Parartrooper value

Hello I have a really clean second run low wood M1A1 carbine it is a inland in the correct serial number range and I think all of the parts are correct. I had a health scare a while back and decided to sell some of the more valuable items in my collection. Now that my health looks better I am having second thoughts about selling however last week I got a bid on it of 2300 I am trying to decide if that is a really decent offer and I should go ahead and get rid of it or if I should pull it from the auction and keep it a while longer. any coments
m1A1 paratrooper carbine : Curios and Relics at GunBroker.com

Hang on to it--it only grow in value.

Warren

Violation of Gunbroker rules to withdraw it once a bid has been made. I think you're morally bound to sell it to the highest bidder.

That is a fair price for a MIXMASTER M1A1-- all or near all correct might go almost twice that !

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Originally Posted by Aunt Bee

That is a fair price for a MIXMASTER M1A1-- all or near all correct might go almost twice that !

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That may be why a bid popped up on it so quickly. Rice, I hope you get a strong price for it. You can always hope that the high bidder backs out or doesn't pay. If that happens and you choose to re-list it, you may want to consider placing a reserve on it.

Rice, im glad youre feeling better, you should keep it, and let me photograph it for you next time

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...g?t=1293668462

You can always have a friend bid on it. You would only have to pay listing and selling fees. Then debate holding on to it or relisting with a reserve.

rice; you don't just 'have a bid on it' - the gun is sold. If you don't understand how auctions work, get somebody to help you! You must have started it at that minimum price, and a guy met it. Even if you don't get another bid, it's sold. If you didn't know the value you should have made it a reserve auction with a high reserve. If you get a shill bidder to win it so you can keep it, you'll still have to pay all fees including 'final value' which will be considerable. If you try to claim 'non-paying bidder', you have to throw your shill friend under the bus. You see, it really just gets uglier and uglier, like if your shill doesn't win it but succeeds in driving the price up, and Gunbroker discovers the relationship between you and the shill.
When you start a basic auction and a bidder meets your price, the item is sold. I would be packing it up if I were you.

With 4 days left, that price will jump the last hour...........prob close to 3K.

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Originally Posted by INLAND44

If you get a shill bidder to win it so you can keep it, you'll still have to pay all fees including 'final value' which will be considerable. If you try to claim 'non-paying bidder', you have to throw your shill friend under the bus. You see, it really just gets uglier and uglier, like if your shill doesn't win it but succeeds in driving the price up, and Gunbroker discovers the relationship between you and the shill.
When you start a basic auction and a bidder meets your price, the item is sold. I would be packing it up if I were you.

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Having someone bid and win it, and then paying all the selling fees, not trying to claim non-paying bidder, then buying it back from him is not shill bidding. Shill bidding is to intentionally drive up the price of an item to increase a sales value. Gun Broker gets their fees. That would be his penalty to keep the gun. maybe or maybe not worth it.
Personally I think just letting the sale go through it's course, he will get a fair value for it. Probably more then it is worth.

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Originally Posted by JimF4M1s

Personally I think just letting the sale go through it's course, he will get a fair value for it. Probably more then it is worth.

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Probably more then it is worth…..I never thought about that saying before, but how can it sell for more than its’ worth if someone paid that for it.


I agree with those of the mindset that you should not cancel the auction once someone bids on the item.

I have a value in my head before I sell something. That being my opinion of what I feel my item is worth. When a sale goes past the figure I have set in my mind, to me, that is "more then it is worth".

Whatever it sells for MUST be the true value, or it wouldn't have sold. I don't believe that for a second. There could come a time when it will be like the housing crisis. A crash in the collecting market and people will be underwater. Having paid more then what they can sell it for. But is that the reason we buy them. I think not. History, Memories, Nostalgia, Family Herloom to hand down, to me are the reasons. If they go up in value, that is just a bonus.

I think worth is a moving target, its’ subjective and abstract. That’s all I was saying.

For me any way…..If I were to put a gun up for auction on Gun Broker the starting bid or reserve if it had one would be the least I would be willing to sell it for. Naturally, I would hope that someone would be willing to pay more than the starting bid. By my way of thinking the worth is what the buyer is willing.

I have no plans of trying to do the bidder out of it .If it sales low it sales low, I was curious if I started with a to low of a price. After this canser scare I got to thinking that I did not want to leave my wife with a bunch of stuff she could not sale at a fair price. I have a lot of 03s and garands that my local dealer would give 75% of the value and that is ok. But I have other items like a M1C, D, A4, 97 trench, lend lease garand That she would really have a hard time getting what they are worth buy selling local. As far as carbines I have 3 and I decided to keep my rockola mixmaster and my bavarian forestry police which is a early inland high high wall stock, dogleg , and original except for the safety.

rice 123, have you given thought to selling here on the forum?
Alot of good people who would be willing to pay fair prices.
My oppinion is your going to do O.K. on your M1A1 on GB. (I think you are missing one number in you serial #) Those rivits and type two band are going to draw some attention and bids.
Good luck to you.....Frank:cheers:

your right I left a zero off the end it should have been 5533090