Buyer Beware

Gouging already taking place in the Trading Post. Do you home work and research before buying.

9mm ammo? Saw one last night or this morning.

Saddle up...the rodeo is back in town....

Yep, let the goofiness begin.

I knew it was coming

I’m gonna check it and see how bad it is

He doubled the normal price.

What’s he selling?

I jumped to the guns but I’m grilling at the moment

Nothing jumped out at me.

I’ll check back later this evening when I have more time

9mm been selling under $200 a 1000 doesn’t jump to $350 over night.

Not sure I would call it gouging. Its not exactly something you have to have. And Its not the same world we lived in a week ago either. Last weeks price of $9 per box is over for the foreseeable future.

And I saw some rifle ammo a couple of days ago on here that was double what it can be bought for anywhere right now.

It was $149 w/free shipping a week ago. I hope he doesn't even own a 9mm and has to suck the loss.

I just put some .380 on there for less than retail. Not everyone looks to make a buck in a time of need.

That's my point.....ammo is not a "need".

I guess you don't "need" your guns either? One won't work without the other.

Nope. Plenty of people all across the globe that survive without guns and ammo. For the first 18 years of my life I survived without either one.

Food, water, shelter, clothing, and in some cases meds and medical supplies are "needs".

I only survived 8 yrs before my first gun. Been uphill ever since. You may not one but you better have one.

He who walks through paradise unarmed, had best be sure that's where he is.

nice

signature worthy

Words of wisdom....

I don't disagree. Heck I started carrying a gun with me yesterday for the first time in over a year. I use to never leave home without it. Things changed quickly though and we aint seen the worst of it either.

I’d tread lightly. I do not agree with what he’s doing, and is why I posted earlier in this thread, but bringing it up in his for sale thread can get you banned.
Having said that, I’m loving that thread!!!

Wonder why that thread got deleted?

Texas Gun Trader prices are straight up stupid. Was just at Academy buying some wood to smoke prop shoulders and they’re limiting to 3 boxes total. That said, the ammo isle looked totally wiped out but there were 20 guys looking.

LOL.

I guess it works sometimes.

Hey,m I'm all for capitalism and free enterprise but take that "bending someone over" crap some place else.

I’m about to post 1000 rounds or AP BT M85559451 strait from us military for $750 per 1000 it anyone is interested.

It’s not capitalism to reap the benefits of a disaster. Capitalism is creating a ground breaking product in normal times and selling it for profit.

You can only charge what someone is willing to pay.

Sounds like a deal. I have what your looking for. I know a guy.

Most of us are grown men/women, so we know a lousy or slimy deal when we see it. I just don't see a need for a posse to explain to other people that some ammo is way overpriced. I see guns for sale here that are priced way, way past reality. We leave them alone based on the rules here.

A more effective approach might be to remember their actions. On this site, reputation is everything. If a person chooses to ruin their reputation, that's on them. Think of how many of us (yes, ME too) still refuse to deal with Cheaper than Dirt after all of these years.

Respectfully,
Marc

Here we go again. Same conversation every time. Righteous indignation from the altruistic, confusion regarding extortion and capitalism by the apologists.

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Sometimes it’s just funny to see how people react. Some of us never grow up. I’m trying.

His name is added to my very short list of people who I won't buy anything from and who I won't sell anything to.

Excellent post Sir. Hit the nail on the head

Momma said . . . . . so I won’t say nuthin at all

Personally been loading up on super cheap ammo and added quite a few firearms in the last three years since Trump got elected....like historically cheap, less than I paid in the '90s not even counting inflation, like the actual price. Totally stocked now knowing something like this would happen. I mean, not even counting the corona, but with the upcoming election with one side crowing about taking guns. Been through this enough times to know when to buy.

Are Pmags going for $80 again? I’ll sell some lol

I’ve bought and/or sold very few things here. That said, I don’t see the problem.
If someone wants to puta value on something they own, it’s their business. If I don’t like the price, I move on.

Yep. Free market = willing seller and willing buyer.

I agree...I also use my ignore feature. If I have someone on ignore it isn't because they hurt my feeling or upset me it's because they are a tool and it's a good reminder to my future self to steer clear of that douchebag!

Can you see this post?

Could someone tell me what KR Hathcock said?

Richard...

9mm was .18 per round

Now "starting" at .38 per round

that's gouging NOT Capitalism, NOT supply and demand

Just Richards, Like the guy who almost got tarred and feathered for buying up all the hand sanitizer and gouging, He thought he was smart TILL he was found.....just sayin

https://www.natchezss.com/checkout/cart/

218 shipped at natchezz, limit 1 for anyone looking...delayed delivery

His ad is back up but now for $300. Claims he paid $250.

im going to leave it alone i think. i did post a link to natchez having the exact same ammo in stock right now @$200.00. Every other gun sales page im apart of would let you post a link to that in his thread, but i dont think that'll be as well recieved here. hopefully people see my link to natchez and ignore him.

Just a friendly suggestion....

which is BS. you wouldnt overpay for something, hoping you could then mark it up. people who pay 250 for 1000 rounds of fmj know its worth $170-$200 and are buying it because of percieved need. you would never pay that price and hope to flip it.

Why is it worth that much time for $50 anyway? Goodness, go get a normal job and create value rather than just buying for a buck and selling for two.

Really?? What do you think distributors and retailers do?? Hint: they buy from manufacturers and resell for more money. Literally millions of people in this country do exactly this for a living, including me.

but not just one case

What's price gouging today, might be a smoking deal in a month. How is this price gouging? He's not selling overpriced food to staving people. If you waited till now to buy ammo after years of historically low prices, then you should pay the going rate. Supply and demand.

Take me off ignore if you want your bolt

Just because it doesnt meet the legal definition of price gouging punishable by law, that doesnt make it right. and hes not selling at the going rate. going rate right now is $.20 cpr. If he wanted to list it on armslist, or texasguntrader or something, i would care as much. But the THF is more of a community than those places, and it is a scummy thing to do. Scummy people should be called out. Thats how people stop being scummy.

We got another bargain in the classifieds!

OK I got a question for the price police.

I have several boxes of 20 gauge slugs I have been meaning to sell for awhile now but there hasn't been any demand so it hasn't been worth my time. Looks like the going price "was" about $5+ when they could still be found. Today they are all sold out everywhere I look online. So is it wrong for me to ask full retail of $5 per box for pre owned ammo? Im not making a dime at that price but its dang sure more than pre owned ammo was worth a week ago.

Serious question because I really am going to sell it.

Shockingly...you’re not on that list

You guys better get to work. Lots of “overpriced” ammo out in internet land. Someone’s gotta be the sheriff:

https://ammunitionstore.com/product...i-blazer-brass-5200-1000-round-case.html

https://www.ammunitiontogo.com/product_info.php/pName/1000rds-9mm-wolf-115gr-fmj-ammo

An item is worth as much as the purchaser is willing to pay for it.

On September 11th 2001 I bet you could have sold a $600 parachute for a few million dollars to the right person at the right place.

Poor, distasteful example.

Couldn’t care less what a business does. I do care when people come into a smaller community like the THF and try to do that. If somebody wants to buy expensive ammo or ARs, that’s up to them, but I atleast want to make sure they understand they are paying too much. Shortly after the Newtown shooting, my dad who hadn’t bought ammo in years decided he needed to stock up on a few boxes. He had zero idea what the ammo was worth, he walked into a local gun store and paid $50 a brick for .22 and $35 a box for 9mm fmj. If somebody would have told him in that shop, hey by the way, this is way more than it’s worth, he would have thought twice.

X2

I'm not politically correct and never will be. I'm also pretty darn it offencive. That example was also intended to be hyperbole.

I have to say that I'm not real pleased with a member of our community treating other members in this fashion. We're friends here, save the high prices for the chumps

It’s one thing for someone to offer it. And another to ask it knowing the situation. There’s no shortage just a bunch of idiots creating false panic.

They’re coming out of the wood work tonight in the classifieds.

Hell even I may be able to sell something this weekend.

Wouldn’t mind selling a glock for 3500

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/859313683

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/861400152

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/861684693

Can't really fault the guys selling the PMags...they started them at a penny.

Yea and that’s really not that bad either they’re $12.80 on midway or were last week. With current bid at $13.70 I wouldn’t say that is gouging and as you said they started at 1 penny.

Yeah I realized after doing some 3rd grade math that they're about on point for price, the colt though...

That's what i did after Sandy Hook, let the market drive the price. Zero reserve, penny start, most sold in the $60-75 range.

Didn’t one of your case of 100 pmags sell for 5k after sandy hook?

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The dude w/the Glocks now has a p365 for $900. I bought one a few months ago for $348 delivered + $15 for FFL transfer. His username is 'soap' & yet he's very dirty.

They never learn.

Same here...sold a metric ton of PMags along with stripped receivers, SCAR 16 and SCAR 17 rifles. Buyers drove the price up.

He won't sell them on here that's for sure. Spread the word on that dude.

There’s a guy on the fishing forum selling 223 for 900 a 1000.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/862454754

Same package deal with one more mag.

So let me make sure I understand the THF perspective:

1. Perfectly OK to sell something at an exorbitant price if the “market drives the price up” even if it is a “necessity” such as a firearm or ammo.

2. THF’ers are too stupid to price check things in the classifieds, so we have to look out for the imbeciles.

3. People that sell items that the THF collective determines are too high in price are perfectly OK to call out and shame, despite the clear THF rules to the contrary.

Did I miss anything??

You easily observed that too, huh? Then obviously rules only apply to some. Way ta go!

Y'all ever heard of the invisible hand?

Im really surprised that hi-cap magazines haven't sold out everywhere by now. I am sure they have at local stores but still available online with little to no mark up.

PSA has their prices sky high right now.

https://palmettostatearmory.com/cci-5200-9mm-115-grain-1000-round-bulk-pack-cc5000bk1000.html

used to be $179.99 beginning of the year.

From a business standpoint, it makes sense. They either have to jack up prices, or they're going to be a business with no product.