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Originally Posted by cadmike
Current production guns are no different than any other current production item. If you were looking to buy a shield as an investment you made a very poor choice. You can't walk into a store and buy a $10 steak and hope to sell it for $12 the next day. Now it's a used steak and people always want fresh. Plus now that same steak is on sale for $8 fresh.
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This is the key right here. With the current plastic guns, as a gun hobbyist one has a tendency to forget that probably the majority of buyers get one of these guns because they feel they need a gun, not because they are looking for an investment.
When you go and buy a lawn mower or a new toaster because you need one, do you agonize about the resale value and how it is going to hold its value over time, and whether you should maybe hold off a few months because the market is shifting, or do you just find one at a good price, buy it and start mowing or toasting, knowing that you'll probably keep going until it breaks?
That's the majority of modern gun buyers.