I said I would never buy from Cheaper than Dirt but...

sbaker10

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So I'm down to about 50 bullets in my last bit of my last bulk pack of .22lr, All I have left is a 5 boxes of CCI standard velocity and 3 boxes of mini mags. After talking to a walmart employee who told me they had 40 boxes sell out in 30 minutes I decided I would not buy marked up ammo even for a price I deemed fairly reasonable given the demand such as 10c for mini mags as it feeds the hoarders and resellers when you do.

Well I decided to check ammoseek not really expecting to get lucky, the cheapest ammo there lately has been 17 cents per shot, time for an ak74 me thinks.

Well at the top I see remington thunderbolt ammo 22$ per box. So obviously after banging on my mouse long enough I managed to click on it and noticed it was cheaper than dirt, well I am desperate enough that even though they are the first to price gouge I wasn't going to pass up cheap ammo. So am now the owner of 2 bulk packs of ammo at least unless they email to tell me its on back order, I got gently raped on shipping but still way cheaper than local gunstores have it, and you cant find it at all walmart and I check every day.


Those of you who make do not buy lists, can you ever be persuaded to buy from a place again based on what they do? Not looking to justify buying from them I am just happy to find some .22 but I am curious if a company can "redeem" themselves to you.

I don't know if Ill be able to shoot it though, One can only go through so many walmarts and check ammoseek so many times before one wants to sell all his .22s or at least never shoot them again. I might just hoard these boxes
 
I really don't want to come off as being snotty, but...

Nah. On second thought, I do. I'm not willing to forget their $100 Pmags. So what if they have something scarce now? They took advantage of us after San dy Hook just like they did after Virginia Tech.

If as brick & mortar store had done this, everyone would still be chastising and boycotting them. And they'd deserve it.
 
I am loyal to my own pocketbook, if a dirty, rotten scoundrel of a vendor has what I need at the least cost, I'm going to give them my custom, fill the need, and make sure I don't have to do it again.
 
I can't really blame you for boycotting them, Ive passed them over many times when they had cheaper 9mm or .223 than any other site, but at 3.5 times cheaper than the closest competition I couldn't resist. oh well.
 
The local big 'clips' dealer (that's his sign) after the panic was selling Glock 19 mags for $69. He had a giant tub of them. They didn't move. Wonder why?

Another local gun show has Glock 42s for 525 bucks. When Academy gets them in stock it will be for 429.
 
They have a unique pricing model to say the least. They price items so they can be in stock until the new shipment comes in. They don't want to sell out before the next shipment arrives.

They price accordingly. Simple pay what they are asking or don't but chances are they will have it in stock. If Wallmart did the same all the scalpers would not be buying them out as soon as it was put on the shelves.

If they predict to have product on the shelf when the new shipment comes in they lower the price. If the shelves are depleting faster then they expect their inventory to last they raise the price.

So someone tries to buy out their entire inventory of Pmags it will cost the rest of us.

How many shops were paying employees with nothing to sell?

Doug
 
Cheaper Than Dirt doesn't make a nickel unless someone actually buys a $100 PMag............I've yet to read a post where anyone would admit to that. If they did, shame on them, not CTD.


If you REALLY needed ammunition in Dallas/FtWorth during the Great Ammo Panic II, Cheaper Than Dirt actually had it.....at significantly higher prices than normal. It makes me laugh when someone says "but, but, but MY local gun store didn't raise prices on PMags, ammo or guns!" Yeah.....it's easy to have low prices with no product and no chance of resupply from their distributer. Great prices? No Inventory? No problem!


Some of ya'll automatically assume that people actually pay those prices......got any proof? It's pretty much impossible to be a profiteer or gouger when you aren't selling anything.
 
rdmallory

You make a good point about having inventory and it goes right to supply and demand.

It isn't really gouging if the demand is there, by keeping prices below demand the retailers are just contributing to hoarding by a few.

Like it or not it seems that 22 lr demand is greater than 10 cents a round. Once the supply exceeeds that demand the price will come down, so cheaper than dirt is probably following good business practices.
 
The cheapest price I can get 20 round Pmags for is $120.
30 rounders are typically $200+

Doesn't have anything to do with the OP but you can consider yourselves lucky.
 
Either people are for capitalism, or they are not.

Price 'gouging' for non essentials (not talking about gas, medicine, etc.), does not exist.

Failure to plan does exist. And that's not the vendors fault.

Price 'gouging' is called supply and demand, otherwise known as capitalism.

I too am loyal to my pocketbook, and to some extent I try to buy American products where feasible. I do avoid unethical vendors who screw people over, like bait and switch, selling used goods as new goods, etc. However, I don't see 'price gouging' as a dirty tactic.

Should someone sell you gas at 1980 prices? How about a house at 1960s prices? Gold. Stocks. Gun prices. Etc. Etc. Etc. If you had a house, for instance, and the value was $100,000, but suddenly for some reason due to oil on the property, or some other mineral rights, or whatever, the value went to $1 million overnight, you certainly would not sell it for the original price.

Of course not. Prices go up for many reasons.

Were YOU selling your PMAGs for $10 each during Sandy Hook to help out all the people who were short mags? Of course not. But of course 'that's different.'

Again, it's called capitalism. If you didn't believe in it, you'd be giving all your stuff away at yesterdays prices.

If you wanted the mag that badly, you should have bought it BEFORE it was $100. Now, perhaps, you only want it because it is $100. Essentially, you want something tomorrow at yesterdays prices.
 
A good deal is a good deal. I'm not going to pass one up if I have the money and the need for more ammo. I only buy their stuff when they have great deals, which happens fairly regularly, but not on stuff I always want/need.
 
Yeah, the dirt that they are cheaper than, must often contain precious metals.
But what the heck, if they have something one needs and the price is acceptable, why not buy from them.
No need to take things personally.
It's just bizness.
 
There is NOTHING I need firearm related that I am willing to pay what I view as a gouging price. I agree that prices will rise it is the natural course of things, but I will not pay 2 or 3 times for a magazine what I was paying before. I will not pay $50 for a 500 round box of .22lr, especially when I have been seeing it sporadically around here for under $30. Shopping around has proven to be a HUGE cost savings for 9mm, .45 acp, and 7.62x39 ammunition. Sometimes finding it within $5 of pre-panic days.

I shopped around for the last 2 guns I bought and found a $50 savings on the rifle and almost $80 on the pistol. Interestingly both better prices were at a small LGS versus big box stores.

As others have said here if people would stop paying outrageous prices the stores will either have the items gather dust on the shelf, or drop the price to a point where people will open their wallets and buy.
 
Price 'gouging' for non essentials (not talking about gas, medicine, etc.), does not exist. Failure to plan does exist. And that's not the vendors fault.
You're right on that point, but there is such a thing as being a dink, and that's what they did.

Were YOU selling your PMAGs for $10 each during Sandy Hook to help out all the people who were short mags? Of course not. But of course 'that's different.'
Actually, we were selling them for $15 and limiting quantities. We earned a great deal of loyalty from that. I'm not saying everyone has to do that in a shortage, but I should have expected no shortage of backlash had I charged $100.

People screamed and cried about CTD doing it, and now they seemed to have forgotten in favor of saving a few bucks. OK. Those folks can stop griping about the things Smith & Wesson and Ruger did or said twenty years ago, then.
 
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