It's the old story that something is worth what a willing seller and a willing buyer will agree to it being worth.
In this instance, like so many others on GB, the seller has an overly high opinion of what his gun is worth, and he's left waiting ... and waiting ... and waiting for someone to become that willing buyer at his price.
I can think of easily a dozen guns on GB that I like and might buy but for the fact that the seller has set an impossibly high starting price for them and I'm not willing to pay that. And those guns have been there well over two years with no downward movement in their listing price (and even the occasional upward move - go figure).
It winds up looking not much different from trolling the big lake at an arbitrary depth and hoping to catch a fish, rather than figuring out where the fish are at this time and going after them. While there might be the occasional buyer who will bite at these prices - i.e., the troller might catch the odd, random fish - the vast majority are not anywhere in the neighborhood and aren't paying attention to the offer. We buyers should not curse the sellers for their inattention to what we might be interested in. (If you really wanted that gun, you'd buy it at the seller's asking price and we wouldn't be having this discussion.) After all, that would be like the fish being angry at the fisherman for not doing enough to catch the fish. Rather, we should recognize that when the sellers get hungry enough, they'll suss out that they have to do something they haven't been doing to get us to bite.
Maybe if/when enough of the sellers get around to reading this thread and see/hear us laughing at them and their prices, they might get real with them.
Last edited by Dave in Maine; 07/23/11 10:53 AM.
