Gouging

Toilet paper. They didn't raise the price of toilet paper. People hoarded it and the shelves ran dry. Some people couldn't wipe their bum. I saw no out cry, and still they hoarded. People hoarded wet wipes until the shelves ran dry. Some people couldn't wipe they bum. I saw no out cry, and still they hoarded. People hoarded bullets and primers until the shelves ran dry. Some people couldn't go to the range....oh the humanity.
 
Jeppo said:
Decisions
Decisions :rolleyes:

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This is exactly what I'm talking about. They have the right to ask whatever they want, but everyone also has the right to say no. I wonder how many they actually sold at those prices? To me, just asking those prices tells me they would try to screw their own grandmother out of her false teeth if they thought they could get away with it.


Goofyfoot2001 said:
Toilet paper. They didn't raise the price of toilet paper. People hoarded it and the shelves ran dry. Some people couldn't wipe their bum. I saw no out cry, and still they hoarded. People hoarded wet wipes until the shelves ran dry. Some people couldn't wipe they bum. I saw no out cry, and still they hoarded. People hoarded bullets and primers until the shelves ran dry. Some people couldn't go to the range....oh the humanity.
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But I've not seen anyone who hoarded TP try to resell it to their neighbors or friends for 600 times what they paid for it.

I use rubbing alcohol for wiping down a piece of equipment between each use at the office. People are scarfing up rubbing alcohol and it's about as plentiful as hen's teeth. I did find one local CVS pharmacy that did have some, but you had to ASK for it at the checkout register. They wanted $4.95 for a 16 oz. bottle, which normally cost ninety-eight cents. I told the clerk, "No thanks, I don't need it THAT bad." and left. I constantly check the dollar stores and Wally-world. They do get shipments of it, but when they do, it's gone in less than an hour. I've hit it just right a few times, and was able to buy a bottle because they put a limit of one-per-customer. When I was down to our last bottle at the office, I did buy 1, then went back and bought one more, and checked out through a different check-out register. One time in a dollar store, they had just received a new shipment, and had a sign limiting 4 bottles per customer. I only bought 2 because we still had a new bottle at the office, and I didn't need to contribute to the hoarding problem. BUT THEY DIDN'T RAISE THE PRICE TO $20.00 PER BOTTLE!

In my experience, a crisis brings out both the best and the worst in people.
 
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Harold2689 said:
I did find one local CVS pharmacy that did have some, but you had to ASK for it at the checkout register. They wanted $4.95 for a 16 oz. bottle, which normally cost ninety-eight cents.
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I believe there is a link between those two. The second might even cause the first.
 
Curmudgeon said:
Really need to figure out how to recycle the used ones ;)
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A few years ago, at the Greenville Gun Show, I ran across a guy who was doing exactly that. He had a friend who was a chemist, and together they (his chemist friend) developed a compound that allowed him to recycle used primers. Most of the other people who tried "reloading" primers were using toy paper "caps" as the ignition compound. They were "hit-and-miss" whether or not they would work. His friend's formula worked 100% of the time, and their testing proved it was every bit as effective as commercial primers. I still have all of his info stored away "just in case," but I have never tried it.

I tinkered with his process of taking the anvil out of the primer, and tapping out the dimple made by the first firing, but I still haven't figured out how to get the anvil properly replaced. I didn't even try to make the compound. He advised that it is 100% safe up until you mix in the very last ingredient, at which point it becomes sensitive to impact. At that point, he wets it with alcohol to reduce that sensitivity, and puts a tiny dab inside the primer cap, and replaces the anvil. When the alcohol dries, it becomes a regular primer.

He said it was NOT economical, it is NOT convenient, it is NOT cost effective, and it CAN be very dangerous. But in a SHTF situation, it could be a skill that might allow you to continue to protect or feed yourself.
 
Harold2689 said:
To me, just asking those prices tells me they would try to screw their own grandmother out of her false teeth if they thought they could get away with it.
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I’ll take that as just hyperbole.

Just because someone is a shrewd business-person does not mean they don’t also look after their own. Our perspective is wildly different clearly. I worked on straight commission (by choice, giving up salary, bonus and company car) for 25 years and was self employed the last half of that. I make money where I can and will sell to strangers, be they persons or business entities, for whatever I can get.

You’ve got to delineate between business and personal. I gave away ammo on here during the frst two months of the pandemic and gave one of my grown kids $150 worth of ammo a couple of weeks ago (and he works in a busy gun shop, but couldn’t find what he needed), so stop with the judgey crap. You’ve made your point.
 
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My wife and I went to the Spartanburg gun show today. Ammo was very expensive, and I found one guy selling Winchester WSP primers for FIFTY DOLLARS for a box of 1000! Same guy had a 1 pound container of powder (I don't remember what it was) priced at FORTY DOLLARS. He also had a single 8-lb container of powder priced at THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!

I'm sorry, that's GOUGING in my book...

We really didn't buy anything, except that I bought a handguard removal tool for an AR-15. That was the only tool I didn't have, and I got it for $10.00 That was a good price because it wasn't anything that could go, "Bang!"
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You should have bought those primers. They will bring more than that.
 
fieldgrade said:
I’ll take that as just hyperbole.

Just because someone is a shrewd business-person does not mean they don’t also look after there own. Our perspective is wildly different clearly. I worked on straight commission (by choice, giving up salary, bonus and company car) for 25 years and was self employed the last half of that. I make money where I can and will sell to strangers, be they persons or business entities, for whatever I can get.

You’ve got to delineate between business and personal. I gave away ammo on here during the frst two months of the pandemic and gave one of my grown kids $150 worth of ammo a couple of weeks ago (and he works in a busy gun shop, but couldn’t find what he needed), so stop with the judgey crap. You’ve made your point.
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You are/were a businessman. I also stated in one of my earlier posts that I never was and never will be a businessman. I only used "Grandma" as a figurative expression to mean that he would make money off of anyone he could, and you verified that.
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I make money where I can and will sell to strangers, be they persons or business entities, for whatever I can get.
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That's fine if you're in it just to make money. (and why else would you be in it?) You must have been good at it because you made money. God bless you! But if at any time, especially in a "crises," you choose to try to separate too much money from someone, they have the option of saying, "no," and moving on.

fieldgrade said:
stop with the judgey crap. You’ve made your point.
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So, is it not possible to have differing opinions without being considered "judgey"? Lighten up and read my signature line.
 
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