Anyone else suffer from extreme buyers remorse?

[callgood]

The above is good advice. Years ago my wife and I used to think we wanted something, but the more time went by the less we found we needed it. Often by the time we had the money available (forget charging it) we really didn't care anymore. After a while it became something of a family joke.

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Before credit cards, the availability/unavailability of cash worked the same way. The things people "needed" sometimes turned out to be not so necessary when the money to buy had been saved. Or something else like a new roof took precedence. Not the case now.

I have "shooter's remorse". The firearm I see myself shooting is more prone to stay in the safe while I'm taking care of life's demands. Every addition merely attenuates the anticipated pleasure of shooting the ones previously purchased. And I don't own nearly the number some people have. Other than as an investment, the concept of a large safe stuffed with iron that rarely, if ever, gets used is puzzling to me.

 

[03Shadowbob]

I don't think you have remorse but you have my syndrom which is wishing you could have bought all the guns instead of having to chose just one.
BTW, on the GP100, get the 4"SS full lug and adjustable sights. It's a fine firearm and IMO one of the best revolvers out there.

 

[Buster34233]

Buyers remorse?

The weapon with the least soul that I ever bought was a Marlin Camp 45. I had wanted one for the longest time ... and should have left it that way. Marlin must have stopped making these out of pure embarrassment. I have had pellet guns that were of more sturdy design and were more satisfying to shoot. Dont get me wrong, it worked every time I asked it to ... kind of like a stapler I use every day ... with about the same feel to it.

 

[snow]

Sellers remorse on Yugo SKS and Keltec sub 9, buyers remorse on Sig Sauer mosquito.

 

[Atticus]

know I do...in pretty much anything I buy, and sadly it has extended into my newfound hobby of shooting handguns. Doesn't matter how much I research (and i often research a ton when i'm spending good money) as soon as I'm driving home with my new toy in my mind i'm like

I'm a little that way as well. I think we suffer from the Woody Allen Syndrome -
" I would never belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member."

 

[EOTechRulesAll]

I paid 800 dollars for a NIB Para-Ordnance and it failed to work with three types of different factory ammo. It cost $65 dollars to ship the gun back to them UPS Next Day Air. I will give lots of details and will make a follow-up post once I get it back, and if/when they reimburse my shipping costs.

I also had a PTR-91 fail to function new out of the box, it failed to fire 50% of the ammo I tried to put through it... Remington Core-Lokt, Silver Bear, Wolf, and South African Surplus. I had to send it back and just got it back a while ago, and have yet to make it out to the range to try it out and see if they actually fixed it.

I've had a number of guns fail to work, new out of the box, and I've never bought another product from any of those companies, and probably never will, aside from the few times when the companies paid my shipping and fixed the problem without complaining (Beretta comes to mind). I've bought multiple Beretta products, and will continue to do so.

 

[BlindJustice]

Not really, love my 1911 & S&Ws 625,617 & 60 but the 686P, I haven't gotten comfy with it, nothing wrong, I like the Guy Hogue Compac
Rosewood grips w/finger grooves & checkering, it's accurate but
just doesn't float my boat

Seller's remorse - S&W 18, 25 w/6 1/2" Bbl. Len. w/presentation
case, Browning Hi-Power w/adj. sights and a Colt COmbat Commander
that I let go all over 20 years ago. urgh.

Buyer's remorse - my first deer rifle was a Savage 99 in .303 Savage
lousy ballistics, didn't fit me, and had a weird to me lyman peep rear yuk

 

[LouBurris]

My remorse comes from the guns I did not buy. Lou

 

[Dragonboy]

1) buy gun.
2) load gun.
3) pull trigger.
go boom?

if yes, life is good.

if no, repeat steps 1 - 3.

I'm mostly kidding, but...whatever works.

 

[Blackbeard]

I usually put a lot of research into what I buy, so I haven't regretted buying anything, guns or otherwise. The other side to that coin is I end up stalling on purchases probably longer than I need to. I'm keeping a list of the guns I want to buy (a .40S&W, .22 rifle, AK clone, etc.) and collecting info on the attributes of each so I can settle on a particular model or models. Then I just go find the best price I can.

Impulse buys are most likely to get you into the remorse trap. I have a dollar limit for myself. I don't buy anything on impulse costing more than $50.