Anyone else.thinking about cashing in on the scare?

Thinking hard about putting my AR up for sale and get 2-3x what I paid for it. Anyone else cashing in?

I've got a couple lowers and have been thinking about putting one together and selling or trading it.

I'm thinking about selling an SAR-2. I don't really know how much to price it at. It's got a fairly low round count and a lot of upgrades.

HE!! NO I,M MOT SELLIN CHIT


@core-lokt......price double the price you paid for it. thats what everyone else is doing

I did, sold my AK for a kind of stupid profit. Bought some 80% AR recievers to flip to the real paranoia cases in a few weeks.

can't bring myself to do it

end of the day it isn't right, bad enough setting here seeing some do it. and some a really doing it. here awhile back there was the comment on one with a 1911 that was asking waaayyy to much, and now we have a bunch of others doing the same. will not be part of that crowd.

kind of puts you in line with other low life on this planet

exxon, shell, so on so forth

not to big.on the capatilism thing are ya?

You sound like a well informed individual.

It amazes me that people love capitalism as.long as.their on the + end but when the odds aren't in their favor then everyone who has the product are "lowlifes"

STOP THE MADNESS ...

Have you seen the trading post recently?
I just want to know who the crazy people are that have the money to pay 3 times what things were going for last week, but didn't have the money then.

Same here. My AR would fetch a nice price. if I was going to sell it would go on gunbroker.

This is what I want to know. I had an AR up for sale that was easily worth $1300 with all the upgrades. I got lowballed left and right from people claiming "Oh the wife will kill me if I spend anymore than this" blah blah blah. Now that AR's are 3X the price they were everyone and their mothers are coming out of the wood work with pockets full of cash to buy one. Where were all these folks and all this money 2 weeks ago?

I also notice that most of the guys in the classifieds saying "I'll take it" have single digit post counts.

Yep... It's "not fair" that they have a basic knowledge of supply and demand and are reaping in the profit 100% legally (and 100% ethically if you ask me)...

Price gouging on luxuries does not phase me one bit. No one NEEDS an AR-15 or PMAG or any other gun related item to survive. They're choosing to buy those by their own will. Price gouging on essential commodities (i.e. gas, food, water, etc.), however, IMO, is wrong. There is a BIG difference between gouging on luxuries and gouging on essentials. Nothing wrong with the former.

They are working on there Post Count to get to 100.

Precisely. It's supply and demand, basic market economy. The demand dictates the price, and prices rise until it reaches equilibrium with the demand. If anyone should be held responsible for the high prices right now, it should be the panicking sheeple rushing out to buy up every gun they can get their hands on.

Buy low, sell high. Applies to everything. I'm very tempted to sell an extra AR and mags now. In a year or so my bet is there will be a lot better prices from the panic buyers who have no real use for them. Republicans do still control the House and gun control bills won't get them re-elected.

Dang, I worked hard and bought exactly what i wanted. If the price goes up all the better for me but my stuff is staying here. Haven't sold any of my guns since I started in 1957. I have several guns that are now worth 10x what I paid for them.

Try to find this one on market today. 1961 Winchester Model 70 Target 30-06 with Unetrl 20x. It was fired 40 shots by original owner. He was a friend and I bought it from his widow. He had it custom made to order at Winchester. I could have sold it 100x. Scope was brand new.

The list goes on and on.

If ya dont like your stuff then sale it. You should not have bought it anyways. Next time purchase sumpin ya want to live with.

Rusty

So being new to all this was the price of a ar 2 weeks ago. How will I know if I'm over paying or it's a good deal

My friend just bought one last friday a week to the day for $829 out the door. It was a full Palmetto State Armory build, which is even a little expensive for what it was, but the hysteria was starting to ramp up. He could turn around today and double or triple his money.

I look at it differently. I know I can't take it with me, so why amass stuff? I prefer to buy stuff, have some fun with it, and make a profit from it if I can when I'm done having my fun. Different motivation, different strokes.

to Txtwister: If you're buying today, you're overpaying compared to two weeks ago, period.

Guys , no one needs these things , they want em! To need and to want are 2 different things. I laughed last time this happened when all my buddies ran out and bought overpriced AR's and I'm laughing now! Bought one 3 weeks ago , flipped it for a nice profit, cuz I didn't need it. This crying is ridiculous and over some dumb chit! What I want to know is what guys are gonna do when the credit card bill shows up? I watched so many guys swipe plastic on this crap in the last week that its crazy , and at the worst time of the year when everyone is already overspending buying gifts for family and friends! Gotta love America!!!

Nobody has to sell ar's right now and nobody has to buy ar's right now. I've actually thought about getting rid of a few things I don't use a whole lot and making a little change, but it is costing me nothing to keep them so think I will hold on to what I got.

Now if you had guys buying up baby formula after a hurricane to flip it would be a different story.

Spot on. That's also why I drove up North with a truck load of diapers. You don't have to buy them and they certainly aren't a necessity so my conscience was clear. Had to hire armed guards to escort my money back.

I only own guns I wanted before this happened, got no spares.

My brother in law found a Walmart that still had some Colt 6920 in stock an bought two of them. Said he paid around 1070 or 1100 for each one and plans on putting one of them on gunbroker tonight so that it pays for the other and then he basically has a free Colt.

all idiots

Just listed mine on gunbroker

Post link I want to watch...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=323176492

Mostly just doing it to see how high it will get however if it meets the reserve I'll be happy to sell it, pay off my Credit Cards and buy a few guns.

Why would anyone talk down on this....dnt blame the seller blame the dumbarses that are bout to buy it

I tried. I listed some pmags for sale but pulled the ad due to I just did not feel rite about it. I felt so bad I even gave 1 away for free. To each there own.

No catch, mags are luxury items. No one is making people buy them and no one is spending money on them they don't have. It is not the same as taking advantage of people with overpriced baby forumula and generators after a storm. It is not like representing something as something it is not. No shame in selling them for what the current market will bear. I would sell them and spend the money on the family or to put away for your kids future. No shame in that. If I had an extra effected high value item to sell, I would have it on auction right now to go towards my son's first vehicle. Foolish not to IMHO. Family comes first.

If anyone sent you offending pm messages chastising you, send me copies. Appropriate warnings and bans for the applicable trading post rule will be dished out.

I assume you have an FFL. Flipping firearms for profit is dealing in the eyes of the ATF. For the most part it is hard to prove the intent of purchasing a firearm for the purpose of flipping it for a profit. An old ATF sting was to sell a firearm to an unlicensed gun show seller and buy it back the same day at a profit to the show seller. I am sure the ATF has bigger fish to catch than someone flipping an occasional firearm, but some of y'all need to think about what you are doing and posting about.

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So what exactly is wrong with a low post count? I found this place a few months ago and it's an awesome source of information but i don't have too much to say.

Too bad we cant check a box and have a READ post count. That thing would be in the stratosphere already.

The bad thing is that if less people were willing to sell at these crazy prices, the prices would just be that much higher.

Nothing really wrong with low post counts if someone reads and been around for a while. I joined back in 07 and probably had 30 post in 4 years. Mostly in the classifieds before the 100 post rule was set in place. If you get to know these guys they will BS all day long and your post count will soar. Although you could be like our top posters on the forum and just post on every thread you see and it will also get your post count up.

I was just making the observation that most of the guys that are buying these rifles at an inflated price are people that have been scouring the internet and found this site in a search engine joined up and posted 1 time "I'll Take It". As a matter of fact I got several PMs about a AR I had for trade a while back. Had to go change my post that it wasn't for trade anymore so I would quit getting messages.

Nothing wrong with low post count but they shouldn't join our site just to buy one gun and then never post again, I think that's disrespectful to the THF IMO.

You sir are good keep on keeping on.

The only regret I am having is 6 months ago I told my FIL that I should buy a couple hundred pmags and that he should too. He said I was crazy. My wife was my witness to this. Dang it. Even at $25 a piece, that was easy money I missed out on.

THIS.

Economics.

I'm not selling mine but if others want to and someone's willing to pay the price why is that a bad thing? People have the choice to buy or not buy...their decision.

I am about to so I can get a couple of guns I really want, Cheeped out and bought an AR...

How much do you guys think I can get for a complete Spikes lower receiver with Magpul MOE grip, MOE stock?

Stripped Spikes lowers are going for $500+
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=323096071

Or $700 for a complete lower.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=322942760

WTF? I just browsing gunbroker and thought I was seeing things wrong. That is insane. I'm kinda thinking about selling it now cuz I want a new 1911.

With these prices, i could make a fortune on my latest AR build!
If the price is tripled, guess I'll take 6k for it

It is nuts! On GB they had a stripped DPMS LR308 lower for $1249..crazy... to each there own..

I should have made my auction a 2 or 3 day auction but.I'll wait and see how high it goes in 6 days.

The poly AR receivers, $500.00 stripped? WOW

Freaking ridiculous.

Hmm...got a PWS Mk116 300 Blackout with STR stock, VTACs sling, several PMAGs, and a nice 1-4 scope on it. Wonder if $3500 would fetch a buyer.

I got someone coming to get my .300 blk spikes/LAR side charger for 2300

The worst part about all this is the prices are being driven by people who are panicing instead of thinking. It's not the government, the manufacturer, or the seller, it's all the buyers jumping up and acting like idiots that is driving the price spike. I don't own an ar nor care so I am just sitting here shaking my head wondering "what are these idiots thinking?"

Wonder what market price on this would be-
Vltor vra-r lower, Emod stock, RR NM 2 stage trigger,
ARP upper, ARP 6.8spc 18" stainless spr profile barrel 5r rifling w 12 port brake, ARP super bolt & bcg, ARP custom cut 15" SFR ff rail, SWFA 10x42 mildot, SSALT mount, 4 Cproducts mags

I know it would take alot for me to let this go. Dang thing will shoot 1.25" groups at 300yds w factory 110 vmax

So Sorry, That was for a complete poly lower

Just saw a stock DPMS go for $1250 on this forum, crazy. Been considering trying to trade my YHM 6.8 for a fancy rifle for a while now, might be the right timing.

I think price gouging on the forum is bad business. You don't crap where you eat.

Gunbroker and TGT it's ok! On here there is a lot of hunters helping fellow hunters through hard times. This is not a time to screw your fellow hunters. Im going to write down all the gougers in the Trading Post, so I can avoid doing business with them in the future.

I am going to take a put together AR to the gun shop after the New Year and check trade value. The prices I see make it hard for me not too... So yes it is time to cash in.

Lol
Awesome !

+1

+2
No way I'd let my newest AR go, don't care what the market value is

Would making them take a boat with your AR15 be considered gouging ?

I dont see a problem with it, to each their own. Who should be blamed, the person selling or the person buying?

BTW, im not buying in this market unless I can get it for about retail.

x2! I posted an ar15 on TGT for sale but didn't want to post it here . I've done to many good deals on here , LOTS! I'd like to keep it that way

I did the same.

crazy...

I have a JP Enterprises JP-15/VTAC Kyle Lambert Signature model that retailed at $2,000.00 last year. I wonder what I could get for it now?

My issue is that I actually NEED the parts people are gouging each other on. I just built an AR and have 1 Bushmaster steel mag that wont feed right. I cant even afford another magazine to verify that the one I have is bad or to have as a backup.
I have a short barreled upper that I NEED a stripped poly lower for.
So all these speculators looking for "preban" parts for their future price gouging are keeping regular guys like me from completing builds that have been going on for weeks.

Put one of my stripped PSA lowers on gunbroker just to see what it would fetch. Sold for $380.

I was at the Houston gun show last weekend, there were stripped CavArms lowers selling for $149+ tax. Everything else was too expensive for me to even consider.

unbeleivable!!

There was a guy on here selling new frontier stripped lowers for $250. I got mine for 80. He probably sold em though. People paying these prices are jack a$$es and deserve to be ripped off

I have no problem with capatalism, I've made some good money at it selling beef, but the feeling of taking advantage of a tragedy just doesn't sit right. Regardless of politics, that's what some people are doing. Ask yourself, "If those children and teachers hadn't died, would this AR be worth $3,000.00?" Probably not

I'm as pro-gun as they get, but this is insanity defined. We do the same thing as before looking for a different result.

One of the better descriptions of the current situation that I've seen thus far.