- Location
- Ontario
Thanks for the insight. The bereaved widow is "lucky" to get $500 for the rifle you'll sell for $1,000. 100 per cent profit.When buying guns from people who need to get rid of them in a hurry, fair market value is not, the highest price found online, what a friend thinks it should sell for (yet never willing to pay that themselves) EE, or the price that kind of gun has on it on a gun show table (that has been there for the last decade).
Gun stores have no shortage of guns to bring in, so when someone brings in a gun they do not want or need anymore, the store should not be expected to pay top dollar on a gun owner does not even want. If you were to take your old car to the local dealership for them to buy off of you, don't expect Kelly Blue Book pricing. You are lucky with half.
This thread is a good reminder to make provisions how you want your firearms disposed of. Otherwise a dealer will pay your family members half of what he believes he can sell the guns for and say they are "lucky." Unlucky ones will get a lot less.




















































