Do you ever see a deal that you don't think you should pass up, but then you do, and then regret it severely? That happened to me today...$275 for a 5-digit Ruger Blackhawk in .41 Rem. Mag....I'll cry myself to sleep tonight.
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Do you ever see a deal that you don't think you should pass up, but then you do, and then regret it severely? That happened to me today...$275 for a 5-digit Ruger Blackhawk in .41 Rem. Mag....I'll cry myself to sleep tonight.
Selmerfan
I was gun shopping with gun money burning a hole in my pocket. A lady walked into the gunshop I was in and was trying to sell a Rugar P85 or 87. It looked bran new, still in the box with paperwork and reciept and everything. The guy would only go 150 for it and she said she wanted at least 200. He wouldn't budge so she left. I started to go out the door after her but hesitated and by the time I went out she was driving away. I don't really care for that model Rugar and I know they had some issues but it probubly would have been a good gun for the wife being 9mm. I kicked myself for a coupl weeks for not jumping on it.
Aim small, miss small!
ooooooohhhh you betcha !!! .... but I tell my self " a deal is not a deal if I can't afford it ! " ..... ( heck of a way to try and justify it ! ) ...then when I get home and shut the door and cry my self to sleep ..Waaaaa !
Usually I get that feeling when I open the Swapping and Selling forum here and see something that I really want and at a great price, and someone just grabbed it. Same type of feeling I think...
yep same type of feeling especially when you think about it over a cup of coffee or should I say simply pouring a cup of coffee around here as it only takes about a minute sometimes for something to be considered too late. I do love this forum and people around here are fast, really fast.Originally Posted by ghh3rd
What were you thinking, man? Dang. Don't feel too bad. I was in Oklahoma last year and was headed to the Wannamaker (ck sp) show and had some time to kill. Stopped in a pawn shop and found a 94 in 30-30 that I didn't need since I had one, but it was a good deal. Also there, was a Nylon 66, another I didn't need, but one I have wanted since I can remember from back in the '60's and never had. IIRC, it was about $150, maybe $175. I looked and looked and finally walked out without it. Got down the road and thought about turning around to go back and get it, but decided not to.
Got to the show and found they sell for at least twice what that one was going for, and some for more than that. Never did go back to see if it was still there and been trying to figure out how best to kick my own butt.
Now I have two 94 30-30's I've never even shot and still no Nylon 66.
We all have deals we have passed up but I really screwed up one time that I still have hart burn over some thirty years after the fact. I had the chance to buy an original Sharps 1874 rifle in near new condition for $300. It had fancy wood Hartford model in 44-77 SBN. I passed it up due to not knowing where I could get ammo for it. Today that rifle would sell for the price of a new car.
Passing up a deal can be as bad as buyers or sellers remorse. Many years ago I bought a Ruger GP100 .357, absolutely loved that gun but so did a friend of mine and he bugged me constantly to sell it to him. One day at work in a weaker moment I sold it to him for 225, I bought it for 200, I beat myself up all day over that sale. The next night he came into work with his tail between his legs because his wife was irate that he spent the money and wanted me to buy it back for 175 so she would shut up. Needless to say I about ripped the pocket off my britches trying to get the money out.
Two weeks ago I passed up a killer deal on a Remington 1100 Trap.
Oh boy! You guys will be going some to beat this one...
A gun posted a Savage 23 in .25-20 on the Canadian website "Canadian Gunutz' for $160 CAD. Now it did need some TLC but the bore was good and I thought 'I should really buy that" as I was looking for a cast bullet project rifle to pass the winter. Needless to say that by the time I made up my mind it was long gone.
My usual philosphy is that gun deals are like buses "there is another one along in 15 minutes" and sure enough about two weeks later, on the same website I bought a Savage 23C in .32-20 for more money but in better shape.
Richard
Long ago I learned to just buy it and get it over with . Sometimes another deal comes down the road right away and sometimes they don't . You do tend to end up with more guns and projects than you can use but what are you gonna do in retirement ....... shoot golf ?
It was the early eighties and a friend stopped by the house telling me about a very nice lever action rifle at a garage sale . Not that I could afford it being recently laid off I went to look anyway . A like new Marlin 1895 with a box of ammo for a hundred and a quarter and I couldn't muster the cash . After learning my lessons about turning down deals when they showed themselves for a clear shot , the ghost of deals past showed up . At a show , a guy has a 1895 with a waterlogged looking old box on the table .... rifle looked like it had leprosy and he wasn't trading for anything , cash was the only way . Something about this rifle was calling to me and I didn't ignore it ...... three hundred silver bullets later the scroungy looking rifle and box was with me .
As it turned out the rifle was brand new , it had been sitting in a hardware store that had closed in the seventies and the crud on the rifle was shipping oil that had congealed to make an ugly but easy to clean mess . There is a way to beat the coulda-shouldas ........ buy 'em !
Jack
That was a good deal, yep. Several years ago I passed up a 5 1/2" Accusport 45 Bisley with both cylinders for $400 out the door. Just didn't have the cash.
There's a huge difference between "Couldn't" and "Coulda". If you truly can't afford it, it doesn't fall into the "kick my own butt for passing it up" category.
I've seen dozens of incredible deals - and merely shrugged because they were far beyond what I could manage at the time. No kicking, no regrets.
On the other hand, I noticed a newspaper ad once that offered a Marlin .22 for $65 - but the rifle pictured and labeled in the ad was a model 336. I drove an hour through a monsoon thunderstorm - to find a long line of guys at the gun counter. They honored that ad for that afternoon only, and only with the guns on hand.
I sold that 336 a few years later, unfired in the box. But I made a few bucks on it!
OK, guys, I gotta ask -- when you go to castboolits.com, which is the first board you open up? For Sale??? Do you check it again bafore you log off???
Back in the late eighties, I knew a class III dealer friend of mine from high school, that had a HK model 53 smg. It was $1,500, but didn't want a little .223, wanted a 308 gun (model 51--never got!)so passed on it. Two weeks later, thought, ammo was cheap so I would buy it. Had been sold 3 days before. Could have sold it a couple of years ago for $18,000. Also a French Peauteux (sp?) 25mm and 200 rnds of ammo for $2,500 (worth about $30, 000 now) and a barret 50 cal for $1,600 (now about $8,000). Few other CIII things that would be worth $$$ now, but didn't have the $$ to buy the stuff.
Darn - why in the world did you start this thread? Now I remember all those that got away and start crying all over AGAIN!!
Swappin and sellin is my home page on the home computer, and has a dedicated "button" on the iphone. While I work I don't take coffee/smoke breaks, I take cast boolits breaks with the phone if there's reception for it. And I STILL miss out on stuff.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Hmmm...? Does it have to be a gun? Way back in 1973 about the time I was graduating high school I worked baling hay for Pap Whittaker. He mentioned he had an old car in his garage he'd sell me for $200. I took a look at it..was a 1956 or '57 Chevy Belair with the ugliest green tinted windows I'd ever seen. (factory tint because it had air cond.!!) And it had 1240 miles on the speedometer. (big sighhhh...) I decided I didn't want "that old Chevy"...sob...and passed on the deal. Waaaaaggghhhhh! Audie..the dumb Oldfart.
2 Years ago at a local gun show I found a 10 gauge Pedersoli double barrel percussion shotgun. (unfired) The dealer was asking $450.00. I had just bought a used .62 cal. fullstock hawken 2 weeks earlier, If I came home with another gun I would have been divorced. That shotgun retails for $799.00 now.
I've always had the thoght / excuse that if it was a really good deal. I couldn't afford not to buy it! That has slowed down now but, if I can't buy it I start calling everyone and hopefully find a home for it. And I always remind em if later down the road if they want to sell it they better let me know and remember that I know what they paid for it.
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