How I buy 22 LR

[Thermactor]

hello dangerous Dan and welcome to the Forum I unsterdand from Your post that you gave a free Box of .22 to the Irate customer and That was noble tthing to do, way to GO and to stand Up for civil society and to Do whats right is always a good thing, You maade the Customer think twice about (hoepfully) the Man behind the counter who is just doing his Job and that its Not ok to yell at someone like that so Good first post and dont mind the irate Posters in this thread they are just upset that you didnt give them free boxxes of CCI mini Mags too haha okay time to stop this sentence, once again Welcome and we lok Forward to seeing moree of your Stories DD.

 

[herkyguy]

I only read the post out of curiosity...

I do feel for the guy if THR grammar sergeants ran him off, but there is some truth in the argument that one must have a firm grasp of the english language to make a convincing argument. or post pictures...

I personally cannot stand exclamation points in any context unless you're posting pictures of your 1/4 MOA rifle with target to prove it.

 

[Thermactor]

OK!! guys CAlm down it has Been less than 24 hours since Dd made his post, im Sure he is spending time with His family because today is thanks Giving day!!!.. - He Could be camped out in Front of target to get a cheap big Screen tv for all we know, there are Hordders shivering in Front of big box stores now tyring to get grate Deals on cheap electroanics brands that Only come out for blakc Friday.

 

[jeepnik]

Free market. If folks will pay for it, it isn't over priced. That's sort of how capitalism works.

If you don't want to pay what someone is asking don't buy it. Eventually, either you will pay that price, or many others won't and the price will come down.

 

[Liberty1776]

Hoarders. Please, the word is hoarders.

And as far as the OP goes - we've only chewed this up 14+ times already on this forum. A retail shop can price their goods as high or as low as they want. You, as the shopper, may decide to buy or not, as you wish.

Other people's actions or intent should not and must not have any bearing on your personal buying decisions or practices.

and now... Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[jcwit]

Free market. If folks will pay for it, it isn't over priced. That's sort of how capitalism works.

If you don't want to pay what someone is asking don't buy it. Eventually, either you will pay that price, or many others won't and the price will come down.
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So that's how the pricing of all goods works eh?

Doesn't mean that's its good for the economy tho.

Funny, I worked in the Retail industry for just short of 45 years, the last 20 years with my own successful business, that's not how I priced goods, but then maybe I wasn't smart enough. But I did retire at 58.

 

[homatok]

I am curious---how come all you "Grammer Queens" jump all over the new guy and not one of you comment on post #9??? Looking at post #9 I note that member has a significant number of posts---surely enough to have been educated by you all by now! Welcome to "The High Road" Dan! Happy Thanksgiving to all you US folk.

 

[jcwit]

I am curious---how come all you "Grammer Queens" jump all over the new guy and not one of you comment on post #9??? Looking at post #9 I note that member has a significant number of posts---surely enough to have been educated by you all by now! Welcome to "The High Road" Dan! Happy Thanksgiving to all you US folk.

Jus didn,t reed it til now. thanx for pointing it out, good point!

 

[shafter]

And, with those two posts..

What a way to welcome a newbie to The High Road..... Note that it's his first post.

So from me, welcome to the site.

I don't care if it's his 1st post or 1,000th post its only courteous to use good spelling and punctuation. I don't get bent out of shape over a misplaced comma or so but I refuse to struggle to read atrocious communication.

 

[TimboKhan]

Allright, enough. Look, forums require people to read. That wasn't a well written post. Dangerous Dan likely doesn't have experience writing or was on his phone or was in a hurry or whatever. It doesn't make Dan a bad guy and it does not invalidate his point. It does make his point hard to read. You don't have to be Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to write on the high road, but if your not a great writer, you have to compensate by writing simple sentences and using spell check.

Not specifically relating to Dan, but forums are a great place to hone your writing skills. Fact is, it's difficult to relate certain things via a written post. That's why some people appear short and occasionally rude despite that not being the intent or personality of the poster. Like anything, the more you write, the better you get at it.

Dangerous Dan didn't write a great post, but that doesn't mean he isn't welcome, and over time I bet his posts improve dramatically.

I am not going to close this, and I am not saying I am the final word, but enough. The next person to pile on gets this post closed for veering to far off topic.

 

[Potatohead]

What is the topic btw? Are we trying to find out how to buy .22 or why the prices are high, or what?

Oops. Hope I didn't get it closed..

 

[OilyPablo]

Dan - what part of the country are you in? Gives us a better feel for your ammo sit-yee-ayshun. And that is MY one and only gripe about THR - at least country regions should be mandatory.

Writing skills can be learned with practice. Not so difficult.

 

[fallout mike]

Post #9 was me. I was trying to be funny. This topic has been beat to death. Someone should post the pic of the guy beating the dead horse with a stick. This topic has been debated since sandy hook. We go around and around and nobody has changed his stance on the topic yet I don't think. Some think its price gouging and some think its capitalism. Its possible though that the op isn't even talking about this. I'm not sure anyone really understands it throughly.

 

[kimberkid]

Why should stores sell it at suggested prices only to have someone clean them out an re-sell the item at 3-4 times the normal price?

IMHO, if anyone is going to do it, it's the established business that has the right to set the retail price (even inflated prices) ... It's called supply and demand and the core of our economy. Bussines are the ones with all the overhead, employees to pay and in general taking a risk by being in business ... The others are just scummy scalpers.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I often write my posts in a text editor like notepad or vedit, re-read it. Check spelling, check facts, sometime rearrange to make more sense (I hope) since in ramnling I may have a second thought belongs first. I had harsher teachers than some of the posters here. But it would have been better to offer constructive rather than destructive criticism.

 

[Bored1]

Welcome to the forum Dan. Think you have a few good points there. My format of large posts is whacky too.

 

[Potatohead]

Ironically, The High Road is one of the least friendly gun forums online when it comes to newbies or people who don't write well. When I first came here I hated it because there are lots of negative people around here. After a while you get used to them and come to understand that this is a very large site with it's share of bad apples while most of the people around here are the decent enough type. It is definitely a decent source of info for the most part.

Anyways, welcome to the forums OP. Sorry if the guys come across a little harsh.

Pretty dead on post here I believe. I got banged around pretty good here at the beginning also. (some of it maybe deservedly)

 

[9mmepiphany]

(some of it maybe deservedly)

 

[Elkins45]

I keep glancing at this thread in the hope that Dangerous Dan's post count doesn't remain at 1. He seems like a guy with good intentions.

 

[jcwit]

Do we REALLY need to be totally serious all of the time?

Never allow any humor into a thread?

 

[docsleepy]

DD's post count remains at 1.
This is supposed to be a firearms forum
(not a literary forum)
whose very name is,
The HighRoad.

We can all learn something from this experience.

 

[larryh1108]

Me thinks the OP Dan and Thermactor are the same person. Same flow to his words, same capital letters sprinkled in and same use of the word hoarders (hordders). Why another name? We can only guess.

(edit: Sam said they are not)

 

[Sam Cade]

Me thinks the OP Dan and Thermactor are the same person.

They are not.

 

[Sam Cade]

You don't have to be Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to write on the high road

Sometimes I'm tempted to start channeling this guy:

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa’s malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.

 

[Prophet]

Dangerous Dan; welcome to THR! Don't mind the few knuckleheads here, there is definitely plenty of interesting and educational information here for you to learn from. It appears you did an excellent job of facilitating a reconciliation between two individuals and helped a new hunter get his certification to boot! Good on you for being a peacemaker.

but if your not a great writer...

You're.

As for myself, I was born reading and writing. Yet somehow I managed to read and comprehend Dangerous Dan's post without even giving a thought to his grammar. This might be because I moderated on a couple of popular forum boards where "1337" was somewhat of a problem, and if you are not familiar with that term then you have not even begun to comprehend what is the bastardization of the English language.

Don't get me wrong; grammar is awesome. But tact is just as much if not a more meaningful factor when it comes to well-developed writing skills, especially when one does so on the internet. There's an old Biblical saying that recommends removal of the log from your own eye prior to the attempted removal of a speck from another's. I don't know about the rest of you, but as a years-long reader of THR and especially during times like these, I am much more concerned with bringing other shooters into the fold, getting them in the know, and seeing what they have to offer to the community than I am about chasing them off with condescending rebuttals to an aspect of their post they may not have even considered.