Ammo Hoarders...Some Don't Play Fair or well with Others

[kemper]

Just happen to be in my local Wal-Mart this morning picking up a few things before work,
swing by the sporting goods dept to get some therma-cell fuel cells and there are like 10 people standing
around the gun/ammo counter, so I say y'all must be here for ammo, huh ? I've heard about this
and think to myself, no wonder there is never any ammo in stock, anyway about this time the lady wheels
out a stock cart with 3-4 small cases of ammo on it, IMMEDIATELY several of them say to her "that can't be all
you have in stock and they commence to tell her what should be on the cart, she says, well, that's all I saw, they ask
(demand might be a better word) her to go to the back and check again, which she does with a nice attitude, so by this
time I'm curious, so I stick around. She comes back out with another cart that has probably 20 cases of different types
of ammo on it....Now they look happy :shrug: as this is going on more people show up. So I ask, is it like this every day ?
They all look at me with blank stares like it is highly classified information, then they lady says out loud, "Well after a while
you get used to seeing the same faces every day. Many of them are leaning all the way over the counter looking
to see what she has (obviously some of them already knew) on the cart. Urika..... she actually has some 550 round boxes
of Federal 22 LR ammo at $26 dollars a box. Feeling like I'm going to be missing out I get in at the end of the line as well
and buy my one allowed brick of 22 ammo. The nice Wal-Mart employee says to me under her breath as if she is a bit
afraid that the same people show up every day and buy the ammo before anyone else has a chance to buy it :banghead:
She said several of them even bring their wives or ask other people in the store to buy it on their behalf.
Soooo, am I crazy or is this JUST PLAIN WRONG ?????? She also said there is no way they could be using/shooting all the
ammo they are buying up every day and must be re-selling it or hoarding it. Kinda pisses me off !!!!!!
Sorry for the long rant, just felt the need to vent and read others
opinion on this matter

 

[medalguy]

Capitalism at work.

 

[William Boyd]

Maybe Gordon Gecko was right: "Greed is good".

 

[Deer_Freak]

One Walmart in the area doesn't put out the ammo at the same time all the time. Quite often they are stocking ammo during the middle of the day. They got tired of seeing the same people there every morning so they stock ammo when they feel like it. All Walmarts should do the same thing. They have to have someone in Sporting Goods all day to sell guns, knives and hunting licenses. It doesn't cost them a penny more to put the ammo out at random times.

 

[InkEd]

When people stopping buying the overpriced re-sold ammo, they will quit buying all of it for that purpose. The people who are simply hoarding it for their own stash will eventually run out of closet space.

 

[ATLDave]

Those guys are jerks. It is capitalism, in exactly the same way that the housing bubble or the Enron-caused California brownouts were capitalism. Saying "capitalism" does not make rotten behavior that makes the world a worse place not-rotten. Just because something is legal does not mean it is the kind or decent thing to do.

ETA: I'm refering to the arbitragers, the re-sellers, the people who stand in line at 6am to buy up all the available stock and re-sell for tripple the price.

 

[tyeo098]

You're just upset because you weren't in line!

I was in one of those lines *once* everyone was super nice, just a bunch of gun guys like us lookin for some ammo.

Then there are the few elderly couples that buy up everything to sell it online. THOSE are the jerks.

 

[arizona_cards_11]

First, before blaming "Capitalism," let's look back at all ammo-related regulation that keeps businesses from being able to meet demand.

 

[X-Rap]

Most of the people I know who are standing in line are the ones who have had the light shined on their vulnerability when they thought that one could always just run down to the store on their way to the range. Just last week I helped a friend out with his stash along with his wife and sister we scored more ammo than he has ever owned.
I advise people to set a minimum in which they are happy with and then act as though it is not there and begin to build upon that. From what I am seeing the days of the over priced reselling are about finished for now but people still are going to stockpile to the point they are comfortable and I don't think we will soon forget this time.

 

[cane]

My local WalMart stocks ammo about 0730, Mon-Wed-Fri. The trucks come in the night before. Here is a site that allows you to check what ammo your local WM should have in stock.http://ammo-can.net

 

[Sheepdog1968]

One Walmart in the area doesn't put out the ammo at the same time all the time. Quite often they are stocking ammo during the middle of the day. They got tired of seeing the same people there every morning so they stock ammo when they feel like it. All Walmarts should do the same thing. They have to have someone in Sporting Goods all day to sell guns, knives and hunting licenses. It doesn't cost them a penny more to put the ammo out at random times.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[ball3006]

I believe it. I see ammo with walmart or academy price tags at gun shows all the time at twice the sticker price......chris3

 

[huntsman]

WW needs to upgrade their business model for ammo sales, like pass out numbers then have a drawing, when they call your number you can have a pick at the ammo pile. Or maybe a quick game of bingo game with the winner getting his choice at least make it interesting for the spectators

I don't know who the fools are the beggars who stand in line or those of us who don't.

 

[oneounceload]

If Walmart would price the ammo based on the current market conditions instead of their computer-generated pricing formula, these folks would disappear immediately.

 

[javjacob]

At my Wal-Mart the lady in the guns dept told me its the same thing, she sees the same people every single day and they always buy the maximum. 22 is always gone in 10-15 minutes. pathetic people ruining it for everyone.

my advice to stop it is DONT BUY OVERPRICED AMMO! PLEASE!

 

[jim243]

I have mixed feeling on this subject since I don't BUY ammo (I make it).

It seems to me these people are not working everyday, and I have no problem with them trying to make a buck to support themselves and their families.

The real problem is our government that does nothing to create new jobs so everyone can make a decent living. If the J.A.'s could get off their fat butts and put the country back to work, then there might just be more ammo on the shelves.

Get out and vote and tell your elected representatives to get us back working.

Jim

 

[GoWolfpack]

If Walmart would price the ammo based on the current market conditions instead of their computer-generated pricing formula, these folks would disappear immediately.

Walmart is much more afraid of losing sales to people who don't understand economics than they are of people being upset about lack of supply.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

At my Wal-Mart the lady in the guns dept told me its the same thing, she sees the same people every single day and they always buy the maximum. 22 is always gone in 10-15 minutes. pathetic people ruining it for everyone.

my advice to stop it is DONT BUY OVERPRICED AMMO! PLEASE!

Then please inform us all where we can find ammo thats not up 50%-100% in price. Also please inform me how I can get the 2,000 rounds a month I need to maintain last years shooting schedule. I can't find it online as all I see is out of stock no backorder allowed. Please don't bother mentioning reloading as the same problems with supply exists as with facrory ammo.

 

[kemper]

You're just upset because you weren't in line!

I was in one of those lines *once* everyone was super nice, just a bunch of gun guys like us lookin for some ammo.

Then there are the few elderly couples that buy up everything to sell it online. THOSE are the jerks.

Ummm. WRONG!!!!
When the same people are buying up all the ammo every morning
at the same store before anyone else has a chance to buy it, then
call a duck a duck or in this case... booger eating and greedy morons.

 

[PabloJ]

Going to Walmart for handgun ammo is huge waste of time.

 

[AKElroy]

This is like complaining about a traffic jam that you are in the middle of as if it is someone else's fault.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Capitalism at work.

This is true.

If you can, you buy something at one price and sell it for a higher price, if people are hard up enough or dumb enough to pay the high price.

 

[jcwit]

I'm beginning to wonder it the folks buying up all the ammo are not the anti gun people. What better way to keep ammo out of the hands of the shooters.

Between the flippers thinking they are actually a real business.
And the hoarders looking for doomsday.
The anti gun folks buying up the rest sure makes sense to me.

 

[jcwit]

Ummm. WRONG!!!!
When the same people are buying up all the ammo every morning
at the same store before anyone else has a chance to buy it, then
call a duck a duck or in this case... booger eating and greedy morons.
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YUP!

 

[AKElroy]

When the same people are buying up all the ammo every morning
at the same store before anyone else has a chance to buy it, then
call a duck a duck or in this case... booger eating and greedy morons.

Before anyone else has a chance to buy it? Do they have a secret access card or something? We talk about these people like they are someone else, when every single one of us would clear the shelf if the stock was there at regular prices.