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Are the prices ever coming down on components?!
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<blockquote data-quote="pacnwLWR" data-source="post: 2499446" data-attributes="member: 7741"><p>Supply and demand. The only reason prices are sky-high and remaining so is: there are people lined up around the block, at that price. Prices are unlikely to change until that aspect changes. And they shouldn't. After all, if Bob has a product that 50 people are clamoring for, and outbidding each other for, there's little reason Bob'd sell his product for anything less. </p><p></p><p>But, yeah, it's a pain. If failing to have stocked-up on an item, running out can be a very expensive proposition. Of course, a prime goal of having reloading stocks IS to weather the storm of non-availability if SHTF. Today's monkeyfest is an object lesson, if nothing else.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad so many new entrants exist, in the shooting sports. Good for them, for finally waking up. They'll thank us all, at some point, even if we never hear of it.</p><p></p><p>Primer prices are awful, right now. It's rare I see any primers in a shop. And, as many have noted, they sell out almost before they've finished stocking the shelf. On GunBroker, they're regularly going for $175-200 per 1000ct box, as compared to ~$35-45/bx a couple years ago. </p><p></p><p>Powder's bad, but seems to be improving. Still awful on auction websites (ie, GunBroker), but a lot of vendors have semi-reasonable pricing on the stuff. A nearby small shop has a couple dozen jugs of powder, often 2-3 jugs of fairly common stuff for rifle reloading ... at reasonable pricing. Yet, even those prices are up 25-30% on most powders, up from last year. Still, that beats the ~$75/lb + hazmat + shpg pricing that some vendors are charging. (Was lucky to pick up several 8lb jugs last year at estate sales before the pricing went sideways.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pacnwLWR, post: 2499446, member: 7741"] Supply and demand. The only reason prices are sky-high and remaining so is: there are people lined up around the block, at that price. Prices are unlikely to change until that aspect changes. And they shouldn't. After all, if Bob has a product that 50 people are clamoring for, and outbidding each other for, there's little reason Bob'd sell his product for anything less. But, yeah, it's a pain. If failing to have stocked-up on an item, running out can be a very expensive proposition. Of course, a prime goal of having reloading stocks IS to weather the storm of non-availability if SHTF. Today's monkeyfest is an object lesson, if nothing else. I'm glad so many new entrants exist, in the shooting sports. Good for them, for finally waking up. They'll thank us all, at some point, even if we never hear of it. Primer prices are awful, right now. It's rare I see any primers in a shop. And, as many have noted, they sell out almost before they've finished stocking the shelf. On GunBroker, they're regularly going for $175-200 per 1000ct box, as compared to ~$35-45/bx a couple years ago. Powder's bad, but seems to be improving. Still awful on auction websites (ie, GunBroker), but a lot of vendors have semi-reasonable pricing on the stuff. A nearby small shop has a couple dozen jugs of powder, often 2-3 jugs of fairly common stuff for rifle reloading ... at reasonable pricing. Yet, even those prices are up 25-30% on most powders, up from last year. Still, that beats the ~$75/lb + hazmat + shpg pricing that some vendors are charging. (Was lucky to pick up several 8lb jugs last year at estate sales before the pricing went sideways.) [/QUOTE]
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