widespread price-gouging

[Texan2]

If you don't like the price don't buy it and move on.

Some folks think it is their right to have access to goods at the price they deem is reasonable.

 

[Sugar Land]

Well some folks think wrong.

 

[TheDan]

Some folks think it is their right to have access to goods at the price they deem is reasonable.

A communist would say that if keeping and bearing arms is a right, then the government should provide arms to the people.

 

[no cigar]

If someone did that I would not have an issue. Its been done in the silver market, gold market, in fact in the stock market its done everyday.

If someone can't afford to drive a car, that's unfortunate, but such is life. You have no "right" to drive a car.

To me this is just an utterly pompous response.

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[Texan2]

To me this is just an utterly pompous response.

Yet entirely factual.

 

[zen1300]

I read think s thread. I feel cheated. Most threads I read for five minutes provide some worth.

The whine factor is outrageous.

The answer was in the first few posts... don't buy it people.

If you have a beef with the figures, please state what specific actions you have taken to fix the problem? What choices have you made?

Or have you just sat back and complained? And if so, have you evaluated truly why it upsets you? Is it truly the moral/ethical aspect, in which I assume you champion many other moral/ethical issues?

Or is it simply that you didn't get what you wanted?

Movie theaters have been "gouging" for popcorn, soda, and candy for years? People have choices and have accepted to pay these prices.

As my six year old says, "you get what you get and don't throw a fit!"

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[PPTerry]

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[Texan2]

Hhmmm....Some people think progressivism, socialism, and communism are right & reasonable, as well. Unfortunately if they have such rights, the rest of us will find ourselves in the same state. At my age I would prefer to weather the effects of free-market capitalism, rather than journey further down the slippery-slope towards where I am loathe to travel.

+1

 

[Sapper740]

Supply and demand yes but how many guys are going to the pumps, filling up whatever they can with gas until the pumps are dry, then they turn around to resell it to you for $15 a gallon because you can't get it elsewhere? You mean to tell me you wouldn't have a fit over guys doing that? You don't need gas for you car, walk or ride a bike. Cars are a luxury item.

Where is this happening?

 

[Kyle]

The level of intellectual dishonesty here is amazing.

 

[TheDan]

Most threads I read for five minutes provide some worth.
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The answer was in the first few posts...

The answer is always on the first or second page. Everything from the third page on is just an intellectual circle jerk. Threads like this do have some worth, however... they are always entertaining.

 

[doublenut9]

Prices were outrageous for a while, but i think they are coming down to somewhat of a norm. I am buying .22lr for around .06-.08 cents a round. Not a cheap as it was, but much better than in the last couple of months. You just have to shop and look.
Capitalism works both ways. If we don't pay high prices...they don't sell and the price will come down.

 

[karlac]

Prices were outrageous for a while, but i think they are coming down to somewhat of a norm. I am buying .22lr for around .06-.08 cents a round. Not a cheap as it was, but much better than in the last couple of months. You just have to shop and look.
Capitalism works both ways. If we don't pay high prices...they don't sell and the price will come down.

Because my youngest daughter, who boomeranged in after college, has suddenly taken an interest in target shooting, I decided to up my minimum inventory of .22lr in the safe to 2,000 rounds.

It has taken me almost six months to get there at less than .07/rd, but I finally realized that goal this morning when UPS delivered a 500/rd brick from Cabelas for $23.99 (shipping was cut down to less than penny a round by purchasing other much needed items at the same time).

(OK, so it is dirty old Golden Bullets, but at this stage as long as it goes bang, and I clean up, and she could care less)

Just wanted you guys to know I'm finished "hoarding" now, and you can have what's left. LOL

 

[Vaquero]

Because my youngest daughter, who boomeranged in after college, has suddenly taken an interest in target shooting, I decided to up my minimum inventory of .22lr in the safe to 2,000 rounds.

It has taken me almost six months to get there at less than .07/rd, but I finally realized that goal this morning when UPS delivered a 500/rd brick from Cabelas for $23.99 (shipping was cut down to less than penny a round by purchasing other much needed items at the same time).

(OK, so it is dirty old Golden Bullets, but at this stage as long as it goes bang, and I clean up, and she could care less)

Just wanted you guys to know I'm finished "hoarding" now, and you can have what's left. LOL

That reminds me. It's thursday, gotta hit wally world.

 

[karlac]

My baby sister, foreman on my Dad's racehorse farm, called me yesterday from wally world in Bryan/College Station and said she was looking at a shelf of CCI minimags for $6.95/100. Limit was three and she wanted to know if I needed any.

Re my post above, I actually told to buy just what she needed and leave the rest for someone else ... might not have done that a month ago, being the greedy bustard I am.

 

[Richardito]

It is what it is. What more can we add?

 

[Southpaw]

That reminds me. It's thursday, gotta hit wally world.

Seen a line of about 10 guys outside my Academy this morning.

 

[shortround]

At a Wally in SA yesterday, they had Winchester white box 9mm 100/bx, Federal .223 Rem 100/bx, and Federal .45 Auto 100/bx.

I bought one of each, cash.

The fellow standing next to me wanted his entire rationed allotment of those elusive 9mm's.

When he did not have cash in pocket, he pulled out a card that did not go through, and the clerk returned the ammo to the shelf.

He was an older guy who told the clerk that he was buying for "friends." Too bad his friends did not give him cash up front to buy the ammo.

It is what it is, and the ammo bought yesterday will be shot by the end of the month!

Rationing and price controls are a socialist/marxist concept. Wally buys in to that system to keep the government off their backs.

Someday, Wally will raise prices on ammo to reduce demand in order to reach equilibrium.