So for those of you who are Prime members of the Target Sports website it is the time when we would be seeing the once yearly Mystery box show up. Given the current ammo scene I think it will be interesting what they ship this year. So I have received notification of my package shipping and should have it on Friday. As anybody else either gotten their package yet? FYI I have cancelled my Prime membership until such time as I can actually get ammo.
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Target Sports Mystery Box
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Mysteries?
I got a small ammo can and 10 rounds of 9mm ammo. What a bust.
I notified them that my email address had been hacked (COMCAST server breech) and wanted to change the one associated with my account with them. Their answer was that the email associated with a prime membership account could not be changed. I was a month out from my renewal being due so I just cancelled the account.
I did get good value from them for the time I was actually able to order.
I notified them that my email address had been hacked (COMCAST server breech) and wanted to change the one associated with my account with them. Their answer was that the email associated with a prime membership account could not be changed. I was a month out from my renewal being due so I just cancelled the account.
I did get good value from them for the time I was actually able to order.
I thought the only sent the mystery box on your first anniversary. I’ve not seen once in quite a while. When it did come, it was 20 rounds of an off brand .40 HP ammo. I don’t recall there being any swag. I let my membership lapse this spring. The last ammo I was able to get from them at a reasonable price was a box of Nagant revolver ammo for the son’s gun. That was back some time last fall. I just can’t bring myself to drop $600+ on a case of 9mm. At least, not while I have a decent supply and material for reloads.
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My prime membership expired in December and I didn't renew..They told me last July that I could get on a list to get a text 3 hours ahead of ammo going on the site and I signed up.. Never saw a text, bye bye Target sports.
I get texts and emails for ammo I've asked for in stock notifications on. The items are almost always sold out when I am notified.
My prime membership runs out in a couple of months and I will let it lapse until ammo is back in stock at tolerable pricing. It was a great deal for me while I stocked up over a few years.
It used to be a pretty good deal. I stopped reloading 9mm because it was hard to beat their price at about $156 a case. I had signed up for notifications on a couple of things and when the 9mm notification came in, it was for north of $600 a case.
I don’t pretend to know what is happening behind the scenes there but would think that they should be getting some ammo deliveries, if not near normal delivery levels. Federal has a video out on how they are cranking out millions of rounds and I’d think that a site like TS would be regularly supplied. Sure, when it gets there, it’s consumed in minutes, but it should be getting there. So, why the $600 price per case?
Ammo manufacturer’s have recently announced a price increase that would still put that $156 case of ammo under $200. Is the ammo shortage impacting TS or is TS just selling everything they get in minutes, leaving near zero stocks on hand? If TS is not getting it’s normal stock, but companies like Federal are producing more ammo than normal, where is the ammo going? I know in the end, it goes to consumers but you would think that companies like TS would have agreements with major manufacturers to deliver specific quantities of ammo at reduced costs based on bulk contracts.
I wonder if TS might have less ammo than other suppliers due to some poor contract agreements that left them out in the cold at a time like this.
I don’t pretend to know what is happening behind the scenes there but would think that they should be getting some ammo deliveries, if not near normal delivery levels. Federal has a video out on how they are cranking out millions of rounds and I’d think that a site like TS would be regularly supplied. Sure, when it gets there, it’s consumed in minutes, but it should be getting there. So, why the $600 price per case?
Ammo manufacturer’s have recently announced a price increase that would still put that $156 case of ammo under $200. Is the ammo shortage impacting TS or is TS just selling everything they get in minutes, leaving near zero stocks on hand? If TS is not getting it’s normal stock, but companies like Federal are producing more ammo than normal, where is the ammo going? I know in the end, it goes to consumers but you would think that companies like TS would have agreements with major manufacturers to deliver specific quantities of ammo at reduced costs based on bulk contracts.
I wonder if TS might have less ammo than other suppliers due to some poor contract agreements that left them out in the cold at a time like this.
