evan price
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OK, I am always scrounging around looking for deals, and reloading supplies lately are on my list of stuff to look for deals on.
I visit this one gun shop that I don't get to much. I know they keep some stuff on a shelf rack in the side of the store that is reloading gear.
He has old cardboard boxes of generic bullets. Most are stuff I don't want. It looks like a lot of it has been on the shelf a while.
Nosing around I see two boxes of (500) bullets each 124-grain lead roundnose .356" slugs. Great for my 9mm. They are taped together with packing tape, and a price tag stuck across the packing tape and top box says $29.99 +tax. The tape is yellow. The boxes are obviously deliberately taped together, it's no accident.The price sticker is a bit faded. But so is everything else on that shelf. There are a couple more boxes of different caliber but similar bullets taped together- some wads of three or four boxes of similar bullets taped in one big lump, with one price tag.
OK so far?
Nosing around a bit more I find a small box of .429 lead wadcutters. The box says 300-CT and I believe it is probably right. Weight is not marked but they look at least 250-grain or so and somebody wrote on the box with a pencil "BLACKHAWK" so I assume these may have been for a Ruger. This box is labelled with black Sharpie $10.00 and again, it looks old.
I figure, what the heck. All the stuff on that shelf was dusty enough to grow crops on- has not moved in a while.
I put them on the counter and make some small talk while the fella rings them up on his register. It comes to over $90!
Pausing, I look it over, and ask the fella what he charged me for.
He says the 9mm bullets are $29.99 per box. The 44 bullets are actually $10 per hundred. That's $90 plus tax.
I look at the stuff again. I ask him to justify what he is saying. By my math it should be $40 plus tax.
Well, he says. You can't buy them bullets for that price nowadays. He could melt them down for scrap and sell them for more than $40.
I tell him, his prices are marked and that's what I'm paying.
He says no.
I say yes.
He hollers for the owner.
The owner comes out and says those price tags are old. That stuff has all been sitting there a long time and nobody wanted them, since they are just cast and the indoor ranges say they need jacketed.
I say, yes, but the price is here.
The owner says, his cost to replace those bullets is much much more than that.
I ask, did he plan on ordering more to replace stuff he isn't selling?
Then, the employee feller starts picking at the price tag on the 9mm box with his fingernail, and scraping it off.
I say, price is $40 plus tax. Here's cash.
Owner says I am ripping him off at that price, stealing food from his kids' mouths, and going to drive him out of business. Then he grabs the $45 I had in my hand, rings up the sale, tosses my change on the counter and walks away. The employee then says he will get me a bag.
He picks up a grocery sack and then uses his thumbnail to slit open the 9mm box and starts dumping bullets in the bag.
I say, what the heck?? He says, at that price, he's keeping the boxes for when he casts his own bullets. I say hell no, take everything and walk out.
As I am walking out the guy hollers, Have a nice day, sir, hope your gun blows up in your f#*^%#ing face.
I visit this one gun shop that I don't get to much. I know they keep some stuff on a shelf rack in the side of the store that is reloading gear.
He has old cardboard boxes of generic bullets. Most are stuff I don't want. It looks like a lot of it has been on the shelf a while.
Nosing around I see two boxes of (500) bullets each 124-grain lead roundnose .356" slugs. Great for my 9mm. They are taped together with packing tape, and a price tag stuck across the packing tape and top box says $29.99 +tax. The tape is yellow. The boxes are obviously deliberately taped together, it's no accident.The price sticker is a bit faded. But so is everything else on that shelf. There are a couple more boxes of different caliber but similar bullets taped together- some wads of three or four boxes of similar bullets taped in one big lump, with one price tag.
OK so far?
Nosing around a bit more I find a small box of .429 lead wadcutters. The box says 300-CT and I believe it is probably right. Weight is not marked but they look at least 250-grain or so and somebody wrote on the box with a pencil "BLACKHAWK" so I assume these may have been for a Ruger. This box is labelled with black Sharpie $10.00 and again, it looks old.
I figure, what the heck. All the stuff on that shelf was dusty enough to grow crops on- has not moved in a while.
I put them on the counter and make some small talk while the fella rings them up on his register. It comes to over $90!
Pausing, I look it over, and ask the fella what he charged me for.
He says the 9mm bullets are $29.99 per box. The 44 bullets are actually $10 per hundred. That's $90 plus tax.
I look at the stuff again. I ask him to justify what he is saying. By my math it should be $40 plus tax.
Well, he says. You can't buy them bullets for that price nowadays. He could melt them down for scrap and sell them for more than $40.
I tell him, his prices are marked and that's what I'm paying.
He says no.
I say yes.
He hollers for the owner.
The owner comes out and says those price tags are old. That stuff has all been sitting there a long time and nobody wanted them, since they are just cast and the indoor ranges say they need jacketed.
I say, yes, but the price is here.
The owner says, his cost to replace those bullets is much much more than that.
I ask, did he plan on ordering more to replace stuff he isn't selling?
Then, the employee feller starts picking at the price tag on the 9mm box with his fingernail, and scraping it off.
I say, price is $40 plus tax. Here's cash.
Owner says I am ripping him off at that price, stealing food from his kids' mouths, and going to drive him out of business. Then he grabs the $45 I had in my hand, rings up the sale, tosses my change on the counter and walks away. The employee then says he will get me a bag.
He picks up a grocery sack and then uses his thumbnail to slit open the 9mm box and starts dumping bullets in the bag.
I say, what the heck?? He says, at that price, he's keeping the boxes for when he casts his own bullets. I say hell no, take everything and walk out.
As I am walking out the guy hollers, Have a nice day, sir, hope your gun blows up in your f#*^%#ing face.
