Highland Lofts
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We were talking about things on another thread and got to talking about high prices durring troubling times.
Please no bashing or trashing anybody.
Just past high priced item from pani buying times.
A friend bought a case of twelve 100 round double drum AR15 magazines for $119 a piece.
Durring one of the panic times t alked him into taking ten of them to the gun show to sell.
At that time they were bringing $300 a piece.
He took two of them in and we were walking around with a piece of cardboard with $275 on it. We didnxd make it down one isle and they sold. We went back out and got the other eight of them and they sold really fast.
It's amazing what people will spend when things turn sour. But it generally bounces back to almost normal after time.
Here a few years ago when 22lr wasn't available i had a bunch of it that I bought over several years stocked up.
One of the gun stores I go to had a few used guns that I wanted that sat there for several months.
We worked out a decent price on the guns and they gave me $50 a brick credit towards the guns with no sales tax.
I picked up a Marlin 39A - 22lr lever action with a decent scope on it.
Starting price $650.
Trade price $350.
Cost me eleven $25 bricks of 22lr ammo.
Another gun I got was an old 20 gauge Ithaca model 66 single shot shotgun
Starting price $250
Trade price $150
Cost me three $25 bricks of 22lr ammo.
And there were other ones I picked up for 22lr ammo.
There has yo be some good stories out there to share.
I have more I could write about.
Please no bashing or trashing anybody.
Just past high priced item from pani buying times.
A friend bought a case of twelve 100 round double drum AR15 magazines for $119 a piece.
Durring one of the panic times t alked him into taking ten of them to the gun show to sell.
At that time they were bringing $300 a piece.
He took two of them in and we were walking around with a piece of cardboard with $275 on it. We didnxd make it down one isle and they sold. We went back out and got the other eight of them and they sold really fast.
It's amazing what people will spend when things turn sour. But it generally bounces back to almost normal after time.
Here a few years ago when 22lr wasn't available i had a bunch of it that I bought over several years stocked up.
One of the gun stores I go to had a few used guns that I wanted that sat there for several months.
We worked out a decent price on the guns and they gave me $50 a brick credit towards the guns with no sales tax.
I picked up a Marlin 39A - 22lr lever action with a decent scope on it.
Starting price $650.
Trade price $350.
Cost me eleven $25 bricks of 22lr ammo.
Another gun I got was an old 20 gauge Ithaca model 66 single shot shotgun
Starting price $250
Trade price $150
Cost me three $25 bricks of 22lr ammo.
And there were other ones I picked up for 22lr ammo.
There has yo be some good stories out there to share.
I have more I could write about.