I discussed it with them once. They take some time and research the guns value. I already had a pretty good idea what the true value of my rifle was worth and the price they quoted me was exactly what I had already determined. BUT. They will pay 65% of that value leaving them 35% profit when they resell. I didn't expect to get the full value, I understand that they are in business to make money. But 65% was just too little. Had it been 90% or maybe 85% I might have sold it to them.
But to be fair it really wasn't a bad experience. The guy I dealt with was professional and there was no pressure for me to sell. It was simply a business decision and I didn't want to sell that low.
I have traded with them once. I got closer to 80% of that guns value on trade. And it wasn't an expensive gun, under $300, and it was one that would have been hard for me to sell. I let them have it and made the trade.
This seems accurate. I have done it a couple of times. I had a really nice Remington XCR II in .300 wsm that I tried to sell locally for $800 or best offer. I couldnt get a sniff, not even any low offers. I had it advertised on my mewe page and shared to others around Wyoming. Not the largest audience but I sure thought someone would like a nice, good shooting elk rifle. I called Cabelas and they said their offer would be around $650 and that was low, until they had seen it. I thought hey.... my gun is in great shape, I would have taken $700 locally, I might even get that at Cabelas. I got there, and they are as slow as molasses.... A different person looked the gun over and offered me $500. I played him the voicemail of his counterpart offering $650 and the guy said he would honor it and give that price, but some of the rubs on the stock made it less valuable. (plastic stock, have to hold it just right in the light to see what he was even talking about....). I was trading it in on a good priced Remington 700 KS that was unfired. They had previously dropped the price of the KS $50, and when he gave me the offer of $650, said he would lowere the price of the gun I was buying another $50. So I guess.... it depends who you talk to, and who works at the store. Probably depends how much they want inventory too. i was back in the store about 3 weeks later, and they just put the rifle out for sale when I was back... three weeks later! I think they asked $899 for it. It was still there last weekend. It is in the Rapid City Cabelas Gun Library. Some guns that are hard to sell, and you think you will have to lower the price too much to sell locally, you can probably get a decent deal at Cabelas. I guess you can try with an open mind and see what happens, but I think numbers that JMR40 posted in his post that I quoted are pretty realistic.