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     Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4485 Registered: 06-2009  |
It seems that the Ranger/break-top prices have settled down a bit. A search of GunBroker over the past month has MANY sub-$1000 examples. I guess the market got tapped out. No more $1500+ sales. Check out this one that went for $639 just weeks ago: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=258456729 Wow. Somebody got a deal! It will be interesting to see if the price stays around double the list price or if it goes up or down. | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1418 Registered: 09-2009  |
It is listed as used. I wonder if it is wore out and broke.  | ||
| 45flint Message Board Member Username: 45flint Post Number: 860 Registered: 10-2009 |
I noticed that as well. But I think all collectables are taking a hit. Good time to be buying. | ||
| Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4486 Registered: 06-2009 |
The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas has typically been a GREAT time to buy used firearms. I've gotten some excellent deals in years past during this time. People are apparently unloading unused firearms to buy Christmas gifts. And, interesting, the deals don't seem to stop at Christmas, but last until New Years. After the beginning of the year, tho, the deals immediately stop. That's been my experience in years past, anyway. | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1419 Registered: 09-2009 |
Then and at tax time. | ||
| Heyjoe Message Board Member Username: Heyjoe Post Number: 1938 Registered: 02-2009  |
i think Louie hit the nail on the head on this one a while ago. prices will cool and then stabilize. | ||
| 22man Message Board Member Username: 22man Post Number: 71 Registered: 10-2011 |
639 was a great deal, seller described it as only test fired once and in excellent condition. there is another BT currently on GB which has been bidded up to $1035 with 20hours left: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=261114136 and another at $750 with 5 days to go: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=260793368 | ||
| 45flint Message Board Member Username: 45flint Post Number: 877 Registered: 10-2009 |
looks like that one was just a good buy, $1000 on both of these even though it didn't hit reserves. | ||
| Glock_556 Message Board Member Username: Glock_556 Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2011 |
New here. Why were these discontinued? | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1466 Registered: 09-2009 |
Too expensive to make. They were basically hand made. Just the internals were “off the shelf”. Beautiful little revolvers. | ||
| Glock_556 Message Board Member Username: Glock_556 Post Number: 4 Registered: 11-2011 |
I want one . . . | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1473 Registered: 09-2009 |
How much are you willing to pay? | ||
| 45flint Message Board Member Username: 45flint Post Number: 883 Registered: 10-2009 |
Probably one of the better gifts being part of the forum was getting the first early bird. Doubt that will ever be repeated in anything close to the same results. That first one has meaning to me the second one I bought just seems like another gun. | ||
| Glock_556 Message Board Member Username: Glock_556 Post Number: 5 Registered: 11-2011 |
How much was the "early bird" offering? Just curious . . . | ||
| 45flint Message Board Member Username: 45flint Post Number: 884 Registered: 10-2009 |
Early bird was $450. Bought one at retail for $529 6 month later right before they quit production. Lucky with both buys. Steve | ||
| Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4499 Registered: 06-2009 |
I have a couple NAA firearms listed on the local online classifieds and I've had TWO people call me and ask if I had a break top, since I was an NAA collector. LOL. I could have easily sold both of mine many times over. I remember $450 seemed like a VERY high price back when the deal was announced. A number of people thought that was way too high. I thought it was high, but not so high that I didn't buy my limit of two. SO GLAD I DID. :-) And two sequential ones at that. | ||
| Roguets1 Message Board Member Username: Roguets1 Post Number: 151 Registered: 09-2011 |
Yes I never expected them not to carry on with production and hence sat idly by thinking I had plenty of time to get one at my leisure. Now I am without one. | ||
| Redhawk4 Message Board Member Username: Redhawk4 Post Number: 2180 Registered: 02-2009  |
I too remember $450 seeming like a high price, I think I only bought one because I'd previously said I'd buy one if they ever made it after seeing it at the NAA convention - it came down as much to saving face as it did to wanting one right then - no regrets or buyers remorse since though  Roguets, I too expected they would go in to production and so had some concerns that down the line they might end up selling for less than the early bird deal or about the same and almost talked myself into thinking I could just pick one up whenever. A big difference looking back, is that the BT is now a 1 out of 500 totally unique mini revolver that will almost certainly never come around again - that's not what I, and I expect most, thought we were buying on the early bird deal, so the perspective of spending the $450 is very different now, than it was back then. | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1511 Registered: 09-2009 |
I bought a pair of them. I have 2 nephews. When I die each nephew will get one. They will then trade them for drugs. They might 40-60 dollars each out of them. But I won't know about it.  | ||
| 45flint Message Board Member Username: 45flint Post Number: 902 Registered: 10-2009 |
I have two collections guitars and guns. Two breaktops one for each boy but got the feeling that all my collections will be turned to cash!! | ||
| Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4536 Registered: 06-2009 |
I also have two collections that have considerable value--guns and rocks. The bulk of my rock collection is iron meteroites and amber, with a few common gemstones thrown in, some petrified wood, and various carved rocks and quartz. My youngest daughter is highly interested in both, so maybe she'll get them when I pass. At least they'll be appreciated when I'm gone--if I don't liquidate them first as part of my retirement fund. | ||
| Bud Message Board Member Username: Bud Post Number: 1617 Registered: 10-2009 |
If I ever SUSPECT that my son, son's in law, or grandsons will not appreciate my gun collection and would turn them in for cash, I will have them donated to the NRA when I pass away. | ||
| Redhawk4 Message Board Member Username: Redhawk4 Post Number: 2192 Registered: 02-2009 |
It saddens me that I will have no one to leave my guns to, probably because I wish my Dad had been able to leave his guns to me rather than his nice BSA 22 rifle ending up being sawn in half and handed to the Police with instructions where to insert it, as a result of gun control and the subsequent Police harassment that was the result of being a gun owner in the UK. Assuming gun ownership and the NRA outlive me, mine may well go to the NRA. | ||
| Roguets1 Message Board Member Username: Roguets1 Post Number: 167 Registered: 09-2011 |
You can leave any guns you have to me. They will live on for eternity as they are passed down generation to generation in my estate. We do not sell guns. We only obtain/buy them. We look at them as working works of art; to be enjoyed both in their visual appeal as well as in their function. | ||
| 1943 Message Board Member Username: 1943 Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2011 |
My first post. From Uncle Lee: "How much are you willing to pay?" How much do you want for one ??? 1943 | ||
| Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4564 Registered: 06-2009 |
Welcome 1943! I take it you are looking for one? I think a lot of people are right now... :-/ What do you think I could get for two sequential break tops right now? ;) (Not that I'm selling....) (I wonder if NAA has considered adding the Ranger it's custom shop, maybe with custom numbers as well, for, what, $1000 to $1200? There are some who would buy them. The research is done, so it seems like it would be worth it to produce them as custom firearms. It's in idea worth looking into, isn't it?? LOL.) | ||
| 1943 Message Board Member Username: 1943 Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2011 |
Has it been put to NAA on how many units it would take to be presold and what the price would be to manufacture them again? | ||
| Redhawk4 Message Board Member Username: Redhawk4 Post Number: 2206 Registered: 02-2009 |
That would be an interesting question 1943. My understanding was that they made a loss on the initial 500 and then suppliers wanted substantially more to make them more parts for production. It seems, if they could get what people are prepared to pay for them now, they'd be OK producing them, but then of course if they were available, they wouldn't be worth that, so it's a catch 22. It may be possible theoretically to make a further batch with enough pre-orders at a suitably high price, but I don't think NAA could turn enough profit on 500 items to justify the efforts involved. Full production will never be viable without a new way to significantly reduce production costs - Chinese made BT's anyone? | ||
| Chopprs Message Board Member Username: Chopprs Post Number: 4816 Registered: 09-2009  |
American made Breaktops made by non-union laborers? $279???? | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1535 Registered: 09-2009 |
1943, Welcome. I don't normally speak to strangers. Mom taught me not to. But you have asked me a question so I have to answer. I was just joking around. I really don't want to sell them. My nephews may need drug money after I die. | ||
| 45flint Message Board Member Username: 45flint Post Number: 935 Registered: 10-2009 |
I would love to know what percentage NAA liability insurance premium is in every gun. | ||
| 1943 Message Board Member Username: 1943 Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2011 |
Thanks uncle Lee for talking to me. After reading the board for some time, in my IMHO you are ( and some of the others on this board ) stranger than me. And thats saying a hell of a lot. :-) hee hee hee. | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1541 Registered: 09-2009 |
I say only the truth. As I see it....... | ||
| Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4568 Registered: 06-2009 |
Perhaps you have not read the rules for this forum, 1943. Strangeness is a not a requirement for signing up, but it IS for sticking around. ;) | ||
| 1943 Message Board Member Username: 1943 Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2011 |
I have one eye that sticks out further than the other one so I have to read the forum through a mirror backwards. Sometimes I read it wrong. Please forgive me for not getting the rules right. Wait a minute is this tfird daerht? | ||
| Naa_collector Message Board Member Username: Naa_collector Post Number: 4578 Registered: 06-2009 |
Man, you're strange, 1943. So--you'll fit right in. Welcome aboard! | ||
| Chopprs Message Board Member Username: Chopprs Post Number: 4823 Registered: 09-2009 |
.....wadja do walk into a door jam?????  | ||
| Redhawk4 Message Board Member Username: Redhawk4 Post Number: 2208 Registered: 02-2009 |
I think 1943 is just "twisting tails" | ||
| Uncle_lee Message Board Member Username: Uncle_lee Post Number: 1546 Registered: 09-2009 |
Strangeness is not a self conviction. It is the realization of others. Did that come out right??????? Calling one’s self strange doesn’t make one strange. It is when others make the statement that makes it true. Or something like that. Still on my first pot of coffee. | ||
| 1943 Message Board Member Username: 1943 Post Number: 5 Registered: 10-2011 |
Well let's put it this way. When my buds wanted to go Duck hunting, they always wanted me to go along as I could see the Ducks coming into the decoys from both sides at once. | ||
| Bud Message Board Member Username: Bud Post Number: 1636 Registered: 10-2009 |
Joe & His Wooden Eye Two farmhands went to a country dance. One of the hands, Joe, had a wooden eye and was very self-conscious about it. Joe told the other guy, Bill, that he was worried about someone saying something about his wooden eye. Bill told him not to worry because it was a good eye and most people couldn't tell it from a real eye. Bill danced nearly every dance as there were a lot of farm girls there. Joe just didn't dance at all. Finally, Bill went over to Joe and asked if he had danced with any of the girls. Joe told him that he had not because he was concerned about them saying something about his wooden eye. Bill told him again not to be concerned about it. Bill pointed to a girl sitting across the room and told Joe, "See that good-looking girl over there? She's got a hair-lip and hasn't danced but once or twice. I danced with her once and she's an excellent dancer and real polite. Go over there and ask her to dance. She won't say anything about your wooden eye." So Joe went over to the hair-lipped girl and asked, "Do you want to dance?" To which she replied in a high pitched hair-lipped voice, "Would I, Would I?" To which Joe replied, "Hair-lip, Hair-lip!!!!" |
