Thread 64197693

>10 years into buying my own firearms and I am about to sell out for probably ~40% of what I originally spent (at best), so I can restart the collection now that my tastes have refined
Is this retarded? Or is it a healthy thing to do to avoid hoarding and the sunk cost fallacy and to keep the hobby fresh?

>>64197693 (OP)

>>64197693 (OP)
>d I am about to sell out for probably ~40% of what I originally spent (at best

why did you buy mass produced chinkshit plastic black garbage?

>>64197693 (OP)
I would have spent the last 10 years with one or two guns I enjoyed and a son to teach them with. Purge your spirit of funko-ism

>>64197693 (OP)
How the fuck are your guns worth 40% of what you originally spent? Are you selling plastic dogshit to a gunstore?

>>64197693 (OP)
Nothing wrong with selling guns you don't need or want, especially if it's upgrade your collection. That said, something is very wrong if you're only expecting back 40% of what you spent. What's going on? Did you buy mostly accessories? Even low-end surp and antiques will have appreciated, and while you aren't going to make any money on a a basic bitch gun like a Glock you certainly shouldn't expect to lose a ton of of money either.

>>64197700
Seriously though. Quality >>>>> Quantity. Doesn't matter if it's pokemon cards, fine art, guns, cars, antiques....don't nickel and dime yourself hoarding low-end stuff that doesn't appreciate well. There's nothing wrong with owning guns like that for functional purposes but don't amass them.

>>64197922
Guns purchased new and sold to gun shows or in private sales, priced to sell quickly.

>>64197693 (OP)
You get more than 40%, are you going to sell at the quick to sell prices? You could always do auctions to get a little more?

>>64197693 (OP)
Don't buy garbage and you won't lose 40% of your investment. Is your collection Oops! all Hi-point! or something?

>>64197693 (OP)
>Is this retarded?
sure. the fact that interest in your own collection has totally evaporated because now there's a shiny new set of goalposts somewhere else suggests that you won't be permanently happy with your new toys either

>>64198025
Spot on. He’s impulse selling his previous impulse purchases. Surely this cycle won’t repeat the next time a new shiny toy “refines his tastes”.

>>64197693 (OP)
I've seen this image probably 20 times, and only just now noticed there's guns on the fucking roof too

>>64198022
>>64197997
>>64197922
Okay, maybe 40% was an overstatement. How about 70%? But that wasn't the point.
>>64198034
>>64198025
My tastes are complete, perfect, and final, and all firearms I ever purchase from now on will only be the highest quality and of the highest most refined taste to be passed down for generations.

>>64198055
>to be passed down for generations.
Fatherhood status?

>>64198060
>Fatherhood status?
Enhanced.

>>64198055
Selling old items for better items is normal, liquidating your entire collection for pennies on the dollar is dumb and just suggests you have impulsive spending habits. It’s fine to be realistic and know your mass produced low end rifle isn’t going to appreciate but just take it slow and make sure you actually want to sell it.

>>64197693 (OP)
Literally all you need is an 11.5 PSA AR and a gen 3 glock 19

>>64198084
The nice thing about firearms is they don't generally go bad.

>>64198218
You keep saying this and yet you never post yours.

>>64198247
ok here you go mr anon

>>64197693 (OP)
IMO, the only reason to sell guns is if you don't have the time to both shoot them and, more importantly, maintain them. You're unlikely to ever make a profit, so just be real careful that you don't sell something you'll miss in a few years.

>>64197693 (OP)
Sounds retarded to me.

What guns are you selling and what are you looking to pick up?

>>64197693 (OP)
OP let's get to the root of the problem. You're an impulsive consoomer and you just want to keep spending money. I would ask if you're a shooter or a collector but it's obvious you're just a collector.
>keep the hobby fresh
Instead of buying 20 black glocks you're going to buy 20 peanut butter glocks? You're just going to get bored again.

>>64198550
>you're just a collector
I'm actually more of a shooter. I want to sell the guns because I don't shoot them much. I would rather have a few nice guns that I don't shoot much, than several mediocre guns that I don't shoot much.

>>64198590
I don't think you actually own any guns.

>>64198860
I don't care.

>>64198590
>I'm actually more of a shooter. I want to sell the guns because I don't shoot them much.
make this make sense

>>64198903
These statements are not mutually exclusive.

>>64197693 (OP)
>retarded?
I don't think so. Materialism isn't a good thing, and if you don't enjoy certain guns anymore, then sure, get rid of them. Doesn't make sense to keep them around. I think I would try to aim for at least 80% of their value though. 40% seems very low, although if you want to get rid of them quickly, then 40% will guarantee they sell extremely fast.

Even if you don't hit 80%, you might still land at something like 60% which is still more. IDK, evaluate it on a gun-by-gun basis. This is a hobby were a lot of stuff tends to hold it's value quite well or else appreciate steadily. Unless you want them gone ASAP, I think 40% is the only truly retarded part of your plan.

The only guns I would keep are:
1. Rare stuff. Hold on to it, typically value increases when you hold it, or regret increases when you let go. You can pass them on to a child. Another option would be to sell it to friend. If you ever wanted to buy it back, getting it from a friend would probably be the best avenue.
2. Your first gun. Never, never sell it.

>>64198903
Safe queens, obviously.
Another example: You might own two AR-15s that are nearly identical, and for whatever reason, you just happen to shoot Firearm A much more than Firearm B.

>>64198903
man owns 20 guns
all the bullets go through 3 guns while the other 17 rust in a shed or maybe get used once every other year.

>>64198590
>I want to sell the guns because I don't shoot them much. I would rather have a few nice guns that I don't shoot much, than several mediocre guns that I don't shoot much.
I mean that's a good answer and reasonable.
I think what you're asking us is if it's healthy to collect a massive arsenal again, to which I'd say
Only if it's stuff you're actually going to give a shit about and shoot

It's perfectly healthy to reevaluate a collection in order to eliminate waste; to me a tool or machine that is sitting around, that is redundant, and that you won't ever use again- that's waste. Especially if you don't want to use it. Doesn't matter if selling it won't recoup the full money value- a gun in a safe, not firing is a waste, as is a car sitting in a driveway never being driven or power-tools sitting in a garage used once and never touched again.
It's not healthy to do this and then start collecting clutter again, for lack of a better term.
Pick the things you currently shoot now, the things that are rare, the things that are truly sentimental, then go about trying to get what you can from the things that don't fit that criterion.
Then, in the future, when you want something, don't just impulse buy it, but actually sit and ask yourself if there's really some reason you need to plonk cash down to own it.

>>64198967
>>64198969
but he wants to sell ALL his guns

>>64198983
Then is he wants to do that he can
He's a grown adult, and it's not like it's going to happen all at once.

>>64198983
and he wants new ones, maybe he bought 10 years of garbage.
if some guy bought everything from ikea but now has the money to get real furniture. why keep the trash?

>>64197693 (OP)
I know this image is rage bait for antigunners but its rage bait for me for someone to own so many guns and live in a shit house.

>OP troll thread
>30+ replies

>>64199234
Yes, threads are made with the intention of getting replies and keeping the thread alive, that's how it works anon.
Reddit might suit you better with its "is this wrongthink or not" thread bumping system.

>buy high sell low

I'll give you 60%

>>64199234
There's no such thing as trolling on 4chan anymore.
4chan is so desperate for fake traffic to boost their click numbers that they don't enforce most of the rules anymore.

>>64197693 (OP)
Natural progression in all hobbies, soon you’ll be in the only the best mode then you’ll be the old dude who can make whatever is cheapest work

>>64197922
Probably because there is a ton of wear on the slides from carry, probably because a lot of the barrels are close to shot out etc

>>64198976
>Pick the things you currently shoot now, the things that are rare, the things that are truly sentimental, then go about trying to get what you can from the things that don't fit that criterion.
This anon is verylevelheadedandreasonablemaxxed

>>64197924
>low-end stuff that doesn't appreciate well.
It's like you haven't looked at the surplus market in the last ten years.

>>64198055
Since nobody asked yet. What were you collecting and how is your taste now? What changed and what are you going to collect now? I don't judge, you can give the guns to your local bum for all I care. It's your money and no retard on 4chan has right telling you what to do.

>>64197693 (OP)
Your concealed carry pistol is the only gun that will protect you outside of your home.
Everything else is a toy.

>>64199180
thank you.

>>64197693 (OP)
how many do you own? also, guns to me seem like one of those things where you never sell, only buy. if youre gonna sell them, why not just clean them all, keep em in a dehhumidified safe and sell them in like 30 years when theyve exponentially grown in value? id say just buy another gun safe and store them there, don't sell. its like a low mileage perfect condition 69 corvette, its ONLY going up in value, hold onto it and use it to pay off your kids college one day. and who isnt to say that your taste isnt goiing to change again back to what it used to be, man wasn't it cool when I had all those guns from the beginning of my gun journey... I shoudl buy those again...

>>64203454
>>low-end stuff that doesn't appreciate well.
How did your reading comprehension get so bad? If I said "all surp appreciates, even the cheap stuff" would that be more clear to you?

>>64205163
>if youre gonna sell them, why not just clean them all, keep em in a dehhumidified safe and sell them in like 30 years
I'm not OP, but if he wants to make money that way it makes more sense to sort out the collection, keep the stuff that will appreciate the most, sell the stuff that won't, and convert that back into things that will appreciate well. Some guns appreciate more than others.

>>64203478
>>64198491
I like how the two people asking specifically what guns OP owns have gun unanswered, probably because he's a noguns who knows he can't come up with an answer that won't out his bullshit.

>>64206474
OP here. You're correct, I don't own firearms anymore. In fact, I recently lost them all accidentally during a private skydiving lesson over international waters in the Atlantic Ocean.