Condition dictates Price

You don’t like the price attached to a gun, make an offer, you don’t like the answer to your offer, move along, not your gun not your price! As simple as that! What is more frustrating that prices, is when people ask questions or pictures for the gun for sale and never get back to you even if it is only to say “thank you, I got it”….
 
price - value - worth - I just read on CGN some auction buyer paid $1330 for 900 plus large rifle primers - so likely needs to add taxes, auctioneer premiums, shipping on top of that - in my mind, does not make the things "worth" nearly $2.00 each - but is what someone paid for them - apparently. So "price" is pretty much what that "one" guy, with the bucks, was willing to pay - does not really mean much for the ones that I have, unless he wants more, at that price, and he and I can connect to each other ...

Is my view that "price" for about anything - trucks, groceries, ammo, guns - is set by the BUYER who PAYS - talk is cheap. Very few things "HAVE" to be purchased - almost always an alternative - or do without.
 
Intersection of two lines. What a buyer will pay and how much a seller cares if he sells it or not.
 
pathfinder76 said:
These aren’t professional retail outlets. Let them price how they want. Efficient markets take care of themselves.
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Same could be said about efficient EE ads..

If the item is priced fair & according to actual value (not inflated/perceived value), condition and demand it will sell….And quickly..

Those ads are usually the ones that have been edited to “Please Remove” and “Sold/SPF” In the subject line after a day or less.

Yet, If someone has to cycle their ad multiple times, those previously mentioned tangibles above should be re-thought and corrected if they are at all serious about selling said item.

If I see an ad cycled 3-4x’s, I won’t even bother re-visiting it, even if it’s something I’m seriously interested in.

With those “BTT’s” and over the years of being on here it has taught me that someone has already likely made an offer and been declined and/or the seller is absolutely firm on their price. Which is totally understandable and fair.


As others have stated I just tend move on after the 3-4 cycle..
 
I still get a laugh out of Sydney trying to sell that dielectric wrench, he’s been bumping that ad for years lol
 
The things too to consider is that one day you will find some one that wants what you have for sale for the price that you are asking cause the timing is good!
 
I’m with DGY on this. It seems to me that the EE is quirky. Sometimes well priced items fall off the first page or two pretty quick. Once they’ve been bumped a time or two human psychology kicks in and we sit on our hands.
I’m my experience a rifle sells quickly or sits until someone who is seriously looking does a search.
 
struff55 said:
It is very apparent on EE judging from the price of vintage rifles that sellers have no idea how condition effects price .
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And many do not realize how important quality pictures need to be displayed in the ad... not "ask for pictures"
 
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