ruger old army

I bought one a few months back for $250!
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That's a steal of a price. Gunbroker shows most stainless ROA's in like new condition go for $400-450.

It's my experience most buyers well make a offer 10-20% less than asking price. I price with that in mind.
 
Gunbroker is overpriced on a lot of items. I know of two that I could have for $300 each right now.
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You should buy them and then sell, you could make a few hundred quick dollars.

I agree that the majority of guns listed on Gunbroker are listed at to high of price. The key is the look at completed auctions. You see what actually sold at what price. Opening bid price, reserve price is meaningless, the selling price is what you want to see.
 
That's about $150 too high. Fixed sight models are bringing that much, but the adjustable sight versions are much easier to come by and don't command a price like that.
 
riverwalker76 and Jbar4Ranch - would either of you care to provide a source for these $300 ROA's, please? You can PM me if you prefer.
 
I find them mostly on gunbroker - $500 minus "about $150" equals "about $350", not $300.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=240984539 sold for $355

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=241623787 starting bid, $300, no reserve, no bids, relisted.

There are others in the $375 range, $25 above my "about price" above, with no reserve and no bids.

I have several ROAs, the last of which was purchased on gunbroker less than a year ago for $330 - fixed sights, new & unfired, but w/o box or papers.

Here are a few of them.
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mykeal said:
riverwalker76 and Jbar4Ranch - would either of you care to provide a source for these $300 ROA's, please? You can PM me if you prefer.
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Sorry Chief. I'm waiting to get up the 'scratch' to buy them myself. Now that I see I can make at least $100 on each of them, and still be 'honest'. ;)
 
Jbar4Ranch said:
I find them mostly on gunbroker - $500 minus "about $150" equals "about $350", not $300.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=240984539 sold for $355.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=241623787 starting bid, $300, no reserve, no bids, relisted.
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madcratebuilder stated $400-$450, and your post followed his, so I assumed you were referring to his post. A reasonable assumption, I think.

As for your Gunbroker examples, perhaps the reason the first one sold for less is because of what the listing said: "This gun as you will see has pitting on the metal due to the previous owner's lack of proper cleaning skills...This gun has a 7.5" barrel and the bore is pitted pretty well...there is some pitting on the frame of the revolver and inside the area where the cylinder sits." And the second one is not stainless steel; it's blued and "has had some use", a description that would scare anyone away. They hardly compare with a stainless gun shot less than 30 times.

$500 for the gun described in the OP's post is high, but not out of the market. Your examples define the low end, poor condition below market guns or guns that are simply not the same configuration - apples and oranges.
 
Rob

...Anybody with eight is my kind of guy too......for what it is worth.


I only own one and I am not quite my kind of guy.


In fact I am thinking about leaving this forum because I am not sure I want to belong to a club that would have me as a member. (With apologies to G. Marx, 1936)
 
Well, if the $355 ROA doesn't do it for you, how about A $100 WINCHESTER 1897? :D

I've paid between $235.00 and $412.50 for my ROA's, and wouldn't even give a used adjustable sighted model @ $500 a second look, it's just too much, plain & simple.
 
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