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.22LR Ammo and Lighted Tunnels
MemphisJim1
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We've all experienced, lamented and cursed the current .22LR availability situation. So far, I've seen episodic and anecdotal evidence the proverbial worm may be turning. Over on the auction side of the house, the gougers offering hideously overpriced 40 gr. CCI MiniMags (my universal "go to" round and the one I track) increasingly are seeing their lots go unbid on. Others who are offering less-than-hideously-overpriced rounds (but still overpriced by any measure) are moving the goods. Yes, it's a free market economy and sellers may post their prices wherever they want and bidders are free to go after the goods...or sit on their wallets. But, there seems to be a trend developing. Locally, some of the big box stores are seeing larger shipments of .22LR come in. Sometimes they don't even sell out for a day or two. Maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel. Then again, may just be the next train comin' through, too.
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Small victories
Just give it a few weeks of no one paying stupid prices and watch how fast things come back.
The problem has never been the sellers.
In a free market they have a right to ask whatever they want.
It is the buyers not exercising their free market right of refusing to pay high prices that has created this problem.
Wulfmann
"Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
Otto von Bismarck
why not take 55/1000 and sell and 10 times as fast as the guy asking for 65/1000
not like the margins arent there!
Jw
What the heck will everyone * about when the .22 ammo is sitting on the shelves.
"Durn blast all this .22 ammo taking up all the shelf space ... wish they'd leave room for _________"
[:o)] [:p] [:)] [:D] [}:)]
What the heck will everyone * about when the .22 ammo is sitting on the shelves.
ask doc......................
the smart ones are selling at these still stupid high prices
why not take 55/1000 and sell and 10 times as fast as the guy asking for 65/1000
not like the margins arent there!
The margins really aren't there since there are the "extraordinary" costs most of the "high-priced" resellers have. Remember, most of them are buying at retail (including paying sales tax), then re-selling online.
It takes time to drive around to stores, "striking out" and not finding any at most stops, and even when they do find it available, the listings, communications, packaging to resell on-line all takes time.
The "price gougers" don't have it as easy as many of you seem to think.
the smart ones are selling at these still stupid high prices
I must be the dim bulb in the box 'cause I'm still sittin' on a case and a half of Federal 22 LR.
We've all experienced, lamented and cursed the current .22LR availability situation. So far, I've seen episodic and anecdotal evidence the proverbial worm may be turning. Over on the auction side of the house, the gougers offering hideously overpriced 40 gr. CCI MiniMags (my universal "go to" round and the one I track) increasingly are seeing their lots go unbid on. Others who are offering less-than-hideously-overpriced rounds (but still overpriced by any measure) are moving the goods. Yes, it's a free market economy and sellers may post their prices wherever they want and bidders are free to go after the goods...or sit on their wallets. But, there seems to be a trend developing. Locally, some of the big box stores are seeing larger shipments of .22LR come in. Sometimes they don't even sell out for a day or two. Maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel. Then again, may just be the next train comin' through, too.
It's just so hard to know what sort of tunnel, or train, we are dealing with here ...
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Some will fall in love with life
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quote:Originally posted by competentone
quote:Originally posted by tsavo303
the smart ones are selling at these still stupid high prices
why not take 55/1000 and sell and 10 times as fast as the guy asking for 65/1000
not like the margins arent there!
The margins really aren't there since there are the "extraordinary" costs most of the "high-priced" resellers have. Remember, most of them are buying at retail (including paying sales tax), then re-selling online.
It takes time to drive around to stores, "striking out" and not finding any at most stops, and even when they do find it available, the listings, communications, packaging to resell on-line all takes time.
The "price gougers" don't have it as easy as many of you seem to think.
I see no evidence suggesting and end to the shortage any time soon.
I have never * about this situation. I have commented on it.
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