Where Are All The Buyers At?

[arakboss]

Tigard Pawn was getting hammered with incoming transfers and that has slowed to a trickle the last few days, I guess buyers are taking a break? Maybe they got their November credit card statements?

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Tigard Pawn was getting hammered with incoming transfers and that has slowed to a trickle the last few days, I guess buyers are taking a break? Maybe they got their November credit card statements?

Dec 8th has come and gone. That's why.

 

[arakboss]

Dec 8th has come and gone. That's why.

Dec 13th is coming up?

 

[ar man]

Most people are just tapped out on cash or most have already bought up most of what they are good with or people are just waiting for a deal that dose come up once and a while.

 

[Yarome]

It seems pretty logical... spinning down for the 8th and then restarting all the buying back just for the 8th through the 13th doesn't make a lot of sense since we don't know how the 13th will go.

Especially since some FFL's are opting to honor the district court decision and many of the online retailers still have orders to OR locked out.

If a longer term TRO happens on the 13th I bet round 2 of the panic buying will kick off again. Just not enough time in a 5 day window to do much.

 

[suretyinarms]

A lot of us are feeling the inflation. I have been making adjustments in other areas so I can spend more on firearm related items.

The lack of buyers has me worried that lower prices are expected to come. I am hoping I don't look back and realize that I bought a bunch of stuff at the high point of the cycle?

Speaking as a wholesale dealer myself, often times our "lowest prices" that we can offer are what are called MAP or the Minimum Advertised Price. This is a contract a dealer like myself enters into with our wholesalers and we agree never to sell one of their firearms for lower than that price. It's a way of making sure that the value of these firearm's does not get degraded in the open market. As I have been seeing thousands of gun deals over the last year, most pricing I see are constantly on the MAP line. I think due to the lack of demand. Low demand will drive prices down. High demand will drive prices up. Everyone is feeling it, for sure.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

The buyers are not here lol except for the 0/0/0 people that joined two days ago and want to offer you $300 for a 2k firearm !

 

[billdeserthills]

The buyers are not here lol except for the 0/0/0 people that joined two days ago and want to offer you $300 for a 2k firearm !

I would love to buy & I don't try to cheap people down but I'm from AZ & we buy private sale with little to no paperwork

 

[arakboss]

The buyers are not here lol except for the 0/0/0 people that joined two days ago and want to offer you $300 for a 2k firearm !

A firearm is only worth what somebody is willing to pay.

 

[billdeserthills]

A firearm is only worth what somebody is willing to pay.

So true, in the summertime where I'm at the prices can get real reasonable--I paid $1,100 for my Browning 1919 & it even came with a crank

They sell for $5k in AZ right now-- of course I bought it awhile ago

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

A firearm is only worth what somebody is willing to pay.

Welp I shall lower my prices and standards to please the masses !

 

[billdeserthills]

Welp I shall lower my prices and standards to please the masses !
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You sir are a credit to humanity,
I can't wait to see those lowered prices

 

[arakboss]

Welp I shall lower my prices and standards to please the masses !
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You can place whatever value you want on your firearm but if buyers aren't willing to pay that, then it probably won't sell. You can always put it back in the safe.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

You can place whatever value you want on your firearm but if buyers aren't willing to pay that, then it probably won't sell. You can always put it back in the safe.

Yessssss !! I only post to get a date stamp pic of my magazines anyway

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

You sir are a credit to humanity,
I can't wait to see those lowered prices

This will not happen management is against it !

 

[arakboss]

Values appear to be falling.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

It seems like most just wish to trade which is ok sometimes or they just wan't to give you $2-300 for a $1500 firearm. I do not need the money so definitely not having a fire sale lol.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I wouldn't mind buying if.....
There were firearms listed that I was interested in.....
And the BGC for private sales went away.....
And......If...the item I wanted was for sale the same time I had money....
Andy

 

[Jay Walk]

At the LGS, purchasing new guns for the same price less the "buyer pays" transfer fee.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

I wouldn't mind buying if.....
There were firearms listed that I was interested in.....
And the BGC for private sales went away.....
And......If...the item I wanted was for sale the same time I had money....
Andy

True there is a lot of good stuff for sale just nothing that I am interested in !