i have two Ar-15 BUSHMASTERS

[timberwolf204]

I need to sell one possibly for unexpected home repairs. I came up with the cash i needed to have problem fixed. I mentioned I wanted to sell one of my bushmasters one is a during the ban A2 20 in heavy barrel with no flash hider and bayonet lug. The other is after the ban set a M4A1 with flash hider and bayonet lug. I hav 300 rounds through the a2 and 20 through the m4-a1. I wanted a fair price for them and I will not give them away and I dont want to rob someone.

My real question is how much can i expect to sell them or what is the value of these. I have been offered way lower then what i think they should be valued at right now.

thank you for any assistance.

 

[TexasPatriot.308]

right now the price is 3 to 4 times normal price, in a few months the prices will drop again soon, depends if you sell to a friend cause they might not be your friend a few months from now. sell to a stranger that you dont care a darn about. I got friends that want to buy some of my ARs etc and I told them I dont want them to be POed at me later. good luck.

 

[KTXdm9]

Take a quick peak at gunbroker auctions that are about to, or have recently ended. That will give you a snapshot of the going rate.

 

[Elbert P . Suggins]

Put any price you want to on your guns. That is what free enterprise and capitalism is all about. It is all about what the market will bear. When someone accuses someone else don't even listen to it. If there are people out there with the money and want to buy it, than let them and feel no guilt. And don't feel guilty because someone jumps your azz about. If you or any business is priced way too high than what they have will not sell. Supply and Demand. Supply and Demand.

 

[Sam1911]

Check some of the "sold" Gunbroker auctions to see what AR-15s comparable to your are selling for right now.

Put yours on Gunbroker with a reserve $200 less than that average, or in your local classified paper for right on that number.

Don't sell guns to friends. That makes emotion a factor of the sale price and inserts possible future unpleasantness into your personal relationships. You need money to accomplish a purpose. Those guns are an investment which has just hit (actually, probably just passed) it's likely all-time-high price.

If someone wants them for the price you ask, you are fulfilling their needs. If not, you haven't harmed anyone.

You CANNOT "rob" or "rip off" anyone who willingly gives you a quantity of money for an item you have offered for sale with honest disclosure.

 

[Skylerbone]

You cannot rob them but they can come back in a month and slash your tires. Find a consignment shop or find another way to finance your repair. 4 tires will cost you a good deal of coin and most folks can't be without transportation for more than a day or two.

 

[matrem]

You cannot rob them but they can come back in a month and slash your tires.

That would only mean that one has chosen "friends" very poorly.
Free enterprise works.. Some have a hard time accepting it.

 

[Sam1911]

Wait...buyer's remorse -- them deciding that they shouldn't have willingly paid the price you offered for an honestly advertised item -- is going to be sufficient for them to drive back and slash your tires?

"Oh wow, I shouldn't have spent so much! I should go hurt the guy who's advertisement I sought out and then replied to! He was such a jerk for selling me a gun at a price I agreed to pay!"

I'm not going to consider that a realistic concern.

Next time I wake up with a hangover, I'm going to go beat up the store owner who sold me the beer!

 

[Skylerbone]

Just relating a scenario that played out many times from a retired LEO who spent a quarter century logging more than 45,000 calls. As a matter of safety, I don't invite strangers into my home and certainly not to sell a firearm to. Don't care to make such transactions in public either. When a person feels cheated, it need not be sensible nor does the reaction. If we all acted rationally there would be no need for law and little use for firearms.

 

[Sam1911]

Oh, well that is a fine point and actually branches this into another conversation we've had a number of times.

I think the WalMart or McDonald's parking lots came out in the lead as the most popular places to do a private gun sale. Lots of public, but still the ability to find a fairly sparse corner of the lot to do the deed. Probably security cameras to fall back on if something was to go REALLY bad.

The best "honorable mention" went to having the buyer or seller meet you in the local Police Department parking lot and do the sale there. It was figured that would reduce the number of shady characters who'd want to do that trade.

 

[TheDaywalkersDad]

Bushmasters are selling from $1200 - $1600 in my area. It's crazy. The $1600 one is on consignment.
The LGS are getting Windham AR's in now and then. They were selling for about $800 before Sandy Hook. They are now over $1300 locally. I've been very tempted to sell an AR and I keep kicking myself for not getting a stripped lower or two before the stupidity started.

 

[Seventhsword]

My local Academy gets them in all the time. Still pre-panic prices. Anybody who would pay double or triple for a Bushmaster is truly a fool...

 

[taliv]

I think the WalMart or McDonald's parking lots came out in the lead as the most popular places to do a private gun sale.

i bought a full-auto M16 in the parking lot at Disney in Orlando many years ago.



(it just amuses me to no end, but the irony wasn't intentional. i happened to be in town for a convention related to my job and the class III dealer was located in orlando. since i didn't have a rental car, he came and met me at the hotel. naturally, i didn't get to take possession there, just started the paperwork.)