[gigmike]

I'm considering selling a Sig P220 so that I may add another 1911 to the household and am wondering if there's an online gun value guide? I've checked gunbroker and have rough ideas but there's a pretty wide range there.

If this is a redundant post please excuse me, I did a search and it came up empty.

[Chipperman]

I would check gunbroker, auctionarms, and gunsamerica.

Average out those three sites, and you will have a pretty good idea of real time values.
Blue Book type guides don't take into account market fluctuations.

[Werewolf]

I'm considering selling a Sig P220 so that I may add another 1911 to the household and am wondering if there's an online gun value guide? I've checked gunbroker and have rough ideas but there's a pretty wide range there.

If this is a redundant post please excuse me, I did a search and it came up empty.

I've looked and not found the equivalent of an online Blue Book for guns either.

Regarding the Sig P220 since Sig has flooded the market with the refurbs the resale value has crashed.

About a month ago I was gonna trade mine. Got offered $350 but whined a bit and the dealer up'd the offer to $400. I do a lot of business with this guy and I know the only reason he offered $400 was because of that. He wasn't gonna give me more no matter what I did. I turned him down and didn't order the Colt I was in there to order.

Until the market for used Sigs shrinks somewhat the resale/trade in value of the 220's won't be squat.

I've decided to keep mine. Probably feel bad if I traded it anyway... :( ;)

[c_yeager]

I used to spend a lot of time looking at blue books to determine the value of various guns that I wanted to buy. Then I actually started shopping for used guns and found out that the "blue book" is a quaint work of fiction that has little or no input on the actual price of things in the real world. I would second the recomendation to check the auction sites and see how much similar examples are selling for.

[dukeofurl]

I used to spend a lot of time looking at blue books to determine the value of various guns that I wanted to buy. Then I actually started shopping for used guns and found out that the "blue book" is a quaint work of fiction that has little or no input on the actual price of things in the real world. I would second the recomendation to check the auction sites and see how much similar examples are selling for.

Was the book high or low?

I use a 10-15% deviation of the book to determine what I should PAY for a firearm, but not what I should sell a gun for.

Example: high book (100%) on most glocks is around $500. Nobody around here in their right mind is paying $500 for a glock without night sights and at least 3 mags, even in good condition. So in this case the book is wrong.

This is just an illustration about how the book can be low or high. I find the auction sites misleading in that most people are paying inflated prices due to a percieved collectiblity of a given firearm, say like a Sig 220 Navy Seals variant.