selling second hand

[nic531]

It does make me laugh, some people have a strange attitude when it comes to valuing second hand goods.

I know it is my choice to buy or not, and I often do buy second hand. But it is the value that some people put to goods! makes me chortle! ...... 'Hardly used', 'used once'. 'sat in garage since year dot unused'. and only drop the price from a current new price by 5-10%. Do they not realise the value of a warrantee? or that the majority of warrantees are not transferable beyond the original purchaser? If selling a motorised item, then sometimes the lack of use in a definite downside! seals, o rings, diaphragms dry out or perish.

personally I feel that once purchased and the warrantee if non transferable, you have probably lost at least 30-50% of the value.... and that is not counting the occasional 'rotter' than may have been less than honest in the matter of how much it had been used.... only one careful owner Jon, a vicar who only drove it next door to the church once a week for the service over his two years of owning it.... yeah I know the mileage says 299,000 but there was a decent gap between the houses!

 

[HonestJohn]

You want the Capstan winch but can’t believe he’s wanting nearly new price for it right?

Thought the same.

50% imho

 

[ashray]

powder and primer are the crack pots high price at the moment, sellers asking todays prices for items that are 5 to 15 years old !

 

[rocketdogbert]

Don’t forget, everything should have an immediate drop of at least 20% as the private seller can’t charge the VAT they’ve paid

 

[Smallholder]

I buy quite a lot of 2nd hand items and look at auctions etc. Something is worth what someone else will pay. I've got plenty of bargains but also seen items sell for more than you could buy it new.

It can also depend on current availability, when I bought my winch it took a couple of months before stock came it, I was happy to wait, others might not be.

 

[cjm1066]

If it sells at the higher price the vendor wins, if it doesn't they keep ot on the shelf or reduce the price.

 

[Klenchblaize]

powder and primer are the crack pots high price at the moment, sellers asking todays prices for items that are 5 to 15 years old !

Try purchasing Varget powder of any vintage. Its why if you want a tub of mine you'll need to budget three figures per tub!

K

 

[User00056]

powder and primer are the crack pots high price at the moment, sellers asking todays prices for items that are 5 to 15 years old !

Age means little to sealed tubs of powder. Vihtavuori themselves state a minimum ten years. If you need it you'll appreciate its value. If you don't need it you've lost no skin anyway

 

[Malxwal]

Don't want it, don't buy it, don't complain about it.

 

[HonestJohn]

powder and primer are the crack pots high price at the moment, sellers asking todays prices for items that are 5 to 15 years old !

Don’t throw your pearls before swine

 

[Klenchblaize]

Yes, loads of SD members swinging the LEAD in the Classifieds!

K

 

[enfieldspares]

'Hardly used', 'used once'. 'sat in garage since year dot unused'.

For Sale:

1 x .303 No4 Mk I. One owner since new...HM Land Forces.

And that vicar's car?

Back in the day we'd have been advised to avoid such cars that only did short journeys like that as the bores would likely be worn on the thrust side as it would have have had many repeated cold starts with the cylinders unlubricated.

 

[Tikkat1x]

it can be hard to know the value of things sometimes, obviously the seller wants as much as he can, and the seller wants to pay as little as he can,
as a seller you can always come down, but you cant go up, and as most people want money off no matter what its best to start on the higher side,
but as a buyer you will no doubt have a price in mind of what its worth to you, and pay that or move on,
iv sold things on here in a matter of minutes and thought it must of been to cheap, or maybe the right price just advertised at the right time, i sometimes know iv paid for something at the top end but if i wanted it then iv bought it, as long as it wasnt silly money, and sometimes saving a few quid is better than paying full price some something new, depending on what it is of cause,
sometimes i see things so over priced i just think theres no negotiating there, and just move on, when some times i feel like asking the seller if hes off his tits,

its a funny old game, now Ffs will someone buy my rifle and summit press i have for sale

 

[308rws]

The UK market appears flooded with new rifles with the majority of prices well above inflation. Many more shooters appear to change their rifles these days well before they’re shot out. So, there are auction houses and gunshops full of perfectly serviceable rifles. It’s a buyer’s market provided you can get a variation, try before you buy and know how to check a barrel with a bore scope. Many of the best secondhand rifles are being exported by the trade. Makes you wonder where the market is headed, interesting times.

 

[nic531]

You want the Capstan winch but can’t believe he’s wanting nearly new price for it right?

Thought the same.

50% imho

I don't actually want it, and its not the only thing I have seen recently like it