doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Auction prices.

I understand the auction issues. I needed a New model Ruger Red Label 20 gauge for my collection. Problem is they only made 250 in total so I ended up having someone bid up one I found until I paid about a grand more than I wanted to pay. I just did it because they are none to be bought and in the end it was the going rate. I bought a like new in the box Red Label 30" gun for what I thought was too much only to watch two much more used and abused guns sell for a grand more each in the next week. People have money and will run up prices. I just need to walk away at some point because a few of these prices are just stupid. Like a barrel that is well used selling for almost as much as a much better looking compete gun. Good luck in your small bore hunt. I looked a long time before i found a 16 & 20 Sterlingworth with 30" barrels. Must have come across 500 20's with 26" barrels, 100 with 28" barrels and five 30" barreled guns. First one that was decent and not priced like it was solid gold came home with me.

Non-paying bidders are getting worse on Ebay and horrible on Gunbroker. One guy on Gunbroker actually told me "walmart takes returns. it's how things are, get used to it." Well, auctions aren't Walmart. Auction bids are contracts. And, it's not always people with NR or few feedbacks, at least on gunbroker. I've got one right now I'm sure I'll have to relist and this guy has several hundred feedbacks, virtually all A+'s but five for non-payment. Been a week and no response.

And Gunbroker is such a pain to get a listing fee credit, takes about a month for their process, and I don't think even then I've ever been reimbursed so I just relist and chalk it up as a loss.

The real problem is the number of people who think this is a perfectly fine way to behave.

Roger