Pricing help please

[NukemJim]

Hello, I'm looking for some help on how much to offer for some ammo that is being sold by an individual upon retirement. The ammo is mixed some factory (including 2 boxes of Super Vels ) some reloaded. I normally would not buy reloaded ammo until I went over and looked at the reloading set up this guy knew what he was doing. Each box of relods are in a plastic 50round box with a label specifying, bullet (lots of Speer, Hornaday hollowpoints) type of powder (all major brand names) primer, fps, date etc... Realy impressed me.

We're talking thousands of rounds per calibre and all the popular calibers

Reloads 75% of cost? 50% of cost? 25% of cost?

New 75% of cost? 50% of cost? 25% of cost?


I want to be fair but also do not want to pay through nose and I hate to dicker.

Anyone with experience from estate sales?

NukemJim

 

[Rob62]

A good deal is when you purchase factory ammo from someone directly at about 70-80% of what it would cost to get it from a dealer/internet. Or if you can find out the wholesale price of the ammunition in question about 75-90% of wholesale.

This seems like it would be fair to the person selling the ammunition and to you.

Reloads are a totally different matter. First and fore most do you trust the person selling the loads? Do you trust them to have paid attention to what they were doing and not double charged a case, or not charged one at all with powder. Personalay I am not sure I would feel comfortable purchasing hand loads from a private party that I did not know VERY well. And then still be cautious.

Having said that. A fair purchase price for reloads would seem to be paying about 40-60% of what commercially loaded (RE-LOADED) ammunition of equal type is selling for.

Hope that helps,

Rob

 

[WayneConrad]

The two squibs I've made were both in pretty plastic boxes with nice labels. They even had lot numbers to reference them to my load book, where every lot is dutifully recorded in every detail.

 

[kirkcdl]

If your gun turns into a hand grenade because the phone rang while he was charging that particular round,whose warranty will cover your suddenly unusable (possibly the rest of your life) hand?No offense,but I wouldn't buy reloaded ammo from anyone,at any price,except a commercial reloader,like Miwall(OMC),Georgia Arms,Accuswage,etc...Just my opinion,of course...

 

[gunthorp]

Now, if you could spend some of that on reloading tools and components,...