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Originally Posted by Micro man
I used to check 4 or 5 reloading sites daily to try and score some, but gave that practice up
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The problem is that these sites are plagued with unscrupulous vultures using bots to constantly monitor the offerings. They have multiple accounts set up using different credit cards and as soon as say, Midway for example, has large pistol primers for sale, the bots make the purchase.
And it's computer speaking to computer at 186,000 miles per second.
Even if I stumble upon the available primers at the same time as the vulture's computer, I can't type that fast. 186,000 miles per second.
Powder Valley sent out an email to its customers that they cancelled ~$30,000 in orders because they caught some vultures doing this. Now, PV has a "captcha" program to prevent computers from doing this.
AFAIK, no other web site does this.
We're not just fighting short supplies. We're fighting people who don't play fair.