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Originally Posted by nostatic
Personally I hate people like this. They have no interest in what they're buying, they only want to make "easy" money at the expense of other people who actually want to use things.
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In my offbeat world of black powder cartridge rifles, there once was a man who was buying up approximately 40% of the production of one of these small rifle companies. At the time, the waiting list was about five years deep on this particular rifle. This man was happy to sell you one for damn near double MSRP, promissing no more than a three to five month wait.
Some folks in these circles liked to say it was simply "supply and demand" capitalism at its finest. The majority saw it as opportunistic price-gouging. The shortage in this little cottage industry had been, in a large part, artificially created by one man's hoarding.
Well, what goes around comes around. Some years later, all of these little ma and pa specialty rifle manufacturers have pretty much caught up. Many who purchased these rifles because they were the "hot thing" years ago have now found they do not like all of the extra work associated with shooting black powder cartridges, and have also found these rifles do not shoot well with smokeless. They are selling theirs off (we are seeing the same thing in the early 911 market, by the way, as the luster has worn off for so many who thought they wanted one).
So now there is a glut of these rifles. There is no reason to buy one from this man at his inflated prices, and he has dropped them accordingly. Problem is, this is a very small circle of dedicated shooters who communicate with one another quite well and quite often. The word is out. What goes around comes around. Most would not purchase from this man if he offered his stock at half the going price. Most would prefer to see the greedy bastard buried with his inventory. So it goes... karma...