Fair Price on 14-4?

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That's about $200 too much, IMO.
I paid $650 for a 14-4 in 99% condition without box not too long ago, and thought I overpaid a tad.
 
I suspect you are very right.

It seems to me the Gunbroker experience is mostly over-priced except for the rare private seller deals which take a lot of trolling to find. I think those dealers keep their high prices out there forever until they sell it locally or someone bites on their add. My opinion.
 
I paid $625 for a LNIB one ( might not have ever been shot ) target model , just like your picture a couple months ago . I also bought a 14-3 in excellent condition with the magna grips . I paid $480 for it .

I would rather have a older model so if it is in LN condition , I will pay a new gun price for one if I really wanted it .

I bought mine off GB also . I didn't really want 2 of them , but the auctions ended a day apart and I wanted the target model more and didn't think that I would win it , so I bid on the other and ended up with two 14's . Strange thing , I like the standard model better , the one that I won first .

I am going to try and trade one of them for a 617 . There is enough difference in them that I really don't mind having both . They feel like 2 different guns .
 
Anything is worth what you can get someone to pay and the most informed opinions about what any particular gun is worth are based upon the specific experience of an individual. Unless that experience can be duplicated by you, the opinion is only an opinion. Not a fact or opportunity to buy. If someone answers your question by presenting a series of current buying opportunities, they have just done your shopping for you.

There is no shortcut to shopping hard and talking the best offer available to you. You can collect the experiences of others to form a baseline for what to expect or strive for, but that is no guarantee of finding it especially in an environment of price inflation. The real measure of the price asked is how it compares to other deals you could actually have. Collect the experience of others, but then shop aggressively or use patience in awaiting that "great deal" to fall into your lap.

If you have to ask the question here, "is this a good deal?" You haven't done your homework.
 
Always look at what else is available. LGS had 686-2 or -3 (pre-lock, pre MIM) in very good condition for $550. The 14-4 being blued .38 is worth less. Whether it has box or not and whether it's like new vs. it had few boxes of ammo through it is irrelevant to me as it should be to others.
 
I paid $620 for a 99% 14-3 with the long tube recently - no box or papers, but it's a very high quality revolver with beautiful bluing, a wonderfully smooth trigger, and remarkable accuracy. Definitely a keeper, but I would not have spent $795 on it - ironically, that was the posted price on mine, too - but there was wiggle room or I would have kept walking.
 
That's just a "bit" out there. I paid $225 for my 6" beautifully blurred 14-3. I talked the guy down a bit since it had replacement rubber grips.
That wasn't too long ago.
 
Are those the original grips? They partially cover the logo , and do not quite match up at the base.

No one says you have to pay the "buy now".
 
I have a private seller on another forum and he will take $650 shipped. Extra set of stock grips and tapped for a weigand mount with optics or the stock rear.
 
chiltech500 said:
I have a private seller on another forum and he will take $650 shipped. Extra set of stock grips and tapped for a weigand mount with optics or the stock rear.
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If the frame was drilled and tapped, that drops the value considerably, IMO.
For $650, you should be getting a darn near factory new gun with no mods, all original.
 
Oh, I see.

I actually was thinking of using it for Bullseye with an optic mount. It was a target gun by design wasn't it? I know revolvers have fallen out of favor in Bullseye, but I shoot for accuracy for pleasure favoring 25 yards anyway.

The tapped and Weigand mount are an enhancement to me, being able to switch between optics and iron sights, I am not a collector, kind of the opposite, stuff I buy gets used and anybody could tell :)

Well I am holding out for $600 to see what happens.
 
chiltech500 said:
Hi, need some advice:

What do you think about a $795 price on this 6" barrel 14-4 on gunbroker?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=429937705#PIC
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The gun has few bonus features like: target hammer spur, trigger and grips. It's old K-framed .38 therefore I would not pay >$500 for it. There is nothing particularly attractive about that gun. One can get nice pencil barreled K-framed .38 service model with fixed sights in very good shape for $350.
 
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