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This may have been covered but I'll chime in.

Most items are not sold for a low price- because someone will simply snatch it up with the intention to re-sell it.

You also get people who put up things up for high prices, knowing they will have to wait- but hoping some sucker falls for it and they reap a big profit. Ever see the Russian AKM bayonet that is for $195? Its been there for like a year. They go for about $80 to $100. :barf:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Se...Results.asp?SearchType=0&Keywords=Russian+AKM

I once heard a business saying (in regard to prices): you can have eggs everyday or chicken once a week. It seems a lot of gunbroker sellers are content to sit back and hope for chicken once a week... or month. :scrutiny:
 
I don't buy much on GB, but I have gotten a couple good deals. You have to be willing to wait for the right auction or BIN to come along.
I have been looking for a deal on a nice Browning 1910 for a year. There has been one on there for a year described as being in "Amazing Shape", with a buy it now of $425. Relisted again and again, zero bids. Looks well used, not "amazing". http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=137623520
Just recently, I bid on one in much better shape in 380acp, and won it for less than half. I might have bought the "amazing" one if the seller really wanted to sell it at a reasonable price.
PS, the rifle club I belong to has it's own FFL, so I don't pay any transfer fee, and have a copy of the FFL I can email to the seller. I just call the club and let them know something is coming for me.
 
I do a lot of selling on gunbroker. My prices are higher there because I have to make up the ridiculous charges that gunbroker tacks on. It would be nice if there was a place as popular as gunbroker that was free to list and sell like craigs list. I know places exist, but they arent popular like gunbroker is. All gunbroker does is force the price of things up atleast 4 - 10% depending on what you buy. I have gotten upset at gunbroker lately because it seems less people are using it now since its filled with illegitimate sellers trying to gouge people. I know I stopped looking for things to buy there since prices went sky high.
 
I like GB and AA. If you like sniping, AA is your place. Theres always been phantom bidders at auctions- either online or live. I have been burned but once. The stuff I like rarely shows up locally. I refuse to go to a gunshow or any place that charges me to shop. My best buy was a few months back from a first time seller on GB with zero feedback. He had a Sig 230 for sale and offered 200rds of 380acp free to anyone willing buy the gun 'face to face'. He lived in Detroit. I won the auction and asked him if could have the ammo since it had been offered already. He said to send him 20 for postage.
I sent him $25. He knew what the ammo was worth. I assume he was not desperate for money. I got the gun at a fair price. I would never find a ss one for $480 locally with box and target
 
I have been looking for a specific make and model of gun, not made anymore, and there are always one or two on gunbroker. I've been watching these things for a couple months, and the really high BIN priced ones just keep getting re-listed. The ones with a low start price always seem to do well and go for a reasonable price. Recently, I guess someone with an itch worse than mine paid the BIN price which was 200 higher than the auction that closed the day before. Really, the high prices combined with the shipping, ffl transfer fee, for a new gun it just doesn't make sense generally.
 
LDJ- How much do you think is fair to offer your item to hundreds of thousands of potential buyers? You say GB fees are "ridiculous." What would be fair, NOTHING? GB charges a very reasonable percentage for sales with NO LISTING FEES meaning if it doesn't sell you pay nothing for trying.

I think your expectations and your comments are unreasonable. I have several items on GB and I was quite happy to pay the small fee for the level of service in return.

CoRoMo- They charge your card a buck to test it and make sure it's valid. The dollar is refunded with the first fee you pay. So if you never sell anything I guess the buck is gone but it's not per year, it's for however long your card is valid which is 3-4 years in most cases.
 
On GB, there's a guy selling brand new WWII issue 15-round M1 carbine mags, ten of them still in the wrapper, for $170 BIN. Is that a decent price? $17 each for genuine, unused, real-deal WWII issue 15 round mags sounds OK to me. But maybe I'm a sucker that'll believe anything?
 
To address your original post: The prices of an item reflect the seller’s belief in what they can sell their item for, not what GunBorkers believes they can sell it for. And possibly a combined reason of why many items do not have bids on them, is that the seller is asking to much and the economy is not in the best of shape.

I have bought and sold on Gunbroker and I have purchased items at fair prices. The items at unfair prices, well lets say I stay away from them like most everyone else.
 
A friend of mine just picked up a like new/unfired (tags still attached) Stainless Ruger No. 1 varmint in 22-250 for 600 bucks....I am so jealous!!!!! not to mention the thing shoots .5 inch groups at 100yds with a redfield 12x that he has all of 30 bucks in...:banghead:.... where are these deals when I am around?
 
Well you can't use eBay or Craigslist. And when you buy responding to simple want ads, you run the risk of getting items with serial numbers on a police report.
 
I have bought/sold/almost 200 items on GB and every one has been a deal and I have been real satisfied with my part of the deal. No ripoffs no problems.:D
The reasonable priced items will sell and the high priced items will not. You have to be patient to get a deal. I will bid what I think it is worth and let autobid work. if I loose I will try again until I win at the price I am willing to pay. You have to do some work to get a deal but I enjoy the process. When selling set your price at what you want to get or start with a penny and reserve at what you want to get. Just be realistic about prices-$79 for 1K of primers and hazmat? :what: Most are not desperate enough to buy that!!
 
been on GB since 2002, never had a negative experience.
if you search hard you can get deals on guns and ammo. this week i just got 2 boxes of .44mag rem 180 sp for <40$ delivered. last week i got a case of 40sw blazer brass for $13 a box delivered. sales tax in my county is almost 10% so that ended being a bit cheaper then wally and i would have had to drive 23 miles to wally and IF they had, it i could have only gotten 6 boxes.

the only problem with buying guns is that local FFLs charge $100 for inbound guns. so it needs to be a real screaming deal.

i have also bought some guns off of guys on calguns (a california oriented gun site) and a FTF FFL transaction is only 35$ and no sales tax. as well as several C&R long guns, following all legal FTF rules regarding those.
 
I wish they would charge a listing fee

I wouldn't mind paying it on either end. You'd see far fewer items with ridiculous list prices. People are free to charge whatever they want for their product, and they should. That said, it would be nice to give people the incentive not to clutter up the boards for months with overpriced items in the hope that some sucker will eventually buy them. It would also eliminate the silly self-bidders; who would pay for the privilege of blowing smoke up his own a__?
 
Deals can be found

As said before it is a matter of knowing what something you want costs, it's availability and watching the bids. A few months ago there was a Del-Ton AR15 lower receiver for sale with no reserve and opening price was a penny. I ended up getting it for $75 plus $15 for shipping. Add the $20 for my dealer's transfer fee and I was able to get a brand new lower for $110. Great deal!!

Also recently bought four Parker Hale M85 receivers for $26 each. They need to be finished machined (which I can do) and then heat treated and misc parts added (like a bolt) but considering they are not made anymore a complete rifle sells $4,000+, this is a bargain to build up some rifles that are not common or available everyday.

Like anything else you buy, from a store or on line, you need to have some product knowledge to know if you are getting a good deal or not.
 
I just get tired of sorting through the piles of listings for cheap holsters and other crap when I search for an obscure pistol. I also wish I could search within range of my zipcode, as on ebay, and come up with a FTF buy.
 
Never got any great bargains but did find a few things I had been looking for priced reasonably.
It can be a crapshoot, but I never got burnt.

One guy asked for extended pay time on something I sold.
OK with me, but the prick never even left me any feedback.
 
I just won the bid for a Marlin 60 on AA. 125.00 shipped. It is suppossed to have been from an estate and has never been fired, we will see.
 
You will find a lot of FFLers that will post the entire firearm catalog, not necessarily stocking much themselves. Sort of like Ebay's fixed price listing system. I've personally bought and sold arms on GB. Like many people I'm not going to have a couple of hundred transactions.
 
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Fryerpower said:
2: Paid by money order. Magazine never arrived. Completely ripped off. I won't be making that mistake again. Pay with VISA!
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If that was a POSTAL money order ... take that up with the postmaster where you got it. They have a name for that kind of rip off ... MAIL FRAUD, and they take a very dim view of it. Give the postal inspectors something to do.
 
And neither of those items sold ....

Frankl03 said:
I have seen good deals on Gunbroker. I have also sold guns on Gunbroker.

Take a look at this one S&W M&P 15. $789 buy it now price NIB

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=137791411

Or M&P 15 (AR15) Buy it now $800

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=137840903

So if you have an idea what a good price is you can find some deals. It's like anything there are good deals and not so good deals. By the way Buds gun shop similar rifle to above $989

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_763/products_id/53496
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I've had some good luck on GB finding obscure guns - yeah, sometimes folks are high, but those I ignore - except for one last year that I finally emailed and made an offer on, pointing out that he'd been trying to sell it for 6 months, and I was the only one that bid on it the whole time. We agreed on a price, and he even apologized for not having noticed sooner, because he normally drops the price after 2-3 slow auctions.
 
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