Ruger LCP mags - good source?

Trying to find a second 6rd factory mag and half of the usual places I shop at (Buds, SMGA, Sportsmans, PSA etc) are either out of stock, or push $30 and above with shipping. Any particular online store you could recommend ?

doubleh said:

Search ebay. I've managed to find a couple for different guns there for quite a bit less than any other source I could find with free shipping and both brand new in the original packaging.

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I’m a bit hesitant to get mags off eBay to be perfectly honest...

larryh1108 said:

May I ask why? They sell a ton of gun related items including mags. A factory mag is a factory mag.

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With all the problems people are having with their mags, I don't want to get someone else's reject.

ilbob said:

why? if they are factory mags what difference does it make where you buy them?

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larryh1108 said:

Only buy NIB unopened mags on Ebay if you are worried. The ad states if they are new, unopened or used.

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A very often repeated truism here and elsewhere on gun forums is that most feeding problems are caused by faulty magazines.

So whenever someone is selling their mags, there’s always a question why.

As to the new factory mags. It’s easy enough to take the item out and re-insert it back into the original packaging - depending on the packaging. I don’t bother keeping old boxes but I know plenty of people that keep the original box for almost every widget they bought. Second, there’s tons of outright fakes, or stolen quality rejects on eBay being passed for legit stuff. Not saying that someone would go through trouble of counterfeiting LCP mags, but generally if an item must perform 100% and there’s no way to immediately validate it, I don’t buy it there.

I am also an amateur photographer and I learned long ago that if a particular lens is known to have image quality variations, you never want to get it off eBay.