Come On GunBroker!! Do Better!

[thinckley]

I know that there are a lot of people that absolutely HATE gunbroker. I get it, it's not for everyone. I tend to have a love/hate relationship. There are absolutely good deals to be had, and also way over priced crap. That's not my issue. This is my issue.....

I guess the new Hawkeye Hunters are now identifying as pistols. (I'm not even going to touch on the price of the other Hawkeye. I think someone is dreaming a bit, but I wish them luck).

 

[hittman]

The Harley website and e-commerce site are just as bad.
Seems it’s common these days.

 

[thinckley]

The Harley website and e-commerce site are just as bad.
Seems it’s common these days.

I've never seen anything as bad as GB. I actually complained once... that was a waste of time. It's the way their API works. I've been on many other "marketplace" sites, and many of them give you the ability to report something as "mis-categorized" and it gets moved to the right place. GB's response was "deal with it".

 

[the_leper_colony]

...I guess the new Hawkeye Hunters are now identifying as pistols. (I'm not even going to touch on the price of the other Hawkeye. I think someone is dreaming a bit, but I wish them luck).

The person who listed the rifle for sale picked the category, not someone working for GunBroker. If you do a search for "Ruger 57108", you will also find three of the Hawkeye rifles listed in the "Semi Auto Rifles" category. Kind of drives me nuts, also, but I've seen so many items listed in the wrong categories over the years, that I think some sellers do it on purpose...

 

[peachhead]

The person who listed the rifle for sale picked the category, not someone working for GunBroker. If you do a search for "Ruger 57108", you will also find three of the Hawkeye rifles listed in the "Semi Auto Rifles" category. Kind of drives me nuts, also, but I've seen so many items listed in the wrong categories over the years, that I think some sellers do it on purpose...

Agreed.

 

[bisleyfan41]

The person who listed the rifle for sale picked the category, not someone working for GunBroker. If you do a search for "Ruger 57108", you will also find three of the Hawkeye rifles listed in the "Semi Auto Rifles" category. Kind of drives me nuts, also, but I've seen so many items listed in the wrong categories over the years, that I think some sellers do it on purpose...

True. Seller chooses the category. Not a Gunbroker issue at all.

 

[bobski]

gunbroken.com is plagued with a horrible search engine.
winchester model 50 will get you ALL the winchesters AND ammo.
so...aside the horrible fees and taxes they now charge....finding stuff is almost impossible.

 

[the_leper_colony]

A word to the wise - if you're searching for something on GunBroker, use the "Advanced Search" feature, but do NOT make your search too "narrow".

It makes perfect sense to look for a Ruger Hawkeye bolt action rifle in the category "Bolt Action Rifles", but if you pick that category for your search, you would miss any that were listed (for whatever reason) in a different category. If you search under "Rifles", you would also catch the three I mentioned above (listed under "Semi Auto Rifles"); if you search under "Guns & Firearms", you would also catch the one listed under "Single Shot Pistols".

FWIW & YMMV, I've found some great deals over the years, because I've stumbled across some quality items that were listed in the 'wrong' category, and ended up being the only bidder!

 

[bowzette]

I have bought and sold several handguns on GB with no complaints except one bid winner that didn't close the deal. I got reasonable priced purchases. Always priced the guns at a "fair bottom line price" which sometimes was the selling price and sometimes much higher, depending upon the gun. Unless you have a highly desirable gun to sell it is a buyers market, but it is a nationwide buyers market. Also using advanced search on closed bids you can see what a specific gun sold for and determine the real market on GB.

 

[bobski]

heres a way i found guns that never came up on a basic or even advanced search on gunbroken.com.
i will use my winchester for an example.......

winchester model 50
winchester 50
winchester
winchester m50
model 50
model 50 winchester
win model 50
win m50
win m 50
win mod 50
win m-50
win 50
m50
mod 50


youd be surprised how many guns i found w/o bids this way.

it all depends on how the owner listed his gun.
a search engine shouldnt be so stupid.
if a customer wants a model 50 winchester, you should type it in and all the combos should be listed.

good luck.

 

[KWend54]

I Love Gun Broker! Where else do you have the chance of finding some of the rarest guns available for sale! Not even Tulsa. I accept the fact that sometimes the search engine isn't always accurate but you can work around it.

 

[bobski]

i dont work unless im paid.
gunbroken makes you work AND charges you.

 

[gunzo]

gunbroken.com is plagued with a horrible search engine.
winchester model 50 will get you ALL the winchesters AND ammo.
so...aside the horrible fees and taxes they now charge....finding stuff is almost impossible.

Yeah, the initial search engine ain't much, but there are filters on the left side of the page that the items are on. Takes about 30 seconds to create more specific results. After typing Win mod 50 a page came up & I made 3 extra clics to get another page with nothing but model 50's on it, 24 of them. If more model 50s turn up elsewhere or are labeled wrong it's the seller that did that & GB had nothing to do with it.
As far as fees, GB charges the buyer 1% of sale price & requires the seller to collect state tax from the buyer when applicable.

 

[reuben_j_cogburn]

had really good fortune with gunsint'l ...... no sign up... no fee's... no pics to send in.....

 

[cleg]

I see guns international has some interesting prices. At least not bidding on firearm helps keep the prices somewhat. I found few rifles but not in the works right now. Found one that has front scope mount welded on, and barrel indexed 180. Don't know why. But price definitely not what I would say as ideal. But cabelas has it in boise so im sure they want there percentage. Oh well there will be more toys to find in future.

 

[Roger That]

how the mighty has fallen, i remember when HB was my go to site now

 

[gnappi]

Gunbroker (GB) supports exclusion search identifiers (my term) just like Craig's list, Google search and Ebay who use the -xxx exclusions. I do not know why but few websites promote these very useful exclusions.

Example for GB:

.44 special -charter -mag -colt -629 -redhawk -44mag -29 -624 -rossi -taurus -schofield -no.3 -magnum -.38 -rm -win

You will NOT see any of the excluded items after you search using them.

On GB, try .44 special without my exclusions, look at the mess and then add the exclusions.

 

[thinckley]

exclusion search identifiers (my term)

You probably know, but for those that don't, they are called Booleans and can be used a lot of places.

I was not using the search, I was filtering the categories. I too have found some deals because they were mis-categorized, but to reiterate what I was told by Gunbroker when I complained, most of the mis-categorized items are coming in through their API, they are not manually created by the seller. Pretty much every firearm friendly point of sale software offer connections to Gunbroker.

 

[xTopGun]

search engines on most site absolutely suck, what more can one say.....