Exactly.My apologies if someone already said this (didn't read all posts), but there is a very simple and accurate answer to this question:
When is something priced too high? When nobody is willing to pay the asking price.
If anyone is willing to pay, it's not too expensive. That's just simple economics. If we keep paying inflated primer prices, then sellers will keep selling them for more and more. It's capitalism.
I think a lot of primer buyers:To the thread subject, a primer is too expensive when it drives the cost of an assembled round higher than the cost of purchasing equivalent factory ammo.
To me that just sounds like an excuse to go buy the expensive primers . Anyway, not my 'new' normal. I've pretty much stopped buying gun anything now... Almost ... I did pick up (in the mail) percussion #10 and a #11 primer makers from https://22lrreloader.com/ for kicks... And some priming compound. Get back to the basics .This is the new norm folks. Settle in.