Price gouging at longlifefood.com

Discussions about US MREs and other US rations
Post Reply
mw509
inactive
Posts: 77
Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:53 pm

Re: Price gouging at longlifefood.com

Post by mw509 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:32 pm

kman wrote:Give me a freaking break.
Don't worry as you always say the free market will sort it out

:wink:
Top
User avatar
kman
Site Admin
Posts: 4372
Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:07 pm
Location: Naples, FL
Contact:
Contact kman

Post by kman » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:20 am

True, but I haven't seen much of a free market on the MRE entrees. Longlifefoods seems to be about the only place that gets a decent selection of all the MRE parts. Sure, places like TheEpicenter.com get some stuff in and the prices are competitive, but it's nothing like LLF. Oh well.
Top
dex
Posts: 18
Joined: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:35 pm
Location: Baltimore Metro

Post by dex » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:26 pm

Yeah, lots of sellers getting out of hand with their pricing. We have a place called Sunny's Surplus that sells a complete MRE for something aroudn $8-9 each. The cheapest I can get without having to mail order is $72 plus tax for a case which isn't bad considering you have to pay shipping to most places online which will bring your price up similarly.

The best price I have ever paid on a case was $45 and it was a fluke. Some guy at a gunshow who had a bunch of Katrina MREs didn't know what the market was or didn't care but the very next show he added $30 to the price and still sold them all out.
Top
MreKampr
Posts: 107
Joined: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:49 pm
Location: Southern California

Post by MreKampr » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:03 pm

kman wrote:True, but I haven't seen much of a free market on the MRE entrees. Longlifefoods seems to be about the only place that gets a decent selection of all the MRE parts. Sure, places like TheEpicenter.com get some stuff in and the prices are competitive, but it's nothing like LLF. Oh well.
I Agree with you Kman..LLF Has no serious competition
I might still use them for spread,jam,sauce pouches,ect as the prices seem the same but as for the other items..Negative!
A little off topic..but the prices mre cases are getting on ebay
seem to have gone up a bit..Wonder if its just katrina Aftershock :shock:
Top
ockham
Posts: 7
Joined: Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:28 pm
Location: Boston

Civilian MREs W/heaters

Post by ockham » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:31 am

Out of curiosity I was checking out longlifefood.com and noticed that they now offer civilian MREs with heaters included. They also use the tan bags like the military MREs instead of the clear ziplocks like most civilian MREs.
Is this something new or am I just discovering it? Is this something they';re "Getting away with"? Nobody else sells civilian MREs with heaters, why do/can they?
Meh.
Top
User avatar
kman
Site Admin
Posts: 4372
Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:07 pm
Location: Naples, FL
Contact:
Contact kman

Post by kman » Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:41 am

I don't recall when LLF started selling their own homemade MREs with heaters included but it doesn't surprise that they're doing it. There's not really anything preventing anyone from selling homemade MREs with heaters - it just changes how much it costs you to make and also changes how you can ship them. With heaters included, you can only ship via ground.
Top
Post Reply

Return to “MREs”