Don't really need any but didn't want to pass up the opportunity so I ordered two boxes.
Buying ammo in the middle of a shortage when one "don't really need any" doesn't really help the situation.
If a person routinely buys (make that past tense) 1,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 rounds every six months, and has done that routinely for the past 'X' years, then (even though that may sound like a lot of ammunition) that person waiting to place an order for any amount up to what he/she usually buys is not contributing to the shortage. On the other hand, if someone who normally buys 50 or 100 rounds every six months is now buying 1,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 rounds per month, then yes ... that would contribute to the shortage.
This misses the point that the quote was making.
When people will fill their shopping cart and then wait for product to show up so they can check out, the stock never appears to make it to the website for normal people.
The issue with these shortages is that many of us don't understand just what lengths people will go to in order to buy ammo during a shortage.
It's not called a panic for nothing--people get scared and when they do, they react irrationally--and are willing to put in huge amounts of time and effort to deal with their fear. So while you wait for your email notices that items are back in stock, there are people out there constantly refreshing their view of a website until it changes and then checking out immediately. The notification emails probably get sent out once a day, automatically, but if there are people sitting there watching for the pot to boil, by the time the automatic emails are ready to go out, the balance is back to zero.
If you want to buy during a panic, you have to have the panic mindset. Go stand in line for hours every day at the store until the shipments come in. Sit for hours with your shopping cart filled and wait for the item to come in stock.
If you're trying to buy using your normal techniques during a panic, it's not going to work--you're just going to be frustrated and start making up conspiracy theories.
Please note that I'm NOT advocating that people go "full freakout" and stand in line or sit in front of their computers repeatedly hitting the refresh button, I'm just pointing out that if you are competing against a lot of freaked out people frantically trying to buy ammo, and you're using normal non-freaked out techniques, you're unlikely to make any headway.