Sticker Shock

[J.Baker]

Noticed I was about down to my last two 1,000ct boxes of CCI BR2 primers today so I thought I would run down to my LGS to see if I could pick up a couple more boxes. Suffice to say I about had a heart attack when I saw what they had them priced at... $64.99 per 1,000! Holly sheep-dip Batman!

Now for comparison let's look at the following photo...

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The top box was purchased around 2009 or 2010 for the outrageous sum of $27.95 + tax. The bottom box was purchased in late 2014 or early 2015 and still reflects the post Sandy Hook crazy price of $42.99 per 1,000. Now just 3-4 years later they're up another $22 for no other reason than "we can."

Best price I've found online at this point is a little over $51, but that still seems ridiculously high to me. Guess I'm going to have to work up some new loads with different primers for a couple rifles as CCI has jacked the price on these so much that the slightly better consistency over their standard #200 primers isn't worth paying nearly twice the money for the BR2's.

[Evlshnngns]

My father in-law has primers with 11.00$ stickers on them, probably from the 80's. I refuse to pay the cci br price, I have plenty of other things to improve first.

[yobuck]

Big difference between what something is worth, and what people will pay.
A few years back when all the hoarding of primers was taking place, the world got to see what people would pay.
I kept some 1 lb powder containers with price tags of well under $2.00 bought in the 70s. I remember well buying a 20# container of H870 for $20.00 in Butte Mt. in the mid 70s.

[sharpshooter]

I remember buying a bottle of Coke for a dime.....20 yrs ago a box of Eley Tenex costs $7.00. The first box of Nosler Ballistic tips I bought was $7.50. The first Leupold scope I purchased was a 6.5 x 20 Vari-x III with a varmint dot, back in '92. It cost a whopping $337.00. My first child was born in 1983, the total delivery costs were $795. Nothin's cheap anymore......

[Evlshnngns]

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A few years back when all the hoarding of primers was taking place, the world got to see what people would pay......
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Ouch, I bet you are right.

[bearcatrp]

Pretty sure that’s the Democrats along with the manufacturers to price this stuff out of the reach of the users. All reloading supplies are up. Hell, what used to be a box of 100 bullets are now a box of 50 for about the same price. I buy primers by 3 boxes of 1000 to stay ahead of these prices. You can bet next presidential election prices will go nuts if polls show a democrat winning. I plan to have enough before that happens.

[yobuck]

I remember buying a bottle of Coke for a dime.....20 yrs ago a box of Eley Tenex costs $7.00. The first box of Nosler Ballistic tips I bought was $7.50. The first Leupold scope I purchased was a 6.5 x 20 Vari-x III with a varmint dot, back in '92. It cost a whopping $337.00. My first child was born in 1983, the total delivery costs were $795. Nothin's cheap anymore......

How about your earnings Fred have they kept pace with other cost? I'll bet not.
I didn't have any insurance when our first was born in 1960, just wrote out a check which wasent very big.

[sharpshooter]

There is no doubt that the costs of certain things have risen grossly out of proportion with the cost of living. Most of it supply and demand, the rest is "because they can".

[Txhillbilly]

$48 at Powder Valley