I wonder if the suppliers could fix this by doing what the gas stations do when there's a shortage - crank up the prices so there's less demand (and in our case there would be a lot less buying to resell at profit). I think one of the problems with our situation is that most places haven't messed with the prices hardly at all. Well, that makes most of us want to buy both what we need and what we'd like to have in case it's hard to get for a while. If everybody had bricks of primers priced at $40 or $45 now, I think the guys that need them would buy, and the guys that don't need them would wait for a bigger supply to drive the prices down.
Only problem is, I wonder if the prices would ever come down......the suppliers may cut people and decrease production to make less product with the same income. I see that happening a lot now.
Oh well. When this started (and I didn't even have any equipment), I bought a couple thousand LR primers and several jugs of powder. Now that I have my equipment, 1k factory bullets, and a bullet mold (and other necessary equipment for casting/resizing) on the way, I feel really good about sitting on what I have until this blows over.
Craig