The difference between hoarding and prepared

[bhilliker@comcast.net]

local store got in 3 cases of primers the other day. I bought 2 bricks from each case. I didn't need them. I got them for 130.00 a brick. Bought them to trade for other things I need. Does that make me a hoarder, a prepper or a scalper??

[Tommy Gun]

Depends what the store bought theirs at, I'm willing to bet around $40 a brick. Kinda makes you a sucker lol.

[bhilliker@comcast.net]

Sucker today—- maybe a king tomorrow

[CheapBloke]

local store got in 3 cases of primers the other day. I bought 2 bricks from each case. I didn't need them. I got them for 130.00 a brick. Bought them to trade for other things I need. Does that make me a hoarder, a prepper or a scalper??

Well it's not a prepper. Preppers would have had the items before paying gouged prices.

[therealnickb]

local store got in 3 cases of primers the other day. I bought 2 bricks from each case. I didn't need them. I got them for 130.00 a brick. Bought them to trade for other things I need. Does that make me a hoarder, a prepper or a scalper??

Flipper.

[bhilliker@comcast.net]

Oh I have what I need. These were available and I can trade them.

[ScottsBad]

If you have plenty you are prepared.
If you don't have enough, the guy that is prepared is a hoarder.

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caveman

Yes.

Hoarder, in this context, is a pejorative term for someone who has the perspicacity to acquire items that may be in short supply should there be a disruption in supply.

A whiner is a person who does not posses the foresight to obtain the same items in advance of a common recurring shortage brought about by easily foreseeable political and cultural events, and then complains about it like a little B*tch.

[bruss01]

We've all seen the availability of reloading components rise and fall through the years. So anyone who has any sense buys when its available. Here's my question to everyone....How many primers (or other components) do you keep on hand for these lean times.

I've got a few thousand (enough for 3-4 months of regular shooting) but I haven't been able to find ANY in months so I'm getting pretty nervous.

The difference between hoarding and prepared

"Hoarding" is when some commodity becomes scarce or prices skyrocket, someone goes out and hits every store, buying all they can lay hands on, for fear of not being able to get any later, whether they have a plausible, rational and foreseeable need for it... thus shorting other consumers (or driving prices to the stratosphere) who simply want to buy enough for their immediate needs.

"Prepping" means when some commodity is plentiful and inexpensive, laying in a stock to meet immediate needs as well as accumulate a supply to bridge potential shortages or price hikes. As this item is plentiful, other consumers are not shorted out of things they need nor do manufacturers see any need to increase prices because of one customer buying more than they need.

It's a context thing. Two people can have the exact same number of rolls of TP in the closet... one is a prepper because he bought it when there was plenty to go around - the other a hoarder because he bought way more than he needed when people everywhere were panic buying for fear of running out.

Same thing with ammunition and components. If you buy a few boxes every time there is a big sale, and build up a nice sizeable stash, well done, you have prepared for the shortage you know will inevitably happen at some point. If you see that there's a panic/shortage/gouge-fest on, and go all over town grabbing everything you can lay hands on, taking the last box everywhere you find any... shame on you, you're a hoarder who has no consideration for folks that legitimately need a box or two.

Being a prepper is sensible and considerate. Being a hoarder is selfish and a dik move.

[sirgrumps]

It's a matter of perspective.

If one has a highly desired item (the ant), that was purchased PRIOR to the shortage, the person wanting the item (the grasshopper), but refusing to pay market prices, refers to the owner of the highly desired item as a "Hoarder."

If one is purchases large quantities of items, in anticipation, PRIOR to a shortage, that person is derisively referred to as a "Prepper."

Or simply, sellers during a panic, who is accumulating supplies during times of surplus, are "Hoarders".
Those same sellers during times of surplus, who is accumulating supplies, are "Preppers".

[therealnickb]

IDK. Hoarding seems like buying/acquiring stuff with out regard for need. Just piling it up. Having no idea what or how much you have.

The preppers I know have a plan. They inventory & rotate items based on spoil dates and such.

I’d expect to see piles of useless crap at a hoarders place. i. e. Leaky batteries, spoiled food etc. Preppers, not so much.

[bhilliker@comcast.net]

[bohoki]

hoarder is what you call someone who is well equipped during shortages but now the hoarder term has evolved to mean people who collect useless items compulsivly

[the86d]

Primers are cheaper to buy by the case of 5k, and even better when on sale in non-lean-times, same with powder, and projectiles...

I bartered some SPPs away for powder, at equiv. to NORMAL (pre-panic) rates, in trade, so it was a win-win.

Do the same people say others are hording houses if someone bought a house at the bottom of the market, and got more house for the money?
They are not selling it, nor sharing it with the homeless, or the people who can afford it now?
The house will be used by those who own it... same w/primers/ammo.
If they with to rent out a room (bricks), it is their choice.