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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 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.

Non-paying bidders are getting worse on Ebay and horrible on Gunbroker. One guy on Gunbroker actually told me "walmart takes returns. it's how things are, get used to it." Well, auctions aren't Walmart. Auction bids are contracts. And, it's not always people with NR or few feedbacks, at least on gunbroker. I've got one right now I'm sure I'll have to relist and this guy has several hundred feedbacks, virtually all A+'s but five for non-payment. Been a week and no response.

And Gunbroker is such a pain to get a listing fee credit, takes about a month for their process, and I don't think even then I've ever been reimbursed so I just relist and chalk it up as a loss.

The real problem is the number of people who think this is a perfectly fine way to behave.

Roger