Flash
Buckeye
What a thieving SOB.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=215621602
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=215621602
Look at this
- Thread starter Flash
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Thieving? Not really a thief but pretty darn hopeful. At least a thief just takes it from you, in an auction you're hoping there's an idiot that doesn't know any better.
$20 plastic case and a manual you can get free...Good luck buddy!
If this is the first head scratcher of an auction you've seen, you gotta look there and eBay more often. :lol:
$20 plastic case and a manual you can get free...Good luck buddy!
If this is the first head scratcher of an auction you've seen, you gotta look there and eBay more often. :lol:
Jimbo357mag
Hawkeye
WOW, what can you say ?? There must be a niche market for those rare plastic boxes. 8) 8)
...Jimbo
...Jimbo
Not sure who would be more stupid... the one thinking he could get that much for a Ruger box or the one who actually pays him that much for one... I'll have to watch that auction... if it sells for that much, then I'm sitting on a gold mine... :lol:
Ray Newman
Blackhawk
A Fool and his/her money are soon parted....
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Tommy Kelly
Buckeye
Somebody will buy it. I see it everytime I go to a auction used stuff sells for more than you can go to the store and buy it new for. It always amazes me.
I had two Bisley boxes given to me complete w/ manual. I think if I wanted to sell them I would be lucky to get $5 for each in the real world! :shock:
There is a second hand tool/junk shop here locally. I went in to see if he had a Craftsman 3/8" drive, deep, 7/16" socket. I found one and he said he wanted $5. I said yea right, what do you really want. He took the socket and put it back in his socket bucket. I went to Sears and got a new one for $2.99!! Go figure?
John
There is a second hand tool/junk shop here locally. I went in to see if he had a Craftsman 3/8" drive, deep, 7/16" socket. I found one and he said he wanted $5. I said yea right, what do you really want. He took the socket and put it back in his socket bucket. I went to Sears and got a new one for $2.99!! Go figure?
John
radicalrod
Hunter
hey check out his 3 full pages of "RARE" stuff......and only one single bid.....RR
Geezer
Single-Sixer
Flash said:
What has he stolen?
OP
Flash
Buckeye
Geezer said:
I guess nothing yet but eventually, money from the unsuspecting buyer. If you were so uninformed that your money was spent on this box, wouldn't you consider it thievery? I struggle to understand why someone who attempts to sell something for a price that is astronomically higher than the market will bear, doesn't consider this to be thievish. Paying $150 for a $40 box is like forcing a buyer to spend more money to repair a broken gun that was misrepresented to be fine.
So geezer, do you think what he's doing is ok?
A thief takes it from you without your allowing it to happen. In an auction the buyer makes the choice to hand over the money. Nobody is forcing the sale. Nobody is forcing the buyer to spend too much. If the buyer doesn't know it's their fault not that of the seller. It all about taking responsability rather than spending too much then blaming the seller. So long as the item is clearly described, it's ALL on the buyer. The seller can ask whatever they want but until some idiot pays the price... Kinda like fishing...you can drop the worm in the water but until the fish bites, it's all hopeful casting. Who's the thief then, the fish or the person fishing?
At least the seller was kept busy listing all those precious items that gather zero bids. At least it's a bit of entertainment for us. :lol:
At least the seller was kept busy listing all those precious items that gather zero bids. At least it's a bit of entertainment for us. :lol:
Jimbo357mag
Hawkeye
Well there are a whole lots of people out their trying to scam the public, everything from the guy selling phoney investments to the mail order gimmicks. The ones that really bother me are the slip & fall lawsuit specilists. I hate them all and wish they would get a real job to earn their money and quit trying to rip me off. 8) 8)
...Jimbo
...Jimbo
CigarGuy
Bearcat
Dang! Auction closed! And it coulda been had for $125. Well, $125 PLUS
$12.50 shipping! :roll:
$12.50 shipping! :roll:
OP
Flash
Buckeye
BlkHawk73 said:
Not in my book Blackhawk. I was always taught that if you take advantage of someone financially, it's nothing less than stealing. Their ignorance is being exploited unfairly, which is in my opinion, glorified thievery.
Caveat emptor seems to have prevailed.
jpickar said:
Not saying it's right by any means. Then again, if everything the Bible says (or is interpreted to say
) wasn't done, we'd all have halos and there'd be no fear anything, including priests around alter boys. Well, if "caveat emptor" is ignored, "there's one born every minute" applies.
Amazing.
He has three pages of "RARE" stuff listed . . . with only a single bid of $695 (!!!!) on a set of "REAL" 1911 ivory grip panels.
What a joke.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
He has three pages of "RARE" stuff listed . . . with only a single bid of $695 (!!!!) on a set of "REAL" 1911 ivory grip panels.
What a joke.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
OP
Flash
Buckeye
jpickar said:
That is a price off the cuff. I believe Ruger sells them for that or somewhere close
OP
Flash
Buckeye
Ale-8(1) said:
That's his buddy driving up the price. It wouldn't surprise me if the same bidder stays in the game for everything.
Jimbo357mag
Hawkeye
I bet a WTB in the classified section here would turn-up a bunch of bargain 'collector' plastic boxes or if worse came to worse there's always ShopRuger.com. 8) 8)
http://shopruger.com/Handgun-Cases/products/52/
...Jimbo
http://shopruger.com/Handgun-Cases/products/52/
...Jimbo
protoolman
Service-Sixer
Maybe he based his price on what some of you have been paying for rare cardboard and figured since his was newer and in better shape it must be worth a lot!
Heck I have given them away. Just as they were given to me. I never saw any market for the plastic boxes YET! Just wait, in about 30 years they will have some value as Ruger will have gone on to some other design!
MMichaelAK
Single-Sixer
Jimbo357mag said:
Jimbo, had a guy try that one with me at the first job I worked here in AK. I saw what it was the moment it happened and reported it as such.
The company bent over backwards to get him to a knee specialist in Washington State. Even bought him a plane ticket. This was after we found he had a warrant inWA and the phne call out regional manager made so the County Sherrif's were waiting for him as he got off the plane.
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