What is the biggest POS with a most ridiculous price tag you ever seen at a gun show?

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What is the biggest POS with a most ridiculous price tag you ever seen at a gun show?!

Last year in the High Caliber Houston gun show, I ran across a Norinco 1911. I am not sure what kind of finish was on it because it was so rusted up. I wouldn't even call it rust... Imagine a shipwreck item on the ocean floor, that's what it kinda looked like.

Anyways, I thought I can get a good deal on it since it looked sooooo beat up. I asked the dealer how much, he said 600. I said "tax?", and he replied, "before tax."

Too bad I couldn't take a picture of it to show you guys how bad it looked.

wow...
 
A Hi-Standard HDM for $750. It looked like it had been thrown under a truck seat when it was made and left there until it was brought in to sell at this show. Rough doesn't do justice to the condition it was in.
 
An SKS that was supposedly a bring back from Vietnam. He wanted 750 dollars for it. I then told him that Yugo SKSs (had grenade launcher muzzle thingy and gas valve) weren't used in Vietnam :).

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
$1,000 for a regular Russian SKS :what: .

Not at a gunshow, but I saw a S&W Model 10 4" for $750 last year. Same shop had a Charter Arms .38 revolver of some type for $550. Funny, the smoke that hung in the air of that shop smelled just a touch like marijuana :D .

Heck, I saw a Norinco SKS at a pawn shop yesterday for $750. You can get one for $250 at the shop literally 3 blocks down the road!!!

For the life of me, I can't figure out how some of these places stay in business.
 
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Beat down, played out, scratched and rust-patched S&W 4006 for $500. I actually laughed out loud when I turned over the tag.
 
I have fooled around with Lugers for 50+ years.

Prices have reached insane levels and it is getting hard to find examples that have not been messed with in some way.

Late production Mausers, marked BYF 41 or 42, mostly have a dark finish with black composite grips and black mag bottoms.

Years ago, they were undesireable as collector pieces.
Shattuck claimed to have coined the term "Black Widow" to describe these and it has become a scramble to own one by newbies.

Saw one in 99% conditon for $3000 at a show and some poor fool trying to convince his wife it was a "good investment."

I also saw a 3rd gen SAA with the top strap blown off and the cylinder ruptured
priced higher than retail for a new one.
 
The last show I went to had an unusual amount of WWII weapons: 1911s, M1 Garands and Carbines, Lugers, Hi Powers, Mausers, etc..
Of course, all of these items had some seriously high price tags on them.

I found a rusted up Inglis Hi Power at one table. I would rate it at 30-35%, if that. I asked the guy at the table how much he wanted for it. He replied "$1200". I confirmed that I was inquiring about the severely rusted Inglis HP and he said $1200 again. I took a pause to see if he was joking, but he wasn't . I asked him if it still functioned, he said no.

That's the recent outrageous price that I have came across.
 
Yeah, gunshows, they have become unbearable in terms of what many, and I mean many of the exhibitors ask in prices. I quit going to 'em when I saw Yugoslav Mausers at $495.00. Not to mention during the ammo crunch these jerks selling primers at $85 dollars a 1000. I wont waste the gas, time or the price at the door to go to a goon show anymore. I don't much care for rip off artists in any setting, and at those meets, far too many of em. I really hope they eat all that ammo and those primers they hoarded, I honestly do.
 
Last year at a show in Farmington, MO a guy had Sigmas for $479......and a GIANT poster of the S&W rebate promotion.
 
I quit going to 'em when I saw Yugoslav Mausers at $495.00.
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Oooh, you just reminded me. That was another gun I saw yesterday, except most of the finish was worn off and the price tag was $650. :what: :cuss: . They also had a German Mauser K98 for $750.

I wont waste the gas, time or the price at the door to go to a goon show anymore. I don't much care for rip off artists in any setting, and at those meets, far too many of em. I really hope they eat all that ammo and those primers they hoarded, I honestly do.
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I would say that the prices at gunshows represent the extremes at both ends of the spectrum. In fairness, most prices are within reason at the shows I go to, with a fair number in the "crack smoking" category, and a very small number of better than average deals. I still go because I do find good deals now and then. Like a 2.5" S&W Model 66 for $430 in Dec '09. Those guns are averaging $550 these days.
 
Dang Oceans, you could have come out where I live and snapped up primers at only 75 a brick. I would love to see them have to choke that crap down too! It really made me sad to see such blatant greed.

Just too many leeches at the shows any more. If guns were outlawed tomorrow, those same guys would be at the next doll show selling G.I. Joe dolls or 'Transformers' to kids at inflated prices. For them it is all about unreported non taxed income, not their fondness for guns as a hobby.

Worst is probably a poorly buffed and re-blued standard CZ 27 for 1500.00. I was told it took a 'silencer'. It was a standard barrel though. I passed.

JT
 
A worn out Ithaca 12 ga. shotty that was in very poor condition. The steel was almost in the white on the action and the barrel, the gun had a plastic pistol grip and a wooden pump forend. Overall, without any other repairs needed, the guy wanted 375. I got him down to 275, but told him it's not worth over 150. The days that I have gone to the gun show in Indy, I see it floating around, but it still hasn't left his table and he's down to 275.
 
Lol, yeah JT, that is what it has come down to. Gun owners were a tight bunch in years past, and gun shows were a lot of fun, looking for parts for your '03, M1, 1911, etc and haggling over old Winchesters and the like. Now of-course there were always a fair share of turkeys at these shows, we gun show veterans all know that, but in the last several years a new dynamic has appeared, this last ammo gig was representative of it. It has really turned me sour on a lot in the shooting world. I notice a difference at the range too. Times change, I know that but still worth noticing nonetheless.
 
Tell you the truth, I think alot of M1 Garand and carbine prices are stupid.

I even saw a M1 Carbine, import marked 'Sky Imports", for $900.

And worn out Smith 1917 revolvers for $800.

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Smith Mod 57 for $1000. It went through a fire with 6 rounds in it. They all went off and the thing was locked up so tight you couldnt open the cylinder with a hammer.
 
Smith Mod 57 for $1000. It went through a fire with 6 rounds in it. They all went off and the thing was locked up so tight you couldnt open the cylinder with a hammer.
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Where?! I would have bought it. Rare to find a revolver that has a story attach to it!
 
I haven't found a good deal at a gun show in over 3 years. most of the stuff is overpriced and the dealers all have attitudes. I won't waste my time or gas going to shows for a while...
 
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Smith Mod 57 for $1000. It went through a fire with 6 rounds in it. They all went off and the thing was locked up so tight you couldnt open the cylinder with a hammer.
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Where?! I would have bought it. Rare to find a revolver that has a story attach to it!
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Texas, I hope you are kidding! I saw a LNIB 4" blued S&W Model 57 at a local gun show last September for $495, in perfect mechanical condition. I would have bought it, but I had just purchased a 3" S&W Model 13 ($450) at another table a few minutes earlier.

Oh well.
 
Nothing in particular, just lots of old pitted Colt SAA's with multiple, shabbily-done refinishes with $5000 price tags when they should really be $1500.
 
I find that when the big dealers go to a gun show, they're serious about doing business, and have fair prices. The little guy with a small booth and 10-20 guns is often the guy with the ridiculous prices.

Before I buy any gun, I look at what it would cost from bud's, so I know what a fair price is. I don't mind paying a few bucks more to support a local shop, but I'm not going to get raped either.

The gun store I go to knows I do this now (I've bought a bunch of guns from them by now), and on some guns, if I'm looking, they'll flat out tell me "we're not going to be able to match bud's on this one." Lol.
 
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