This is why i usually just consign

[Gawernator]

IMHO, consigning is just stupid because you are basically lowballing yourself from the start. Take your ideal selling price and right off the bat subtract 20% in taxes to make it appealing to buyers. Thats 20% neither you nor the buyer get to keep. Straight up retarded. Then subtract the consignment fee or percentage. Consignment makes zero sense unless you're a clueless old lady or adult child trying to get rid of an unwanted inheretance as quick as possible.

I’m learning boomers do it just out of laziness. There has to be some mental phenomenon going on. They are happy and content to have it listed for years without selling but doing something like driving 20-30 minutes away is asking far too much.

They’re just lazy.

 

[Darqhelmet]

Is it Perpride's ads? Lol

well now I have to go look lol

 

[HarleyLowRiderST]

I’m learning boomers do it just out of laziness. There has to be some mental phenomenon going on. They are happy and content to have it listed for years without selling but doing something like driving 20-30 minutes away is asking far too much.

They’re just lazy.

Come on Gawernator don't be lumping all us into one category. Lol That's something the other side does.

I buy guns thinking "Yep this is what I want" only to find out "Nope I'm not a 1911 guy" or other reason. I price and sell them to get them gone in a week. Guns are a hobby for me not an investment, so I treat it as such.

 

[mountain_yokai]

If I see a listing that's been sitting a while, I'll offer what I think is fair....not going crazy by any means but I figure if you or I had consigned it, it'd be about the same...I'd offer a little more than what the stores take.

IDK... people wanna save. Some people, egregiously so

That being said, I'm still in the hunt for them $300 P320s

 

[Darqhelmet]

People who have no feedback, trade history on any site saying consignment is good really says a lot.

Speaking about me? Texasguntalk and calguns Same name.

I haven’t found anything I want to get rid of yet here.

 

[Plenty_Pack_556]

Speaking about me? Texasguntalk and calguns Same name.

I haven’t found anything I want to get rid of yet here.

No. In general.

 

[Darqhelmet]

No. In general.

gotcha.

So far i’m just being lazy i’ll post stuff sooner or later. If they don’t move at the prices I want at the ffl I want back into the safe they go.

consignment if the kids don’t speak up after a year or two.

 

[Gawernator]

Come on Gawernator don't be lumping all us into one category. Lol That's something the other side does.

I buy guns thinking "Yep this is what I want" only to find out "Nope I'm not a 1911 guy" or other reason. I price and sell them to get them gone in a week. Guns are a hobby for me not an investment, so I treat it as such.

Okay, some* haha. But seriously, do they not want to sell or what?

 

[Skilly]

Maybe I have been lucky, but every single item I have sold was a very respectable no BS offer/acceptance process. There are a couple of weird low balls and "creative" trade offers, but for me, its been the exception. I have zero issues with the classified here, and its my go-to.

 

[pancakes]

Lowball buyers are annoying, but there’s another side to this:

We have plenty of sellers with ridiculous asking prices too, sometimes apparently expecting to recover every dollar they put into a gun. Guns aren't magically exempt from depreciation. Nobody buys a new car, drives it for a year, adds $5,000 in wheels and accessories, and expects the next owner to reimburse them for the car plus every dollar they spent modifying it. Yet we see that mentality with guns all the time. Accessories and modifications are usually even worse—a $500 optic, $300 trigger and $200 worth of other parts don't automatically add $1,000 to the used value, and often they're worth considerably less installed than they would be sold separately.

Off-roster guns in particular seem to bring out the worst of it. Yes, scarcity can justify a premium in California, but “off roster” doesn't automatically mean whatever number the seller decides to put on it.

Offering $600 on a fairly priced $1,000 gun is ridiculous, but asking $4,500 for something realistically worth $2,500 and hoping somebody who doesn't know better will bite is the other side of the same coin. Buyers are free to make offers, sellers are free to say no, and ultimately the market decides.

So yeah, offering $600 on a fairly priced $1,000 gun is ridiculous. But asking $4,500 for something realistically worth $2,500 and hoping somebody who doesn't know better will bite is the other side of the same coin.

Buyers are free to make offers, sellers are free to say no, and ultimately the market decides. A ridiculous offer takes about three seconds to decline or ignore.

(And if the alternative is consignment, where you're often giving up 20–30% of the selling price anyway, not to mention the mandatory waiting period before the gun can even be sold, why not list it here at a realistic price and give a fellow member a decent deal while still putting more money in your own pocket?)

Look at my prices and tell me they are not realistic. I could easily get close to this after my local 15% consignment fee

 

[RustVendor]

Look at my prices and tell me they are not realistic. I could easily get close to this after my local 15% consignment fee

It's hard to tell on the rifle because there's no details. You can commonly get a BCM upper with bcg for 650, is it an ELW or a heavier barrel? LWRC lower, is it the overpriced ambi lower? It looks like it but you don't say it is or not. But online it looks like a complete ambi lower is ~600 new. Geissele trigger, is it a blem G2S you bought for 80 bucks or did you spend 250 on a SD3G? Regardless the rifle looks like it can be put together for ~1400 new from the factory if you piece it together. But it's used and also the round count is unspecified, the barrel is unidentified etc. AR15s don't really hold their value on the used market, you would have better luck parting it at 500 for the upper and 500 for the lower, 100-150 for the trigger. As a complete rifle it's more like 900-1000. I definitely don't see a shop selling this for 1500 when you can get a brand new LWRC rifle at sportsmans for 1600 which is probably a better upper than a BCM. When you sell something used you aren't competing against retail prices you are competing against what someone can find used elsewhere.

 

[RustVendor]

Ca compliant LWRC for 1339 https://www.eurooptic.com/lwrci-icd...l-direct-impingement-m-lok-black-discovery-ca

 

[Gawernator]

Ca compliant LWRC for 1339 https://www.eurooptic.com/lwrci-icd...l-direct-impingement-m-lok-black-discovery-ca

sick

 

[jacrispies]

I truly believe offers are a reflection of a persons budget or financial standing.

OR offers reflect the person's mental function to what he perceives as valuable. I, for example, have a hard time buying something unless I perceive that I am getting a good deal. Others will happily pay full retail if the item has utility. Sometimes has no reflection on financial standing.

Guns, Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Furniture, nearly everything on every for sale sight gets low ballers AND sellers that want top dollar. It's been that way WAY WAY before the internet. Some of you "Youts" won't remember in the old days we had garage sales. Same was true then. Selling rims and tires for $200 and someone asks will you take $25. Lol

I do find it interesting that Guns seem to trigger (I know I know) a more visceral response from both sellers and buyers. Hell there is a thread on the "L" sight from someone complaining about the "Thumbs Down" emoji people are leaving on his ads. Lol

The gun community runs on lower margins than other industries. Which means thinner tolerance for cheap and overpriced. People get "triggered" more easily... lol

 

[Shellbackitup]

As I got older, I started using auctions like Mt McCoy in Simi Valley:

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My items get national exposure, and if a local buyer wants what’s listed and wins the item, they can do the DROS in Simi Valley, or have the item shipped to their LGS.

What’s nice is I can list off-roster items and they handle it like a consignment PPT at their location, so local CA buyers have a shot at them.

The best part for me: ZERO hassle with low-balls, flakes, shipping, driving to PPT’s, etc. I just drop them off (or they will pickup if you’re selling more than a few). They take care of everything.

15-45 days or so later, I get a check for the proceeds. Easy-peasy. Well worth their consignment fee

Also, I am constantly shocked at what people are willing to pay. Rifles that I paid low-hundreds for, that I might’ve asked high-hundreds for here, go for low-thousands. It’s wild. I think the auction attracts a different buyer. They know what they want, have the cash, and will pay whatever the market rate is to get what they want. I’ve been that way on some auctions I’ve won. I’ll lock in and my mindset is, “I’m getting this item” and will just keep bidding until I win.

Big +1 for Mt McCoy in Simi Valley. Just got back from there this morning. I live in HB and the drive is 100% worth it.

 

[lopez1171]

It’s pretty wild to me that we all know the extra 11% tax is BS but some people in the classifieds justify it when selling

 

[Darqhelmet]

It’s pretty wild to me that we all know the extra 11% tax is BS but some people in the classifieds justify it when selling

 

[GAAPlebees]

“Is that the lowest you’ll take”

Yes dumbass, I’m not lowballing myself.

 

[Darqhelmet]

I’m learning boomers do it just out of laziness. There has to be some mental phenomenon going on. They are happy and content to have it listed for years without selling but doing something like driving 20-30 minutes away is asking far too much.

They’re just lazy.

or and hear me out. I don’t need the money, have other things that require my time and energy, or just don’t want to because I would rather sit on my ass and sell it later.

at a certain age some things matter a lot more than money. Time being the biggest one.

 

[Darqhelmet]

“Is that the lowest you’ll take”

Yes dumbass, I’m not lowballing myself.

I double the price if I get that message. if I even reply at all.