Ole Cowboy
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OK, allow me to help you sell it. I am looking for several guns to buy and have YET to ever buy one off this or any other forum;
1) Take the as sold description of your gun and Google (is your friend) by adding 'for sale': BoatPaddle Mdl 69, 300 Win Mag Stainless Steel 'for sale'. This will bring up hundreds if not thousands of them for sale. Take a look and remember "NIB" means new in box, YOURS IS USED!!!! If the NIB price is $1000 and yours has a set of MagPull Grips its NOT worth $2000. Also suggest you CHECK with the mfg of the weapon...I just got a $75 rebate from the mfg on a gun I bought yesterday. I just contacted someone on a forum on a gun I wanted...no sale: He wanted MSRP telling me it was as good as new (yea, but it ain't new). When I told him street price was about $200 less NIB and $300 less for used, he never missed a beat and but mine has MagPull grips...(yea and they are $39 bucks)...no sale
NOTE: The FIRST thing I do, is read the description and go a Google to get an idea what they are selling/asking for the gun.
2) Round count: So I drive over to meet and look at near new with only 20 rds down the pipe: GOOD GRIEF MAN, you posted 20 rds, not 20,000! Well I bought it from a guy hangin around in front of a SAXET gun show and he said it was like new and I ONLY put 20 rds thru it! YEA, I have seen more rifling in a 12 ga shotgun and what in the world has it been cleaned with, a coarse steel wire brush on the end of a Black & Decker using a Hersey bar for lube...no sale
3) IF you have modded the weapon in any way state such and exactly what was done to it. I bought a AR from a guy who said he replaced the flash hider and that was all. I took it home but I could not get the barrel clean, seemed like something was in it and they gun was "unfired". The gunsmith called me and said the barrel had been cut down and the flash hider had been installed and it looked like a homemade job as they had not removed the cut metal like they should have. Had I fired it, good chance the end of the barrel would have blown up...the gun by all appearances was brand new, not a scratch on it, I think he home brewed the flash hider, saw what he had done and decided to dump it. I looked at it and saw the 'fuzz' in the barrel, he had never fired it and it just sat around, needed cleaning. I contacted him with a memo from the gunsmith and he said he was sorry, I could have my money back or he would pay to have it rebarreled. I did and he paid for the new barrel and installed.
NOTE: I can look at your gun and get a good idea of the rd count. (FYI: In the old days changing mileage counts on a speedo was easy and you could make a 100,000 mile car a 10,000 mile car very easy. So what do the pros look at? The BRAKE pedal for wear...word to the wise, its NOT just inside the barrel that wears from high rd counts...)
Take Away: Price your gun competitively and YOUR add ons rarely make it worth more $, in fact they often take away from the price and please be as honest as you can on condition and rd count, like new does not have rust, fine walnut stock...also used as a boat paddle will be evident when someone comes to look at it. BE 100% honest in all your dealings!
1) Take the as sold description of your gun and Google (is your friend) by adding 'for sale': BoatPaddle Mdl 69, 300 Win Mag Stainless Steel 'for sale'. This will bring up hundreds if not thousands of them for sale. Take a look and remember "NIB" means new in box, YOURS IS USED!!!! If the NIB price is $1000 and yours has a set of MagPull Grips its NOT worth $2000. Also suggest you CHECK with the mfg of the weapon...I just got a $75 rebate from the mfg on a gun I bought yesterday. I just contacted someone on a forum on a gun I wanted...no sale: He wanted MSRP telling me it was as good as new (yea, but it ain't new). When I told him street price was about $200 less NIB and $300 less for used, he never missed a beat and but mine has MagPull grips...(yea and they are $39 bucks)...no sale
NOTE: The FIRST thing I do, is read the description and go a Google to get an idea what they are selling/asking for the gun.
2) Round count: So I drive over to meet and look at near new with only 20 rds down the pipe: GOOD GRIEF MAN, you posted 20 rds, not 20,000! Well I bought it from a guy hangin around in front of a SAXET gun show and he said it was like new and I ONLY put 20 rds thru it! YEA, I have seen more rifling in a 12 ga shotgun and what in the world has it been cleaned with, a coarse steel wire brush on the end of a Black & Decker using a Hersey bar for lube...no sale
3) IF you have modded the weapon in any way state such and exactly what was done to it. I bought a AR from a guy who said he replaced the flash hider and that was all. I took it home but I could not get the barrel clean, seemed like something was in it and they gun was "unfired". The gunsmith called me and said the barrel had been cut down and the flash hider had been installed and it looked like a homemade job as they had not removed the cut metal like they should have. Had I fired it, good chance the end of the barrel would have blown up...the gun by all appearances was brand new, not a scratch on it, I think he home brewed the flash hider, saw what he had done and decided to dump it. I looked at it and saw the 'fuzz' in the barrel, he had never fired it and it just sat around, needed cleaning. I contacted him with a memo from the gunsmith and he said he was sorry, I could have my money back or he would pay to have it rebarreled. I did and he paid for the new barrel and installed.
NOTE: I can look at your gun and get a good idea of the rd count. (FYI: In the old days changing mileage counts on a speedo was easy and you could make a 100,000 mile car a 10,000 mile car very easy. So what do the pros look at? The BRAKE pedal for wear...word to the wise, its NOT just inside the barrel that wears from high rd counts...)
Take Away: Price your gun competitively and YOUR add ons rarely make it worth more $, in fact they often take away from the price and please be as honest as you can on condition and rd count, like new does not have rust, fine walnut stock...also used as a boat paddle will be evident when someone comes to look at it. BE 100% honest in all your dealings!