I'm aware of that, just commenting on some of the previous post's that state a "used" SKS should only be listed for 100 to 150 on the EE. AFAIC that is kinda light. If anybody wishes to argue that point, I encourage them to list almost any SKS, but especially a Russian one, on the EE for $125. They can feel free to list as many as they want at that price because I know they'll get snapped up as quickly as they are posted. I'd even buy a couple myself.
Why is your SKS is worth SO much??
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I'm aware of that, just commenting on some of the previous post's that state a "used" SKS should only be listed for 100 to 150 on the EE. AFAIC that is kinda light. If anybody wishes to argue that point, I encourage them to list almost any SKS, but especially a Russian one, on the EE for $125. They can feel free to list as many as they want at that price because I know they'll get snapped up as quickly as they are posted. I'd even buy a couple myself.
Unless you are a professional gunsmith I'm not going to pay you for taking apart a rifle and cleaning it, not even a rifle as simple as an SKS. The idea of charging a premium for a gun because you cleaned it is idiocy. I'd rather pay LESS and know that any nicks and scratches are there because I put them there.
What next? charge a premium for test firing?
What next? charge a premium for test firing?
Exactly. If someone is looking for a nice russian sks in great shape for under $150, good luck. There are some on the EE asking too much and are potential buyers that are lowballers. In the end, everything evens out. If you don't like the EE, don't buy/sell.
Due to the use of corrosive ammo in CZ858/SKS I won't buy one on the EE unless I can inspect it. Can't tell how someone has taken care of it. I completely disassembled mine for my local buyer and I got what I was asking... What I had was better than what the local gun shop had in stock.
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I sold my Russian 1950 Tula SKS last year for $210 shipped on the EE
I was honest, I said I shot the #### out of it and cleaned it meticulously.
I paid $250 after taxes, got a lot of fun out of it, shot it a lot, enjoyed it and sold it to someone for a fair price for a second hand used gun.
I was honest, I said I shot the #### out of it and cleaned it meticulously.
I paid $250 after taxes, got a lot of fun out of it, shot it a lot, enjoyed it and sold it to someone for a fair price for a second hand used gun.
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That's fair enough. I think most peoples' issues are not so much a good used rifle for a little less than retailer (since the value is not going to depreciate down to zero), as those that have had nothing added and are selling for as much as retailers or more even when you count in shipping; or those that have been tacticooled and are going for as much as new + parts.
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Wow 85 posts and still nobody can tell me WHY your SKS is worth SO much.
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Damm another hundred and you could have had a M305
Because they are nicer than the ones that are commonly available from retailers today. Pretty sure that has been mentioned more than a couple of times in this thread already. You must've missed it.
Shippers buy them for around $100 bucks a pop then sell them for $150 to stores, then the store can sell them for $200-250 for their profit, minus the trucking costs which are not much when they order such large shipments.
Cheapest I've seen them in stores was $200.00 at wholesale sports (where I got mine, mint condition, never fired), an the most expensive was in my local GOUGING oil town for $270.00, on average they go for $250 at mom & pop shops in small towns. Sadly wholesale sells their SKS right out of the crate, an you usually don't get your pick (no fun), I got my pick sorta, the guy picked a bunch an I chose one based on the markings (know your markings) which showed it was new/un-furbished. Naturally I had to clean the cosmoline off myself. Make sure that when you buy it that it comes with the "kit" which is
Oil bottle
Oil Bottle pouch
1 to 2 ammo pouches
Cleaning kit for rifle butt
Sling
Manual/which can be downloaded online in pdf format, so no biggie.
Online dealers are the WORST way to buy a surplus firearm period! You do not know what you are getting until you get it and the extra cost of shipping makes it a bad idea. Unless it's a rare model or hard to find type of thing like say a sniper variant Mosin Nagant, don't buy online. Example: Many SVT-40 buyers got a rifle that had the magazine literally cut in half, but still had the full sized magazine spring thus making it a total disaster to load.
Gun shows are the cheapest place you'll find them, an you get your pick of the litter. Usually they are after all the aftermarket accessories & parts sales that go with it, like firing pin upgrades, Tapco mags, stocks, etc. Once you are done upgrading/modernizing a SKS it can reach upwards of $1200.00. Don't worry, most of those bits can be put on other rifles (eg, red dots, lights, etc)
So Russia is liquidating them for around $70 each. However one should always ask, how much these things would cost if they were made NEW an being sold at the time they were made in a time of peace in a capitalist system with patents n stuff, probably for around $1K plus easy.
In fact the SKS is the primary reason I went out an got my PAL, I was planning to do it anyway after the long gun registry was toast but it was the SKS that really got me in gear, took 4 months from start to finish. Also a heads up for AHEA, never give your money to those crooks at those safety course businesses.
Remember, Sergei Siminov never made a penny off his work, neither did Mikail an his AK-47. How funny that all the commie haters like myself love the DIRT CHEAP, HIGH QUALITY firearms & ammo being sold in the millions of tons by Motha-Russia.
I love SKS, I want to buy 100 of them. If only the SVT-40 had so much abundant surplus ammo & aftermarket accessories/parts to play with. As a farmer I love to "tinker" with things an a cheap SKS is a good firearm to do so, I would never dare experiment with say a $2K plus rifle like an AR-15
Cheapest I've seen them in stores was $200.00 at wholesale sports (where I got mine, mint condition, never fired), an the most expensive was in my local GOUGING oil town for $270.00, on average they go for $250 at mom & pop shops in small towns. Sadly wholesale sells their SKS right out of the crate, an you usually don't get your pick (no fun), I got my pick sorta, the guy picked a bunch an I chose one based on the markings (know your markings) which showed it was new/un-furbished. Naturally I had to clean the cosmoline off myself. Make sure that when you buy it that it comes with the "kit" which is
Oil bottle
Oil Bottle pouch
1 to 2 ammo pouches
Cleaning kit for rifle butt
Sling
Manual/which can be downloaded online in pdf format, so no biggie.
Online dealers are the WORST way to buy a surplus firearm period! You do not know what you are getting until you get it and the extra cost of shipping makes it a bad idea. Unless it's a rare model or hard to find type of thing like say a sniper variant Mosin Nagant, don't buy online. Example: Many SVT-40 buyers got a rifle that had the magazine literally cut in half, but still had the full sized magazine spring thus making it a total disaster to load.
Gun shows are the cheapest place you'll find them, an you get your pick of the litter. Usually they are after all the aftermarket accessories & parts sales that go with it, like firing pin upgrades, Tapco mags, stocks, etc. Once you are done upgrading/modernizing a SKS it can reach upwards of $1200.00. Don't worry, most of those bits can be put on other rifles (eg, red dots, lights, etc)
So Russia is liquidating them for around $70 each. However one should always ask, how much these things would cost if they were made NEW an being sold at the time they were made in a time of peace in a capitalist system with patents n stuff, probably for around $1K plus easy.
In fact the SKS is the primary reason I went out an got my PAL, I was planning to do it anyway after the long gun registry was toast but it was the SKS that really got me in gear, took 4 months from start to finish. Also a heads up for AHEA, never give your money to those crooks at those safety course businesses.
Remember, Sergei Siminov never made a penny off his work, neither did Mikail an his AK-47. How funny that all the commie haters like myself love the DIRT CHEAP, HIGH QUALITY firearms & ammo being sold in the millions of tons by Motha-Russia.
I love SKS, I want to buy 100 of them. If only the SVT-40 had so much abundant surplus ammo & aftermarket accessories/parts to play with. As a farmer I love to "tinker" with things an a cheap SKS is a good firearm to do so, I would never dare experiment with say a $2K plus rifle like an AR-15
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I must be going to the wrong gun shows beacause I find the prices are over inflated there too. I was at a show last weekend and saw a regular Tula for $375... Not to mention the Enfields, one table had sporters for $100-$150 and the next table had the same quality Enfields for double that...
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I bought mine at Lebaron for $187.....
Wow, what a rip off, seriously guns are like cell phones, they give the cell phone away for free practically then make money on the "service plan". What you should look for at a gun show is a large wall of "parts" like Tapco mags, stock, etc an a crate of rifles on the side. The cheapest Russian SKS I saw sold (all mint 1950's, made then stored by the factory) for $125.00 IF you bought a box of Norinco non-corrosive ammo for the standard $250 for 1440 round crate. Then of course you would buy all those do-dads an that's where they made their money. They were selling Tapco 5/20 mags for $35.00 each, Tapco stocks for $120.00, etc.
Personally I find that most businesses nowadays do TERRIBLE business strategies, they price their #### out of the market an the merchandise just sits there collecting dust.
our family ran a store at the trailer park we owned, we would sell home-made sandwiches for $3.50, we made 0.50 profit per sandwich, but we got people/oil workers coming through our doors so they bought other stuff. That store made $50K a month easy.
I had to move so many damn pallets of STUFF per week that a massive pile of empty pallets was outside in the alley, luckily the kids & red necks from the park would snatch them all up to make tree forts and use em for campfire lumber, or sidewalks. Nowadays the new owners of the store sell sandwiches for $5 bucks an I doubt they clear $15K a month simply based on how many empty pallets I see outside every day (which is 1).
The store is run by women, an women hate hard labor, who wants to be restocking shelves all the time an unloading delivery trucks every day.......MEN that's who,
By the pound people, by the pound!
$179 here, 1952, Russian
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Hey one thing we are forgetting is that is it Russian or Chinese, or other?
An anything bought on the East coast is cheaper because that's where it all gets "shipped", you have to pay extra for the trucking if you live in AB, SK, MB, NWT, Nunavut.
Anyone know if they ship these in to Vancouver's ports?
An anything bought on the East coast is cheaper because that's where it all gets "shipped", you have to pay extra for the trucking if you live in AB, SK, MB, NWT, Nunavut.
Anyone know if they ship these in to Vancouver's ports?
When it comes down to it, the people who "don't get it", simply don't grasp the idea that people place different values on things. Frankly, you may as well stand up and proclaim yourself mentally challenged if that's a foreign concept. Collectors appreciate the rarity of certain variants and conditions that a shooter might not. Not hard 'to get'. I might diaagree with their valuation of an SKS, but I can at least understand they see something in it that I don't appreciate or value the same way. If they can't sell it they will be forced to keep it or meet market expectations. If they do sell it, well then they don't look so stupid.
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FYI: I will be selling the Girlfriends 'PRADA' Version SKS on the EE in the following days. $12,879.00 + Shipping.
LMAO is that thing for real.... wow, so the devil wears Prada AND shoots SKS's
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