Private sale prices of used guns?

[Scutter01]

I would just like to voice my support for the $250 Saiga.

 

[jmiller676]

I would just like to voice my support for the $250 Saiga.

And $50 NIB Glocks?

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

And $50 NIB Glocks?

Why pricing them so high?

Just a bunch of plastic.

 

[jmiller676]

Why pricing them so high?

Just a bunch of plastic.

 

[figley]

You want to trade for my $300 gun? Well, then, I'm going to need $600 worth of baling wire and legos, because then I have to turn around and unload that stuff.

 

[NHT3]

P.T. Barnum said it best,

"A fool and his money are soon parted"


Caveat Emptor

P. T. Barnum said "A fool is born every minute" the quote you are referring to is from England in the 15th century but they do both apply
Something is worth what someone else will pay and not a penny less. Keep in mind the lack of sales tax and the anonymity factor and in spite if Obama it's still a free country.

 

[Philabuster]

I would say that if the high prices bother you so much you should just comment on the ad. Post a reply saying something like "whoa there buddy...its not made of gold", or " thats WAY t0o high...and so are you". Of course I am being sarcastic...but enough shame brought upon someone CAN adjust their reality. I work for a dealer at the Indy 1500 and it simply amazes me at what people want for their used guns.

 

[printcraft]

Free Market.

Don't pay more than you are willing.

Pretty simple.


Also, there will never be a shortage of lowballers, not just here but everywhere.

For example, I had a motorcycle for sale on craigslist.....
Guy offers me 1/2 of my asking price and says I should take it because 1/2 was still higher than wholesale.

I would say that if the high prices bother you so much you should just comment on the ad. Post a reply saying something like "whoa there buddy...its not made of gold", or " thats WAY t0o high...and so are you". Of course I am being sarcastic...but enough shame brought upon someone CAN adjust their reality.......

This is good advice.
I think the FAQ's show this practice is encouraged in the INGO classifieds.

 

[Scutter01]

And $50 NIB Glocks?

Well, as long as you're offering.

 

[Philabuster]

@ printcraft...Thanks for pointing out the FAQ on this issue. I just read it. SOOOO...my advice stands corrected. hehe...Forgive me, I'm new.

 

[iChokePeople]

FAQ?

 

[printcraft]

FAQ?

 

[IndyGunSafety]

Let's see... a Springfield XDM at Don's Guns is $999. I have a nice used one I'll sell you for $949..... no, wait..... your an INGO member so I'll even give you another 20% off...

Only $759.20... plus tax of course. Hellava deal!

 

[obijohn]

As has been said before, free market. Don't like the asking price? move on... Price fixing etc reads a lot like suppression of a free market to me. That can lead down a road we do not care to travel.

 

[Bonez87]

Because people are free to ask whatever they want to on stuff they own...

-J-

That about sums it up.

 

[iChokePeople]

As has been said before, free market. Don't like the asking price? move on... Price fixing etc reads a lot like suppression of a free market to me. That can lead down a road we do not care to travel.

^^.

 

[avengedXT]

I had a thread about this in the past month(s).

I'm enraged when I see people trying to make a profit when they're selling a gun all the time. But truth is it comes down to this:

"To each their own" - People can and therefore will charge whatever they see fit for their gun.

"Something is only worth what somebody is willing to pay for it" - I don't care if it's an original Colt revolver 1 of 300 personally etched by the founder. It's only worth what somebody will pay for it, wether it be $50 (exagorated obviously) or $375,000.

Albeit annoying, the deals do come around eventually. But when it comes to people selling their guns you should see it as that person liked / loved / wanted that gun at one point in time. It was a decision they had to make to purchase it, and for whatever reason they have now made the decision to part with it. I don't know about anybody else on here, but my guns are like an affair on my wife. I love them. And I sure as hell take care of them.


Now if I had the right reason or purpose to sell my gun, e.g. - I found a shiny new Sig Sauer 1911 C3 Crimson Trace BNIB with Tritium Novak sights and two 7+1 round mags. I didn't have to buy it. I had a Kahr PM9 with Crimson Trace that I had grown to love already. But, it was a sexier appeal to me. (The C3 looked better in a hot pink with black lace bustier than the PM9 did lol). So, I sold the PM9 for what somebody was willing to spend as well as a price I saw fit.

 

[traderdan]

CAPITALISM!! It is not a bad word in spite of modern political opinion.I wonder if any of the price complainers have ever purchased a firearm on a credit card?Let the market decide the value.

 

[williamsburg]

Let's see... a Springfield XDM at Don's Guns is $999. I have a nice used one I'll sell you for $949..... no, wait..... your an INGO member so I'll even give you another 20% off...

Only $759.20... plus tax of course. Hellava deal!

but will you give me a deal being as i'm a site supporter too?

not trying to lowball you but tis always said it don't hurt to ask...

 

[iChokePeople]

I had a thread about this in the past month(s).

I'm enraged when I see people trying to make a profit when they're selling a gun all the time.

Enraged? Really? There are good decaf coffees out there...