Mags, what State are you in? I'm curious to know why your pricing is so much lower than ours - notwithstanding the U.S. to CDN dollar exchange. I'd LOVE to know what my range or hunting store buys their ammo for — their cost.Mags wrote:Maybe price increase hasn't reached my area. I see .17 HMR going for $50 USD, box of 200 ($0.25ea USD). This week on sale for $40 USD.
Here's why... there's a company not far from where I live, they deal in rifles, ammo etc, but the public can't buy from them. They supply most of the other vendors in my area, and there aren't many vendors, hunting stores, my range, I think even our Cabela's buys from them.
Therefore, NONE of those vendors are paying more for it than another. With ammunition, like any product, you hit a threshold, where you can't buy it for a price any lower than X, or else they'd be giving it away.
I asked my range guy months ago, I said "Ok, if I'm buying a box of 200 rounds for $56.00 including all tax and my 10% off card etc, how much LESS would I pay if I bought a case of 10 boxes (each case has 10 boxes of 200 rounds each, or 2000 rounds.) He said it's the same price basically, that I'd have to buy "CASES" - we didn't get into the details, but much more than a few.
I wonder what CCI sells a case for, if you're a vendor. I'm almost interested in finding out what I need to do to become a vendor. Definitely permits, legal stuff, and a license. But let's say I got all that, I wonder how much less I could pay for the ammo. Where's the margin for CCI, I'd love to know.
If the margins are so low on ammo for resellers, they'd stop carrying it - but they don't. I think it should be like any other commodity, if I pay for it and can order it from the manufacturer directly, I should have the right to do so.
Case in point: My range guy quoted me this absurd hike in price for CCI A17, from 49.99 to 74.99. But look here:
https://www.firearmsoutletcanada.com/cc ... f-200.html $64.95 CDN.
Why are they charging $10 bucks less for the same thing? I paid a range fee for the year, I think my ammo price should be reflected in that.
