Tough decision I had to make: having to sell a carbine

[INLAND44]

Since somebody pushed the button in the first 24 hours, it makes me wonder how much money you left on the table. I did that ONCE on a Ruger Blackhawk in .41 AE, NIB. I got it from a guy at work for $300 and put it on GB the next day with a BIN of $500. A little while after starting the auction I got back on and searched for it as if I were looking for one, just to make sure it could be easily found with my title. I couldn't find it. It was sort of perplexing until it dawned on me to search Completed Items. Sure enough, somebody hit the button 55 minutes in. I haven't used BIN on a gun auction ever since.

[WarPig1976]

This discussion is exactly why my favorite saying is "It's time to pay the piper" it's the easiest way I can convey to my sons, that sometimes life's a Mother....

[sakorick]

Just to clear the air. I purchased Bernie's SP for his full asking price. He needed $$ and I needed a SP as it rounds out my collection. Regards, Rick.

[frankderrico]

Glad to here that Rick. I'm sure Bernie is happy it went to a forum member and that he knows it will be well taken care of.

Best Regards.....Frank

[imarangemaster]

Thanks Rick. I wasn't going to name the buyer.

Sure, I could have left an open auction with no buy it now, and it may have been more. I needed the cash, and $850 I though was a good price for the buyer (especially a forum member), and still a little more than I had into it. Enjoy it Rick, It is a sweet shooter!

I am happy and he is happy!

[Mikey51]

It looks like a bunch of us old timers are sailing in the same boat ! I have slowly reduced my collection from 15 to 6. Sometimes for financial reasons but also because they keep changing the law all the time. Here in N.Z, they change the rules so often you never know if what you have is legal or not. What makes me real angry is that because of U.S laws, I cannot sell some of my Carbines to longtime friends/ collecters in the States, where they were made and rightfully belong ! History being preserved in the right place ! The new law makers can take the lot, but my correct 5 digit Inland and first block STD.PRO will be the last to go. I am so angry ..... a law abiding, legal firearms owner for 44 years and now I am treated like a criminal. Grrrrr. Mikey. N.Z.

[Bruce McAskill]

Mike I think we all feel your pain and anger. Most of us have been there too and now with some states making some firearms illegal to own it's just getting worse and worse.

[enfield303t]

Been there done that, sold around 50 many years ago. Money was tight, had a baby close to death on several occasions and although her hospital treatment was covered the "other" expenses were mind numbing.

All went to good homes and that made it easier.

Only got back into this game about 4 years ago, almost a 40 year absence but good to be back. Always kept 4 that were special, my dad's 12g., a 20g, Cooey 39 (my first) and a Nylon 66 that he and mom bought me.

[imarangemaster]

The two forced sales I did that killed me were in 1999, after I was forced out on disability retirement, and my wife was laid off from her union meat cutter job: I sold an original SP1 Ar15 Carbine in 99% condition and a 99% Poly-Tech Type 56 AK with folding bayonet. I had registered both under Roberti Roos assault rifle law here in Kalifornia. I knew once they sold, they could never be replaced. One does what one has to do. I had three kids in college depending on us, and we lost 60% of our income. On the other hand, the stupidest sale I voluntarily did in 1982ish,was getting rid of a an original, un-messed (with flip sight and type I band) Winchester M1 Carbine that I sold cheap (actually traded) to get one with the cool rear sight and bayonet lug! Was I a dumb-@ss!

[imarangemaster]

Since I sold the Standard Products, and am only feeping the Inland with the Type I band, I listed my Utica M4 bayonet on EBAY if anyone is interested.....