marstar 70,000/10,000 SKS, eta aug 20th, price $189 new military.

Woodbeef said:
Price is actually irrelavent. It's availabilty that is the bigggest point.
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its been awhile since i opened my ecocnomic book but basic economic principles states that price is related to availability.

thats why the east german , north korean and north vietnamese SKS sells for way over US$1400 . now how many average joe can afford that .
 
curtton said:
its been awhile since i opened my ecocnomic book but basic economic principles states that price is related to availability.

thats why the east german , north korean and north vietnamese SKS sells for way over US$1400 . now how many average joe can afford that .
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If one wants it bad enough,they will find a way to get it.
 
POCKETFISHERMAN;
These rifles are coming from a very unstable and recently "liberated" part of the world.

The work area is dangerous, our people work under the protection of government security 24/7....

For diversion the area offers, AIDS, HepA, B & C, and almost every tropical affliction one can think of.... ALL food and water has to be "imported"....

In short you will not find this country listed your Michelin Guide....
John
 
FYI , i just checked gunbroker.com , one of the bigger gun auction online site and in the last 3 months , there is no listing for as east german , not one north vietnamese , only one north korean and that sold $2000. oooouch !

they were never imported into the US , they were brought back as war souvenier .
 
curtton said:
its been awhile since i opened my ecocnomic book but basic economic principles states that price is related to availability.

thats why the east german , north korean and north vietnamese SKS sells for way over US$1400 . now how many average joe can afford that .
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Not only is price related to availability, but price is, essentially, a function of availability and demand.

For example, if you have a firearm (or anything else for that matter) that is not readily available, but the demand for this item is extremely low, the price will not be very high (relatively speaking). On the other hand, if you have an item that is not readily available, but there is a high demand, the price will bee very high.

The legal ownership of F/A firearms in Canada and the U.S. illustrates both examples. Fully functional automatic firearms are not readily available in Canada, but the number of citizens who can own them is also very small, and since they cannot be transferred to anyone who does not have their 12.2 license, so both availability and demand are low. In the U.S., however, there are also very few legally registered F/A firearms, but they can be transferred to anyone with their FFL, so the demand is much higher than here in Canada. This gives us the situation where an F/A firearm that would cost $6000 here in Canada, would be over $24000 in the U.S..
 
curtton said:
its been awhile since i opened my ecocnomic book but basic economic principles states that price is related to availability.
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Generally, except when demand is perfectly inelastic. This happens when substitutes are relatively unavailable and consumers are willing to pay any price.
 
johnone said:
POCKETFISHERMAN;
These rifles are coming from a very unstable and recently "liberated" part of the world.

The work area is dangerous, our people work under the protection of government security 24/7....

For diversion the area offers, AIDS, HepA, B & C, and almost every tropical affliction one can think of.... ALL food and water has to be "imported"....

In short you will not find this country listed your Michelin Guide....
John
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John,

Sounds africa-ish to me.

I'm sure you've got a few good stories about gun purchases and sales.

NS
 
Thanks for the info John, good luck! I look foward to sending you more $ in the very near future. By the sounds of your description you may want to offer a "bundle price" that is one rifle and a bottle of Purel to clean off the rifle.

Cheers,

Pocket

johnone said:
POCKETFISHERMAN;
These rifles are coming from a very unstable and recently "liberated" part of the world.

The work area is dangerous, our people work under the protection of government security 24/7....

For diversion the area offers, AIDS, HepA, B & C, and almost every tropical affliction one can think of.... ALL food and water has to be "imported"....

In short you will not find this country listed your Michelin Guide....
John
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johnone said:
POCKETFISHERMAN;
These rifles are coming from a very unstable and recently "liberated" part of the world.

The work area is dangerous, our people work under the protection of government security 24/7....

For diversion the area offers, AIDS, HepA, B & C, and almost every tropical affliction one can think of.... ALL food and water has to be "imported"....

In short you will not find this country listed your Michelin Guide....
John
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Cool info, almost sounds like Iraq.
So what continent?
 
Andy said:
There's already a glut of Russian SKS's in Canada. This could get a few more folks shooting SKS's, but will bring the price down for sure. All this assumes a steady supply of milsurp 7.62x39. A few years ago a new Norinco was moving along at a good pace for $149. If the 70,000 all end up in Canada (doubtful) the price point would have to be just over $100 IMO, more for "special" models. I'm not talking the Yugo 59/66 which is a pig (the M59 is nice), I mean something that's unusual such as an Albanian.
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Where did you find the own price elasticity of demand for SKS rifles?
 
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