Simply do not understand

joker19

WHY, again WHY would someone bid $220 for 3000 CCI small rifle primers when you can get them in two weeks from Cabela's for $29 per 1000????? I have bought so many from them and others for that price and never fail to get them within two weeks. I think people get into a bidding finzy or simply drink too much when they are on line. My last order was from Cabela's for 5000 CCI small rifle and I paid $149.95 plus $20 hazard and $7.95 S&H and received them in a little over 12 days???? I MUST be missing something here. There are a lot of foolish bidders on Gun broker and it never seems to stop. Look around and you can save a bundle........just a passing thought.

ThirtyAughtSix

I have had 1000 Federal Large Rifle primers on backorder from Cabela's since 4/4/2009, they said it would be two weeks... as of today my order says 1-2 weeks, it just resets itself every month. Are you ordering them from the actual store front or something cause I'm dying for small pistol primers but won't pay the nutball prices for those auctions...

EDIT: 2009, not 08, I wish it was still 08, I'd buy 10,000 Primers for $300 [:(]

Rocky Raab

It all complies quite nicely with Rocky's Rule of Intelligence: Fifty percent of people are below average.

Stupid people will continue to do stupid things, until the last human is gone. In fact, stupid people doing stupid things might CAUSE humans to be gone.

joker19

As a matter of fact I ordered from the on line Cabela's and have never had a reset of time. I think the longest I waited was a little over 25 days for large pistol magnum...go figure.

jonk

I've been backordered since April as well. Not with Cabelas though. Grafs.

mbsams

I ordered large rifle primers from Cabelas a couple months ago - still on back order.

ThirtyAughtSix

joker19: what brand were you able to get? I know the govt gets theirs before anybody else and I've been trying to get Federal Large Rifle... So maybe other brands are getting to Cabela's and just not Federal's? Let me know. Thanks!

Rocky Raab

My local dealer gets Federal primers in on a fairly regular basis - but all Gold Medal Match. No standards at all, due to the mil and police contracts and their own ammo needs.

danjkolb

I sometimes wonder why anyone buys anything on gunbroker. There are some deals that go through, but everything is mostly overpriced, plus shipping plus ffl fees. it ends up being about 40 dollars over a ripoff for anything lol. It seems like just a venue for certain people to take advantage of eager beavers.

I paid 40 bucks per thousand for federal primers at a gun show over the weekend and I felt violated. not too bad considering he was asking 50 per thousand and all i had to do was ask him to go down to 40 and he did. lets see....at that rate i could still double up putting them on gunbroker.

Rocky Raab

That is, apparently, what some are doing: buy a thousand, sell at double the price, then buy two thousand and sell them at ... and so on.

It's capitalism, for sure; on the same level as selling ice for $50 a bag after a hurricane. In simpler times even in this country, that kind of thing could get you dragged behind the barn and summarily whupped. Today, such shenanigans are safer because they're shielded by the anonymity of the 'net. A shame, in my view.