Impossible to sell at a fair price

[imschur]

I watched a local forum where members were selling AR-15's and magazines for very reasonable prices only to watch a few folks snatch it all up and sell at the now current market rate immediately on taking possession.

:confused:

[Madhouse]

Dirty bastards, taking advantage of people.  It's about like stealing.

[asmurff]

Got me to go looking we have local site for guns sales, I saw Bushmasters from $1200-3500, Kel Tec .223 rifles at double their normal price and one at $1000.

Plus some wag had posted a M4 clone for $3500, but it was a plastic toy rifle in Zombie colors and light-up barrel.

[techmike]

Plus some wag had posted a M4 clone for $3500, but it was a plastic toy rifle in Zombie colors and light-up barrel.

Ohhh. Want. ;D

Yeah, know what you mean. Some one is trying to sell a KelTek .223 on an Ohio website for $1200+.

[Longitude Zero]

Fact of life when supply and demand work their magic.  Fear driven demand raises the possibility/certainty of profligate profiteering.

[Tal]

These folks

http://www.ajcgunshop.com/

Have advertised in the local papers they got plenty of AR's and large capacity mags for sale. Have not called for prices.

[Madhouse]

I've bought several guns from ajc, sure hope they're not on the gouging bandwagon.

[Tal]

I've bought several guns from ajc, sure hope they're not on the gouging bandwagon.

I've bought a lot of stuff from them as well. At the gun shows they always seem to have the killer prices.

[techmike]

Killer prices. Heh.

[Microgunner]

We didn't raise our prices on anything para-military and sold out of everything in two days.

[Longitude Zero]

We didn't raise our prices on anything para-military and sold out of everything in two days.

My LGShops did not raise prices either and likewise sould out of AR guns and accessories.

[imschur]

guys are selling those $149 Federal 5.56 420 round tins for $500

[Elessar]

"Fair" pricing is based on supply and demand the "Banic" buying right now has increased the demand to such a panic level that suppliers can charge higher prices.  As long as people are willing to pay those prices, suppliers will continue to charge the inflated rate.  That's too bad, but I think it is fair.  It's difficult to control the market from the buyers perspective because you can't control all of the buyers to make the price fall.

I too fell into the panic shopping because I felt that the potential for restrictions on semi-automatic weapons would limit access later.  I would not willingly choose to have to pay a higher price, but I understand it.  Friday morning, following the shootings in CT, I found two Bushmaster AR15/M16 rifles available at a fair market price, when I went out at lunch to shop.  Both of those guns had sold by 5:00 pm.  Every gun in a fifty mile radius has been sold out since that Friday.  Interestingly enough, all ammunition is sold out as well as every gun case for an AR type gun.

Prices online have more than doubled for any .223 caliber gun.  Is that good?  Probably not if you're trying to buy, but I'd say it's the law of "supply/demand" system and it's fair.