Graham M wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 8:21 pm
Don't take them to a dealer. Friend of mine has just lost his wife and has decided to give up shooting and sell all his stuff.
Took 6 rifles worth between £600 - £1000 each to a dealer and was offered £500 for the lot.
Why on earth he didn't tell him to get stuffed is beyond me, as he could have taken them to the club and asked for a decent price each, and maybe only sold 2 of them, for more money than he got from that dealer.
I know dealers have to make money, but he could have been a little more subtle when offering a pittance for some nice rifles.
The trouble is sales of guns has dropped by 30% at least .
I have had 5 calls in the last4 weeks with guns fron people giving up .
Auction houses are rammed and a high percentage is going abroad .
The values are just not there .
4 working shotguns cut up last week probably the same next week .
I know of one RFD who last year was sitting on £1M of new and used stock. They are still in business and long May they continue to do so.
Well he is either lucky rich or foolish
As an example i wanted 2 shotguns from the importer was told 4 was a minimum order i offered to buy 4 but if the new model came out they refubded any unsold to the discounted price .Obviously they declined 3 months later new model and 35% taken off the trade price of old stock . Margin was less than 15% to begin with .
A lot of this uncertainty is due to the scaremongering about using steel through old side-by-side guns. These guns are now considered worthless and not even worth scrapping.
I have a couple of lovely old shotguns that I couldn't sell for anything more than £20 even though they were over £400 when I bought them S/H many years ago.
Thanks BASC
Never argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Sorry to hear about Dodgy Rog.. he was very good to me for various items and he visited me a couple of times, with his wife, on his way down to Bisley.. he did provide me with a load of used 7x57 cartridge cases when I then bought a 7x57 rifle.. my best wishes to Dodgy...
