Crazy price for primers at a local auction tonight.

Most Mondays there's an online auction in my town and I've bought quite a few things there. You have a week to look over the items and bidding starts around 5pm on a Monday afternoon. There are some great deals to be had but I see people overpay for many things, particularly firearms, but I was amazed to see the final selling price of the primers shown below. Assuming all the boxes are full that's 9,100 primers for $1,236.25 which includes the buyers 15% fee of $161.25. That's almost $0.14 per primer as opposed to the typical $0.03 per primer, or put another way, a 453% increase in cost. CRAZY!!

CRracer712 said:

Local gun shops are limiting quantities, but they're still only 4 cents a primer around here.

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That's what I'm seeing up here too ... primers in the $3 to $4 per 100 range. I don't usually buy primers from brick and mortar stores but I was in Murdochs a while ago (2019 BC) and saw five boxes of GM205MAR on the shelf for $3/100. I had recently ordered and received 2,000 GM205MAR primers from Powder Valley but figured what the heck .... might as well get these too.

Fine Figure of a Man said:

Can I roll my primer inventory into a Roth IRA?

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With these kinds of returns ... heck yeah!