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Originally Posted By: halifax
What is the process for selling a gun on this site? I have never done that before.

The gun is a 20 bore, Famar's, Avantis Model, trigger plate, droplock with unique engraving.

I have used Steve Barnett in the past with some good results.

Thank you all for the advice. This gun is in the US.


Post some pics and a good description in the "for sale" forum. If you look at the main index page, it's the third forum down from the top.

If and when it sells as a result of the ad, send Dave, our host, $10. Not too complicated.


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Fee is up to $12, James. It is a great deal.

IMHO, buying a gun at auction that you are not present at is a fool’s errand.


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I look at buying guns at auction via the net as gambling with odds one whole hell of a lot better than Vegas if you are an educated bidder. I have been burnt sure but I have made many fold what I have lost playing the auction game.


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Originally Posted By: SKB
I look at buying guns at auction via the net as gambling with odds one whole hell of a lot better than Vegas if you are an educated bidder. I have been burnt sure but I have made many fold what I have lost playing the auction game.


I am not speaking to a dealer’s livelihood. Nor am I speaking as a gunsmith who can decide what repairs to make on his own dime. I am speaking as a guy who buys a gun to use for himself, with maintenance and repairs coming out of his pocket, and to let his heirs worry about the disposal of. That, is different by several orders of magnitude.

I will agree, setting foot in a casino, with the understanding that the entire game is rigged to favor the house, and, gambling anyway, is the very definition of insanity, and is something I have never done, and never will do. A side note is that you can expect the same long odds when dealing with some gun dealers.


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I don't know your reason for not gambling, Ted. As a 19-year-old father, I gambled away a federal $8 baby bonus cheque playing liar's dice at a bar, so ashamed of myself (of a Baptist family) I never gambled again.

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I do not disagree with your point Ted but I know several very high end collectors who buy at the auctions for themselves. Yes indeed I do end up doing the needed repairs to them on the customers dime but often times even with repairs I see rare guns in fine shape purchased far, far below retail. In the past I have avoided auctions for all the reasons you have cited but my thinking has slowly changed. Some real bargains can be had if a bidder is shrewd and educated.
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P.S. the last and only time I have gambled at a casino rolls of quarters came with the room for the slots. I played about half of them, the other half came home with me. I can not even stomach seeing free money lost in a casino.

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Originally Posted By: King Brown
I don't know your reason for not gambling, Ted. As a 19-year-old father, I gambled away a federal $8 baby bonus cheque playing liar's dice at a bar, so ashamed of myself (of a Baptist family) I never gambled again.



I ‘gotta work too hard for my money, that is why. “I earned every dollar that passed through my hands” could have been written about me, and I figured that out early in the game, thank goodness.

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I lay everything I have on the line every year and gamble on the weather to make a crop. Sometimes I win, sometimes I crap out. It's the nature of the business.

Been to several casinos in Vegas. Never played against the house. In every casino there is an area that is for patrons to play poker against each other. The house provides the table(s) and the dealer. The dealer gets tipped from the winner's pot on each winning hand. That is where I spent my time. Not big odds, so you won't win or lose much, but great fun. Play very conservative and you won't lose.

However ............. if you want the big games, they can be had by asking. But, they're behind closed doors.

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Gen 8:22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 


Planting a crop & Gambling in a Casino or anywhere else for that matter are NOT one & the same. One plants in Faith, there's not any Faith in a Casino, the Lord never promised a Harvest on anything one did not work for by the Sweat of His Brow.


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I agree to a point, Miller. But, what happens when we plant in faith, work by the sweat of our brow, and a drought or hurricane comes and we lose an entire crop? Answer for me ....... we trust that He will continue to provide for our needs, not necessarily our wants.

There are no guarantees. We live and work in a fallen world.

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