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Just got a call from the seller. They said they went to pack up my gun for shipment this morning and encountered a problem. Turns out they had already sold the gun to someone local. An employee was supposed to end the GunBroker auction, but had neglected to do so. She offered to contact the purchaser and see if they were interested in selling the gun. She will get back to me if she has any news.
 
M29since14 said:
I'm really sorry to hear this. It smells of something other than the story the seller related.
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I agree with the above.

It sounds awfully suspicious; and I believe that once the seller was contacted about not adjusting the price, it tipped her off and she came to this forum and saw how much it meant to you and then made up that story.

I bet that you'll be hearing back that the "new" owner will gladly sell it to you for 25% more. I'm hoping that the "buyer" has a heart or a bit of buyer's remorse and maybe you'll get it for even a little less than what it would have been on GB.

I hope that it doesn't turn out that someone with the best of intentions screwed this up for you when they got involved with something that was none of their business.
I really hope that it works out for you and please keep us updated.
 
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DARE said:
I sold a gun that I should have kept.
Elmer Keith Deluxe Edition 29-3 .44 Magnum EMK0013.
Sold it at a gun show in North Texas for $1,000 a few years back. It had the box with it, but think the wrong presentation case.
$1,000 was probably OK for non-deluxe version. SCSW 4th says 2X to 3X for the deluxe gun.
Did not know what I had.
The gun originally belonged to my dad, also David Reynolds.
He had a gun store in Dallas, Texas and was friends with Roy Jinks.
My dad's favorite number was 13.
Roy Jinks collected number 13 guns.
Occasionally S&W guns came out that Roy could not buy or did not want.
Twice he offered those guns to my dad. One was the 1st 645 model and the other was the Keith Commemorative.
Elmer Keith was one of my dad's heroes.
Roy Jinks was one of my dad's heroes.
Hard to believe that I thought selling this gun was a good idea.

The reason I am posting about this now is that I saw the gun for sale online today. They are asking $4500. Pretty sure that is too much. It especially hurts considering what I sold it for. What do y'all think would be a fair price for the gun?
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Happy you got it back, now just remember why you wanted it back so it does not get legs again. Made that mistake with my 686, twice. At this point I accepted it was just fate. Don't make the same mistake, twice, because you won't usually get a third shot.
 
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What dmar said.
You should limit the time you spend looking backwards.
Only major exception would be you are a Tail Gunner.
OK! I'll tell one. But only one!
One of the several retired NYPD folks I have met here in town went ga-ga on a gun I had at a local Gunshow.
He had wanted one of those probably before he was born!
So I sold it him fairly low.
About an hour later I walked past his table.
There it was! Marked up about $100 for sale!
He apparently got full satisfaction by owning it for an hour or so.
And it was time for it to get a new home.
 
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DARE said:
Just got a call from the seller...
Turns out they had already sold the gun to someone local. An employee was supposed to end the GunBroker auction, but had neglected to do so. She offered to contact the purchaser and see if they were interested in selling the gun...
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Sounds like a bunch of "butt talk" to me, trying to wrangle more cash out of you.

It's just a fancy commemorative and wasn't given to your dad by Elmer, so Let it go. You'll never shoot it and commemoratives typically aren't good investments. I'm sure you have plenty of good memories to honor your father.
 
Good advice, Dave. I'm OK with not getting it back.

The reasons I wanted it back are:
When I sold it I did not know there were two variations of the gun.
The deluxe model has Ivory grips and Gold inlays. There were only 100 of them.
It is serial number 13. 13 was dad's favorite number. Roy Jinks collected number 13 guns.
In his notes on the gun dad said "This was Roy Jinks gun."
Elmer Keith was one of dad's heroes. He brought him to Dallas in 1979. We had a banquet at the Fairmont Hotel and went to the range to shoot .44 Magnum revolvers. Dad and Elmer did the shooting.

I met Elmer, I met Jinks, I have 12 guns that belonged to my father. One of them is a S&W 9mm Auto serial number 1313.
I can do without the gun if that is the way it works out.
 
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DARE said:
She offered to contact the purchaser and see if they were interested in selling the gun. She will get back to me if she has any news.
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Hmmm, that would be about the time I'd suggest a new "holster" for that gun, if you get my drift. Sorry you've been through the ringer on this one.

Todd
 
DARE said:
Just got a call from the seller. They said they went to pack up my gun for shipment this morning and encountered a problem. Turns out they had already sold the gun to someone local. An employee was supposed to end the GunBroker auction, but had neglected to do so. She offered to contact the purchaser and see if they were interested in selling the gun. She will get back to me if she has any news.
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Well that stinks.
 
About all you can do at this point is say thank you very much and wait to see if anything positive works out for you.
 
Did the OP get it back? I missed it. I'm tuning in for update ( popcorn)
 
Did not get it back. Seller called me a couple of days ago. Said when they went to find the gun to ship it to me they discovered that it had been sold earlier to someone local to them. Said an employee was supposed to cancel the GunBroker listing, but had failed to do so.

It has turned into a long thread, so understandable that you missed a detail.
 
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IMO you did the right thing by buying the gun back,,,,, you can go to the bank and get money... you won't get the opportunity to buy that S&W again... don't fret... take that beautiful Smith out and hold it in your hands and think of your dad..... smiling.

Edit- Dang! Didn't see the part where the deal fell through.... find out who he sold it to..... Dang!
 
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