MBC Price Increases - Don't Order Anything Until Tonight

The price increases are happening now, maybe 50% complete now. When they are complete and uniform I will modify the THR discount to represent a temporary 10% discount for the rest of the month for you guys. If you use the discount code before the increases are complete, you're throwing away 5%.

I'll post here in this thread when complete.

Thanks!

Brad

If you don't take care of your customers, they won't take care of you. It'll all work out in the long term.

The price increases are done, I think. As a reminder, the discount code is THR-Original exactly as you see it. I didn't add quotes because sometimes that confuses some folks

10% for the rest of the month, and thank you guys. You're the best.

Brad

cray2751 said:

Hey Brad,
What made the price go up so much? Is something up with lead? Not complaining but after the 10% discount this month 1k of 230 grn 45 is only 10 to 15 bucks less than plated or fmj.


I just wish I would have bought more.

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Yes, something's up with lead - the price! The last two 22 ton truckloads we bought came in at $.32/lb. more than what our contract price was for all last year. That works out to about $8.00 per thousand bullets (at 200 grains per bullet, average) in added cost. We absorbed the differential for as long as we could, working through the first higher-price truckload and then halfway through the last one, and decided that eating $14,080 per truckload of lead was not reflective of a firm grip on sanity. Hence, the pass-through. We're not profiteering, just trying to maintain a reasonable margin and stay in business.

We last raised prices in January of 2008, so this one was a long time coming.

Brad

The lead market is craziness personified. In the past two years, the spot price has ranged from $.50/lb. to about $2.30/lb. Many casters who didn't have a sufficient supply on hand to weather the extreme high prices went under. We were fortunate to be able to grab a contract for 5 truckloads at a good price last year and actually got one or two more (forget which) at only a little bit higher price than the contract. When that supply ran out we were at the mercy of the market, hence the need to raise our prices.

When lead drops, our prices will, too.

At current production rates, we do a truckload every 5-6 weeks. But that only of one type of alloy, and we have 2 stock alloy mixtures - one is 2/6 and the other is 1.33/4 (sB and sN, respectively, balance lead.)

It seems like we use 3 units of the 2/6 for every 2 of the 1.33/4. So that complicates the logistics train a bit but it's manageable.