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anyone buy brass at auction?

hackerhacker Member Posts: 162 ✭✭✭
edited September 2001 in General Discussion
i was looking at some listings for brass and bullets and it seems to me that the shipping charges would make most of it not such a good deal and yet every item was selling. am i wrong? i figure about $2.50-$3 is decent for a box (20) of once fired casings in the common calibers (30-30, 308, etc) and while i see some going for about this the shipping is often more than doubling the total cost. i mean, $7 for 3 boxes of 20 sounds good but then $5-$7 is added for shipping. am i wrong? is $12-$14 a good deal for 60 pieces of once fired brass? it sounds a little high to me.
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  • turboturbo Member Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hacker,I just won 40 new brass casings 45-70, and it is being shipped for $5.00 for all of them.
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  • edharoldedharold Member Posts: 465 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You're right shipping has to be considered, and the prices aren't usually all that cheap. For me it's often offset by the fact that I don't have to pay sales tax of almost 9%. I usually buy bulk brass from lock, stock and barrel and get the best of both. I feel the auctions are there for unusual items I can't get somewhere else, they are almost never cheap.
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  • hackerhacker Member Posts: 162 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ok turbo, so thats $2.50 per 20 just for shipping. i would want to pay no more than $4 for 20 cases so did you pay $3 for the lot? or is $4 per 20 on used 45-70 cases too good to expect?
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A while back I bought 200 rounds of new brass for my 22-250, shipping was $5 for all.
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I buy some that way. You just have to watch the price and shipping charges
    So many guns to buy. So little money.
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  • turboturbo Member Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When you buy brass at auction, like any other item the seller posts what S&H is, so you can make a determination what your wiling to pay, naturally you would figure in the shipping charge.I paid $5.00 s&h for 40 unfired cases.I saw a deal, where the seller was selling a die set and was throwing in 100 brass casings free. wasn't what I was looking for. But if I would have, it was a heck of deal at $5.50 for dies and casings, plus shipping.Deals are there you just need to hunt them down.
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  • bikrprchrbikrprchr Member Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As stated, the key is to factor shipping into the price you are willing to pay. I have bought several lots of 40 S&W nickel brass for around the $20 to $25 dollar bracket including freight. When the price gets above there, I just let them go on by. Eventually, the price comes back down, and I bid in again. Good luck,
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