A fantastic mutually beneficial transaction
I recently completed One of the best, mutually beneficial, transaction that I’ve ever been involved in on swapping and selling! It went so well but I thought I’d share my experience with my fellow forum members.
A couple weeks back I was on an out-of-state trip. as is my practice if I happen to drive past a local gun store I stopped in to see what they had. Much to my surprise stuffed on the shelf in the back of the shop was a box of lube/sizer dies and top punches. 10 dies and 10 top punches. Now I’m not gonna tell you what I paid for these dies and top punches but I will say that I’ve seen an individual Lyman lubesizer die listed on flea bay for more money then this whole box of dies and top punches. There was however one little problem. These were not Lyman or RCBS dies. They were all seaco sizer dies and punches. For those of you that don’t know Seaco dies are not interchangeable with Lyman dies. Seaco dies are harder to find and typically more expensive than Lyman and RCBS dies. I currently have a Lyman 45 sizer and dies. I did however have a plan. That plan was to Either find a seaco lube sizer for sale or, Ideally, find someone willing to trade a Lyman 450 or 4500 for My newly acquired Seaco sizer dies and top punches.
I guess I should say a couple of things about my mindset when it comes to selling or trading anything firearms or reloading related. Reloading and Shooting is a hobby of mine I do it because I enjoy it. if I sell something or trade something I don’t do it for a profit. If I sell something related to my hobbies is done for Only a few reasons. I will sell an item because I’ve had it for a while, I don’t use it, I don’t plan on using it, and possibly someone else could benefit from it. or I sell an item because I’m really strapped for cash and I need the money to keep the lights on or food on the table or something like that or to fund another purchase. As was the case in this instance . I can count the times on one hand that I bought or sold something on fleabag and I’ve never use sites like gun broker. If I see an ad for something for sale and hthe first line starts out with vintage, hard to find, rare item, etc. I am mediately put one hand on my wallet any other hand on my backside. These are the reasons why I like swapping and selling and practically exclusively use this sub form when I’m trying to either buy or sell an item.
Anyway enough of my mindset back to my story. I list my sizer dies on swapping and selling with my intent to buy or trade. After about a day or so I received a couple of offers and without going into specifics they just didn’t seem right. I don’t like to do business solely with text messages if face-to-face is not a viable option I like to at least talk to someone on the phone. Call me old school or whatever but I just think it gives me a better feeling of who I’m doing business with when I at least get a chance to talk to them. After my items were listed for a couple of days I was finally contacted by fellow former member Firebyprolong. After a text message at two we decided it was best that we speak to each other on the phone. (I like where this is going already) if it took a five minute conversation that was a lot and both of us knew this this deal was going to be worked out. The whole process kind of reminded me of two farmers making a trade a couple hundred years ago. You know farmer “A” has a pig and farmer “B” has a cow. Farmer “A” needs a cow and farmer “B” needs a pig so they trade. Everybody’s happy with what they got and that’s the way it should be. That’s exactly what happened between Firebyprolong and myself. What the actual deal consisted of is not important! Both parties are extremely happy with the way things worked out. Not only did I complete a successful transaction but more importantly i made a new friend. Firebyprolong is someone I would not hesitate to do business with in the future . Both of us have expressed interest in keeping the lines of communication open between us in the future . And that my fellow forum members is the Epitome of what a great transaction on swapping and selling is all about.
