Selling Milsurps

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revilo

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I've got a few milsurps to sell, and I wanted to get your opinions. What kind of ad is more appealing to you? The long winded yarn about not wanting to sell but being desperate to get the dog it's operation and kid needs braces and blah blah wah wah that is overpriced and gets BTT'ed to death? Or a straightforward description and price? General pic with garbage, other guns and socks in the photo? Or detailed photo montage? Should the seller offer full disclosure if it's a restored bubba, or does caveat emptor reign supreme? I'm debating what kind of ad to craft for my upcoming sales and, well, the customer is always right :redface:

Discuss :)
 
Honesty - ya that's good if you want to hang around for a while.

Full Disclosure - ditto.

Lots of pics with an accurate description - priceless.

Sob story that your girlfriend's cat needs a hysterectomy - worthless.
 
Good pictures and short, competent, honest info with the possibility of follow up info via PM is the best way to go IMO.
Despite buying on the internet or maybe because of it I want to see the firearm that you are selling.
I don't like the idea "give me your email and I will send you the pictures" kind of sale.
 
And no beating around the bush.

For example:

Better to day "Bore roughly 25% wear"

Than "bore shows some evidence of having been fired; wear on rifling reminiscent of wheel tracks on that ancient roman road I saw when I visited Italy in 1993."
 
"Surface rust" - as opposed to subsurface rust?
"Strong rifling, but dark". (Corrosion end to end).
"Rearsenaled" - Was it originally arsenaled?
"Forced matched" - Renumbered?

Just go with a detailed accurate description. Mention the warts. Ask a reasonable price. You don't have to give it away, but any serious potential buyer is going to know what it is worth. You can start a bit high, might still sell. "Did I pay too much?" "You might have bought it a bit early". Good stuff isn't going to lose value in the long run.
Omit drivel.
An honest gun, at a reasonable price, will sell.

How is the cat recovering from her hysterectomy, by the way?
 
These are really good guidelines.

I was never too happy with the NRA system: so much depended on appearance and not if it were functional or accurate, this last being my own chief criterion.

And there was no classification for "NRA Crud but shoots 1.5MOA". This seems to fit too many of mine.

What will the hamster be when the hormone treatments are finished?
 
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It's o.k. to show your toes in the picture, as long as the gun is shown in clear focus with some shots close enough to reveal markings and at least one far enough to show the whole gun in a single frame.
 
Thing that cracks me up is the guys who want a synthetic/laminated stock for a Kar98k, so they trash the original TEGO stock, which was better than any modern goop, even if it was a bit heavy.

And the guys who don't want a cruddy old .303 because they want something 'more reliable'.

How is the hamster doing? Guess we have to see the ad!
 
John, I understand the utter consternation, but it is likely that the poor man has been under intolerable stress and just isn't thinking clearly.

It is our task to be supportive in such a situation, just for the sake of the friendship, even if we do not agree with our friend's somewhat-irrational state of mind.

He will come out of it when he realizes what an awful hole there will be in his life should be divest himself of anything more than a rusty scabbard or a corroded sling buckle, he will come to his senses and we all will have our friend back with us once again, safe and sound.

Then we all can take up a collection to help get the pussycat her hysterectomy and the ###-change for the hamster.

This is how it is when one has true friends.

And we'll be here for you, too, John, should the star of evil ever shine over your own life!
 
About $75 at the local vet. Seventy-five bucks is cheap to make a pussy happy, I would think.

I'm more concerned about the poor hamster, needing that series of hormone shots and then the operations.

Gender-identity and gender-reassignment issues are quite troubling enough in humans, but think of what that poor little creature must be going through emotionally, knowing that not only is it gender-challenged, but it isn't even human!

Even if the hormones and the operations are successful, the poor little thing is going to require psychiatric counselling for years afterwards.

Fortunately for us, Medicare DOES cover psychiatric sessions and drugs, even though it does nothing for the remainder of the course of treatment.
 
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