I recently sold a brand new scope that retails for just over $1300 cdn. It was brand new in the box...literally, I opened the box to take a picture of it still in the plastic, closed the box, and wrapped it up, ready to put an address on it. It had a few extras with it as well. My methodology was simple. I started out at the retail price. Buyer saves the tax, shipping, and gets some free goodies. A week later, I dropped the price by $100...I kept doing that until it sold. Guns and just about anything else are like houses. They will always sell if they're priced right for the market you're in. There are an infinite number of variables in the market and it's impossible to account for them all. If you are patient and keep lowering your price, eventually, someone will pull the trigger on it. If you have an absolute bottom dollar figure you'll accept for something, then keep lowering it and stop there. If it still doesn't sell, then the market just isn't there at the number you want. Don't feel bad about it....it is what it is. You have a choice at that point. Either leave it up for sale, or keep it and hope the market improves. There really isn't much more to it than that.....at least that's the way I've always done it.
When I'm a buyer, I look at what's for sale and I figure out a dollar figure that I'm willing to pay for it. If it gets lowered to that, then I jump on it. If it doesn't, oh well....there will always be other guns. I'm not really in the market for an AR15 right now, and like someone said...NEA doesn't have the greatest rep. Still if a good deal comes along, I'll go for it...I saw your ad, and I figured out what I'd be willing to pay for it (I'm not going to say what it is here. I hate making people feel like they're being lowballed, so I just wait to see if they drop the price on their own most of the time). Some of my guns are for investment. Some are for personal enjoyment. I don't mind sitting on a gun for a few years to see if the market comes up to the point where I might be able to make a couple of bucks on it. I am a dealer after all. I never spend money that I can't afford to sit on for an undetermined amount of time. There are various factors that come into play, and they change from time to time.
Anyway.....that's my perspective on buying and selling guns. Hopefully it helps.
Last edited by blacksmithden; 10-25-2016 at 10:41 PM.
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Traffic at GOC is less than the 'nutty' place, people can be apprehensive about peoples with zero feedback or whatever it is called here. This is what I am experiencing at GOC, right now. I am using the Marketplace to list my new items as I was disappointed in the Moderation of CGN. Take good photos if possible, no toes, runners or socks in the photo. A plain gray background works well, avoid placing your item on the expensive Persian rug, cammo cloth or that nasty star wars bedspread. Be honest with your description, and try to answer all the questions from serious possibilities. I did not see what brand of AR it was you were trying to sell. Many buyers are searching for high end stuff at Import (not USA) prices. AR's are like a custom Harley, what you like may not be they way the buyer wants his ride. Part it out, if its good stuff and fair price it will go.
good luck with your sale and enjoy GOC, the less NUTTY alternative.
Had a look at your ad, photos are fine and the price is right, sadly some peoples dont like the brand as they didnt stick to the standard milspec uppers and lowers.
$870 sounds light to me. Firearms tend to not lose that much value and AR's a lot less. Even though restricted stuff takes a bunch of BS paperwork and phone calls etc and the market is smaller.
The brand of AR and what's with it(number of mags for example.), matters too. So does where you are.
Anyway, the process is the same as it was when you bought thing only in reverse and you become the seller.
I sold a nea ar for $800 last winter, unfired.
I really needed the money, and the market on PEI is a hand full of people.
the wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept
"It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear" - Aldo Leopold
it's also not possible to prove how many rounds have gone through it - people aren't likely to trust internet strangers
Anyone have an idea what the resale will be like for the complete Colt Canada IUR with Diemaco Lowers? I got mine a while ago but still unfired since i'm just learning the ropes with shotguns/bolt action/pistols. I'm halfway considering a swap to the Beretta A400 and staying away from the AR platform entirely since i think hunting is more practical for me than range use.
I was a bit jumpy on my Mossberg 590 purchase and someone on the forum got a NIB 590A1 Blackwater Speedfeed for $550 all in. Right now my stupid impulse tax is at $140 and hoping it doesn't go much higher.
Colt Canada pricing is still going strong
the wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept
"It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear" - Aldo Leopold