daniel craig
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So, as a person whose job it is to buy and sell guns I've noticed a trend in both buyers and sellers (but mostly people selling/trying to get us to buy their gun).
That trend is to look the gun up on GunBroker, take a cursory glance at the prices there and assume that is the worth of their firearm.
What I feel is part of the problem, and please, I'd like to start a civil discussion here, is that many people don't realize that GunBroker is a lot like eBay in that a seller can ask literally any price he/she/they feel like BUT that DOESN'T mean the seller will actually fetch that price. I think a lot of people who use GunBroker to find a value for their gun don't take this into consideration and assume that a seller's asking price must be what the guns are currently going for without digging further to see what the guns actually consistently SELL for.
What that further compounds the issue is people don't realize that in order to re-sell a gun at what it's worth (and at a fair enough price to move the inventory in a reasonable amount of time) the seller is going to, naturally, offer less than a gun might be worth.
I think there's a shift that needs to happen and it starts with the proper use of sites like GunBroker (it's only one aspect of the disconnect between buyers and sellers but I think it plays a large part).
What's your take?
That trend is to look the gun up on GunBroker, take a cursory glance at the prices there and assume that is the worth of their firearm.
What I feel is part of the problem, and please, I'd like to start a civil discussion here, is that many people don't realize that GunBroker is a lot like eBay in that a seller can ask literally any price he/she/they feel like BUT that DOESN'T mean the seller will actually fetch that price. I think a lot of people who use GunBroker to find a value for their gun don't take this into consideration and assume that a seller's asking price must be what the guns are currently going for without digging further to see what the guns actually consistently SELL for.
What that further compounds the issue is people don't realize that in order to re-sell a gun at what it's worth (and at a fair enough price to move the inventory in a reasonable amount of time) the seller is going to, naturally, offer less than a gun might be worth.
I think there's a shift that needs to happen and it starts with the proper use of sites like GunBroker (it's only one aspect of the disconnect between buyers and sellers but I think it plays a large part).
What's your take?