Thread: Shit getting expensive

A short outage seems to be a way to ratchet up prices to the max any person can pay.
A bit like selling a property by tender. Not a fair price, just the maximum possible price.
I doubt that manufacturing and transport costs have gone up all that much and I'm optimistic that once most of the really desperate or really rich buyers have got their whack we'll start to see specials, deals and discounts. Holding my breath ....

Originally Posted by Bert 71

A brick of Winchester 22 power point used to be $25 when I bought my 10/22 as a young fella, was up to Shooters World in Gore every 2nd or 3rd Friday night to restock, ah the good old days!

In the early 80's if I bought a soup for lunch instead of a roll, it would pay for a box of 22 ammo each week. Jeez I was skinny back then.

these are gold, I have two of them, bugger

Books??

Originally Posted by Woody

Books??

Google this on eBay @Woody

The books , pethaps , but two Holland and Holland double rifles? Beautiful but a real worry to own at our age mate. Be nice to handle one though I must admit.

New Record..???

No not quite some cci250's went for $131 for 300 a few weeks back

I rember the local council use to give two .22 rounds for every possum tail you brought in. Pre possum fur being worth money. Wonder if they still do it.

Originally Posted by Woody

The books , pethaps , but two Holland and Holland double rifles? Beautiful but a real worry to own at our age mate. Be nice to handle one though I must admit.

@Woody, if I could afford two Holland and Holland doubles, I’d be able to put diesel in my Ute more often to come for a cuppa.
The two I own are a few steps below

Originally Posted by Maca49

@Woody, if I could afford two Holland and Holland doubles, I’d be able to put diesel in my Ute more often to come for a cuppa.
The two I own are a few steps below

A few steps below!,mate they are on another staircase!

Originally Posted by johnd

No not quite some cci250's went for $131 for 300 a few weeks back

What is it with TradeMe and people paying over the odds?

Is it the convenience aspect of not having to hunt out supplies from hole in the wall gunshops/suppliers (half the fun!) or is it a bit like farmers at auction agreeing to bid up each other's stock until some idiot actually pays full price for one?

Originally Posted by caberslash

What is it with TradeMe and people paying over the odds?

Is it the convenience aspect of not having to hunt out supplies from hole in the wall gunshops/suppliers (half the fun!) or is it a bit like farmers at auction agreeing to bid up each other's stock until some idiot actually pays full price for one?

Think it's more like zero stocks in shop plus don't know when there will be a shipment plus some firearms can only be only operated with certain components.

Originally Posted by johnd

A few steps below!,mate they are on another staircase!

Prices are coming down John, there’s a problem selling them in the UK at present! I was in Purdys, in London, looking at the rack, there was a SxS “Special NZ Edition”, this was 2007, asked the sale guy how much, about 90,000 pound. I asked who the fuck could afford that, they hold them in an unfinished state, You pay, they measure, they finish, 6 weeks wait, collect gun. He said you’d be amazed how many people walk in with a cheque book.
I bought a mugs, made in China, of Purdy design, 19 pound, it hangs in the gun room, with my doubles