I've been to the Gold and Silver Pawn shop and I thought their prices were high. They had a Springfield trapdoor .45-70 they wanted $1300, it was pretty nice, maybe 6 out of 10. Dad has a much nicer one he paid $800 for from a gun dealer... When I asked to look at it the guy gave the whole talk about it being a converted "musket" and all. I pointed out that this one obviously wasn't converted (it was much too nice, no obvious tool marks etc) it had been made as a trapdoor and that they didn't convert muskets anyway, they converted rifles. Dude argued with me that muskets were rifles. Oh well, its not a gun shop after all...
-Curt Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:28:42 -0500 From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 240D on Chasing Classic Cars Message-ID: <43211d63-7253-4e5c-bc16-42a1eb1b8...@penoff.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This reminds me of the pawn shop in Las Vegas that has the show. People bring stuff in there that the owners (or their "experts") place stupid values on it. I dealt in pinball machines for many years, so I was interested in watching this particular episode. Some guy brought in an old pinball machine that they took to an "expert" who rebuilt it and claimed it was now worth about 3X what the actual market value was. There was a lot of chatter in the pinball community over it, and the so called expert really got taken to the woodshed over it and lost a lot of credibility as a result. While he would never admit it, many of us thought there might very well have been some collusion in an effort to make the show more "exciting". This sort of behavior does two things: It causes the general public to have unrealistic expectations of value for something; and, it drives prices up in the market for much the same reason. Dan _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
