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Had a few interesting conversations with RFDs over the last few days, and got onto the topic of price increases. Just today bought a 3.5kg tub of N140 powder. Todays price £210 - the RFD that I got it from said he'd received notification of the new prices today. New price for the same tub will be around £300. Similar conversation yesterday with someone else about Sierra bullets - expect about a 30-40% price rise to be coming in for 2017. Thought I'd put the word out in case it wasn't widely known and people want to stock up on consumables.

Yep, been on the cards for a while. A culmination of things by all accounts. Pound against the Euro and dollar. Increased oil prices and further restrictions on the transport of "dangerous goods".....

On the bright side, the military keep cancelling our full bore shoots on their ranges, so Im not going to need as much! Rimfire and gallery for me for a while!! Every cloud and all that!

I've heard at lot of this, it seems that tnt pulling the plug on delivering ammo and firearms spun folk into an uneccacary panic, my local dealer fallout with tnt years ago and has been using circle express and another which slips my mind, he's had no humongous price rises or problems due to carridge.....

Any price hikes must be through some other reason.....

As was said Drew, a culmination of things. The exchange rate is probably the real kicker...

Yes, various reasons all adding up. Weakness of pound vs dollar, general increase for new year, and something one of the guys mentioned which I didn't fully get which was something to do with a stopping of tax relief for shipping/buying within Europe (which as news to me, and I hadn't realised anything EU related had stopped especially as article 50 is yet to be triggered). Up to now consumers have been relatively protected from price increases, but expect that to change in 2017.

If can also be a self-fulfilling prophecy because guess what happens to price if there's a sudden spike in demand from panic buying! Just look at what happened in the US when Barry got re-elected, I don't think the US .22lr supply/price has recovered yet!

I do wonder how many RFDs and distributors will use it as an excuse...

jmc67 wrote:Yes, various reasons all adding up. Weakness of pound vs dollar, general increase for new year, and something one of the guys mentioned which I didn't fully get which was something to do with a stopping of tax relief for shipping/buying within Europe (which as news to me, and I hadn't realised anything EU related had stopped especially as article 50 is yet to be triggered). Up to now consumers have been relatively protected from price increases, but expect that to change in 2017.

...Finland was using the Euro last time I was there

Blackstuff wrote:If can also be a self-fulfilling prophecy because guess what happens to price if there's a sudden spike in demand from panic buying! Just look at what happened in the US when Barry got re-elected, I don't think the US .22lr supply/price has recovered yet!

The US Companies were that sure of a buying surge due to a Hillary win that when Trump won stocks in companies like smith and Wesson and old Ruger dropped on the 9th November. They're now left by the looks with stock that no one's in a rush to buy, so they're sitting on by the looks of things now.

saddler wrote:

jmc67 wrote:Yes, various reasons all adding up. Weakness of pound vs dollar, general increase for new year, and something one of the guys mentioned which I didn't fully get which was something to do with a stopping of tax relief for shipping/buying within Europe (which as news to me, and I hadn't realised anything EU related had stopped especially as article 50 is yet to be triggered). Up to now consumers have been relatively protected from price increases, but expect that to change in 2017.

...Finland was using the Euro last time I was there

Pound v the Euro is crap as well, so don't get to excited monkey-boy, that Vhit powder and PPU is going to become expensive as well!