Angryben wrote:I agree 100%.
But when wannabe entrepreneurs can buy something from you for $500 on MN Guntalk and turn it around and anonymously sell it on AL for for $700, they will do it all day long.
Exactly. I 100% agree AngryBen.
Now to everyone else...........
You can offer to sell anything you want (legally) to anyone you want (legally) and if they agree to the price, ok. If not, ok.
If I offer someone $25.000 for an AR-15 and it's legal to transact it), would they say no? Maybe, but probably not. Why would anyone have a problem with that? Also, it's a free market, it's supply and demand. I'm sure there are a few people on here who could just write that check (myself included) and would we pay that for an AR-15 we even though we could? if we wanted it badly enough, yes, but otherwise, no. Money isn't the meaning of life, but it does give you options that you'd otherwise not have. If you have the money, you can buy things, but if not, then not. the more money you have, the more options you have, that's all.
My only regret is I didn't buy certain caliber ammo, guns and accessories at a lower price so I could offer them at a higher one now. Lesson learned. When prices do drop, I'll be there to horde .223 ammo, PMAGs, and whatever else I can get my hands on even though I don't own an AR-15. It's not personal, it's just business, and too many people on here are taking it personally and are offended because they think they have some god-given and constitutional RIGHT to pay a certain amount for something and because the 2A guarantees the right to bare arms. Some people think that 2A must state "to own them and all accessories at a cheap price too..." Well, big hint... it does NOT say that.
That's the core of it.. buy low and sell high, and know that gun prices aren't regulated (thank goodness for that!!)
By now I've probably po'd a few people off, but whatever. I'm just telling it like it is.
Ether buy low and sell high yourself next time, OR don't.
Either pay the prices now for what you want, OR don't.
Heck. I can *WANT* a Cadillac all day long for $20, but that doesn't mean I'll get it. If I want one, I need to pay for it. Sure, I want the best price I can get, but if that price is higher than what I think it should be and I can't negotiate a "better deal" (aka meaning the price *I* want) then I either need to pay it or walk away, that's all. I'm not going to effen whine about how I can't get that Caddy for $20. This is basic stuff and really doesn't need explaining, but I feel it does because so many people seem so outraged that they can't get guns, accessories, etc, or get them at the prices they want. boo hoo. I've seen way too much whining about how the prices are this, people are taking advantage of that, blah blah blah blah whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine oh cry me a river. I'm REALLY tried of it on here. Enough.... PLEASE. JUST. STOP.
Do I LIKE paying .45 a round instead of .25 for .45ACP? No, of course not... but doom on me for not buying it at .25 and selling it at .45 myself. Now I just picked up a ton of ammo to stockpile and to hedge my bet against even higher prices. Almost no one has that ammo in stock, let alone in any quantity of the most popular calibers - except for a very few such as lucky gunner where I bought my .45ACP. Even my .22LR from Cabellas is on back order. I paid more than I normally would, but that's ok. I get it. Supply and demand. So I dropped $900 on 2,000 rounds for .45ACP. Oh well. That's the way it is. I wanted the ammo, not the price I'd like at .25-.35 a round, but it is what it is. If someone can't afford that, then either get a new hobby, cut expenses elsewhere, (maybe give up those smokes or $5 coffees or cable or whatever), figure out how to make more money, but don't whine about it.
..and next, buy low and sell high yourself. I promise you won't be whining then.
We got it, you have and make a lot of money....