You're looking at a rather exclusive product with a high price tag. If you can afford it, you will smile on the other end of the deal.
I'm poor, but a neighbor is not and has two of about 5 yrs age. They are at the top end of the quality pyramid in fit, finish, reliability and precision, even with the chintzy wood stocks. ( ) Tongue in cheek there, the wood is fantastic.
From another perspective, you won't make money selling an almost new Savage. You won't lose money with a Dakota.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain