the bills to--if they are only getting a few boxes of ammo--of course the price is gonna be high. Electricity and rent didn't go down. Property Tax is though the roof. Now they have to get by on less inventory, so price has to go up. Its a man-made crisis, but the solution is to just kill all the dumb people. Would you like to implement that solution? That's not quite a rational solution to my frustration with prices. It fact, it might seem a bit extreme. Maybe we should just learn that no one is gaurunteed happiness. Only the right of pursuit of it.
There are a lot of things in life I don't like. But also a lot of things in life that I can't change. People are dumb. I can't fix that. It pisses me off daily. I go to a lot of therapy because of all you idiots.
The alternative is command economy. Let me tell you how often that works: Never
The last jackhole I want involved in the economy is the government. They screw up everything they touch and we pay them for the privlidge. Be thankful our TP shortage was about 60 days and not 80 years like the Soviet Union. Cause that is what command economies deliver.
And since its election day-- DO YOU WANT THIS GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN AMMO SALES?
And also--everything that pisses you off does not require government regulation. That's the problem in this country. Everyone expects the government to solve their problem.
NO!
Change it (yourself) or Deal with it. Leave me the hell alone.
But Hording is not illegal (until you get enough to corner the market--looking at you Hunt Brothers). Basically a bunch of idiots are buying all the ammo. No law against that. Nor should their be. Do you have to like it? Nope.
Ammo dealers have to pay the bills to--if they are only getting a few boxes of ammo--of course the price is gonna be high. Electricity and rent didn't go down. Property Tax is though the roof. Now they have to get by on less inventory, so price has to go up. Its a man-made crisis, but the solution is to just kill all the dumb people. Would you like to implement that solution? That's not quite a rational solution to my frustration with prices. It fact, it might seem a bit extreme. Maybe we should just learn that no one is gaurunteed happiness. Only the right of pursuit of it.
There are a lot of things in life I don't like. But also a lot of things in life that I can't change. People are dumb. I can't fix that. It pisses me off daily. I go to a lot of therapy because of all you idiots.
The alternative is command economy. Let me tell you how often that works: Never
The last jackhole I want involved in the economy is the government. They screw up everything they touch and we pay them for the privlidge. Be thankful our TP shortage was about 60 days and not 80 years like the Soviet Union. Cause that is what command economies deliver.
And since its election day-- DO YOU WANT THIS GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN AMMO SALES?
And also--everything that pisses you off does not require government regulation. That's the problem in this country. Everyone expects the government to solve their problem.
NO!
Change it (yourself) or Deal with it. Leave me the hell alone.
Oh and OP please DO NOT vote today. We don't need your kind of help.
As far as i can tell, there is no DeBeers with a monopoly on the manufacture and sale of ammunition. Supply and demand is not a scam. It is a reality of life. If the price is high, don’t buy. That wasn’t intended to rhyme, but it does. When the price is low, and it will drop eventually, buy what you can afford. I have made a pact to buy a box of ammunition every time I walk into one of the local stores, conditional on it being available and reasonably priced- regardless of my current stock.
Election day. The communists are out in force...
Election day. The communists are out in force...
And they have to make enough on the ammo they can get to stay open!
“Brothers and sisters in arms”
“really ought to have stronger regulations on that as well...”
”glutinous capitalists”
You’re hitting all of the high points in the communist playbook.
GTFO with that shit...
“really ought to have stronger regulations on that as well...”
”glutinous capitalists”
You’re hitting all of the high points in the communist playbook.
GTFO with that shit...
Spend less on beer, in order to buy more ammo.
I know, it's a terrible option.
I know, it's a terrible option.
Has anyone noticed gun sales last 6-8 months? Lots of first time new gun owners, that is what's putting a big pull/drain on ammo supply. Had this discussion with employees of a LGS that I know well.
....i see you got your Economics degree with AOC....
supply and demand in a nutshell for non-communists "i have something, i charge what you will pay for it......if i have something, and 2 people want it, whomever pays the most get it"
it doesnt matter what i pay for it....it matters what YOU will pay for it.
i sold a used G17 for over new cost not long ago......thats a $350-400 gun all day long normally......however with all the guns being snatched up, i was able to sell it for $600, the cost to me for the glock didnt change....the price someone was willing to pay did.
i love all these first time gun buyers acting all shocked about election year ammo price.
Check AmmoSeek. Plenty of it out there if youre willing to pay the piper.
A quick look there shows tons of 308, unfortunately most of it Russkie.
45 ACP better if youre willing to pay $00.65 and up.
Perfect example--I got tired of high ammo prices for good ammo. So I started reloading. Even during this shortage, I've managed to score "loot" at cost (started in Feb). 0 Regulations Required. My demand is satisfied (well except for small pistol, but Im not trying that hard).
Last shortage I ran outta 22LR. Whoops Lesson Learned. 2 years ago $80 per 1000. Made a couple of purchases.
Yeah I miss cheap 9mm. Gonna be shootin a lot of good ol .45 that I load. 44 mags too.
223 shortage? Not in my house. Powder easy to find, small rifle primers at cost. Got brass cause I had a stash. Bullets sitting on the shelf. No shortage here. Do I miss cheap 223? yup. Can I still shoot 223? yup. ANd its not 55gr FMJ. Now i gots me some nice freedom seeds and lordy lordy we can use the same powder as 308 which I have a buttload of.
7.62x39? Available--not dirt cheap, but its around. AK COMRADES!
No 6.5 Creed on Ammo seek--but I just score 500 140gr ELD-M and what is this at Cabelas? Lapua Brass? No shortage for my new build. Where's that dman H4350----DING DING found it. Hmm whats this new IMR powder everyone is trying--maybe work up a load for that.
0 money spent this year for loaded ammo (ok I lied, I noticed I was running low on 9s, 223 just pre-pandemic and ordered 1k).
Brothers and Sisters of the 2a Community--take care of yourself and don't look to the government.
Last shortage I ran outta 22LR. Whoops Lesson Learned. 2 years ago $80 per 1000. Made a couple of purchases.
Yeah I miss cheap 9mm. Gonna be shootin a lot of good ol .45 that I load. 44 mags too.
223 shortage? Not in my house. Powder easy to find, small rifle primers at cost. Got brass cause I had a stash. Bullets sitting on the shelf. No shortage here. Do I miss cheap 223? yup. Can I still shoot 223? yup. ANd its not 55gr FMJ. Now i gots me some nice freedom seeds and lordy lordy we can use the same powder as 308 which I have a buttload of.
7.62x39? Available--not dirt cheap, but its around. AK COMRADES!
No 6.5 Creed on Ammo seek--but I just score 500 140gr ELD-M and what is this at Cabelas? Lapua Brass? No shortage for my new build. Where's that dman H4350----DING DING found it. Hmm whats this new IMR powder everyone is trying--maybe work up a load for that.
0 money spent this year for loaded ammo (ok I lied, I noticed I was running low on 9s, 223 just pre-pandemic and ordered 1k).
Brothers and Sisters of the 2a Community--take care of yourself and don't look to the government.
Seems you've stumbled upon an excellent business opportunity. Based on your logic start producing ammo at what you consider "reasonable" prices, meet market demand and you should have no problem securing a tidy profit. Maybe name your company "Socialist Munitions". 
To the OP, it's called "planning ahead" or "future outlook", but what do I know....I'm a "Boomer". Mac
OP keeps reading the thread but won't respond... maybe he has been educated....
One of my local guns stores...gone...couldn't get any supply so they were just paying rent and getting no income.
Reporting to his political Kommisar
"Comrade, the capitalist bourgeoisie are not buying it.....what next? May I offer them free steel cased 7.62x39?"
Omg these responses are hilarious! Yes 100% the government should stop crooked systems. You dopes. That’s the whole point of a government. Just look a ticket price, sold at $35 dollars for a seat, purchased by a person who then gets to sell it on a website for $250. There has been zero cost incurred to the manufacturer. Zero cost reflected due to inflation, 10 Major American companies do it and now you can’t see a show for less then $150 and we have 7 ticket corporations with 100s of millions in the pot and none of them helped their employees during covid.. they all bailed. You can’t honestly be serious defending that shit as the American way.
Has anyone noticed that gas prices have plummeted this year?
Where is the outrage? Why is no one complaining the supply and demand model forcing gas prices down?
oh right, no one complains when prices fall
Carry on, this is just part of the world we live in.
Where is the outrage? Why is no one complaining the supply and demand model forcing gas prices down?
oh right, no one complains when prices fall
Carry on, this is just part of the world we live in.
Nice small family run shop I used to go to closed two years ago. Ran by son that took it over from his dad and two coworkers were his early 20s sons.
Miss it, well outfitted for fishing, hunting, shooting - prices sucked but I still bought there on occasion.
Prices were based on economies of scale.
They died because a Cabelas opened about ten miles away.
Now the people of Sydney Nebraska feel the shop owners pain.
The OP is pushing veiled anti capitalism with the soft words left progressives use.
This is re-education for us. The slow trickle of a change in attitude from hearing a properly nuanced argument on a
topic that lends itself to it.
We are unaware that help is right around the corner if we vote correctly today because “we really ought to have Stronger regulations on that.....“
yadayada !
This is re-education for us. The slow trickle of a change in attitude from hearing a properly nuanced argument on a
topic that lends itself to it.
We are unaware that help is right around the corner if we vote correctly today because “we really ought to have Stronger regulations on that.....“
yadayada !
So dear Comrade, you want people's central government to make sure price is low for proletariat to see glorious display of culture?
Honestly Defending this "shit" so it doesn't turn into Soviet/Venezuela/PRC
DOn't like the cost. Don't buy it. Your gripes are not my concern. You may get cancer-but I am under no obligation to do jack squat. My concerns are mine and mine alone.
Here's the Beauty--no one forces you to stay and "take it" Go find your socialist paradise comrade, you won't be missed.
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And folks, the OP is the kind of person that votes. I erased my mini lecture...but it's mind boggling people cannot grasp supply vs demand or demand vs supply and that's not even getting into inventory vs just-in-time, etc.
Oh dear Lord. I see the OP is pissed about concert tickets too. Grow up man. It's called free market. Note, even concert promoters are doing this now, by either jacking the price way up (boo hoo) or guaranteeing first 10 rows or something. I've done that; but when it came out in the end, I always found it better to bend over and take it to get the seat I wanted on Stub Hub. Yes, it is painful, but how bad do you want it? (That's the point by the way). I sucked at selling tickets for the most part, but don't begrudge the people that do. In fact, I'd like to hug the person who put on Stub Hub the 2nd row ticket at the LA Forum for the last Rush show!!!!!!!! And yes, I paid out my ass for it, and have NEVER EVER, NOT ONCE, NOT a FEMTO-SECOND REGRETTED that decision. I could have bought a lot of nice stuff for that one ticket; but for me, that ticket was what I wanted (upgraded from 6th row) and thus I paid out the ass for it and it made (and still makes) me happy (except that I knew it was the last show ever).
Oh dear Lord. I see the OP is pissed about concert tickets too. Grow up man. It's called free market. Note, even concert promoters are doing this now, by either jacking the price way up (boo hoo) or guaranteeing first 10 rows or something. I've done that; but when it came out in the end, I always found it better to bend over and take it to get the seat I wanted on Stub Hub. Yes, it is painful, but how bad do you want it? (That's the point by the way). I sucked at selling tickets for the most part, but don't begrudge the people that do. In fact, I'd like to hug the person who put on Stub Hub the 2nd row ticket at the LA Forum for the last Rush show!!!!!!!! And yes, I paid out my ass for it, and have NEVER EVER, NOT ONCE, NOT a FEMTO-SECOND REGRETTED that decision. I could have bought a lot of nice stuff for that one ticket; but for me, that ticket was what I wanted (upgraded from 6th row) and thus I paid out the ass for it and it made (and still makes) me happy (except that I knew it was the last show ever).
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It’s called fair wage and labor protection... I voted republican and always have. I live in California and I’ve personally worked for POS that have 7 immigrant employees paying then 40% less on prevailing wage jobs using them all under a journeyman, apprentice license. The shit is real and It most certainly isn’t communism Hahahaha for real. Maybe if you got out from under that red white and blue rock you painted for yourself you might actually see the America most of us republicans have always voted for.
It’s not anti capitalism to believe in a fair wage and fair practice. it’s capitalism if you really want to get involved that re structured the the corporations defining healthcare costs in your sed national Obamacare. Many capitalistic enterprises Made out pretty good in that “socialist”
So you’ve seen aprx a $10 increase per box. That’s pretty understandable during covid and a “supply and demand situation” however there is in fact foul play involved here and we will continue to succumb to it with the morons on this page equating it to communism that a government might vote into laws regulating it. News flash ya’ll... that’s exactly what our
WTF? So you’re expecting a privately owned business that has fought through an unconstitutional forced closure, a complete loss of revenue stream/cash flow, a completely cod-locked chain of supply, and a practical seizure of his business if this election falls to the wrong side to cut you the buddy deal like you’ve been bros forever. It’s thinking such as this that has us in this current situation.
This reminds me of an old proverb commonly used at the head of the hollar. ‘This is the fuckin’ you get for the fuckin’ you got.’
How is that crooked? Sounds like a run of the mill wholesale/distribution contract to me. Don't like it? Don't buy the damn ticket. If everyone else feels the same way the current system will fail and a new one will take its place. This IS the American way.
Better yet, put together a platform that cuts out the middle men, make yourself rich in the process and provide the masses with access to live music at reasonable cost. Everyone wins.
You're digging a giant commie hole over here.
If an ammo supplier makes 10x his normal monthly income during a supply and demand epidemic, and does so for 4 months in a row, is it the consumers responsibility that they mis managed that income to cover the following depression. Let me ask you this, since your all pro capitalistic non communists. If your let go from a job and can’t afford your bills who’s fault is that? Is it the governments job to bail you out? Nope, is it your families job to bail you out? Nope, is it your employers job to bail you out? Nope, so why is the consumer responsible for the price increase for shops that made a killing and then went flat?
Move to canada!
Im not in need.
Just looking and if I saw something that hit my trip wire I would buy it.
Appears CMP has ammo at close to my "buy" prices but not close enough.
I have some classes 6-8 months out that I want to buy some 175 FGMM, XM193 and .45 ACP ball for.
While @1911addict42 wants restrictions to make their/theirs gun collection more valuable - hope they/them doesnt realize the false wisdom of that as their/their's door is broken down to confiscate their/their's nest egg - I am optimistic that sanity will return and I am going to feast upon the sweet carrion of those that have stockpiled and are willing to liquidate same at bargain prices.
Canada! Cant get the quantities to sell!!!! And there price is higher to buy it!!!
How are you asking the consumer and vendor to share the burden? It makes no sense.
So you are telling me that people under govt regulations cost more than people skiriting the rules, and the solution is MORE regulation?
Please tell us more.
Another Coastal Elite telling us flyover's how to live.
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Foul Play?
sources or GTFO.
There ain't no "we" brother. I'm not with you. You F'd up both coasts stay the hell away from the rest of us.
Shhhhhhh!
You have totally mixed up the two issues.
We are still currently a free market economy and have not yet slipped into the always failing Communist / Capitalist utopia.
Perhaps you should ask your Comrades down in Venezuela how "price protection" is working for them... as they starve...
The ammunition makers are free to charge whatever they wish and the consumers are free to buy or not buy as they wish from several different producers.
The producers, sellers and other people in the supply chain are responsible to do what is in their own best interest, which usually is a balance of getting as much profit / income as they can, while not being too high priced that they don't sell enough.
Keep in mind government loving comrade, that this year corporations all over the world were operating under business crushing government orders as well as huge tax hikes, and even more crippling government regulations, so they are doing what they must to keep going.
You are welcome to buy from another producer/supplier
You are welcome to go setup your own factory to produce the goods and sell them at "a fair price"
You could also just save your brass, buy reloading components and make your own.
The "invisible hand" of the market determines "fair".
It provides the best for the most if allowed to operate unfettered.
If you are finding yourself unserved by the market you should reassess your life decisions and perhaps seek development that makes you suitable to participate.
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics would have served you better than Womens Studies - sorry to be making you aware of the failure you got in your education system.
