I worked at a gun shop in college. I recall seeing the same batch of guns to be appraised 2x in one day. Once from the soon-to-be- ex-husband and then from the soon-to-be-ex-wife. Gave them both the same $$ figures. Here's what I'll pay you for them, here's what I'm going to price them. Dude was only worried about the purchase price, female was only concerned with my retail selling price.
Another guy was going through a divorce and brought in several rifles that had been re-barreled by a local, exceptional gunsmith. Our store didn't buy or trade any non-factory barreled rifles. Guy gets very irritated and tells my co-worker, fine, you can just have them. Put something on your company letterhead that says you won't buy them and I'll give them to you. Co-Worker doesn't have the "stroke" for that and tells the guy so. Guy zips up the cases and leaves. Co-Worker was in a daze for days wondering how he'd let 3 or 4 very nice custom rifles slip through his fingers.
Guy comes in with an armload of old junk guns, some relative had passed away. Some cheapo single-action 22lr pistol with the firing pin on the hammer skitters off the top of the pile, lands on the hammer and the guy catches a 22LR slug through the calf @ about 18". Slug ended up in a mount of a life-size mountain lion taking down a life-size nearly 170" deer. The guy is lucky the mount's owner didn't send him a bill for about $10K. One person escorted the guy to the back door where the ambulance picked him up, a 2nd followed with a bucket/mop, didn't actually bleed all that bad.
