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Thanks for the offer - I don't need the thing right away - I can wait. I'm absolutely sure Hornady will be getting more in stock. Book printing/binding is at least outside the same supply chain of factories for ammo and reloading gear, so they've probably got whoever they contract to manufacture the books making a shit-ton more right now.

I mostly posted because I thought it was semi-retarded for people to be paying like 3-4x the list price on Ebay for a friggin book. Especially considering - as you guys pointed out - that you can just find the pages online and print them if you REALLY need them.

But I also think there's probably a lot of people out there now - who have the money to spend and just don't care that they just spent that 3-4X retail price. They just want it now and so they spend the money. That was what was going on when I was selling those masks I mentioned. A 2 pack of N95 replacement cartridges was like $5.95 retail price. I paid like $4.95 in bulk. People were WILLINGLY paying like $35.00 for a 2 pack of the replacement filters - and were sending me email thanking me profusely for even having them. I wasn't even rape pricing. I was selling below what most other people were selling for. Then Ebay banned fixed price mask selling. But other listings stayed up. I was like WTF. Until I figured out that if you just omitted certain keywords and posted the things in an auction format instead of fixed price - they flew under Ebay's radar. So I posted more auctions - with a minimum of just above normal retail. People paid even MORE than they did previously. It was just effed up. But it was the same behavior I noticed before during the Obama era gun buying sprees. Probably half the people who were buying - the masks were claiming they were doctors. Might not have been - I don't know.

I've got a simple solution for people who complain about rapey pricing : don't pay. That's what I do. I won't pay $129 for a Hornady book that I'm absolutely sure they've got a big order out for right now to print more of. I'll just wait. If you pay $129 for one - that's on you and nobody else.

<blockquote data-quote="calsdad" data-source="post: 7206620" data-attributes="member: 972">Thanks for the offer - I don&#039;t need the thing right away - I can wait.&nbsp; I&#039;m absolutely sure Hornady will be getting more in stock.&nbsp; Book printing/binding is at least outside the same supply chain of factories for ammo and reloading gear,&nbsp; so they&#039;ve probably got whoever they contract to manufacture the books making a shit-ton more right now.I mostly posted because I thought it was semi-retarded for people to be paying like 3-4x the list price on Ebay for a friggin book.&nbsp; Especially considering - as you guys pointed out - that you can just find the pages online and print them if you REALLY need them.But I also think there&#039;s probably a lot of people out there now - who have the money to spend and just don&#039;t care that they just spent that 3-4X retail price.&nbsp; They just want it now and so they spend the money.&nbsp; That was what was going on when I was selling those masks I mentioned.&nbsp;&nbsp; A 2 pack of N95 replacement cartridges was like $5.95 retail price.&nbsp; I paid like $4.95 in bulk.&nbsp; People were WILLINGLY paying like $35.00 for a 2 pack of the replacement filters - and were sending me email thanking me profusely for even having them.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t even rape pricing.&nbsp; I was selling below what most other people were selling for.&nbsp; Then Ebay banned fixed price mask selling.&nbsp; But other listings stayed up.&nbsp; I was like WTF.&nbsp; Until I figured out that if you just omitted certain keywords and posted the things in an auction format instead of fixed price - they flew under Ebay&#039;s radar.&nbsp; So I posted more auctions - with a minimum of just above normal retail.&nbsp; People paid even MORE than they did previously.&nbsp; It was just effed up.&nbsp; But it was the same behavior I noticed before during the Obama era gun buying sprees.&nbsp; Probably half the people who were buying - the masks were claiming they were doctors.&nbsp; Might not have been - I don&#039;t know. I&#039;ve got a simple solution for people who complain about rapey pricing :&nbsp; don&#039;t pay.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s what I do.&nbsp; I won&#039;t pay $129 for a Hornady book that I&#039;m absolutely sure they&#039;ve got a big order out for right now to print more of. I&#039;ll just wait.&nbsp; If you pay $129 for one - that&#039;s on you and nobody else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="calsdad, post: 7206620, member: 972"] Thanks for the offer - I don't need the thing right away - I can wait. I'm absolutely sure Hornady will be getting more in stock. Book printing/binding is at least outside the same supply chain of factories for ammo and reloading gear, so they've probably got whoever they contract to manufacture the books making a shit-ton more right now. I mostly posted because I thought it was semi-retarded for people to be paying like 3-4x the list price on Ebay for a friggin book. Especially considering - as you guys pointed out - that you can just find the pages online and print them if you REALLY need them. But I also think there's probably a lot of people out there now - who have the money to spend and just don't care that they just spent that 3-4X retail price. They just want it now and so they spend the money. That was what was going on when I was selling those masks I mentioned. A 2 pack of N95 replacement cartridges was like $5.95 retail price. I paid like $4.95 in bulk. People were WILLINGLY paying like $35.00 for a 2 pack of the replacement filters - and were sending me email thanking me profusely for even having them. I wasn't even rape pricing. I was selling below what most other people were selling for. Then Ebay banned fixed price mask selling. But other listings stayed up. I was like WTF. Until I figured out that if you just omitted certain keywords and posted the things in an auction format instead of fixed price - they flew under Ebay's radar. So I posted more auctions - with a minimum of just above normal retail. People paid even MORE than they did previously. It was just effed up. But it was the same behavior I noticed before during the Obama era gun buying sprees. Probably half the people who were buying - the masks were claiming they were doctors. Might not have been - I don't know. I've got a simple solution for people who complain about rapey pricing : don't pay. That's what I do. I won't pay $129 for a Hornady book that I'm absolutely sure they've got a big order out for right now to print more of. I'll just wait. If you pay $129 for one - that's on you and nobody else. [/QUOTE]

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