doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Boss O/U Listed on Two Sites???

This is a fun post. Take a look at the following two listings:

#1: Lewis Drake Boss O/U

#2: Schwandt Arms (Click on O/U, then Boss O/U)

The S/N matches, so this must be the same gun. My conjecture is that Schwandt's consignor purchased from Drake and now doesn't want the gun! Other theories, comments?

One theory is that Schwandt traded into it.

Questions like this only need a phone call if you are interested in the gun in question. Most dealers will tell you if the gun is on consignment or one they traded for or bought outright.

The Drake listing has it marked as Sold.

That gun as been listed on Schwandt's site for a long time, at least 2 years.

It has not been listed on Drake's site until recently so this is strange.

DLH, I noticed the same thing. Also, Schwandt has recently dropped the asking price about $3k after steadfastly holding to 72,900 for the entire 2 years.

When I go to the Lewis Drake web site it indicates that it has not been updated (for shotguns) since September of 2016. Are they still an active company or ?????

jlb

I'd bet someone's website is out of date.
I am in possession of a gun (last time I looked in the safe) that is currently listed on a website as for sale and has been for many months. (Interestingly for more than I paid for it but that's another story).

Gun traders are not topnotch website workers.

Jeremy

I know of one dealer who would not update his site to remove sold guns because he felt it gave him a chance to sell another gun when you called about one already gone. Not saying that's the case here. Perhaps they just don't update often because they don't want to pay extra for frequent IT services. Perhaps only updating sold items once a quarter but adding new items once a month. Seems silly but money if you can't do it in house you have to pay for others to do it for you.

JLB, The site has been updated multiple times since Sept. He routinely marks guns "sold" and moves them to the lower section of each category list. Also, guns have been added since Sept, 2016. Sometimes, he changes the asking prices, too (as in the case of this Boss). Maybe the Sept. 2016 reference is the most recent change to the basic HTML template, not its content.