Everyone has one, or eventually will run across one. We all have deals we like to brag about. Personally, I gloat! My friends of the gun-speak variety at work all claim poverty (mostly due to bad spending habits and too much credit), and many just don't live and breath guns like I do. When I exclaim about the deals I get sometimes, they just stare at me in bewilderment, thinking that I must have a lucky horseshooe crammed up my behind.
I have made a quite a few deals that resulted in greater deals. The single most-memorable deal I have had recently, is the deal I came across at a camping supply chain store a few years ago. They had a table full of Magellan GPS units for $0.98 each. Yup, thats right! ninety-eight cents! Limit two per customer. I have no idea why they were selling them for a buck apiece, but I bought two and went home. They were the old-school handheld design - the kind as big as a slimline home phone, not the palm-sized units they have nowadays.
So I gave one to my buddy and kept the other one.
Last year I put the GPS up on Craigslist, looking to trade for firearms. Got a call from someone with a Marlin .22, so I made the trade. It was a Marlin-Glenfield Model 60, made in 1970, the EXACT SAME gun, my dad bought for me at the local hardware store! I shot plenty of squirrels with that gun.
I reconditioned the entire gun inside and out, new firing pin, spring, and extractors from Numrich, and gave it to MY son for christmas.
...all for $0.98!
Not the same as buying a mansion with a paperclip, but was a fun and interesting deal. So let's hear about YOUR greatest deal!
I have made a quite a few deals that resulted in greater deals. The single most-memorable deal I have had recently, is the deal I came across at a camping supply chain store a few years ago. They had a table full of Magellan GPS units for $0.98 each. Yup, thats right! ninety-eight cents! Limit two per customer. I have no idea why they were selling them for a buck apiece, but I bought two and went home. They were the old-school handheld design - the kind as big as a slimline home phone, not the palm-sized units they have nowadays.
So I gave one to my buddy and kept the other one.
Last year I put the GPS up on Craigslist, looking to trade for firearms. Got a call from someone with a Marlin .22, so I made the trade. It was a Marlin-Glenfield Model 60, made in 1970, the EXACT SAME gun, my dad bought for me at the local hardware store! I shot plenty of squirrels with that gun.
I reconditioned the entire gun inside and out, new firing pin, spring, and extractors from Numrich, and gave it to MY son for christmas.
...all for $0.98!
Not the same as buying a mansion with a paperclip, but was a fun and interesting deal. So let's hear about YOUR greatest deal!