What the logic of trade only classified ads?

[goon]

To the OP, what did the guy have that you wanted, and what did he want to trade it for?

Just curious.
We've got a whole page of discussion and we don't even know what it's about.
I swear to all that is good and right on this earth... if you're miffed about not being able to trade for a Jennings or a Tec-22, I'm gonna be very disappointed!

 

[TennJed]

When I was a kid I used to trade baseball cards. I Never would have considered selling one to get the cash to go buy one. I liked trading baseball cards. It was a fun hobby.

I am still that same way. I have all the guns I "need". I enjoy trading as part of the hobby of guns. It is all part of the chase

 

[Double Naught Spy]

...and there are those folks who believe in the challenge of being able to trade for what they want and not spending any money and will sometimes trade numerous times in order to get a singular item they want.

This is a tv show, but it illustrates the process...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...premiere-records-to-boat-video_n_1592781.html

 

[Carl N. Brown]

The point of swap or trade is that you do not want to buy with cash or sell for cash. You want to swap or trade.

Calls to mind the story of Karl Hess, political activist all over the spectrum from right to left to anarchist:

The IRS charged him with tax resistance, confiscated most of his property and put a 100% lien on his future earnings. When implementing the penalty, the IRS told Hess that he no longer would be permitted to possess money; he reminded them that without money he could not buy food and would soon die. The IRS said that was his problem, not theirs.

He learned a trade (welding) and swapped and bartered welding jobs for what he needed without soiling his hands with filthy lucre.

(Aside: Karl Hess did NOT originate the line ""Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" for the speech he wrote for Sen Barry Goldwater: it was a quote about Abe Lincoln by a historian quoting Roman orator Cicero and Hess thought it fit AuH[sub]2[/sub]O. Karl Hess did write that it would not be America if it did not produce at least a few men who would tire of the palaver (BS) and take the rifle down from the mantelpiece to use themselves or give to the underdog who needs it.)

 

[jmace57]

...what goon said. I sold an AR for $1700 - put the money in my gun safe for new purchases. A few months later, there wasn't anything there. We stopped going to the ATM for...hmmm...about 3 months. <sigh>

 

[DammitBoy]

If you trade only because you can't trust yourself to manage your funds responsibly, maybe you should work on your lack of self-control?

 

[sf46]

Personally, I don't do a whole lot of trades. I can really only think of one that I did. It came out alright. I traded an AR-15 that I had for an FAL that another guy had.

 

[scythefwd]

Could be he doesnt want to go through the hassle of a background check. I'm delayed about a day every time. I have a rifle up for trade right now that if it doesnt go anywhere, oh well. I'll probably be happier in the long run. If I get what I want in trade, I have two nice revolvers. I'm good either way. A sale would mean I have cash, and no gun, and I have to hunt down the gun locally (686 are easy to find, but I wont do an internet purchase, and they aren't on every shelf here, and usually marked way the hell up when they are on the shelves). The only thing that persuaded me to put a price on my rifle for cash sale.. I found a dealer that would sell on to me NIB for less than the used market is around here.

 

[powder]

Barter and trade is fun. Usually both parties end up with what they want, and feeling good about it.

I am selling a few guns now to get into an upper level AR, have specified cash FTF deals. I still get the kids that want to trade their grandpa's Winchester .270-it's part of the deal, of living in a gun world.

A lot of folks simply are done playing in the money/value world-they are more interested in meeting interesting gun folks. Not all scenarios are felons who are avoiding paper.

 

[pockets]

It is their gun. They have the right to do what they want with it.


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[evan price]

Because it's what the owner wants. Why do we even need to debate this? None of your business to even wonder why. Freedom/America, heck yea.