I occasionally see some rifles etc traded in but have never done so myself.
Has anyone done it and gotten a decent price for it or is it a low ball sort of thing
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I occasionally see some rifles etc traded in but have never done so myself.
Has anyone done it and gotten a decent price for it or is it a low ball sort of thing
Usually lowball as the dealer will chuck a mark up in. Best to sell privately if you can.
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depends who your trading with and what your trading?
Ive done very well on some firearms in the past
But it can be like trading a car where they will give you peanuts for it
Some will sell on behalf, taking a % of the sale price.
Been a long long time since I've traded a rifle
Here an example
I bought a Sako 85 Deluxe , beautiful rifle, has fired 11 rds of factory 6.5x55 since i bought it and has never been hunting though has been carefully fondled a lot.
When the Tikka Tac came out , I took it back to H/F purely as a matter of interest to see what I could get as a trade on the Tac which then was selling for 3400 hundred.
The Deluxe as above was in perfect nic and had fired only 11 slow factory Blue box rounds, very accurately I might add, it is infact the only rifle I own or have owned for 30 odd yrs that hasn't been "Improved" :) in some way
Any way I expected to be somewhere in the ball park of the Tac, but no, I was offered two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars less than I paid for it with a 1400$ change over price going Hunting and Fishing's way.
I've bought two more rifles and a shotgun since that day, one rifle was second hand but the other and the shot gun was new, none of them were bought from Hunting and Fishing.
It comes down to what the rifle is and how sellable it is.
Plenty of nice rifles out there but if it's in an odd or out of favor caliber that will hurt its price.
Edit . The 260 above is a perfect example .
Great rifle and a great caliber but to sell it ? Difficult one to sell to 90% of people that come into most shops
I'd buy one in 85 Finn at 1500 Plus 10 plus gst, if it was as buzman says, which i don't doubt, trouble is H/F will probably put 25-30% the trade price then gst.
This is why I liked Lindsay Duncan, buy a rifle or gun from him, upgrade with him he'd give you a fair price for your trade and a bloody good change over better than you'd get ..nah not going there.
Independent guys like him are almost non existent now and we are the worse off for it.
They are dealers, they have to make money to stay in business, this is how life works. To pay you what you think it's worth, lose that money sitting in the account until it gets sold for however many weeks or months, pay tax on the sale, take the risk of a punter dinging it, pay insurance on it, and finally make a profit... How are they going to do that without it having a shop price of what you think it's worth? Better you sell it on the second hand market for a sum you feel is fair, then go to the shop with cash and buy what you want.
Thats assuming it sits Tommy and the reason stuff sit's second hand is because it's too dear.
When you can buy something new for [ Depending on the brand] not a reasonable amount more then I agree why wouldn't you .
Buy for a fair price, trade for a fair price and stock will move quicker, it certainly used to.
Mind you, that was back when things were different. Gun shops now are full of cheap shit plastic crap
Sorry, getting emotional :( we play the Chiefs shortly and that's pretty important.:)
Go the Chiefs
Thought so. The rifle will probably sell fine I just thought it might be worth doing depending on the price and if anyone has any interest.
Just the usual Auckland dealers.
I don't think they would be keen as it's not worth much.
That's a pretty shockingly one sided trade.
There is a Golden rule I find normally applies to trading in Firearms and it consists of 2 parts:
Part 1# As a trade your rifle is worth..............fuck all
Part 2 # But to buy a rifle it suddenly is worth ...gold....... as if by magic a dealer can turn a crusty dog shit into a highly polished gem.
Going to give it a go on Monday so will let you know how it goes. I don't have high expectations.
I had a blue synthetic poo70 Zastava that I managed to a straight swap for a mint condition blue wood 308 Zastava... Not your average trade though. That was H&F, before the whole throw us under the bus incident. Don't flame me - I just didn't catch the 270 bug.
Ah yes. Like when you trade in an old banger and they try to sell a car thta needs 2k of work for 2k.
If you get what you paid for it then that'd be good. Are you going to be going to all 3 main stores?
Must be a sign of the times. As we talked about they usually shift on ok. Even post 64 ones.
I do it a bit but dont expect to make money on it i traded 2 rifles last weekend on mrs nds new 22 first i tried to sell them on tm for fuk all didnt sell so traded them for 20$ less than wanted so was happy with that plus i understand that the shop has to make money as well
I traded an excellent condition Miroku MK70 shotgun with an independent gun shop. Got what I paid for it in trade in value which was $2000. The gunshop then put it up for sale at $2500 and it sold!
I traded a Weatherby Vanguard 300wsm for my Browning A bolt. Got $1000 for Weatherby and paid the $1200 difference for the A bolt. I was happy with the deal.
I recently traded in a browning maxus as I want to purchase a long range scope and an under and over when the time comes. I got what I paid for the browning as long as I purchase the scope through the same retailer, very fair I thought, i also informed them that the price tags on their zeiss and leupold scopes is not what i would be paying,they agreed. (Not hunting and fisting, they can eat a bag of dicks)
Seems like a mixed bag. Good to hear some positive experiences
was this just a random question
sometimes the trade in price depends on the price of the rifle your trading it on you could try it on here as well even if it doesn't sell youll get an idea of what you might get for a trade in or swap
They will want to make 25-50% on it and can only sell it for what it’s worth
So they will offer 50% possibly less of what it’s worth on the market ie trademe
I wouldn't do it. Did it once out of desperation - got shafted.