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Overpricing is ridiculous.

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I would have expected this from retail and dealers but now I am starting to see it in private sales. Just today I saw someone posting a used Colt AR15 without extras for $2000, and someone else posting another Colt AR15 never shot still in the box for $4500!!

I am starting to fear what is to come.


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Saw a gun at my local shop for 650 last week and just saw the same type of gun online sold for 900. Going back to the shop today to see if they raised the price... I'm sure they did.
 
Free market economy. Sucks to be a buyer, great to be a seller. It's only ridiculous if they cant find anyone to pay the price they want. I always wonder why gun owners think that other people selling gun related goods would sell for less than what people are willing to pay out of the goodness of their heart.
 
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A gun....ANY gun...is worth exactly what another person is willing to pay for it, not a dime more, not a penny less. Why would someone buy a gun for X dollars, hang on to it for years, and then sell it for X dollars again, at a time when every other comparable rifle was going for twice that? Why is it price gouging is a term only possible buyers seem to use, and never those selling? What is wrong with making a profit when both parties agree as to the price? If you can't afford it, don't buy it. If you can, be thankful for that fact. Don't however, think that yopu are somehow REQUIRED to spend a dime mlre on any gun than you see fit. If you don't like the price or can't negotiate, pass on the deal and move on. Complaining you don't like the price publicly is going to do very little to change it
 
Supply down + demand up = prices up

You want something. Others also want it. There is less of it available than there are buyers with the means to buy it. Under these conditions, the price is high. If it's too high it will drop until an equilibrium is reached.

Ain't it great when indisputable economic principles once again prove correct.

inkinskin, if you had a supply of NIB ARs lying around and it was your business to make a profit selling them, you'd have made a different post.
 
Just wait a few weeks. All of this panic buying will be panic selling. Nothing will come of this ban talk. Maybe restricted mags or something, but no ban.

They are not marketing to us, they are marketing to the band wagon ban jumpers. If someone offered me 100% mark up on one of my ARs, i would be all over it.
 
It's a free market economy, based in information gathering: Dick's no longer sells black guns, as well as several other retailers are not replacing their stocks after selling out.

Am I supposed to only sell stuff based on a slide-scale to the buyers' incomes?

Who is going to inflict commie-like regs on pricing?
 
Probally new buyers are they ones that are snatching up these rifles at the crazy prices. For those that are on THR they probally already have a couple and not going to be paying those kind of prices regardless market rate or not.
 
It's the new normal. Look around at places that have them for the old price--they're completely out of stock. The only places that have them are going for the new normal prices. I honestly believe the last 8 years were a golden age of guns for buyers.
 
Couple of years ago, demand was down and prices were a bit less. When our gun salesman in chief was reelected people really started snapping things up and up went prices. That guy can really create demand.
 
Premium markups are to be expected ... such is demand. However, IMHO, there is a line somewhere between . The market will signal what it's willing to bear in pricing in the short run.

The market will also signal what it is prepared to tolerate from businesses in the long run. What comes around, goes around.

IMHO, there is a between difference between what one example did (25%-40% markups overnight on their expanded cap mags), and another much-discussed example that dove in with a 700% increase.

That latter kind of behavior is just disproportionate, abusive, and will be remembered.
 
Why whine about it? When you go to the movies do you tell everyone you know that $8 for a drink and pop corn is insane?
 
dont buy products that are ridiculously overpriced. if everyone snaps out of the panic, the problem will work it self out with natural economic principles.


me? im saving money for the flood of cheap AR parts again after tax time in the spring. there is a low that follows the highs in economic markets.
 
For me with all this panic buying, lack of inventory, and now the high prices it just means I'll have more money to put into archery. I've been wanting a good crossbow and recurve for a while now. Maybe even a crossbow for the wife also, since her shoulder surgery its hard for her to use either her compound or recurve. I had been planning to buy or build an AR-10 but that is on hold for now.

Or do what Charger said above.
 
I have no quarrel with retail pricing tracking against the market. Then again, I just sold my LNIB Bushy 6.8 M4 carbine to a friend for less than 75% of retail, because IMO friends don't profit off other friends.
 
All low priced retailers here are sold out, local gun stores are selling ARs for stupid money (2k+) I had my hopes up on getting an AR before any bann, but it looks like I missed that boat since I don't have that kind of money at the moment :(
 
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