Trail Boss Fair Price

[T-Bone Pickins]

I have a 5 Pound unopened Jug of TB.  I plan to sell it at my local SASS Club on Swap Table day.  Can anyone advise on price based on recent knowledge?  I know about the prices asked on Gunbroker which seem silly to me.  I will not ship this to anyone but a local hand-off is possible.

[Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563L]

There are two schools of thought on this.  Replacement cost if you had to buy more later, and cutting a pard a deal because you paid a lot less.

 

In my humble opinion, I would pick a price somewhere between the "Current Gunbroker Price" and what you paid for it but, if the price is closer to the lower number, I would personally try to see that it went to a pard that was going to use it and not someone who was going to flip it and sell it on Gunbroker.

 

Good luck, I am sure someone will buy it.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

1 hour ago, T-Bone Pickins said:

I have a 5 Pound unopened Jug of TB.  I plan to sell it at my local SASS Club on Swap Table day.  Can anyone advise on price based on recent knowledge?  I know about the prices asked on Gunbroker which seem silly to me.  I will not ship this to anyone but a local hand-off is possible.

Unless you hold a BATFE explosive lic. You CAN'T  ship it. Don't even try, BATFE has no sense of humor! 

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

The last 9 oz bottle I bought in a store, perhaps five years ago is marked $40. That is about $4.44 per oz. A five pound bottle is 80 ounces so if I were selling it minimum would be 80 x 4.44 =355.2. Maximum would be an even number like $400. Up to you, but prices I have actually seen (don’t know if that is what they sold at) have been considerably higher. 
Regards

    

Gateway Kid

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Last month a pard on the wire sold a 5 pound jug for $375.

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

There is not likely to be more Trailboss so "replacement cost" is not really a factor.  Remember the "one pound" cans of Trailboss are really only 9 ounces.  So a five pound jug is almost 9 cans.  The stuff will sell easily at $50.00 a can.  So $450.00 for a five pounder would be a more than fair price.

[Eyesa Horg]

Funny ... Folks will whine about almost a hundred bucks for primers but pay that amount for a pound of powder that they will need a replacement for as soon as it's gone. And then have to pay less than 50 a pound for whatever they switch too!

[Seth Bradford]

I sold 2 of the 1 pound containers (9 ounce) earlier this year to a cowboy in my club for $50 each and he thought that the price was more than fair.

 

[Cypress Sun]

 

If you had bought gold 5 years ago instead of Trail Boss...,would you sell your gold at your buy price? 

[watab kid]

that would be an interesting response , not that any of us bought powder and primers back then looking to profit - i didnt - i bought for my use and that will be the use it gets till im gone , these threads are often creating questions in my head - why did you buy it if you didnt intend to use it ? being the first and why arent you using it ? as a second , 

[Mister Badly]

If I buy something I don't use it is usually so someone I know that uses it can have it. I sell it for what I paid for it. I had a retiring cowboy give me a bunch of brass and I gave what caliber I didn't use to local cowboys that did. 

[Sam Sackett]

7 hours ago, watab kid said:

that would be an interesting response , not that any of us bought powder and primers back then looking to profit - i didnt - i bought for my use and that will be the use it gets till im gone , these threads are often creating questions in my head - why did you buy it if you didnt intend to use it ? being the first and why arent you using it ? as a second , 

 

i don’t know about the Op, but I bought some Trail Boss a few years ago to try. Didn’t like it. Sat on the shelf for a long time. Finally traded it off for Clays. 
 

Sam Sackett 

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

I bought some when Trailboss was newer to try. I tried it a little and ended up not using it. Recently a shooting buddy at a modern match asked me about Trailboss because he knew I'd shot SASS. He wanted to load some 30 30 ammo. I gave him the rundown on what has occurred recently with availability. 

I knew I had a bottle or two. Ended up finding one 9 oz about a quarter full and another full 9 oz. Later found another full one. Price on one was $13.95 or $14.95, can't remember. I just gave it to him. He wanted to pay me something but he and his wife are there early nearly every match helping setup.

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

Sell it for its value in todays market.   I was selling off primers and powder since I can't shoot any more. Sold it for what the market was buying it for. Not what I paid for it.  Primers were $100/1,000. I sold mine for $75.

[oak creek martin]

Today at land run in the swap meet a 5 pound went for 500 bucks

[John Barleycorn, SASS #76982]

I’ve seen the 9oz bottles go for $75 to $225

I tried to sell 5lb (just about 9 9oz bottles worth) for $675 and I had no takers. No biggie, if it doesn’t sell I’ll use it up. I’m told the 300 black out shooters love it for subsonic loads. 

[Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971]

4 hours ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:

I bought some when Trailboss was newer to try. I tried it a little and ended up not using it. Recently a shooting buddy at a modern match asked me about Trailboss because he knew I'd shot SASS. He wanted to load some 30 30 ammo. I gave him the rundown on what has occurred recently with availability. 

I knew I had a bottle or two. Ended up finding one 9 oz about a quarter full and another full 9 oz. Later found another full one. Price on one was $13.95 or $14.95, can't remember. I just gave it to him. He wanted to pay me something but he and his wife are there early nearly every match helping setup.

I load 30-30 rounds with Trail Boss for long range side matches.  My wife and I shot rams at 200 meters this morning at Land Run and did well.  Trail Boss and gas checked Lasercraft bullets just work well in our Marlin 30-30.

[watab kid]

10 hours ago, Sam Sackett said:

 

i don’t know about the Op, but I bought some Trail Boss a few years ago to try. Didn’t like it. Sat on the shelf for a long time. Finally traded it off for Clays. 
 

Sam Sackett 

that would have been the only reason i would be looking to get rid of it , and id trade it for something i really knew i liked , - i did that with some unique i had that someone needed as well as a bit of reloader 7 , neither were bought to resell , i tried them and found i liked something else better so traded to someone that liked those , 

[Tennessee williams]

A fair price is the one two people agree on.

[watab kid]

cant argue with that , 

["Big Boston"]

About 2 years ago I saw two 9 oz containers at a gunshow for $50 each. I paid up, which pretty much goes along with what has been said  so far. 

 

But the real kicker is, if you sell it, and later on you have a need for it, what will you have to pay for it if you could even find it. 

 

I've found subs for most of my calibers, but for some, it's been a tough battle finding something else. I like the safety issue, the pretty hard to double charge one. I also like it's ability to fill a large case like 44-40 to the 70% level without raising the pressure through the sky. 

 

If I had 5 pounds to sell, I'd put it into one pound containers, 9 oz per and sell it for $75 a 9 oz container. Sounds ridiculous, but probably would sell. Also, in a larger lot the expectation is that there should be some savings. These are bad times. 

 

I'll stop there, as I feel myself sinking into a political tirade. 

 

Big Boston

[Kid Rich]

I was at the swap meet at Land Run and a Cowboy had a 5 lb unopened jug of Trail Boss for $300, I told him I wanted it, I also told him he could get a lot more than that for it. He said he did not want more just wanted to get it to someone that would use it. Needless to say Shirttail was happy.

kr