Rare vs Super Rare......a classified ad question.

[L84Cabo]

All guns I sell are SUPER RARE.

In fact, I was selling a Glock once and the prospective buyer said, "this is a Glock, why are you saying that it's super rare?"

Me: "How many Glocks on the market have ever been owned and shot by ME!?"

You see...SUPER RARE!

 

[Ura-Ki]

Andy has it right, just because it's rare dosnt didn't mean it value is more then any thing else like it, or that any one out side a collector who is very specific in his wants and desires. Case in point, I own a 1 of 1 factory production automobile. Normally that would not only make it super rare it would also be super desireable, RIGHT? Not so fast, the details are that It was a show queen that was never really meant to be made in any numbers and by a car company who had just started up in the ultra high end and wanted to show off it's prowess. This car IS worth a fortune, but only to a very small Hand full of people, and then only if I were to restore it a certain way, and have all the documents to go with it! So right now, it's worth exactly what I paid for it, which wasn't that much!

 

[nehalemguy]

So right now, it's worth exactly what I paid for it, which wasn't that much!

Trade for a super sniper match AR ?

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[Ownerus]

Huh....
...I always thought "rare" was what it was if you wanted to buy it, and then it only became "super-rare" if you listed it for sale in the classified.

Like the little souvenir shops I used to see on cross country trips with a sign that said "We buy junk, sell antiques"

 

[KKG]

Jeeze! Really dude? SARCASM!!!

I think I should say I'm Sorry but I'm not sure. I object to what was said and since I don't know the individual well enough to "know" when he's being sarcastic and he didn't post it that way. I've heard that kind of stuff way too often from what I consider "The Other Side" so I really don't like to hear it even in jest.

 

[KKG]

All the crew served weapons, rifles and side arms were always battle ready for my fellow Cav troopers and Tankers. I was proud to be their armorer.
Toujour Pret.

Were those "Sky Troopers" by chance? MSD, 27th Maintenance '69-'71.

 

[ajellydonut]

And, therefore Qualify as Super Rare. Or at least, I would think so.

My [1951] Colt Cobra Serial Number is approximately 300 off of Jack Ruby's Cobra. I don't consider it rare, but interesting enough for me.

 

[revjen45]

Anymore my wife calls BS when I try to represent a gun acquisition as an "investment."

 

[KKG]

Anymore my wife calls BS when I try to represent a gun acquisition as an "investment."

I guess I'm lucky, my Bride knows better.

 

[ron]

Rare and old does not equal high value. It is all about collector interest.
Example I own what was my Grandfather's Colt 38 'New Service' double action revolver.
At the time it was purchased it was more money than the Colt SAA 45. Today
because of collector interest a SAA 45 Colt is worth thousands and my New
Service is worth maybe $400.

 

[tac]

Two of my handguns that went straight from my hands to the Pattern Room Collection in 1997 were -

1. A .22cal Jurek Free pistol - Serial No 2.

2. A completely equipped 1935-made Walther Olympia .22 target pistol - two matching number mags and the full set of barrel weights and cleaning brushes in its blue velvet case. Lots were made, but mine was actually shot in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, and I had the Berliner Morgenpost article and photographs showing it in use.

Rare?

Pretty much, solely by virtue of their place in shooting history.

tac

 

[KKG]

tac; And to the right person "Super Rare" is what I would have to say.

 

[edslhead]

SUPER RARE to me means nobody wanted the guns, so I probably don't either.

 

[MountainBear]

Someday, I want consecutive serial numbered 1903 or 03a3 Springfields. Which likely means looking for a match for one I already have. No reason or rhyme to it, just want it.
That would be rare to me...

 

[nehalemguy]

Someday, I want consecutive serial numbered 1903 or 03a3 Springfields. Which likely means looking for a match for one I already have. No reason or rhyme to it, just want it.
That would be rare to me...

I wonder what the odds would be for that to happen?
Side story.........back when I worked at Larry's we had a retired full bird colonel bring in a in-the-box unfired S&W "Victory" model revolver in .38 S&W, a unfired in-the-box Korean War era 1911 (maybe WWII...it's been like 30 years ago), and what appeared to be a unfired 03A3. I bought the Victory model but I can't remember where the other two went.

We used to see some pretty cool firearms walk through the doors back then.


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[Heywood]

Rare= Leftist gun owner. Super rare= Leftist gun owner that thinks the same applies to all citizens..

 

[johnny bob]

According to this:
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That would make super rare; Just Raw, maybe even still movin.
Anything else is just plain subjective

My buddy liked his steak very rare and he would order it as "so rare a good vet could save it".

 

[The Heretic]

Rare= Leftist gun owner. Super rare= Leftist gun owner that thinks the same applies to all citizens..

Glock = ubiquitous
SIG Sauer = common
S&W 629 = not uncommon
Colt Python = uncommon
High Standard Crusader = rare
Hitler's Walther PPK = super rare
Browning prototype High Power = one of a kind

 

[Medic!]

If I sell a gun, or just show one to someone. I would never include ''Rare'' when describing it.
I may say these guns are ''desirable'' and have gone up in value. Or ''Guns like this one, in this condition are getting harder to find''.

Seams to me. People that are knowledgeable about a certain king of firearm. And interested in buying. Know the last time they saw one. And how the condition of mine compares to the average.

Nothing I have to say will change ''What the gun is''.

Now if it's a desirable gun [ I like the term desirable]. An old gun. And a gun in good to excellent condition?
Well then I need to consider the probability of my finding a gun in such condition? And the probability of ever seeing another one like it?

In a case like this. A collector doesn't need to be told it's ''Rare''.
If you know what your looking at. And the price is right? Just put down your greenbacks. And make it yours.

 

[tac]

One off's have a unique rarity of their own.

By their very definition there is only ONE.

How many of us here have literal one-off gun, of which there is no other known example?

tac