This 'new normal' pricing in the reloading component industry is just an illusion orchestrated by those who created the shortages and will only last as long as average people suport it.
Our shortages and high prices come from 'investors' in this country ready to pounce on anything they can make a buck on. We have a boom and bust driven economy, and these cycles are absolutley controlled by the deepest pockets. They are able to collectively, consciously make markets shift by thier buying power and ability to sit on it long enough to cause a shortage and shift the prices. Start very quietly buying stuff that's needed at low prices, slow enough that nobody notices until they have a very large supply of it. Then all of a sudden buy up everythig avalable to create a shortage. When one of thier artificially created shortages hits (I.E. primers), it starts the prices edging up which makes average people want to buy it even more either as an investment or just to have it before the price goes higher. Mr deep pockets holds onto it just long enough to make prices double or triple (whatever the market will bear) then dump it. It is easier now than ever to not only keep their finger on the pulse of the economy and coming trends, but also actually create non organic demand spikes as well, with the speed of the internet and 'influencers' that are hired to shift public opinion.
They have super deep pockers and are in the wholsaling side of the supply chain. The shortage of 2013, it was .22lr ammo because that's what everyone wanted- the artificial shortage made people buy because they were afraid if they didnt get some now, they may never be able to at the 'new normal' price. Investors slowly start letting .22lr trickle out at double the price. This go round it is reloading supplies (not dies, presses, etc, mind you, just powder and especially primers). Thing is, anybody that wants to, can make bullets. Not everyone can make powders or primer. That's why we can still buy bullets at will (except for the most popular stuff) and not primers. Its all about the ability to control.
These guys really have their finger on the pulse of the economy and only care about making a $ and nothing more- even if it ruins the economy because they make money when it goes down, and when it goes up.
Case in point- At one point it was investors buying oil as a hedge against the falling dollar that drove oil prices up. They made money selling after they drove the prices up, then they jumped off of that when high oil hit its peak and got into real estate while it was cheaper, and all of them jumping on that drove up prices so hard and fast people couldn't afford their housing anymore- combined with that, and the selling off at the very peak made it burst so then they took their huge piles of cash, got into ammo which did the same thing to that.
They gradually started buying back rentals at the new super low prices until they owned most of them. They now had more control over pricing because the ones colluding owned a larger percentage of the rentals than they used to, and started charging more for rent as demand started coming back on and the economy came back. It got to the point where people could buy a house cheaper than renting- which made houses start to spike and now we're back at the point where housing is insane again- the thing is, as long as people have the money to pay the crazy prices, they will!
Only when the consumers run out of money will demand go down enough for prices to drop. Right now, long range shooting, shooting sports, and gun collecting/ showing off of wealth through gun collection posts on the internet has gotten to be a rich guy's hobby and a status symbol so that's how we see these sustainable crazy prices. Only when the rich guys move onto something else will we see normal prices return. Then nobody still in the gun industry will be able to make a buck again.
Lovely, isnt it, how primer manufacturers are colluding with investors to not sell any stock to anyone who will actually sell it to consumers, so thay they can manipulate prices?
The wheels for this primer price boom started turning a long time ago.
Funny how there are no primers to buy ANYWHERE (well, just enough trickle to keep people from thinking the goverment made them stop making them) and the stuff that's out there is TEN TIMES what it was 10 years ago.
Our shortages and high prices come from 'investors' in this country ready to pounce on anything they can make a buck on. We have a boom and bust driven economy, and these cycles are absolutley controlled by the deepest pockets. They are able to collectively, consciously make markets shift by thier buying power and ability to sit on it long enough to cause a shortage and shift the prices. Start very quietly buying stuff that's needed at low prices, slow enough that nobody notices until they have a very large supply of it. Then all of a sudden buy up everythig avalable to create a shortage. When one of thier artificially created shortages hits (I.E. primers), it starts the prices edging up which makes average people want to buy it even more either as an investment or just to have it before the price goes higher. Mr deep pockets holds onto it just long enough to make prices double or triple (whatever the market will bear) then dump it. It is easier now than ever to not only keep their finger on the pulse of the economy and coming trends, but also actually create non organic demand spikes as well, with the speed of the internet and 'influencers' that are hired to shift public opinion.
They have super deep pockers and are in the wholsaling side of the supply chain. The shortage of 2013, it was .22lr ammo because that's what everyone wanted- the artificial shortage made people buy because they were afraid if they didnt get some now, they may never be able to at the 'new normal' price. Investors slowly start letting .22lr trickle out at double the price. This go round it is reloading supplies (not dies, presses, etc, mind you, just powder and especially primers). Thing is, anybody that wants to, can make bullets. Not everyone can make powders or primer. That's why we can still buy bullets at will (except for the most popular stuff) and not primers. Its all about the ability to control.
These guys really have their finger on the pulse of the economy and only care about making a $ and nothing more- even if it ruins the economy because they make money when it goes down, and when it goes up.
Case in point- At one point it was investors buying oil as a hedge against the falling dollar that drove oil prices up. They made money selling after they drove the prices up, then they jumped off of that when high oil hit its peak and got into real estate while it was cheaper, and all of them jumping on that drove up prices so hard and fast people couldn't afford their housing anymore- combined with that, and the selling off at the very peak made it burst so then they took their huge piles of cash, got into ammo which did the same thing to that.
They gradually started buying back rentals at the new super low prices until they owned most of them. They now had more control over pricing because the ones colluding owned a larger percentage of the rentals than they used to, and started charging more for rent as demand started coming back on and the economy came back. It got to the point where people could buy a house cheaper than renting- which made houses start to spike and now we're back at the point where housing is insane again- the thing is, as long as people have the money to pay the crazy prices, they will!
Only when the consumers run out of money will demand go down enough for prices to drop. Right now, long range shooting, shooting sports, and gun collecting/ showing off of wealth through gun collection posts on the internet has gotten to be a rich guy's hobby and a status symbol so that's how we see these sustainable crazy prices. Only when the rich guys move onto something else will we see normal prices return. Then nobody still in the gun industry will be able to make a buck again.
Lovely, isnt it, how primer manufacturers are colluding with investors to not sell any stock to anyone who will actually sell it to consumers, so thay they can manipulate prices?
The wheels for this primer price boom started turning a long time ago.
Funny how there are no primers to buy ANYWHERE (well, just enough trickle to keep people from thinking the goverment made them stop making them) and the stuff that's out there is TEN TIMES what it was 10 years ago.
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