nature boy
Wooooooooo, from Canada!
Damn u can’t give a firearm away right now.
I'll take one if you are offering.Damn u can’t give a firearm away right now.
YOU cant.... I canDamn u can’t give a firearm away right now.
Listen to this guy, @nature boy , he knows it all.looking at your threads, i don't think it's the market that sucks.
don't you have some elderly people to scam out of a pickup truck, or a cleanup in aisle 12 to attend to?Listen to this guy, @nature boy , he knows it all.
Man one thing I wish I had and that’s as much time as you do... and maybe your obsession with my posts... and being a dramatic liar.. loldon't you have some elderly people to scam out of a pickup truck, or a cleanup in aisle 12 to attend to?
i worked hard to earn this free time, and haven't lied about anything. you sure have an imagination on you Jimmy boy.Man one thing I wish I had and that’s as much time as you do... and maybe your obsession with my posts... and being a dramatic liar.. lol
keep on keeping on, smart man.
I think we're dealing with market saturation and burnout from the last crisis. When Wally first announced their selected ammo ban, some stuff flew off the shelves, presumably by scalpers. The shelves have since been fully re-stocked.Which is interesting given all of the anti-hype out there right now. We've seen panic buying with less chatter from the politicians.
3 nights ago there were 248 Colt SAAs on GB..11 had bids...11. One of my Pards that owns an indoor shooting range said it had been months since he sold anything over $600. He stocks lotsa Les Baer and Wilson guns.
I really believe the handgun market...in general and with a few exceptions is a $500 market.
Recently a man was here and was looking at a Perfect Nickel 29-2. He said, how would you like to try to sell this to someone by saying....This holds 1/3 the ammo your gun does, weighs twice as much, and costs 3 times as much. There will come a time when these grand old guns will only be for collectors of great examples of the last century's manufacturing capabilities.
i ended up trading my new Dan Wesson Valor for my CZ Shadow 2 B&B from a dealer at a show, because nobody was interested in it at $1200 cash.I've always struggled to move anything more than a grand. You literally have to pay someone to take it off your hands.
or people are hoping to profit from a Democratic scare.I think that the 600 lb gorilla in the background is the economy. Many economic indicators are predicting a recession, and a lot of folks don’t want to be reducing their disposable funds right now.
Here’s how you sell a gun.
Post pictures. Good pictures.
Offer it for sale/sell/cell/sail at a price in line with the current market. Not with how much you have in it.
Don't expect people to like your choice of holsters, extra mags, extra ammo, or all the bells, whistles and racoon tails you hung on that gun, etc
Offer the gun for sale alone. Offer all that other stuff for sale separately, or offer a good deal on that stuff to the buyer AFTER you have worked a reasonable deal in the gun.
You’ll be surprised that you'll usually get it sold, and most the ancillary extras that went with it.
This year I have sold a Wilson, a Wesson, a couple of Colts, all for what I expected to sell them for. Did I get all my money out of them? No. But I got them sold.
Don't expect people to like your choice of holsters, extra mags, extra ammo, or all the bells, whistles and racoon tails you hung on that gun, etc
definitely gonna have to explain that to the guys who poke their plastic guns with a soldering iron and wanna charge for itYou may have to 'splain that to some of the younger crowd.
This money for a Swenson, Almond, Behlert, King, Pachmayer, was common to get a gun that you had confidence in.I also think that many more modern shooters have less and less disposable cash to throw at a $2,000-3,000 pistol
Oh My!If you only shoot a few times a year
Just for me I have always tried to obtain the yardstick the product was measured by...just me."just as good" as
Me too Pard, me too.You have all been a blessing to me, and I'm grateful. I just needed to say that (again).
These are NOT mutually exclusive. I do Both.I do not collect guns. I shoot the piss out of everything I own.
Or a Sigor just don't sell it at all. it won't lose value sitting in the safe.
...unless it's a glock.
My wife and I were discussing the "collectible" traditions that are now disappearing at an alarming rate. Our parent's generation collected all kinds of things. From salt shakers to signs to coins to stamps to knives to china to silver to guns. Growing up just about every family had a set of silver that they used on special occasions. Many also had the "good" china. My mom had a very nice set of china (Rosenthal) that was very expensive when she bought it. I did a search online and I can buy it for pennies on the dollar simply because nobody wants to keep up with a set of china anymore. Silver is the same way. It's only good for melting down and selling, not to eat your peas with. Most guns are in the same category and do not appreciate in value. Only a few do and they are either very very old or in limited quantity and in 100% condition. I do not collect guns. I shoot the piss out of everything I own. On average most of my guns that I bought new are in 90% condition or less.
I knew one gentleman that collected .22 rifles. He had hundreds of them! He always thought that his collection was "priceless" but most of what he had were run-of-the mill .22's in 75-80% condition. My point being that today I know very few people who avidly collect things like the previous generations did. Thinking of my friends none of them seriously "collect" anything. They have lots of "stuff" but they don't have rooms filled with one particular "collectible". They just aren't interested. They want new "stuff" not old "stuff". I don't see the younger generation(s) interested in avidly collecting as did the previous generations. I think it could be attributable to lower income, greater mobility (its a pain moving when you have boxes and boxes of "stuff"), and lack of interest or knowledge.
Someone mentioned the lack of interest in Colt SAA's on GB. I can see it. Like Grandma's china, no one wants it.
Not all of us. I like the Jay Leno thought process. He says he gets cars to a 10 and then drives them down to a 6 or 7 . I have a couple of dozen or more that I bought new and Have Shot And Enjoyed that are still worth considerably more than what I paid for them. Yes they would have been worth more if not shot but every penny was worth it to me.You don't buy those guns to shoot, you buy them for display cases and to sit.
Not all of us. I like the Jay Leno thought process. He says he gets cars to a 10 and then drives them down to a 6 or 7 . I have a couple of dozen or more that I bought new and Have Shot And Enjoyed that are still worth considerably more than what I paid for them. Yes they would have been worth more if not shot but every penny was worth it to me.
I LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Whats the old saying? Not shooting a gun because you want to keep it new is like not having relations with your wife so she is fresh for her next husband.
Are you going to back that up and buy the ones that don’t?Bring ALL things saleable here next week end. They will sell.