Can you place a value on my Glock?

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To really understand the value, I think we need to better understand what was done by Agency Arms. Any detail you can share? It looks like their complete builds are a bit of an ala carte affair.

For those of you valuing this at $300-$500.....look up Agency Arms on gunbroker and watch them sell. I think you will be surprised.

DPris, I think your Robar Glock would sell for $500 in a heartbeat.....it might take a month or so, but i’llbBet you could recover meh 60% of your $900 spent at Robar and 75% of your $550 sales price. Maybe sell for $1000. In like new condition.

I’ve seen $300 Glocks. The usually have a couple things in common. Rust, high round count, drop marks, bubbasmithing...
 
It'd surprise me greatly if my Glock would go for a grand. :)
It'd require finding just the right buyer, which would not be that easy to do.

In a slightly different arena, last time I let a light custom go, I practically gave it away.

Very low-mileage, looked new, pre-MIM SIG 229, Grayguns make-over, .357 SIG & .40 S&W barrels, three mags (two still in factory wrap), nightsights, Hogue grip panels, and a new-in-bag Galco concealment holster.

Consignment at my dealer & listed on Gunbroker for over a year.
Finally traded it for $500 in NOS Ruger parts.
Sat under glass at that dealer for another 6 months.
Admittedly two unpopular calibers, but still a helluva deal at the $700 I was asking just to move it.

I've let other customs go in the past, never at what the work on 'em cost.
Denis
 
You take a Prius, run a glass pack muffler to sound mean, stick $2000 in rubber on it, chrome it up to the max, sink a grand into a sound system, and spend another grand on Sea Foam Green leather upholstery with pink trim.

You'll first be lucky to sell it at all, with all the extraneous stuff done to a car most Prius buyers don't buy a Prius for, and you'd second need to find just the right Prius buyer who WOULD go for a package highly customized for somebody else. :)

And you'd never get out of it what you put into it.

With Glocks running fine as they come, and largely successful because they're cheap, the Glock custom market is not as robust as some others, like the 1911.
And definitely not on a second or third sale.
Denis
 
Custom work will never recover what it costs. What's desirable to you may be useless junk to another shooter. Even a trigger job doesn't add much value. Extra mags might.
Used Glock 19 Gen 5 pistols are running $550 to $600 on Gunbroker. The aftermarket stuff doesn't count. You could take some of it off and try selling that stuff separately. You won't get much for any of it though.
 
Looks like the OP moved it, but for anyone else seeking values....

List it on one of the auction sites using a hidden reserve and watch what it does. Yes buyers can be funky, one week an item might get bid up to say $100. Re-list it a week later it might go to only $600, and then the next week maybe to $1200. But it can help give an idea of the market as well as the amount of interest in whatever your item is.

I tend to not sell firearms I buy, but often I make trade deals with folks and end up with firearms I don't have an interest in and flip them. There have been times where i thought an item should have went higher, and there were times where people went bid happy and paid more than they could have got it brand new.

Just a thought :)
 
I had a tuned race-gun glock I bought second hand off a guy, and even after extensive working and reworking by a glock specialist, it still had that icky glock trigger. (I am a 1911 trigger snob). I was happy to sell it to a race-gun guy that thought all the cosmetic stuff was cool. In the end, to me, a glock is just a glock. It will always go "bang", it's reliable as hell and ugly as a pug dog. Sorry if I offend any pug dogs. It's a keeper, unless you find just the right man.

As for custom work, I have a blued .44 Magnum Ruger Blackhawk with the "perfected hunter" package from Hamilton Bowen, all the paperwork, an autographed copy of Bowen's book, and a copy of Taffin's book too. I think there are always exceptions to the rules. I can easily imagine someone lusting for this gun 100 years from now, but a 100 year old Glock is gonna be just an old piece of plastic and steel.
 
Traded for a Wilson yesterday, but thanks y'all!
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This smells funky, I'd really enjoy hearing more details of this trade. You listed lots of details on the Glock that was traded away, can you tell us more about the Wilson that came in? Did you have to add $1,800 cash or a 2013 F-150 to the deal to bring home a Wilson?

Or by Wilson, are we to believe that it isn't a CQB or similar, but rather a leather Wilson first basemen's mitt?

The devil is always in the details...
 
Custom work will never recover what it costs. What's desirable to you may be useless junk to another shooter. Even a trigger job doesn't add much value. Extra mags might.
Used Glock 19 Gen 5 pistols are running $550 to $600 on Gunbroker. The aftermarket stuff doesn't count. You could take some of it off and try selling that stuff separately. You won't get much for any of it though.
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Sorry, NEW ones are going for $550; anyone paying more than that, especially for used, is an idiot.

https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog...k/Glock+G19+Gen+5+Double+9mm+15+1+Fixed+Black
 
Sorry, NEW ones are going for $550; anyone paying more than that, especially for used, is an idiot.
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I totally agree with you as long as you agree that the best Wilson Combat isn’t worth a $1 over $500....what I can get a 1911 for new everyday.....and you’d have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
 
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I totally agree with you as long as you agree that the best Wilson Combat isn’t worth a $1 over $500....what I can get a 1911 for new everyday.....and you’d have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
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I think you'd have to be an idiot to ignore the differences in materials and labor costs between a sub $500 1911 and a Wilson Combat, and I'm saying that as someone that wouldn't buy a Wilson.

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I totally agree with you as long as you agree that the best Wilson Combat isn’t worth a $1 over $500....what I can get a 1911 for new everyday.....and you’d have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
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TunnelRat has it right. Your back to putting $4000 custom wheels on a Yugo vs putting them on a Denali.
A Glock just isn't that animal
 
I totally agree with you as long as you agree that the best Wilson Combat isn’t worth a $1 over $500....what I can get a 1911 for new everyday.....and you’d have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
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My comment was about Glocks, not 1911s.
 
This smells funky, I'd really enjoy hearing more details of this trade. You listed lots of details on the Glock that was traded away, can you tell us more about the Wilson that came in? Did you have to add $1,800 cash or a 2013 F-150 to the deal to bring home a Wilson?

Or by Wilson, are we to believe that it isn't a CQB or similar, but rather a leather Wilson first basemen's mitt?

The devil is always in the details...
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Check the OP's other posts. He either has a knack for finding really stupid people, or loves jerking out chains.
Best Armslist deal you have got?
Hey guys, new to the forum and figured I'd say Hello!

I cruise Armslist quite often and find good deals every so often, Just curious what kind of deals y'all have got that you couldn't refuse?

Some decent deals I have got are...

1) MY G17 Gen3 (LNIB) traded for FN Five-Seven, guy wanted something cheaper to shoot.

2) MY Benelli Nova 12G traded for Springfield EMP 9mm, shot little carried a lot.

3) CZ Shadow2, I got practically for free from bartering an item with a value of approximately $25

4) Ruger Single-Six 4th year of production all original, no box -$80 (guy inherited it, don't like western guns)
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*** - $0 - *** to me.
My guess is you wouldn't be able to get more than $600 for it.

Congrats on the trade.
 
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