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03Lightningrocks wrote:This should be against the law. I am going to remember this when swine is once again plentiful.

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03Lightningrocks wrote:

puma guy wrote:I know the OP is for Gougers but it's nice to read about a LGS owner holding the line on consignment sales. I received an email letter from Midway apologizing for delays and limits, but also stating prices are still the same. Even employees must abide by the limits placed on customer orders.

Who is LGS? You have a link to them. I'm not really hurting for ammo but if they are selling ammo at half the price of everyone else and are able to get inventory, I am in! Sounds like a great deal to me. Thanks for the info...

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anygunanywhere wrote:

dawgfishboy wrote:

Abraham wrote:03Lightningrocks,

You, me, a few others on this thread have done what they can to point out how the free enterprise systems works - beyond that, there's little more we can do...

You're not educating anyone...the people reporting these profiteers are.

I don't think anyone is saying what they are doing is illegal, just unethical.

Ethics has nothing to do with it. How can you say this is unethical?

Lightningrocks and Abe got it right.

Anygunanywhere

If CTD canceled pending backorders (a transaction that was agreed upon by seller and purchaser for a given amount at a future time) to allow CTD to increase prices, as alleged by others in this thread, I would say that's unethical. If they did it to adjust for the increase costs passed on by their suppliers, that's a matter of business as the conditions of the transaction changed. If the price increases were just conducted on future orders, that's neither illegal nor unethical -- but a good way to turn off loyal customers. Consumers are loyal to certain businesses because they expect reasonable consideration in return; that is to say, a loyal customer expects a certain margin of profit to be made off an order, but not anything like the ratios we have seen with Pmags, etc. Even if legal and ethical, I choose not to support businesses which overnight quadrupled (or more) their profit margins on firearm related products, regardless of whether the market would sustain such pricing.

steveincowtown wrote:Actually, increasing pricing during short periods emergency or short periods of high demand is technically unethical (or at least that how it was taught to me...).


Examples of Unethical Pricing Strategies

Price gouging is an example of an unethical pricing strategy. A company may raise prices of items that are temporarily in high demand. This is sometimes seen in the wake of emergency situations when the price of plywood jumps after a flood, even though there is enough plywood to repair houses. Predatory pricing, on the other hand, involves pricing a product low enough to dampen demand. This type of pricing is typically used to end a competitive threat. The company lowering the price is operating to protect market share from moving to the competition.


That being said I think for most folks are posting to this thread not because they don't believe in the free market system, but because they want to make their fellow gun owners aware of the companies who chose short term profits over long term customers.

dawgfishboy wrote:

Abraham wrote:03Lightningrocks,

You, me, a few others on this thread have done what they can to point out how the free enterprise systems works - beyond that, there's little more we can do...

You're not educating anyone...the people reporting these profiteers are.

I don't think anyone is saying what they are doing is illegal, just unethical.

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fickman wrote:

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Tireshred wrote:

OldCannon wrote:...annnd now the New Frontier lowers are $169. Up $20 from yesterday.

The world has gone insane.

Darn, I bought one from you a few months ago and LOVE it, I built a super lightweight AR for my wife (5lbs, 4ozs no sight), I added a DPMS Sportical upper, Primary Micro Red Dot, Primary Quad rail and ALG trigger, it shoots GREAT. I wanted another one to build for me, but now's not the time, maybe never, but I'll keep my eye on things.

The 2nd Amendment world has gone insane.