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There's another dick selling them for $100 a tray, he even states he has shit tonnes of them so you can buy as many as you like :psychotic:
Condition used? Hell I've got a fortune sitting in the bin
Bitch, moan and spit, but this is how commerce works, buy something and sell it for more than you paid. The world has never been any other way. Words of advice for prospective Karen's: If you don't like it, don't buy it and learn to go without.
Sorry but we'll have to agree to disagree there, there is making a quick profit and there is totally ripping people off and at $100 a tray I would say that's the latter.
Far from a Karen here, I mean even double the purchase price would be steep but justifiable but 5x is beyond a joke.
I certainly won't be buying from people like that.
Gouging is gouging and it's a shitty thing to do.
That's my 2 cents and you are welcome to your own opinion, I'm certainly not trying to change your mind.
Presumably the buyer was happy to pay that, maybe in desperation, to obtain something he /she needed badly. I'm sure that person realised just how far over sensible pricing he / she paid. Gotta wonder why though.
If the seller is a decent person I would hope that some of that purchase price would be offered in refund to the buyer, after taking a fair margin for themselves.
It's a funny old world we live in currently but I hope some human decency might prevail here.
Glad I stocked up
My opinion is that if people want to buy them at that price, then that's their business.
What I have an issue with is when people gouge the fuck out of others who have no choice but to buy what they are selling. Thats taking advantage of a situation and your fellow man and shows that you are a piece of crap.
I did plan ahead and have enough, but does anyone actually know what the story is with primers and when NZ can expect to see new stock ?
But gm210s are like $23per 100?
There are primer companies/factories being built in the states to ease the pressure. But not until 2024 operational. Stock will dribble in during the year but no doubt they will soaked up in back orders! Flint lock muzzleloading is starting to look good again!
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Back orders are killing it moving forward if every retailer ran a limit and no back orders everybody would be steady . Unfortunately tom dick and harry have 30,900 primers each because they panicked and don’t think about the fact they only shoot 100 rounds a year and they have left 309 other shooters out of primers for their 100 a year
Make your own. There's plenty of Utube vids showing you how.
Not sure you are right.
Two years back we heard of a shortage, so my mates and I bought what we needed going forward. If everyone had done the same there wouldnt be this demand,NZ is a small market a long way from the source so expect to be a long way down the list.
Sadly a sign of the time , my local gunshop is selling primers at £110 per thousand , and he's low on stock , so double what this guy is asking . I guess he's upped the price as when new stock arrives it also has to be paid for .
I've enough to last a couple of years , but then I don't have a particularly high shot count.
i can understand the frustration for you guys low on primers ..... im good for primers but am in the same conundrum for powder an 30 cal projectiles (i know theres plenty of those out there but the price has gone up one guy on the big yellow clearly selling them for more thn he paid cos the retail tags are still on the boxes)but i blame myself for not stocking up when they were aplenty or selling stuff i thought i would never need.
is it really any different than say someone buying a new monaro back in the 70s for 10or 20k (or whatever they were worth ) and putting it up for sale for 500k + ?).....now before you say thats different the same happened when holden announced it was shutting its doors there was a run on commodores that will show up on the market, when all the ones currently on the market shit themselves, at an extremely inflated price ..........
or like the time i bought a leupy m8 for $20 and onsold it for $259......
supply and demand is an unforgiving beast .......the alternative is communism and the state will have everything and we will have nothing......
Not ever having had the inclination to reload has put me in a position where this is not an issue for me. The primers that I use come seated in a pocket at the arse end of a brass shell and just behind varying quantities and types of powder and at least ten different sizes of projectiles. But in a similar vein to this discussion, “fuck ammo is getting expensive”. Back in the seventies, I studied economics and as I recall, the first thing I learned was that “if demand exceeds supply then prices will go up” and conversely, “if supply exceeds demand then prices will go down”. These are universal laws and just like the law of gravity, it will not change anytime soon. Unfortunately we are a tiny little nothing in the middle of nowhere and that also adversely factors into our buying position.
I remember copping shit for stocking up years ago, then replacing stock as I used it. Doesn't seem so silly now does it?
This was interesting…
Prices for Ammo, powder and projectiles have returned to near pre pandemic prices in the United States.
Hopefully not to long until here as well [emoji1303]
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Need to stop doing this….. “ we so small, we so tiny”
NZ is incredibly high up the list of private gun ownership per capita/country. I think in the top 20. We are a serious hunting and shooting economy for vendors, suppliers and distributors.
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I drive pass a few sports shops between TeAnu and Christchurch twice a yr.Getting ammo not a problem.I only use about 4pkts a year of quality ammo.You just gota keep an eye on yr supply and plan ahead.
It must be hard for the competition shooters,shooting 1000rds a year.Guess they try to keep well stock.Good luck with that.
I told that scummer Luke from Rangiora he was an ASSHOLE for trying to sell a 200 CCI primers for $99 and the dickhead accused me of being a Labour supporter! Clearly he must be a Labour party member if he's so willing to fuck over fellow shooters! Fyi I'm an ACT supporter all the way, only party with any brains!
Our population is very small,but theres hope as one area in the USA has 35 million people affected by flooding.So we might get some hunting supplies that were destin for them.
Yeah and there's also a time honored saying of; treat others how you want to be treated.
If you want to make a quick buck and be a cun+ yeah sure go for but in turn expect others in a small community to take note and treat you like one when you need something.
So next time you need something and it's doubled, trippled or worse in price and it's for sale just remember you aspire this kind of carry on.
All good, thanks for the offer tho mate, happy hunting in Norway, hope to get over there sometime to visit my partners best friend.
Cripes there is some paradoxical thinking here.
So what if primers were posted on Trademe for $1/100 with no reserve and they were run up by buyers to the same sorts of price or greater than what kicked this thread off. Who would you lambast then?? 'Cos that's the demand side playing out in a tight market. True Act market love.
On the other hand we could all agree on what the maximum price for primers should be and lock up anyone who dared to sell primers over and above that. We could control the primer market. That's true Labour market control.
The primers I quoted were not $1 reserve bidded up to $100 that is the start price, for clarity if people want to bid up to unreasonable prices that's on them. I don't agree with what is quite clearly gouging at 5x retail cost. Last I'll be commentimg on this thread, clearly there are 2 schools of thought on this and maybe I'm old fashioned but charging people 5x the cost of a reail consumable (not a collecters piece) just doesn't sit right with me.
Irrespective of where we sit on gun ownership per capital, I would suggest that our consumption of ammo is so inconsequential that were we to completely stop consuming for a decade it would not noticeably alter the profitability graph of any global supplier. Five million people at the bottom of the world are simply not that important to any global supplier of anything.
Not a Labour's supporter, so I don't go about "aspiring " to anything. Feel free to find someone on this forum that can claim I overcharged, ripped off. Took advantage of......... Pssst, keep it on the quiet, but I have a few trays of LR primers I was thinking about selling now the price is getting up there - you want first dibs? $50 a tray seems fair.....