Anyone else suffer from extreme buyers remorse?

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I have way more seller's remorse than buyer's. Of course. that doesn't apply to defective items, where they are problem plauged from day one, and spend either a lot of time being worked on, or they die soon after the warranty expires. I seem to have either great luck with stuff of all kinds, or it's really really bad.
 
Not buyer's, but seller's remorse in my case.

My first gun was a Glock 19. I sold it to a friend of mine because I decided I wanted a P220. I love the P220, but had I known ammo prices would go through the roof like they have, I would have kept the Glock. It was a great gun...but I was new to handgunning at the time and I didn't know how great it actually was until I got rid of it.

I'd like to buy another one, but the wife has put the kibosh on any new gun purchases for the forseeable future 'cause we have a 9 month old who is now taking "financial priority" over anything else.

Lousy "priorities".....:banghead:
 
Naw, plenty of sellers remorse, though: S&W Models 52, 18, 640-1, 640 PC, 28, 4516, 15, 17 (twice), 66 2.5", Colt enhanced .45 ACP, TC Contender, Bernadelli Model 80 and an accurate reliable Ruger Mini 14. Awww, I could go on, but it's almost Christmas. I know I'm not getting any guns this year and I sure miss those old buddies. Always traded for something 'better' (at the time) and never regretted a purchase.

ironvic
 
No buyers remorse -- if a firearm doesn't shoot well, it looks great as a "safe queen". Once acquired, they're never sold or traded -- sellers remorse is nonexistant....
 
I have had buyers remorse from a couple guns i have purchased. One of which is my 1927A1 Tommy Gun from Kahr Arms. My experience with this gun has been one disappointment after another. First my rear sights are barely riveted in there and has fallen off even after sending it to Kahr for warranty repair.

After only putting a few hundred rounds through it, the extractor breaks and seizes the bolt. The wood finish is constantly coming loose even though iv tightened the bolts more times than i can count. When i sent the gun away for the extractor and rear sight repair, the customer service from Kahr is absolutely horendous. Impossible to contact anybody at that company for a repair status after they have had the gun for more than 6 weeks. Nobody answered the phone or returned my calls.

Then when i finally get someone they say "Your who? You sent us a gun? We dont have it...sorry" After threatning legal action I finally hear back saying "Oh BTW we found your gun its being repaired and ship it out ASAP". Got the gun back a week later, took it out shooting. First thing that happens is the rear sight comes flying off again.

Now im at a loss, how do i get rid of such an expensive peice of junk?

My other remorse has been my Kimber Stainless 2 1911. Since the day I purchased it, i have yet to get it to function correctly even after two visits to a gunsmith. They adjusted the extractor, polished feedramp and bored out the chamber. I thought 1911's were supposed to be that "pick up and shoot" kinda gun. But now im second guessing it and wondering if I should pick up a poly gun now.

Those are my two biggest disapointments. My collection includes a Bushy M4A2 (I LOVE THIS GUN), Norinco 5+1 Shotgun Bottom Ejection (Meh its a shotty), and a Ruger .300 Winmag (this thing roxxors my boxxors).
 
I bought a Taurus PT101 .40 that was a beautiful gun. I was so excited when I bought it. When I shot it I hated it. My wife hated it too. After she shot it (this is the first time she had shot anything bigger than 9mm) I told her to try my 1911. I had to convince her it wasn't so bad. She shot the .45 and loved it. I still wanted a 40 so I went and traded the Taurus on a Sig Pro 2340 and couldn't be happier with the Sig. My wife ended up buying a Baby Eagle in .40 and she loves it.

That is the only gun I ever hated. Good ridence.
 
Buyers remorse after the Walther P22 I bought turned out to be a piece of junk. I also bought a Kel-tec Sub 2000 on impulse that I wish I would have let pass. I haven't even shot it yet but it just doesn't thrill me for some reason.

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Grimmy, use loctite on the bolts, blue bottle, as I think the red is almost permanent. The Kimber!? we need more info, and I hope they haven't ruined the barrel! could just be a bad mag, what exactly is happening.

P.S. Buyers remorse? only when I've paid too much, it happens.
 
I decide what I want before I buy. I dont trade or sell much. Dont have a safe full of queens but shoot what i do have.
 
Strangely, I get buyer's remorse for just about anything EXCEPT handguns. I end up finding reasons to love them but then again, most of mine are pretty easy to love.
 
I get the non-buyer's remorse at times and kick myself for passing up a great
deal or somthing I realy want because I did not want to part with the cash at
the time.

I never feel like I have enough money saved.
 
always make sure that anything you buy will fetch almost as much if not more should you one day sell it.

that way you will never have buyer's remorse. granted, sometimes it may take a year or two to increase in value (like romanian ak parts kits right now), but as long as it has the definite potential you are ok.

the only gun ive ever had remorse was a stupid sig mosquito NIB. i paid retail and regretted it ever since. what a POS... unless all you want is a p22x series manual of arms gun, go for the trailside.
 
Well the Kimber, since day 1 of buying it, has had failure to feed problems. Basically, when it cycles a round on the first or last round of the mag the bullet will start feeding and then get hung up on the extractor. Its like the lip on the back of the bullet doesnt slide in there or hits at a weird angle enough to jam up the slide. Iv tried the stock mag, a wilson combat mag, a shooting star mag, and even bought a couple more wilson combats from a local shop.

So while i was still in Washington i took it back to the gunshop i bought it from and gave it to their resident gunsmith. He took out the internal extractor and "adjusted" it, he said it would .something microns out of wack. So i took it shooting and it seemed to have cleared up, atleast while i was there. Came back after a couple weeks to go shooting again and sure enough first round the slide doesnt go all the way forward. All i have to do is push it with my thumb and it will just nudge forward and i continue shooting. But it only does it once the gun gets warmed up, probably after a mag or two.

I asked the gunsmith WTFO and he says "Well the gun is still brand new, come back once u get a few hundred rounds through it". I said fair enough and went shooting. By the time i got enough rounds through it i moved to Alaska and just went shooting whenever. The gun now has over 5k rounds through it and still have fail to feed.

I replaced the extractor with a Aftec spring loaded extractor and this didnt fix the problem. Took it to a local gunshop and he polished the feedramp and bored out the chamber a itsy bit. Took it out shooting once, and started having fail to extract problems. Come to find out they took the springs out of my Aftec extractor. Discovered this after i got home to clean it. Havnt been out shooting since i replaced my springs.

But, honestly, i dont think the problem is fixed. Im past the manufacturer warranty im sure, even describing the problem takes time.

Any ideas?

Oh yeah, and i shoot PMC or whatever brass i can get my hands on. I have been a bad boy and shot wolf through it once and only once. No failures with the wolf ammo though.
 
I often have buyer's remorse, but it's not because I don't like the gun I just got, but rather there are so many others I want to experience as well but don't want to spend the money. The gun itself is fine and eventually becomes an accepted member of the family.
 
With me it's not remorse over the gun I buy, it's the specific model of that gun.

My first handgun was a Ruger Mark II. I had decided hands down that's what I wanted. So I head to the shop and I see they have the 6" Standard model. I was ready and rearing to go, and I figured the Standard was enough for my first pistol. I take it out and shoot it, and I love it, but then I see all these folks at the range with their pretty Competition and Target models. Felt like I should have saved up a few more bucks and shopped some more instead of settling for the Standard.

I love that Standard and I'll never sell it, but I only corrected my "remorse" this past weekend when I finally got my own Mark III Competition Target.
 
Honestly, I can't think of much, if any, buyer's remorse. A little seller's remorse from a couple of nice ones I let get away. There was this G-26 I had, with Heinie night sights, that I traded for a S&W 629. But then, the shop sold me the 26 LNIB and to this day I don't think it was, so I don't feel so bad about getting rid of that one, only buying it... :fire:

There may have been a twinge of buyer's remorse on my newest Kel-Tec, but then, I bought it for a purpose that wasn't to but 100's of rounds through in one sitting. It just bites to have a gun I can't or won't throw 100s and 1000s of rounds through. The next one will be a high-volume shooter, maybe a nice .22.

And no matter how much a firearm may cost, I just tell myself I don't motorcycle anymore, and guns don't need insurance, tires, gas, maintenance, registration, inspections, etc. And then I don't feel so bad! :eek:
 
Sigh....sellers remorse...
Kimber Ultra CDP II
SW 29
DPMS AR-15
Colt 1991a1
Ruger .357
Marlin .22 mag bolt actions (2 or 3)
HK USP 9mm
Sig 2340
Remmy 870 slug gun
Springfield Micro 1911 in 9mm

I don't think I will sell another gun for a long time.
If I had the chance (And money) I'd buy em all back.
Gotta start working on that....
 
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The only thing that comes close for me is didn't buy remorse. When I think about what I"ve passed up, oh, well.
 
Anyone else suffer from extreme buyers remorse?
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Mine has tended to go away with the passing of time; the older I get and the more I buy/sell, the less I sweat the details and the more I get used to the impermanence of things.
 
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