Savage 24v value

[BigUglyMan]

Ok, so, to paraphrase: Blue Book is bad because it's based on the US Market which is vastly different from ours. I'll buy that, but what's a good way to assess values in Canada?

I'm bored with "that's bad" takes without offering an actual alternative. It's super easy to say something is bad, it doesn't answer anyone's question or help further the conversation.

IMHO Blue Book isn't a bad place to start a conversation about pricing. Ultimately, it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Understanding values is hard when you're buying or selling used in Canada, and newbies like me come here for help and get the evergreen comment "Blue Book Sucks" which so unbelieveably unhelpful and uninteresting it's hardly worth the time to type it!

It's probably not worth my time to keep calling people out on it either though, but I just want to see helpful discussions instead of drive-by smearings.

You seem to have misread. I didn't even intimate that the Blue Book "sucks". What I said was that it was based on an entirely different market than ours. Looking at it, or GunsAmerica, for values on our side of the border is of limited utility. This is similar to looking at the Holt's online auction catalogue and trying to compare their estimated sale prices to what they gun would be worth here. What can be had for a couple of hundred Pounds over there would be well over a grand here. You'd be better served to look at the EE at the asking prices and estimate from there than to consult a foreign sale resource.