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I am relieved it didn't sell. I am waiting and hoping for them to lower the price to $900,000
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Wow. No pictures..? This gun must have a serious pedigree!
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Too precious to have pictures taken of it. It's like one of those society matrons who are mortified (and get hell raised at the papers) if their names appear in the papers on any occasion other than their birth, maybe their debut, wedding, wedding of their children, and death.
But that gun is surely too good for you and me.
Last edited by Dave in Maine; 07/22/11 08:09 PM.
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I wish he just had a $ 1,000,000.00 buy now price. I dont want to get in a bidding war.
Last edited by Brian; 07/22/11 09:51 PM.
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Brian, even if you could get it for 1 mill you would still have to pay the shipping.
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If you had to pay to list on GunBroker most of the problems with the site would go away. Charge .25 or .50 per listing and most sellers would stop listing the same guns for years at prices which will never be paid or with reserves that are too high. Some of the sellers have fifty to a hundred guns listed for years on end. It just clogs up the site so that you can not see anything for the clutter.
The seller noted above has a decent 20 that he can not sell. It is one item in four pages of Fox guns. Many of them have been listed for months or even years. Finding one decent gun in that mess is like trying to carry on a conversation with one person on a party line with a thousand people all talking at the same time.
The real wonder is that the site sells any guns at all. They almost have to be listed as no reserve guns and the price must invite all the bargian bidders to bid hoping to steal a gun. I bet most of the guns sold are no reserve guns. We all have seen the same guns listed for years on GB and just skip them when we look at the site. I think that they should have a "first time" listed page for all gun types. At least then the old clutter would be off to the side.
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It just clogs up the site so that you can not see anything for the clutter.
Finding one decent gun in that mess is like trying to carry on a conversation with one person on a party line with a thousand people all talking at the same time.
They need to hire jOe to police the site and clear up the clutter.......!.........  This Savage Sterly is way over priced and I'm sure the seller is frustrated........There are nice Philly Sterly 20's listed for less......
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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.
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