Covering my butt selling a gun

[avvidclif]

All I can say is if you HAVE to go back to Wa stay active on the group. You are a hoot to say the least. Catch a ride with Easy and go to the meet, you will have a ball.

 

[easy rider]

What part of Wa. state by the way? I was born in Seattle and lived most my life in Washington.

 

[Kalena]

I'll definitely be going back, can't stand this stinky desert, I miss trees and mountains already lol

@easy rider I'm out in the woods between Redmond & Carnation

 

[easy rider]

I'll definitely be going back, can't stand this stinky desert, I miss trees and mountains already lol

@easy rider I'm out in the woods between Redmond & Carnation

Ahhh, across Lake Washington from Seattle. I last lived in Belfair across the Sound.

 

[Hoji]

Trannies and leaky boats always make for good threads

Well, ok, it’s a tranny thread now.

 

[easy rider]

Well, ok, it’s a tranny thread now.

I thought it was a losing firearms due to a leaky boat thread?

 

[TheMailMan]

Thank you Hoji & Glenn! My main issue is going to be determining value. I've only personally purchased and sold a pistol in KY, and purchased a Para off GunBroker in WA, not much experience in figuring out what on earth these are worth lol

I'll get to work on the list of "sells" and probably get to posting them up

You've got a Gun Broker account.

1. Log in
2. Do an advanced search for SOLD items.
3. Boom/

 

[Kalena]

Well hell, I didn't even know I could search sold listings! Thank you!

 

[Glenn B]

Thank you Hoji & Glenn! My main issue is going to be determining value. I've only personally purchased and sold a pistol in KY, and purchased a Para off GunBroker in WA, not much experience in figuring out what on earth these are worth lol

I'll get to work on the list of "sells" and probably get to posting them up

You can use GunBroker.com as a pretty good indicator of what many different firearms are selling for in today's market if you have an account there. Registering for an account is still free last I heard.

If you do have an account, sign onto GunBroker, then click on the word "Advanced" next to the search bar at the top of the screen of their homepage. On the next page, click on the tab near the top left that says "Completed Items". Then type in the make and model of the gun you want to check. There are some check boxes a couple of lines down saying "Factory New" "New Old Stock" and "Used" - you can pick one or more or just leave it as is with all three already checked. Then hit the search icon to the right. It should bring up any guns that sold, as well as those that had been listed and did not sell, going back a few months or so. You need to do that whole process over again on the advanced search page for each new gun you enter.

By looking at the auctions for some (or all) of them you can judge what they sold for in the condition mentioned in the auction. By looking at those that did not sell, you can sometimes figure how much is too much to ask although that is not always the reason something does not sell.Edited to ad: I have been wriing this and cooking at the same time, took forever to enter it, then saw someone else already recommended the same thing - oh well!

GunBroker also offers a Pricing Reports. For a small fee per make & model of gun, they tell you what the gun you are searching for sold for over the last year on GunBroker.com. The reports are $1.99 each. More on that here: https://www.gunbroker.com/c/p/reportingcenter/pricing-reports/

I find these methods better than using a guide like the Blue Book of Gun Values; although, I use that too.

 

[SQLGeek]

You might wanna get that leaky boat checked out by a Dr...

Oh you're going to fit in just fine here.

 

[toddnjoyce]

You going to put what they actually cost, or what you told her they cost when you bought them?

That’s bush league; put a reasonable value on them and claim it’s 2-3x what they cost in ‘today’s dollars’.

 

[Vaquero]

That’s bush league; put a reasonable value on them and claim it’s 2-3x what they cost in ‘today’s dollars’.

I'll start with the Dan Wesson 15-2 pistol pack.
I walked out of the store with it and an RCBS reloading starter kit for $325 back in 1980.
She knows what I paid. For every last one of them.
I'll see that she knows what they're worth.