shotguns in a pawn shop

[Jon Coppenbarger]

Dropped by one of my local pawn shops today and I guess the manager finally dropped some prices on alot of the long guns.
Ended up buying to shotguns.
One is a remington 870 12 gage magnum and it does not have any evidence of ever being fired.
The other one is a browning BPS in 12 gage in like 95% plus condition. made in japan.
Got them both for $225 each out the door. both vent rib also.

Did not need another shotgun but at those prices I just could not pass them up.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Those are the types of buys people are talking about when they say to forget buying a new shotgun and just hit the pawn shops junk rack.

Good haul.

 

[heeler]

Wow in that condition and at thoses prices I probably would have not only bought both of those but every last one in that condition he had at that price.
Hardware like that priced at bargain basement discount pricing must be snagged without hesitation.

 

[potmetal]

Shotguns tend to be slow movers here, esp. in the summertime. A number of pawn shops have 20% off sales then. You can find some decent bargains.

 

[ultradoc]

Now that's the kind of bargan I like hearing about. Congrats.

 

[mr_goodbomb]

If you saw any decent coach gun prices, PM me the shop's info.

 

[ZCORR Jay]

That's a smoking deal. Now go and enjoy every $ worth

 

[Mark8252]

Pawn Shops

Some of the best deals I have ever bought were in pawn shops. On the other hand....some of the highest prices I have ever seen were also in pawn shops.
Just depends on how motivated that pawn shop owner is on the day you are there.

 

[BigBore]

I agree with Mark 8252 , know your blue book values for the condition of what they are selling first..The nice thing about pawn shops is most of the time they are into the item for about half of what the selling price is..Talk them down..

Sounds like ya did alright though..

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Yeah, you did well!

Some of the best deals I have ever bought were in pawn shops. On the other hand....some of the highest prices I have ever seen were also in pawn shops.
Just depends on how motivated that pawn shop owner is on the day you are there.

Part of the reason for the high prices is because of customer behavior. I grew up working in a pawn shop. Probably 90% of customers who want to haggle over a price start with the most stupid opening of "What's the least you will take for it?" If the broker provide a price less than the marked price, the customer then starts the counter offers with numbers LESS THAN what the broker said was the least price. See the customer doesn't want to pay to much and isn't going to make an offer until the broker reduces what is on the price tag to the "least price" from which the customer thinks he should pay less.

It is a stupid game resulting in being played stupidly on both sides.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Congrats on the excellent deals- hope you enjoy them!

Went with a friend this past week to visit a friend of his that I hadn't met before, in Mississippi. We didn't know where the friend in Mississippi lived, so he arranged to meet us at a prominent local landmark- a heavy equipment auction site on the main road into town. It was crowded with equipment in preparation for an upcoming sale- Bobcats, farm tractors, backhoes, dumptrucks, bulldozers etc. He told us that local contractors often put their equipment up for sale at the end of the summer building season and bought back the same or similar equipment the next spring.

Around here, some hunters do the same thing with shotguns. They buy one, use it for hunting season, and sell it when hunting season is over with the idea that they will buy another one for the next hunting season. A lot of the hunters who do that buy and sell in local pawn shops. Thus there is often a glut of used guns at the end of hunting season, and sometimes good prices to be had if you know how and where to shop.

Trick is to know your guns (at least the ones you are interested in buying) and know your dealers...

lpl

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Yes there is often a glut at the end of the season. We experience that with both duck and deer seasons.

We also had some hunters that used us for storage. They would pawn a $1000 rifle for $5 and then pay the $1 per month interest until the following season. It was interesting for us because if the owner got sick, died, got arrested, etc. and for some reason didn't pick up his gun, we got a great deal. We got a couple that way in about 5 years. The rest were dutifully reclaimed with clockwork regularity. The down side is that as business picked up over the years, such loans weren't viable because of space and we started having minimum loans for rifles of $25. That at least would make storing the rifle for the customer worthwhile for us.