Re: Giving up shooting
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:16 am
Well he is either lucky rich or foolishTallguy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 10:22 pmI 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.Dellboy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 3:23 pmThe trouble is sales of guns has dropped by 30% at least .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.
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 .
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 .