Haven't even shot one but i want one because i hang around people like
Mr. Booshie
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Why are SCARs so freaking expensive?
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I can’t recall recently seeing them for that price. Ever..
If you think those prices will ever go down you are mistaken.
Wait about 5 years and see what they are going to be...
You will have missed the boat.
I have both the 16 and piston driven AR’s I prefer the 16 over my PWS’s, POF, Bren
I would suggest you try them back to back, I chose the 16 over the Bren very quickly, but then again it’s all an opinion.
If you price out what you get with the 16 vs a quality piston AR they are comparable in price.
The Scar comes with VERY nice irons (actually metal), that’s an extra $200-300 on top of any AR, as none of them seem to come with them anymore.
The front is HK style hood
The rear is only comparable to a Knights Armament 600m except the scar has dual flip aperture
It also comes with one of the best muzzle brakes in the industry, add another 100 bucks.
Ambi controls, adjustable gas system, tunable gas system, monolithic upper.
And the best part, it’s user serviceable. Barrel change, caliber change takes maybe 5 min if you are slow.
I mean I can’t deny the quality of the gun - I have shot both and loved both.
I might get my hands on one of them one day - but what gets me right now are the used market prices - and I guess I didn’t realize how much of a stranglehold on the market there was.
Granted - there are a few on Armslist that are a reasonable price - where the 16 (less value of accessories) comes out to being in the low $2000 range - but a lot of the ones on ODT have them up around $3000...
So it’s not so much a question of “why were the guns so expensive in the first place?” - it’s a question of “why are they that much more expensive on the used market?”
A couple years ago I was seeing people (as in friends/friends-of-friends not random people making claims on the internet) get 16s reliably new for the low 2000s and sometimes used for under 2k - and the 17s new for the mid 2000s
It just seems a bit odd that with the rest of the scary evil full semi automatic rifle market being down (even on other high end manufacturers), that the scar market is up.
I might get my hands on one of them one day - but what gets me right now are the used market prices - and I guess I didn’t realize how much of a stranglehold on the market there was.
Granted - there are a few on Armslist that are a reasonable price - where the 16 (less value of accessories) comes out to being in the low $2000 range - but a lot of the ones on ODT have them up around $3000...
So it’s not so much a question of “why were the guns so expensive in the first place?” - it’s a question of “why are they that much more expensive on the used market?”
A couple years ago I was seeing people (as in friends/friends-of-friends not random people making claims on the internet) get 16s reliably new for the low 2000s and sometimes used for under 2k - and the 17s new for the mid 2000s
It just seems a bit odd that with the rest of the scary evil full semi automatic rifle market being down (even on other high end manufacturers), that the scar market is up.
Supply and demand sir.
Take my 17 that’s FS for example.
I’m asking 6k, but if you look up the prices of everything on it you’ll see it was closer to 9k
LOL @ $9,000 for a SCAR. WTF?
When the optic alone is close to 3k lol
It's my fault Scars are so expensive. I had one, sold it and now regret it. So now that
I have saved up enough money to buy one at what they used to sell for, they went up.
I have saved up enough money to buy one at what they used to sell for, they went up.
Yours is actually a reasonable seeming price - if you took off the value of all the goodies (which is admittedly a crap ton of value - especially with one of the nicest scopes on the market) it brings your bare rifle down to a $2400-$2500 price (ish) which seems totally reasonable and feasible.
And maybe there just really is a stranglehold on the supply of the guns that I didn't know about - but most folks do seem awfully enthusiastic on their prices.
THAT BEING SAID - has anyone actually SOLD a SCAR on the used market, or known anyone who has actually sold one? I mean I see PLENTY on gunbroker and what not with 0 bids on them, and have seen more than a few on ODT that sit... So what is the actual market value for a bare gun?
