Highest Store Price Gougers

[tabascoz28]

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[Beelzy]

Wow, primers....the relaoaders 401k.

[sirgrumps]

Wow, I’m shocked it’s not CTD leading the pack here.

[pythonfan]

Oh but they are. Cheaper than dirt email recently.

[tabascoz28]

CTD 55/9 = 6.1
LG 135/23 = 5.9

Correct.

[SG29736]

But 5% off!

[tabascoz28]

They wanted to undercut CTD.

[oakdalecurtis]

Go ahead and roast me, I'm ready, and right.
In a free market, we have a choice of whether or not to make a purchase of an item. The buyer has the power. If an item is in short supply, the price will rise for several beneficial reasons.
1. On the demand side, the higher price will limit over purchasing of a limited item, making the item available to more people.
2. On the supply side, the higher price will signal producers of the item to send more of the item to the higher price areas.
No purchase is mandatory (car insurance excluded). It is a free market. If you don't like the price, don't buy the item. That will signal the sellers that their accumulating inventory is overpriced and they will lower the price or accumulate inventory. Using the term "price gouging" shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how free markets should and do properly operate in times of shortage.

[faterikcartman]

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465060730/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=basic+economics&qid=1599156327&sr=8-3

[tabascoz28]

You're not wrong about the free market and supply/demand economics, but we have many systems in the U.S. at play.

Your example of car insurance illustrates that for the greater good, just like maybe healthcare, when everyone is insured, the burden of catastrophic fluctuation in personal liability is lessened.

So for unimportant things like maybe TP, masks and ammo, the gov doesn't need to get involved.

[Citadelgrad87]

Go ahead and roast me, I'm ready, and right.
In a free market, we have a choice of whether or not to make a purchase of an item. The buyer has the power. If an item is in short supply, the price will rise for several beneficial reasons.
1. On the demand side, the higher price will limit over purchasing of a limited item, making the item available to more people.
2. On the supply side, the higher price will signal producers of the item to send more of the item to the higher price areas.
No purchase is mandatory (car insurance excluded). It is a free market. If you don't like the price, don't buy the item. That will signal the sellers that their accumulating inventory is overpriced and they will lower the price or accumulate inventory. Using the term "price gouging" shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how free markets should and do properly operate in times of shortage.

No, you're wrong.

Discussing prices is not a threat to a free market, and, indeed, is part of the forces that can act to drive prices downward.

Why do people who want to pretend they understand economics seem to universally, and incorrectly, attack conversations about high prices as somehow anti capitalism?

[pythonfan]

It is a free market and they do have every right to increase pricing for any reason. Usually its to cover overhead due to shortages of inventory. We also have a choice to decide how much of an increase we are willing to buy at. Personally I havent spent a dime at CTD since I saw them selling tula steel cased 9mm for $69.95 for 50 rounds in 2013.

[edgerly779]

Marshall Range and training $108 for ppt dros.

[sirgrumps]

CTD 55/9 = 6.1
LG 135/23 = 5.9

Correct.

I stand corrected.

[n8vrmind]

No, you're wrong.



Discussing prices is not a threat to a free market, and, indeed, is part of the forces that can act to drive prices downward.



Why do people who want to pretend they understand economics seem to universally, and incorrectly, attack conversations about high prices as somehow anti capitalism?

I do find these price discussions to be amusing... perhaps a bit of schadenfreude at people who failed to learn from past events or previously anti2A democrats who are no scrambling to find guns and ammo.