Sale vs Trade Value

[wrightjr]

In my experience, when someone offers a trade for a firearm you’re selling, they usually try to price THEIR firearm at retail value while valuing yours at the reduced cash price.

For example, you list a firearm for $1,000 cash but to buy it new with accessories would cost $1,500+. Someone sends you a trade request with their G 43X and says “I got $1100 in it!”

Ooooookay.. and you have $1,500 into your firearm? The math doesn’t math. There are a ton of turds on here looking to rip people off. I almost always list a higher trade value specifically for this reason.

If you want to value your firearm at what it would be cost new, be prepared for me to do the same as the seller.

I guess my mindset is that being a gun guy among other gun guys…. We know what stuff cost , and we have Google to help price check things we aren’t sure of. So I just looked at it as if you overpaid / over valued your stuff that’s a loss you have to take. As far as the wiggle room negotiating tactics people are talking about, I’ve had guys message me and offer stuff that was lower quality/ cost stuff but get mad because I wasn’t willing to pay them a cash difference. Simply because I had my item priced lower than their inflated pricing on their item. Just wondered if it was just my experience .

 

[aFarewellToKings]

I guess my mindset is that being a gun among other gun guys…. We know what stuff cost , and we have Google to help price check things we aren’t sure of. So I just looked at it as if you overpaid / over valued your stuff that’s a loss you have to take. As far as the wiggle room negotiating tactics people are talking about, I’ve had guys message me and offer stuff that was lower quality/ cost stuff but get mad because I wasn’t willing to pay them a cash difference. Simply because I had my item priced lower than their inflated pricing on their item. Just wondered if it was just my experience .

Sounds like you answered your own question.

 

[wrightjr]

Sounds like you answered your own question.

I was just curious as to why it was done so often, being that people know gun prices / values. So I asked so people could tell me their thought process behind this.

 

[trw2094]

This cannot be explained!
You’re too far away and you want too much for your used gun.

 

[poopdaddy]

Hey there guys. I have been on here for years, but have never really heard anyone explain the logic / reasoning on this. I have seen some that were $50 - $100 dollars more (which I thought was reasonable), and some that were several hundreds of dollars more. It has never really made sense to me how I could buy a firearm from someone for $800, but a trade would require $1200 in goods to seal the deal. Could someone give me some insight on why guys think like this?

generally trades tend to be.. mine is worth full value, yours is half used desperate to sell price...

 

[basstracker89]

generally trades tend to be.. mine is worth full value, yours is half used desperate to sell price...

Thing is a lot of them think they're a dealer. Unless you have a shop and pay taxes accordingly, they're not

 

[slee50]

I trade on here sometimes and when I do I make em a really good deal cause I’m offering them junk I don’t want.

 

[BigMike]

I do it to weed out the tire kickers. As mentioned above, everyone likes to trade up, not down, and listing a higher trade value helps level the trade field.