Good grief....another Cheaper Than Dirt thread.
CTD didn't "gouge" anyone.
CTD didn't scam anyone.
CTD didn't cause market inflation of firearm or ammo prices.
CTD and ANY seller has the God given right to charge what they want for their own property. Disagree? Then sell me all your guns for what I think they are worth.
No one forces you to buy from any seller. How many of you go on Gunbroker or this forums WTS subforum and harangue sellers for how they price their guns? Good grief there must be dozens of firearms in TFL's Want To Sell section that are laughably overpriced......yet you let them slide?
Anyone that paid $60 for a CTD PMag deserves to pay $60 for a PMag. Not being prepared SHOULD be expensive. And for those that say they would NEVER pay that much for an AR magazine? How many do you think CTD actually sold? I'll bet it was less than a hundred. Kinda hard to gouge or profiteer when you aren't actually selling anything.
Those that say CTD shouldn't have raised their prices? You SUCK AT BUSINESS.
If you have 1000 mags in stock ($8each) and sell them at $2 over cost.....do you profit? If you say yes you fail at business.
Why? Because your next order to resupply those mags may have a wholesale cost of $12 per mag........you should have priced your initial inventory of mags at $15. Your profit is determined by what it will cost to restock.
CTD could have priced all their PMags at $15 and been sold out within a day. And then what do they do........mags weren't available from distributors for months. Same with AR lowers, same with ammo, same with any high demand firearm item.
Is it any wonder why so many gun stores went out of business during the Obama gun panics? Sure, they could sell their current inventory, but getting restocked as a mom & pop? Not when Wal Mart, Cabelas and the big accounts were allocated inventory first.
But you know what? If you REALLY, REALLY NEEDED ammo in Dallas......CTD always had it. It was triple the normal price.....but they had it when WalMart, Academy and every other gun store had bare shelves.
Oh, full disclosure..........I don't buy from Cheaper Than Dirt for reasons unrelated to their pricing during the gun panics. I just dislike this nonsence about their supposed price gouging.