06-26-2017, 03:33 PM | #16 |
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Bidding on Gunbroker is an art and science. I always try to evaluate the bidding strategy of others bidding by watching how fast they counter bid, by how much when possible, and what they have won in the recent past. I was bidding on a Spencer rifle a while back. Didn't win and didn't expect to after seeing that the fellow I was bidding against had recently taken a Spencer carbine on Gunbroker with the bloated buy it now price. He obviously had deeper pockets than I was willing to go. I do my best to go into an auction with the attitude that I don't care if I win or not. I'm a bargain hunter and always look for the cheapest deal I can get. I set my limit in my head and if it gets passed I walk away. Just food for thought.
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I just "sold" my Detonics pistol on Gunbroker, but the bidder never responded to my e-mails, and dang sure never sent me any money.
I knew it was going South when I saw the bidder had an "F" rating.
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Auction Status Current Bid: $1,825.00 My Maximum Bid: Vietnam 68. http://www.gunbroker.com/item/657616470 $2,050.00
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Fakes in the antique world. Oh their well entrenched out their.
Plus guys to add. My father when he retired made a fortune in the antiques business. House was filled in Conn. with crap back to the 1700s.
Were great fakes out their? Oh God you can bet on that. You had to have Christies auction to check its originality, if you could afford their expertise. Oh they made minor mistakes which the pros caught but you and me would damn well miss. Dirty rat cheaters. |
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06-26-2017, 08:23 PM | #24 |
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Dang, 4th, someone else really wanted that rifle, too!
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Shame you missed it, seen a couple antique wheelocks on auction, even in bad shape they started over 10k.
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Americans bought 100,000 of them from the French. Surprisingly their is still quite a few old 18th century guns around as they were expensive for their time and passed down with care from generation to generation. If I hit the lottery maybe this one. http://www.gunsinternational.com/gun...n_id=100432664 |
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06-27-2017, 06:33 AM | #28 |
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Yes, beware of the shell bidder, I believe that's the term. A bidder who just doesn't "fit". When I see a bidder come in new at the end of an auction and start bidding the price up I get real suspicious. Especially if the new bidder has very few or no past record of winning auctions, or their past wins were for things totally unrelated to the item they are currently bidding on. I'm pretty good at smelling rats. I walk away from those auctions the moment my bargain price is past. I'll then bookmark the auction and seller and watch them later to see if the same item shows up for sale by them again.
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