Driftwood Johnson
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Speaking from a pawn brokers point of view, although people aren't necessarily paying extra for an old box with a used gun, it certainly does help sell them when included and can command a premium.
I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record, but in each of those cases where the box came along with the gun, the existence of the box was not revealed to me until after the deal had been struck. So how can the inclusion of the box have had any effect on the price, or how could it have helped sell the gun, since it was not revealed until later that the box existed? It would be one thing if the ticket on the gun had said 'includes box', but it didn't. Or if the gun was in the display case with the box, but they were not. In each case, the box was in the back room, and after the deal had been struck it was revealed there was a box. The inclusion of a box simply did not enter into the deal.
I keep saying over and over again. If you are being charged extra because the box is included, as long as it is not an extremely rare box, you are being overcharged.
S&W Model 27 with box.
This S&W Model 63 came with everything, the box, the original papers, and the tools still in their plastic bag.
This Flat Top 357 Mag Ruger Blackhawk came with the box and all the papers.
This Beretta Model 71 came with two barrels, the box, the original sales tag, the original sales slip from 1985, and even a form from the US Army giving the original owner, who was a serviceman in Italy at the time, permission to buy the pistol.
The presence of a box had nothing to do with the price, or desirability of any of these guns.