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Campfire Outfitter
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Harder to believe that people buy optics from China or Hong Kong sellers and expect them to be legit, just discounted. Haha. The picture of a totally different box should be the first clue.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
It's a lot easier to hit the Buy It Now button and get what you want in less than a week, rather than trying to order through the Custom Shop and wait around.
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Campfire Regular
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After having sold fishing lures on eBay for the last 6 or 7 years, I believe it is the mentality that "I am not letting anyone outbid me"...a regular spitting contest no matter how much they end up giving for the item. I have tried to sell lures for a BIN price and after not getting it sold, I will put it up for auction and on more than one occasion I will get more for the lure than I had it at a BIN price.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2011
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After having sold fishing lures on eBay for the last 6 or 7 years, I believe it is the mentality that "I am not letting anyone outbid me"...a regular spitting contest no matter how much they end up giving for the item. I have tried to sell lures for a BIN price and after not getting it sold, I will put it up for auction and on more than one occasion I will get more for the lure than I had it at a BIN price. Key to Gunbroker anyway is to start at a penny with no reserve. That way you make it on everyone's watch list, because they don't want anyone else getting that damn gun for less than it's worth!
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An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Apr 2004
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What really gets me about auctions is when people don't even look at/inspect the items. They hear the auctioneer throw out what seems like a low price and they say 'heck, that's a good deal!' Then they get wrapped up in the auction and pay too much. Saw a guy buy a Winchester M70 at an auction for what seemed like a 'great' price. Until he picked it up after the auction and actually looked at it. Beat up, rust, pitting, you name it.
Auctions are like most things in life: If you go in without a plan your likelihood of getting screwed is multiplied by 100. kinda sounds like what one gets when they elect democRATs into office....
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
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You've never really seen the epitome of "pay more than it's worth" until you've seen a firearm sold at a farm auction. This is so true and I never understood it for the life of me. I was at one over at the farm show building in Harrisburg and these beat up Marlins were going for like $600+ and at the time you could buy a new one for $400! These were not collector anything just old Marlin 336 30-30's that looked like they spent the better part of their life in the back of a pick up truck.
NRA Lifetime Endowment Member
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jan 2005
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The favored storage location in this area is in the drive-through of a corn crib.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Campfire Savant
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Campfire Savant
Joined: Apr 2011
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We used to go to mechanical contractors auctions. Used junkie drill motors, gang boxes, bandsaws, rotor hammers, you name it sometimes would sell in lots of 50 for more above what they would have cost new. It was crazy. We did buy 20,000 dollars worth of test balls for 500.00 once. Buying frenzy is a good word for it.
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