sleepyone
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I never got a chance to respond to the firestorm I created this morning on my post called "There are ways around the Walmart 3 box limit." I had been out all day, and the thread was already closed.
I did not read every post but more people than not accused me of being greedy, hoarding etc. Let me first state that I have been consistent in not accusing people of hoarding ammo or price gouging. I am quite sick of all the threads bashing the price gougers and "hoarders." You can read my posts and see I have been pretty hard on the people whining because someone is asking too much for ammo or buying too much ammo. I am a firm Capitalist and recognize that, while it is not a perfect system, it is the best system out there bar none.
The reason I bought as much .30-30 ammo as I could yesterday is I actually need it, will most definitely shoot it and have been searching for it several weeks consuming much time and gas in the process. I have been faithfully going to our local Walmart at 7:00 am every Saturday morning and other Walmarts in the towns next to us. .30-30 has not been coming in. I pick up a box or two of 9mm, .40, .38, .357 and other stuff, but I'm pretty set on my handgun calibers, so I don't buy much.
I can only go to Walmart early on Saturday mornings because I am an elementary school teacher and must be at work at 7:00am every day. I live in a small town that is 45 minutes away from Academy and other large sporting goods stores. We have two LGSs in our town, but I refuse to pay the prices they are asking. There is a Cabela's about an hour away, but I can't afford the gas or time to make trips to Cabela's for ammo that most likely will not be there.
I went to a town about 30 minutes away yesterday to visit my mom and went to her local Walmart. This is where they were fully stocked with .30-30. Yes, I took advantage of the situation to the fullest extent possible. After I had bought my three boxes and had the gentleman buy two more for me, I visited my mom and then left to drive to our family farm, which is an hour farther down the road where there is another town with another Walmart. That one had just sold their last box of .30-30, so I called my mom and asked her to go to the one in her town where I had been and buy three boxes for me before they ran out.
So, if you want to accuse me of being a hoarder or greedy, go right ahead. I used Walmart's policy to my advantage. It says each customer is limited to three boxes per day. I was customer one and got my three. The gentleman was customer 2 and got two more. My mom was customer three and got three more. I see guys show up with their wives, and they each buy three boxes. I don't get all worked up. He is a customer. She is a customer. Big deal. Get over it people. It all evens out. There have been many times in all this madness when I was the next one in line and the guy in front of me buys the last box of .38 Special or whatever I was waiting for. Did I cry about it? No, to the contrary, I just chuckled to myself and thought I should have got there a little sooner. It's time for people to put on their big boy or big girl pants and quit pissing and moaning because Timmy has more ammo than you or bought the last box out from under you.
I did not read every post but more people than not accused me of being greedy, hoarding etc. Let me first state that I have been consistent in not accusing people of hoarding ammo or price gouging. I am quite sick of all the threads bashing the price gougers and "hoarders." You can read my posts and see I have been pretty hard on the people whining because someone is asking too much for ammo or buying too much ammo. I am a firm Capitalist and recognize that, while it is not a perfect system, it is the best system out there bar none.
The reason I bought as much .30-30 ammo as I could yesterday is I actually need it, will most definitely shoot it and have been searching for it several weeks consuming much time and gas in the process. I have been faithfully going to our local Walmart at 7:00 am every Saturday morning and other Walmarts in the towns next to us. .30-30 has not been coming in. I pick up a box or two of 9mm, .40, .38, .357 and other stuff, but I'm pretty set on my handgun calibers, so I don't buy much.
I can only go to Walmart early on Saturday mornings because I am an elementary school teacher and must be at work at 7:00am every day. I live in a small town that is 45 minutes away from Academy and other large sporting goods stores. We have two LGSs in our town, but I refuse to pay the prices they are asking. There is a Cabela's about an hour away, but I can't afford the gas or time to make trips to Cabela's for ammo that most likely will not be there.
I went to a town about 30 minutes away yesterday to visit my mom and went to her local Walmart. This is where they were fully stocked with .30-30. Yes, I took advantage of the situation to the fullest extent possible. After I had bought my three boxes and had the gentleman buy two more for me, I visited my mom and then left to drive to our family farm, which is an hour farther down the road where there is another town with another Walmart. That one had just sold their last box of .30-30, so I called my mom and asked her to go to the one in her town where I had been and buy three boxes for me before they ran out.
So, if you want to accuse me of being a hoarder or greedy, go right ahead. I used Walmart's policy to my advantage. It says each customer is limited to three boxes per day. I was customer one and got my three. The gentleman was customer 2 and got two more. My mom was customer three and got three more. I see guys show up with their wives, and they each buy three boxes. I don't get all worked up. He is a customer. She is a customer. Big deal. Get over it people. It all evens out. There have been many times in all this madness when I was the next one in line and the guy in front of me buys the last box of .38 Special or whatever I was waiting for. Did I cry about it? No, to the contrary, I just chuckled to myself and thought I should have got there a little sooner. It's time for people to put on their big boy or big girl pants and quit pissing and moaning because Timmy has more ammo than you or bought the last box out from under you.
) and brought back 140 gallons at a time, which I promptly sold for more than 40% more than I paid for it. And this at the ripe olde age of 19. 
