dakota1911
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When you have an international audience then some things are going to sell silly high. To you it is a used cheapo Glock 17 but to somebody else it is the gun Dad carried or something like that.
Search by lowest price first and shop that way. There is always someone with an inflated idea of an item's worth...ignore them.
<chuckle> I almost learned the hard way to never allow myself to get sucked into a bidding competition.... but even though I had stopped bidding, I paid too much for it. ...
I don't see that GB has a model, they are just an auction site ... It's stupid sellers!Thank you all for the lecture in economics.
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I just don't get GB's model.. seems it's in their best interest to discourage such behavior since they make money on volume and a large number of grossly overpriced items serves to distress sales volume. People would be much more likely to buy something on GB if a reasonable deal - not even a steal - was easier to find.
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The difference is, at the gun show you have to pay to get a table. So even if you don't sell anything, they've already made money off you.I don't see that GB has a model, they are just an auction site ... It's stupid sellers!
I look at GB as a big gun-show. You can't tell me you've been to a gun show where everything is reasonable!
I buy guns you can't order from Buds or other big retailers; like my Valmet tube-folder, it took nearly a year before I found one I wanted at a price that was agreeable to me ... Also some newer complete weapons like my KAC SR-15 Mod0 & Ares Defense belt fed upper which I bought the "lite" version from one seller, then got the 12" heavy MG barrel and F/A bolt carrier from another and have less invested than some sellers want for just an upper ... and I have 2 barrels & 2 bolt carriers!
... I also use GB to compare to local prices, I recently bought a Spikes "Jack" receiver locally because the receiver + tax was less than I'd pay with shipping & transfer even though both sellers had I the item at the same price ... same with a PAP M92 I'd been sorta looking for.
Just like at a gun show, you have to know a deal when you see it.
One thing I really like is you can save a search and get an email when new items that meet your search criteria ... Then just sit back and wait.
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Are there a lot of guns on there that are priced insanely ... Of course. But those guns don't get in the way of finding what you're looking for unless you don't know how to use the site and the search feature.
It's simple to ignore those items that you think are "overpriced". It takes about 3 clicks: Search; narrow your search; sort by price. Then stop scrolling when you hit your cut-off point. ...
Word of advice; the search function is only as good as the data that was input by the seller. Did you know that S&W made an automatic Model 19? I didn't, but there's one on there and it looks a LOT like a 1911. One example of dozens I've encountered while trying to 'search' for any specific model.It takes about 3 clicks: Search; narrow your search; sort by price.
Word of advice; the search function is only as good as the data that was input by the seller. Did you know that S&W made an automatic Model 19? I didn't, but there's one on there and it looks a LOT like a 1911. One example of dozens I've encountered while trying to 'search' for any specific model.
That's also where your own search terms come into play as well as narrowing your search. When you narrow your search to Revolvers, it eliminates the Smith 19 semi-auto that you mentioned. Of course a terribly written ad may slip through, but 95% of the time you'll be good.Word of advice; the search function is only as good as the data that was input by the seller.
Wow, lotsa jerks chiming in here with useless comments about how the OP doesn't have to buy it if he doesn't like the price. Well, as true as that point admitedly is, it's also SO painfully obvious that it's totally useless and pointlessly argumentative.
The OP is merely commenting on this frequently seen practice of sellers asking absurd prices, on a very popular gun auction site, which I would think was perfectly fair game here on a gun-related discussion board.
If some of y'all don't like the subject, you're just as free to not read or comment in the thread, eh...
Stick to slickguns.com, I have been doing the pricing 'thing" for as long as it has been around online. And "Buds" was the place 10 years ago, but now it's slickguns, because you can see whoever is selling that gun, which can be 2 dozen stores most of which are cheaper on that gun for any of a hundred reasons.