SnapShot
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Post by SnapShot on May 16, 2017 13:39:54 GMT -5
Hello All ~
I don’t recommend that ANYONE, EVER sell ANY firearm and I have come to regret the sale of EVERY firearm I have ever sold!
Now, with that said . . . do any of you have any good system of determining the value and/or price of a firearm IF you were to sell one?
~ SnapShot (Larry)
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Post by hacker54 on May 16, 2017 14:05:56 GMT -5
Larry,
Well I have sold a few in the past and I didn't like it but I needed to to get through some bad times. OK since most if not all car dealers go by the "Kelly Blue Book" for when you do a trade in. Well the is the "Blue Book of Gun Values" I have see dealers at gun shows use this book and people wanting to sell their firearm use it to haggle with. There is an online source that will give appraisals but I think you got to be a member of it. The online source you would send in photos of the fire arm along with any other info that they would need and they give an appraisal. If one has their firearms insured having the "Blue Book of Gun Values" helps with the policy.
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bob
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Post by bob on May 16, 2017 19:57:24 GMT -5
Larry, as Hacker said the Blue book of Gun Values is a good place to start. The other source I use is Gun Brokers.com I just look for and at the gun I'm looking for a value and watch the bids to get a sense of the value.
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poohzilla
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Post by poohzilla on May 17, 2017 0:16:00 GMT -5
Larry, a gun's worth what someone is willing to actually write a check for and slide it across the mahogany. The Blue Book and gunbroker are both good places to start, but as to gunbroker, look at what the winning bid, rather than the asking price is. Also, you need to take the region into account, time of year, and whatnot. Who is the buyer? He or she may not be a totally rational actor, feeling the "need" for a certain gun, like the old geezer who has to have that Mustang he didn't have when he was 20. I wouldn't characterize what I use as a "system"-it's more a series of questions to be asked and stuff to at. There is a large seat of the pants component to all this.
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SnapShot
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Post by SnapShot on May 17, 2017 11:35:25 GMT -5
Thanks guys ~
All good advise and basically the ways I've done things in the past.
I most likely won't need any of it because I really don't want to sell. However, I have a friend who keeps asking about a PARA Carry .45 that I allowed her to shoot one day at the range. In as much as we live in the Republic of Kalifornia and the gun is no longer on the "approved list"; the only way she can obtain one is through a private sale through an FFL. From my side of the table all of this makes the price mine to call. This is one of the carry guns on my California CCW (serial number specific in California) so I really don't think I'll let it go.
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