So my father bought a Bushmaster, basic model with carry handle when he still lived in NYS about 4-5 years ago. The gun has been sitting it it’s case never shot, obviously perfect condition.
He now wants to buy my Colt 6920 from me, but won’t do it until he sells his Bushmaster (he doesn’t believe in having more than he “needs”). He wants me to help him sell it. It has the pinned A2 at the end of the muzzle, carry handle and pinned (fixed) collapsible stock. My question is, how much should I ask for the rifle?
You can ask whatever you like, but the better question is “What will it sell for?”
To answer that, you need to do some research on places like gunbroker or your local gun shops where they are actually selling, today. Pre-panic prices are irrelevant, but the sky-high post-panic prices seem to be dropping as well. Average the prices for several auctions and that should get you a reasonable target price. Of course, that price is affected by how quickly you want to sell it versus how long you’d want to sit on it, your local market if you want to sell it face to face, etc.
This is all Economics-101 and applies to any commodity item facing a supply shortage.
I’ve peeked at it, saw asking prices between 900-1200, I thought that would be a bit high even in today’s scarcity. Problem is gunbroker is blocked by hospital wi-fi flagged as weapons, but M4 carbine forum is not, go figure… And I’m stuck here till very late today on my grind.
Shocked that nobody has made a comment along the lines of; “the box it’s in may be worth more than the rifle…”
The above advice is great. Check out some of the auction sites and see where similar rifles are ending up. Chances are, given the scare, he will manage a decent price for it.
put it on armslist at 1600 and negotiate from there. Its a free market, if some dumb schlep will give you more than you paid, its his money, let him pay it.
