doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Mikeej99 ?? Anyone...........

I know Mike has one gun I look at all the time. Its a 20ga damascus Flues. Just can't justify 2.5k for a damascus Flues 1-1/2 that in my opinion should be $500.00-$700.00.

Didn't want to call, make the offer, offend him and get hung up on. If it were priced more reasonable I would own it already.

YMMV
Bill

I am happy that Gunbroker does not charge to relist an auction. However I wish there was an option to filter out auctions you have already viewed.

Without checking my records I can't say for certain, but I am nearly sure I sold a gun to Mike via GB. An A-grade Fox. No complaints on the transaction. Never saw that piece relisted by Mike either.

I think we have decided what kind of seller Mikee is. As the recent poster stated, he offers $500 guns for $2500 and hopes for an offer close to $2500. And he uses 1890 pictures to attract the customers. I have had the conversation with him and he failed the credibility test. He doesn't have a feedback on Gunbroker more recent than mid May, but has 539 items for sale.

Bill in all fairness, his feedback is 100% positive for 439 transactions.
I mainly look at the L.C. Smiths, and from his description and pictures, I can see what I want to see.

If you know what the gun is worth, then you don't bid on it. Don't forget, this is a business he is running and not a hobby.

I'm sure that some fault can be found in everyone.

David,
Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Mike at all. The transaction we had, he handled great. I'd buy from him again. Think I'll head to GB for another peek at that damascus Flues. It's EZ on my eyes.

Sorry if I came across wrong.

Bill

It probably went into his collection, i know for fact his pre 1913 LC's are fabulous, and he does not list those he collects.

I restate my earlier opinion founded on multiple transactions, he is a good guy.

Yes i admit he lists allot of guns, many of which can be physically handled at the "Olathe gun shop" and if they aren't he has made an appointment and met me with whatever I requested. Yes his prices are steep, but that said this is the market place.

On this board when guns are listed, people want bargains, there is nothing wrong with that. Some of the emails I have gotten while listing were rather amusing, even when i was selling at an already cut rate.

The marketplace will either agree to Mike's price or not. If I am unwilling to pay it, so goes life.

I do owe Mike one big one, my affliction with Louis Christophes, by Jules Bury. From that one 16ga he sold me, at a very good price I note, and with clear notation to me as to what the good and the faults were, I now have four others and still looking for two more.

Bill, Ithaca1, I was not referring to you, sorry, I was referring to eightbore, also Bill.

Sorry. I don't get it. If this man had a store in your town, most of you would not go in. Why is the internet any different?

He is apparently happy with his program.

If you can do it better, spend your time and money and show him how you would do it

Tudurgs, when I contacted this fellow to make him aware of his bad photographs, I was trying to help him, not chastise him. I had no interest in his guns, only in his success. I did, as you suggest, show him how I would do it. He was unwilling to accept my advice. A dealer with 529 guns to offer and only one feedback in four months is not in the internet gun business. He is trolling for victims. To comment to another poster, if his storefront was in my town, I would visit. However, I would expect to see the same old crap every time I visited. If he can't sell anything to a worldwide internet market, how would he sell anything in Olathe, Kansas? He is what is known on the internet as a "Troll". As one poster said, how do we eliminate his items from our searches? I would like to know also.

He certainly has the right to relist guns at stratospheric reserve prices ad infinitum, or until Gunbroker changes their listing policies.

As with the Dick and Craig show that was the ruination of Gun List, our only choices are to totally stop looking at everything, or to have to wade through all of the sucker bait. There are no filters to eliminate guns that have been relisted for years from our search criteria. There is no penalty or fee assessed by Gunbroker to discourage so-caller sellers from dangling things out there for years in the hope of snagging a sucker. Mikeej99 is hardly the only one who does this. But he is one of the most prominent in the arena of doubleguns. I've voiced my opinion about this annoying and time consuming practice to Gunbroker in the past. Maybe if more Gunbroker patrons did the same, something would change. I still like the idea of an ever increasing fee for relisted guns after a reasonable number of listings, say two or three. The increased revenue from that could be used to reduce the fees charged to serious sellers which might encourage even more people to use Gunbroker as a vehicle to sell. What is the downside to that?