Ball Park Price for K98

[jmoore]

US$300 doesn't seem too much! Esp. if it shoots well. A couple of trips to the grocery store will cost not much different any more.

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[Patrick Chadwick]

QM corps must be the same everywhere!

Of course - the function of a stores is to store things - not to hand them out! And the CPO Pertwee mentality* (another insider reference for British oldies) is doubtless as old as bookkeeping. They were counting the chariot wheels and oil jars (even broken ones!) back in the Mycaenean palaces about 1300 BC!** This point is to be taken together with 7) and 5) - claimed "mint" K98ks should be checked over like 1000 dollar bills. Sometimes I suspect the only thing mint about them is the markings. Apologies for being so cynical - it's the result of experience.

The essence of my argument is that the K98k that is the subject of this thread looks as genuine as can be, going by the pics. That is by no means always so, and as you said yourself:

US$300 doesn't seem too much! Esp. if it shoots well. A couple of trips to the grocery store will cost not much different any more.

I wholeheartedly agree!

Patrick


*CPO Pertwee (picking up phone, and before the caller has a chance to say a word): "Stores 'ere! Yer can't have none! Whatever it is!

** I kid you not! The oldest writings in the Greek language were not heroic tales, but stock-taking lists.

[adrians]

hi i paid $280 for a r/c dou 43 and it's not great but it's good, so under $300 i a good and fair price to pay i would get it in a heartbeat if it were me