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It never ceases to amaze me what prices some people pay in auctions. here is a recent example. Sold on EBay for $1,100.00, 30" Remington SP 10 barrel in good but used condition. I have seen several sell on EBay for $450-550.00. But this one went crazy. A complete guns just sold on GunBroker for$1125.00 and it had both the regular barrel, a slug barrel and scope. If I was the seller I wold be a very happy person. If I was the buyer and found out that I just paid more for a single barrel than an entire gun cold be bought for then I might be a little mad at myself.
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I've been looking for some guns at auctions lately and everything is just going sky high.
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I have noticed the same thing in the UK auctions i have been bidding in.
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This 26" barreled, 20 ga. Sterlingworth, extractor gun, recently sold on GB for $2430. With shipping and 7% tax it becomes $2643. I was made aware of it through a post by a friend on another forum. These prices are going crazy. It may be getting time to unload a few that I never shoot anymore.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Amazing what the small bore Fox Sterlys are bringing these days, while they can't give away the 12 bores.
That said, it only takes 2 to do the Tango. If two are bidding and both really want something bad enough bidding can pass real value pretty quick. That said who knows what real value is these days. I will be paying close attention moving forward.
foxes rule
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I would be curious to see if the seller actually got paid. I just had a high bidder on a watch bid up the auction at the last minute, and then refuse to complete the transaction after winning.
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It just takes two people wanting the same thing
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On items like this I keep checking to see if it gets resisted. Sometimes it is a non paying bidder, sometimes a bidder who demands a full refund for some real or imagined reason and sometimes it is a shill bidder. When every I see the second bidder has a very low number of feedbacks or worse none at all I approach with caution. Don’t let a shill bidder run the price up. Set your limits and walk away above that. There will always be another one along soon enough.
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On a positive note, inflation makes your trade-ins worth a lot...Geo
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On items like this I keep checking to see if it gets resisted. Sometimes it is a non paying bidder, sometimes a bidder who demands a full refund for some real or imagined reason and sometimes it is a shill bidder. When every I see the second bidder has a very low number of feedbacks or worse none at all I approach with caution. Don’t let a shill bidder run the price up. Set your limits and walk away above that. There will always be another one along soon enough. I was the other bidder on that gun. This newly registered buyer with no rating showed up with about 4 hours left and started bidding. We were the only two bidding and he drove me up from $1700 to $2400, and I quit. Several years ago, I bought a late production Savage Sterlingworth 16 at Jaquas which had the original Hardware Store hangtag and literally looked unfired. It also had an amazing stock (probably a leftover inventory piece) which Walt Snyder said in a post was the nicest stock he had ever seen on a Sterlingworth. Being an idiot, I sold it a few years ago. Lately I have been trying to accumulate a set of working grade classic double smallbores in nice original shape. The Stirlingworth is being a problem. I only bid as much as I did on this one since I had lost out on a much nicer one about an hour before that was really correct and finally pushed almost $3000. This gun was the fallback, and I lost it too. The smallbores are really escalating. I know because I have been trying to buy several recently.
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