Just a thought... Sometimes smart money overpays! Why? Hypothetical: You're a big earner-professional, raking in $1K per billable hour & plenty of work. Now, you can spend your hours gun hunting for 'relatively' small change resulting bargains or spend liberally in a short flurry and still come out at much higher net savings. Such by concentrating on what you do best professionally and devote minimal time to such as gun acquisitions. You see it, you want it, you buy it. Guns or widgets! It happens and often! Internet auction sites particularly facilitating!

The moral... Easy to laugh about a bidder's apparent overspending. But we're only seeing half the picture. Needing the other half to determine the true scenario. That said, much of the gun market is moving up rapidly. Believe that's pushed from the bottom guns for protection folks, but creating a bubble and maybe some amount of hysteria adding a measure.

Just my take.
Best & Stay Safe!
John