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It never ceases to amaze me what prices some people pay in auctions. here is a recent example.



Sold on EBay for $1,100.00, 30" Remington SP 10 barrel in good but used condition. I have seen several sell on EBay for $450-550.00. But this one went crazy.

A complete guns just sold on GunBroker for$1125.00 and it had both the regular barrel, a slug barrel and scope. If I was the seller I wold be a very happy person. If I was the buyer and found out that I just paid more for a single barrel than an entire gun cold be bought for then I might be a little mad at myself.

I've been looking for some guns at auctions lately and everything is just going sky high.

I have noticed the same thing in the UK auctions i have been bidding in.

This 26" barreled, 20 ga. Sterlingworth, extractor gun, recently sold on GB for $2430. With shipping and 7% tax it becomes $2643. I was made aware of it through a post by a friend on another forum. These prices are going crazy. It may be getting time to unload a few that I never shoot anymore.

Amazing what the small bore Fox Sterlys are bringing these days, while they can't give away the 12 bores.

That said, it only takes 2 to do the Tango. If two are bidding and both really want something bad enough bidding can pass real value pretty quick. That said who knows what real value is these days. I will be paying close attention moving forward.

I would be curious to see if the seller actually got paid. I just had a high bidder on a watch bid up the auction at the last minute, and then refuse to complete the transaction after winning.

It just takes two people wanting the same thing

On items like this I keep checking to see if it gets resisted. Sometimes it is a non paying bidder, sometimes a bidder who demands a full refund for some real or imagined reason and sometimes it is a shill bidder. When every I see the second bidder has a very low number of feedbacks or worse none at all I approach with caution. Don’t let a shill bidder run the price up. Set your limits and walk away above that. There will always be another one along soon enough.

On a positive note, inflation makes your trade-ins worth a lot...Geo

I was the other bidder on that gun. This newly registered buyer with no rating showed up with about 4 hours left and started bidding. We were the only two bidding and he drove me up from $1700 to $2400, and I quit.

Several years ago, I bought a late production Savage Sterlingworth 16 at Jaquas which had the original Hardware Store hangtag and literally looked unfired. It also had an amazing stock (probably a leftover inventory piece) which Walt Snyder said in a post was the nicest stock he had ever seen on a Sterlingworth. Being an idiot, I sold it a few years ago. Lately I have been trying to accumulate a set of working grade classic double smallbores in nice original shape. The Stirlingworth is being a problem. I only bid as much as I did on this one since I had lost out on a much nicer one about an hour before that was really correct and finally pushed almost $3000. This gun was the fallback, and I lost it too.

The smallbores are really escalating. I know because I have been trying to buy several recently.