Sale Success rate?

[boomer]

The pawn shop is gonna give you roughly 30% retail.

Right after they bend you over to check your prostate.

 

[Sig239]

I'll give you $450 for the 239. that's prolly better than a pawn shop.

"If I'm going to have to sell at a pawn shop price, then I will take it to a pawn shop and have a smooth quick transaction instead of a Facebook Marketplace experience."

 

[Huey Deer Processing]

You’re going to get like $350 max for that at a pawn/gun shop

 

[Asbestos]

So, what’s the point of this thread then? Price your **** how you want and hope like hell it sells. Be careful of 0-0 people… they’re sketchy as ****.

 

[BHPSteel]

"If I'm going to have to sell at a pawn shop price, then I will take it to a pawn shop and have a smooth quick transaction instead of a Facebook Marketplace experience."

The counterargument is that someone within the community got a gun cheaper than if they had bought the same gun via a pawn shop.

You however, got the same amount of money.

Of course, that's the trick to right-pricing the gun - you get a bit more for the gun than you would have got from a pawn shop, the buyer gets it for a bit (or a lot less) than they would have paid at the pawn shop, and the community is enriched by two people trading voluntarily and no 4473's have been filled out.

 

[BHPSteel]

And that's the bit that's only been obliquely referenced. This is a community of people who willingly trade with each other when it suits both parties. This engenders a degree of trust that some people value.

The problem recently seems to be that getting those first few trades, which generates a record of trust, is harder to do in 2025 than it was in 2005.

 

[87KJH]

Sell it on consignment at your local gun shop or gun range.

 

[olerambler]

Any pawn shop will give you 1/2-2/3rds what they can sell a gun for.

Price it here like that and it’ll sell

Yeah got put out here see what u got

 

[Sig239]

The counterargument is that someone within the community got a gun cheaper than if they had bought the same gun via a pawn shop.

You however, got the same amount of money.

Of course, that's the trick to right-pricing the gun - you get a bit more for the gun than you would have got from a pawn shop, the buyer gets it for a bit (or a lot less) than they would have paid at the pawn shop, and the community is enriched by two people trading voluntarily and no 4473's have been filled out.

This will be at least $1000-1100 retail at a pawn shop. For $750-900 sure it's a deal for both buyer and seller. For low ball prices might as well get the convenience of selling to a pawn shop and let the small business owner pawn shop make money from the public.

 

[Sig239]

So, what’s the point of this thread then? Price your **** how you want and hope like hell it sells. Be careful of 0-0 people… they’re sketchy as ****.

Everyone is new here at one time and you are welcome to meet me at an FFL. Go to a yard sale if you want crap for pennies.