Thread 63936782

>starting bid is the same price as the price to just buy it outright

Why do people do this?

Also Gunbroker thread I guess

who the fuck would buy this shit for 700?

>walk into local gunshop
>hey how much for this?
>uhh idk lemme check
>shop owner pulls up gunbroker and just says whatever the first result is

wow thanks

>>63936802
That too.

>fagbroker
I only shop at tacticool FFLs with skulls and AR-15s everywhere to let me know they’re not orange hat wearing fudds

>>63936782 (OP)
Gunbroker sucks.
Too mainstream so you are basically paying MSRP on everything or way over.
No real way too catch a deal.
Same with RIAC.
Ian, that tranny AIDS fucking faggot, ruined that website, too.
Used to be able to get bids for an actual deal/discount, now you are paying over market value because the website is saturated with bidders + auction fees.

>>63936823
Online estate sales are where its at now. People think its only for furniture or land but they do guns too and they're often very reasonably priced

>>63936823
Don’t forget about the constant tampering

>>63936828
and bots and shill bidding

>>63936782 (OP)
I assume it's the same mental illness that causes boomers to rent tables at gun shows just to mark everything as not for sale

>>63936782 (OP)
>Why do people do this?
because gunbroker is nothing but retards and boomers

Is tacswap ok? I've never used it

>>63936826
I never knew there were any online. What sites?

>>63936782 (OP)
I want to know what kind of brainrot enables shit like this

>>63936826
Not a bad tip.
I went to a live local estate sale and picked up my first luger for $900, all matching waffenfabrik.
Armslist when it first launched was a treasure trove if you lived in a private sale state, got a S&W 29-2 for $600 from an old police boomer.
>>63936828
>>63936829
>tampering
Do tell.
I gave up on RIAC and gunbroker banned me for calling someone a kike for pulling a bid last minute.

>>63936782 (OP)
Bought it for 550 and it's super fun once you break it in. I'm not a Cowboy Boomer Shooter so I just shoot cheap slugs at steel with it. Worth all the leading.

>>63936826
only where it's allowed, I don't know if most cities allow guns there.

>>63936858
It’s like the grown men that wear hello kitty backpacks
>girl likes this therefore when girl sees this she will suck my cock

Is selling brass on gunbroker a good idea or retarded? Picked up a bunch of reloading stuff on the cheap, came with a boatload of cleaned brass for calibers I’ll never use, all I’ve found online is sites offering me $1.40 per pound regardless of cartridge

>>63936782 (OP)
it makes it show up if you search for auctions only or buy it nows only

>>63936823
I mean I just scored a pretty good price on a Shield Plus PC but I get your point, good prices on GB these days is the exception rather than the rule

>>63936782 (OP)
I bought a Cimarron 1897 for $350 years back, and after years of light strikes, I finally stripped it apart as much as I could, all the pins are bendy, and the hammer block screw stripped with a tiny amount of force with a jeweler’s screwdriver, I suspect it was already shattered. In other words, don’t buy Cimarron unless you want to replace every pin and screw in the gun.

>>63936860
Tell me kike story on kikebroker

>>63936809
>See something cool in shop
>Go home and pull images of it off ~20 year old forum posts
>Make fake GB account
>Make fake listing with images
>Price it way low
>Go back and ask how much it is
>Show listing and act like it's real and not yours
>???
>Profit

>>63936782 (OP)
It's so people sorting by auction or buy-now don't filter it out
It's basically those "NOT SVD DRAGONOV PSL VSS AS-VAL AKM" bullshits in listing titles

>buying used guns
ew what if a black person touched it

>>63936823
>No real way too catch a deal.
Nah, there's deals on gunbroker. I've taken advantage of these personally:
>retard lists gun with much too low buy-it-now price; early bird gets the worm in this case. use the saved search tool to get Emails about new listings.
>boomer misspells key word in title resulting in nobody finding his extremely underpriced listing
>boomer can't into ancient digital camera and his photos looks like ass, so nobody bids on the gun, but in reality it was in awesome shape
>estate sale guy doesn't realize just exactly what he has and writes bad description

>>63936782 (OP)
>Why do people do this?
they boomers

>>63937995
I don't understand why GB won't do basic moderation and punish shit like that. That shit wouldn't fly on any other digital marketplace

>>63938234
Some websites are fucking retarded on purpose it seems. Keyword spamming really pisses me off and it's beyond annoying that Gunbroker refuses to do anything about it. Another one that really pisses me off is Etsy disabling the 'minus sign' to exclude words from your search, which means you get tons of false positives for totally unrelated items.

>>63938313
It's how it works on nearly every market place site, from Ebay to Amazon. I once bought a storage case from Amazon. In the title of the produce it said it was like 120x30x50 size. OK. Then under description it said 120x35x55. Then under another written description it said 120x30x55. Then under item information it said 120x35x55. I had no clue what size it was so only bought one because you got automated replies if you tried to ask (or ESL at best). It turned out it was 120x30x50 which is what I needed, but this way they got more people clicking.

It sucks, but it is how it works. Etsy is terrible because you want something specific and you know you gotta ask for specific and if you don't you get a gorllion tangibly related things I ended up giving up.

>>63938313
>>63938353
Gun broker doesn't care to fix it because those extra clicks translate to ad revenue. You having to shift through unrelated listings is good because they get to load in more ads. Its a similar situation for shill bidding. Gun broker gets a cut of every transaction that occurs regardless of it sells to a real customer so they have no incentive to fix it.

Online host gets more ad revenue opportunities and the lister gets more views. Its mutually beneficial

>>63938102
>>boomer misspells key word in title resulting in nobody finding his extremely underpriced listing
this is how ive gotten many guns for 2/3rds msrp or less. or titles that dont match descriptions and pictures

>>63936823
I've gotten tons of deals on Gunbroker. You just don't know how to use websites. Why are you speaking like an authority?

>>63938409
Its really astonishing how bad a lot of them are at grammar and spelling. Any old school forum has tons of people that refuse to use periods and cannot distinguish between the various "there" and "too" words. Spelling mistakes out of the ass. You've been on the planet for at least 65 years. Do better

>>63938353
Amazon has its own, different, problems. IMHO the two big ones are the failure to properly police scammers and counterfeits, and general sloppiness of their database. I have firsthand experience with that last one. Some years ago my business sold on Amazon. It basically went like this:
>Amazon contacted my company. Says they want us to sell on their platform.
>We're interested, but tell them it will take time because we have to get all the listings correct.
>Amazon says no worries, they'll help do all that for us.
>They did, but the work was full of mistakes. Mismatched images, wrong application/fitment information for parts, etc.
>It took us fucking ages to manually fix all the errors they made importing data
>every few weeks someone at Amazon changes something and all the data for our listings gets screwed up at random. again.
It go to the point where we had to constantly monitor the listings to keep up with changes being made to our listings that we had nothing to do with.

>>63936782 (OP)
>Why do people do this?
"I know what I got" people.

>>63936782 (OP)
someone shared a story about going to a gunshow and betting a boomer wouldnt sell him an overpriced gun even if he offered asking price. same thing i think.

>>63936802
I paid $500 for my Chinese 1887 and it's fun as fuck.

>>63937984
you know if they actually pull this type of shit they deserve to get scammed

The trick is to buy cringe shit that looks retarded and nobody is going to buy but functions perfectly fine like this DOGE themed Glock.

>>63939367
sorry but i dont want something that insulting to the eyes to disgrace my gun cabinet

>>63937984
>Make fake GB account
don't they make you link a bank account before you can list something?