Suggestion for selling carbines on auction sites

[Tired Retired]

After spending an enjoyable couple of weeks laughing at, (I mean) looking at a popular gun auction site, I was shocked by the constant number of carbines listed which were clearly stated (or obviously were) as being from CMP. Now this is NOT, repeat NOT, a call for the CMP police to jail and water board these “re-sellers”. Instead I thought I would offer a few suggestions to those who have chosen to put their carbines up for sale. Pay attention now because this may actually help you to make you some money:

1) If you are going to have a starting price of $750 to $800 as a minimum bid, make sure that you can not see the CMP tag that states “RACK” in the picture. It kinda gives away that you are wanting people to pay twice what you just paid for it.

2) When you open up the CMP shipping box to take a picture to post on the auction site, at least wipe off the grease and move the CMP paperwork out of the picture.

3) If you are going to mention that you have the CMP paperwork, make sure you are not asking $900. Again, we all know what you paid for it.

4) Don’t use the words “rare model” to describe an Inland. Oh, and ALL Inlands were WWII models.

5) Best suggestion of the day - Before you set your starting bid or your reserve above, say $800, look at the FOUR (4) pages of carbine listings at $800 that have ZERO bids. If no one is bidding on theirs at high prices, chances are we aren’t going to bid on yours at the same price.

Does anyone else have suggestions they would like to make?

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