Market Observations

[Irving]

Prices are GREAT right now, but my financial situation hasn't improved and its like the market is rubbing it in my face.

[HoneyBadger]

Always buy low and sell high. I wish I had money to put into guns right now.

[Hound]

Just because you play it smart and don't buy X,Y or Z because you feel the prices are too high due to price gouging does not mean people aren't price gouging. There can be plenty of inventory but because of a panic people get stupid quick. This can happen with anything. That is what a bank run is. That is why the stock market has automated shut off's. The issue with guns and ammo prices is the same. People are free to charge whatever they want and get any price they can get but that does not negate the fact they are praying on a false panic........meaning price gouging.

[Bailey Guns]

So if someone pays the price, and is happy with the price and the product, it's price gouging? I don't think so. Neither do most respected economists.

Now, what about the current situation when the reverse is true? Are the suppliers and manufacturers somehow the victim of low demand? Are they somehow victims of a sort of reverse gouging? After all, it should work both ways, right?

[Bailey Guns]

Excellent video on the subject:

[Great-Kazoo]

Just because you play it smart and don't buy X,Y or Z because you feel the prices are too high due to price gouging does not mean people aren't price gouging. There can be plenty of inventory but because of a panic people get stupid quick. This can happen with anything. That is what a bank run is. That is why the stock market has automated shut off's. The issue with guns and ammo prices is the same. People are free to charge whatever they want and get any price they can get but that does not negate the fact they are praying on a false panic........meaning price gouging.

AGAIN?? GET OVER IT.
If you insist on , resurrect one of the other gouging threads.

[Hound]

AGAIN?? GET OVER IT.
If you insist on , resurrect one of the other gouging threads.

Ummmmm.... The thread is about price gouging... Or am I missing that this is the brainwashed capitalism has no flaws BS thread where towing the party line is only accepted???

[Great-Kazoo]

Ummmmm.... The thread is about price gouging... Or am I missing that this is the brainwashed capitalism has no flaws BS thread where towing the party line is only accepted???

Clearly we see profit differently. You feel there's limits, before it becomes " gouging" .Being a man of the world , having travelled through some of it. I feel the sky's the limit. You want to hand me $$ without out complaint, or trying to haggle, . Oh well. .
I've seen items listed here for what I felt was an embarrassing price. However that was the sellers choice and clearly by how fast it SOLD. Not an issue with the multiple interest it generated.

Regarding,towing a brainwashed party line, you don't like increasing your coffers, give it away, Myself, without a rainy day fund, more than once ramen and spam was considered fine dining. I prefer to avoid that path, again..

[Bailey Guns]

Ummmmm.... The thread is about price gouging... Or am I missing that this is the brainwashed capitalism has no flaws BS thread where towing the party line is only accepted???

Well, defend your position. Please explain why you feel those who disagree with you are part of a system of "brainwashed capitalism". And please explain why it seems to work in one direction but not the other.

[Great-Kazoo]

Well, defend your position. Please explain why you feel those who disagree with you are part of a system of "brainwashed capitalism". And please explain why it seems to work in one direction but not the other.

You know why, I know why. It's one of the tenants in some play book