Thread: Shortages

Originally Posted by gimp

Some places are only putting out a few boxes at a time to stop people from buying the whole stock and 'flipping' it for a profit on online sites... They may not be scamming arseholes.

Why have a sign up saying it the last of the shipment then??? scamming aresoles

Originally Posted by Steveh054

Why have a sign up saying it the last of the shipment then??? scamming aresoles

You didn't mention that part. My post is just what some shops have been doing to prevent profiteers/hoarders taking their entire stock and preventing anyone else from getting it. Some places are also just imposing a 'X boxes only' limit.

Nah, I have heaps of primers , powder, projectiles etc.
But getting stuff from Brownells now is a huge headache

Every single product at Brownells, Rainier Arms, etc: Out Of Stock, Backordered.

Originally Posted by gimp

Every single product at Brownells, Rainier Arms, etc: Out Of Stock, Backordered.

Ouch. Mind you, Serious Shooters have a shocking online listing

Originally Posted by gimp

Every single product at Brownells, Rainier Arms, etc: Out Of Stock, Backordered.

That would be correct. I have been waiting for 2 stripped uppers since April last year, so at the moment I have a large box of bits cause I ain't paying tardme prices to buy the bits here.

apart from the shortage, are we also starting to see some price gouging ?

Havent seen any price changes of note from the NZ importers that I deal with .

Priced up some ammo that arrived last week and some cals had actually gone down a little bit from the last time we got the same thing.

If this keeps up I may have to start reloading up some empties

Originally Posted by Survy

apart from the shortage, are we also starting to see some price gouging ?

Not sure if it's gouging or just different approaches to pricing. The one example I've experienced was for American Eagle 9mm.

Reloaders - $24, Now out of stock.
Wills Hunting and Fishing - $30, only a couple of boxes remaining on the shelves ?
Gun City $32 - online shows stock
Serious Shooters $40 - only a couple of boxes on the shelf


It's a weird day in the universe when Serious Shooters is more expensive than GunCity

It might just be commercial reality than the shops realise they can make a decent profit out of it this month.

The assault weapons ban has basically been torpedoed so things should be back to normal in 6 months or so...

Should be cheaper than ever soon. All the yanks will have there stock piles and won't need to buy any for years.
Cheap stuff for us !

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Yeah, I'm down to my last 200 Sierra .30 150gn FMJs and 1200 Large Fed Match Primers!

Suppose any shortages has moved along old existing stock least in 6 months we will be enjoying freshly made rounds