I have always been a pack rat, which is a bonus in today's world. I have powder and caps that were given to me that cost me nothing, I have 500 Walmart caps that cost $5.85 a tin. I have powder that I paid $12 a pound shipped and some that I paid $30 a pound during the first part of the shortage when the Goex plant burned.
I am set for life but feel for people just getting into the sport. Greed from the suppliers can and will kill the sport for many, there is no reason for a single cap to cost as much as a ready to shoot 9mm round.
Here is my personal price gouging story; I was just starting out in life with a wife and a young son, I moved to Stevenson Al with my job, there was almost no rental property available. We lived in an old farm house out of town, down a one lane dead end road with a raised railroad track adjacent to the road.
We had a flood, followed by a terrible ice storm, the power was out, we were trapped in by the flood for two weeks, we got our water from a spring. I could walk a mile down the railroad track to high ground and get picked up to go to work or pick up supplies from Stevenson.
The local hardware store had Coleman white gas for 99cent a gallon(1974) before the storm and jacked its price up to $5 a gallon after the storm hit, everyone who lost power needed it. I had to buy it, but vowed that when things returned to normal, I would drive 50 miles for hardware before I ever spent another dime in his store.
Apparently, he price gouged one too many people and rubbed a bunch of us the wrong way, this store had been a fixture in downtown Stevenson for at least 20 years, his once very successful business went belly up within a couple of years after the storm.
Keep these price gouging cap sellers in mind down the road.
I am set for life but feel for people just getting into the sport. Greed from the suppliers can and will kill the sport for many, there is no reason for a single cap to cost as much as a ready to shoot 9mm round.
Here is my personal price gouging story; I was just starting out in life with a wife and a young son, I moved to Stevenson Al with my job, there was almost no rental property available. We lived in an old farm house out of town, down a one lane dead end road with a raised railroad track adjacent to the road.
We had a flood, followed by a terrible ice storm, the power was out, we were trapped in by the flood for two weeks, we got our water from a spring. I could walk a mile down the railroad track to high ground and get picked up to go to work or pick up supplies from Stevenson.
The local hardware store had Coleman white gas for 99cent a gallon(1974) before the storm and jacked its price up to $5 a gallon after the storm hit, everyone who lost power needed it. I had to buy it, but vowed that when things returned to normal, I would drive 50 miles for hardware before I ever spent another dime in his store.
Apparently, he price gouged one too many people and rubbed a bunch of us the wrong way, this store had been a fixture in downtown Stevenson for at least 20 years, his once very successful business went belly up within a couple of years after the storm.
Keep these price gouging cap sellers in mind down the road.
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