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@Nate88 A lot of very smart people here Nate. RENO, IMO, is one of the top AR platform guys. Knows them in and out. And like he said, he's done some serious buying and selling here. Something else I'll mention, I can't find it now, but I believe you have to spend a little time here to be able to use the Classifieds. Helps keep the riff-raff out you know. So if you're looking at getting a handgun, come up with some ideas and get some input from the membership as far as what might be the best fit for you in the way of a good hand gun.Pretty much. Home brew AR15s do not hold value. They are not unique, nor desirable to be honest. Something you put together may be worth $1000 to you. To others it's just a bunch of parts some dude put together on the Internet. You can list it at whatever price you want. I'm saying this from experience, you likely won't get what you paid. Then there is the competence factor. Did this person assemble it correctly? How would I know, it's never even been fired? I can be spending thousands of dollars on a gun that doesn't even work. That's why I said to part it out and take the smaller loss. It is more work to take it apart. But brand new parts will yield a smaller loss overall. If you think I'm making it up, check out my feedback numbers. I've been renting gun stuff for years.
Aw, c'mon, give the guy a little more than that...oops
I would be careful with that. There seems to be two kinds of buyers. Ones that don't want to insult a seller with deep haggling... so seeing a "that guys dreaming" price tag on an item... they will simply pass it over since it's not even in the realm of being in the ballpark of what they might be willing to pay.I would list it for what you paid, offer people to p.m. you comments/offers, and adjust accordingly from there.
Thanks for the good info. Just to be clear for everyone, if the never fired aspect is so important that it keeps getting mentioned, I can easily take it to a range and test fire it (put x amount of rounds through it), heck, I can do so and record video of it. In order to nullify this concern that because I put the LPK into the lower that somehow it might not work. Cause that's all I did to "build" this rifle.Pretty much. Home brew AR15s do not hold value. They are not unique, nor desirable to be honest. Something you put together may be worth $1000 to you. To others it's just a bunch of parts some dude put together on the Internet. You can list it at whatever price you want. I'm saying this from experience, you likely won't get what you paid. Then there is the competence factor. Did this person assemble it correctly? How would I know, it's never even been fired? I can be spending thousands of dollars on a gun that doesn't even work. That's why I said to part it out and take the smaller loss. It is more work to take it apart. But brand new parts will yield a smaller loss overall. If you think I'm making it up, check out my feedback numbers. I've been renting gun stuff for years.
Didn't build it just to sell it. I built it and ~5 years later I'm now selling it.A couple more things, if I buy a gun from a name brand I get the value of customer service what would I get from you? Also if you won't shoot your own build then that sends up big red flags to me how do I know it will even work Mr. first time gun builder. Lastly if you built the gun just to sell then I beleve you need an FFL to do so.
Not doubting your experience at all. I think getting a bit mixed up in the replies is selling whole vs parts and what type of "losses" I might expect. You made it clear parting out would likely be the way to go and that makes complete sense. I'm on board with that. As for the never fired, I can easily put 60 rounds through it, even record video of it, to prove everything functions and does so properly. I'm not sure if the never fired aspect matters less when selling brand new parts or not though compared to selling a whole rifle. If it matters just as much I could still test fire it to prove functionality then disassemble it for sale.Pretty much. Home brew AR15s do not hold value. They are not unique, nor desirable to be honest. Something you put together may be worth $1000 to you. To others it's just a bunch of parts some dude put together on the Internet. You can list it at whatever price you want. I'm saying this from experience, you likely won't get what you paid. Then there is the competence factor. Did this person assemble it correctly? How would I know, it's never even been fired? I can be spending thousands of dollars on a gun that doesn't even work. That's why I said to part it out and take the smaller loss. It is more work to take it apart. But brand new parts will yield a smaller loss overall. If you think I'm making it up, check out my feedback numbers. I've been renting gun stuff for years.
That's why parting it out is really the only way to salvage any single component value. 20% on one part that a person wants is a good deal. Saving 20% on one part you want, but have to buy all the other parts along with it... that you don't want and have no "value" to you is another thing. Basically, they have to be willing to resell those unwanted components "for" you to get their money back. It has to be worth their while to do so. Not many are willing to do that in the hopes they "might" only get what they had to pay you for them.My brain just can't comprehend that a new (but tested to prove it all works) lower and upper have to be listed for half their CURRENT MSRP to sell. I completely understand what everyone is saying about the complete rifle. People either want a prebuilt for cheaper, prebuilt name brand or build their own according to their specific tastes. But people on the market for parts ignore 20% savings on brand new parts? I'd get it if the parts were too heavily used or out of trend or something... I'm shocked to come across a used parts market in which parts, brand new parts no less, lose their value by 50%. The used auto parts market isn't even THAT bad. Hell you get more than 50% bringing your entire car in to a dealership.