I don't want to say, I may need to list it for sale here someday...

I have never paid too much, I have just paid too soon!

If its what you want and it makes you happy, how could you say you paid to much for it.

Overpaying is all so relative. If some people got a mint Registered Magnum for $100 they would say it cost too much.........

If I were able to add up how much I "overpaid" for my guns it would give me a headache.......I would rather just go shooting. Life is too short to stress over it, so you paid $30 too much, if you can afford to buy multiple guns a year as well as ammo and targets, etc. a few extra bucks on a gun isn't going to kill you

Considering it has only been 3 years of handgun ownership for me. I would believe probably all but one, a 686 no dash that I stole for $375. High prices for me are also dictated by my state of residence.

A 4 inch blue steel Colt Python that was engraved and given to Sheriff JD Sharp. I wanted a Python so bad and my LGS had this one in stock. I think I paied $1500.00 and then I got hard up for money and sold it for $1000.00. I still feel sick about that and I still want another Python. Oh Well. Maybe one day when i win the lottery.

Threads with almost no pictures suck!!!

I gave $600 for my M28 and while I know I paid too much for a gun with some minor holster wear, no box or junk, and it came wearing a Pachmayr, I could have really cared less. It was there in front of me in all its pinned barrel, recessed or counter bored cylinder, blued steel and badass glory, and I bought it and you can't have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

None. I carefully select my purchases. Now... if an 1895STP ever pops up again on the GB, or GA, I'm getting it period.

Very true. Also what weighs heavily in my equation of relativity is how long I have been looking for that particular gun or how often i see it in that particular condition. TIME IS MONEY, and when you factor in time spent going to various gunshows, etc in order to find EXACTLY what you're looking for, I raise my allowance for that. My guns fall into 2 categories. Those that are super deals, too good to walk past and guns I have been specifically searching for, which I'm willing to pay a slight premium for. I chalk up some of those premiums as a convenience fee, because I'd like to have something right now as opposed to 5 years from now when I MAY find a better deal or realize that prices have escalated such that they are beyond what i would have paid initially. You have to walk past things ridiculously overpriced no matter what the circumstance, of course.

The previous statement does not acknowledge that attending gunshows is enjoyable, however it is a time investment.

IC

Couldn't agree more with the Ruger LCP .380. Got rid of mine in a real hurry. Replaced it with a Walther PPK/S.

I over paid for a C&R MP44 back in the mid 80s, cost $900 probably should have gone for around $800. Having held on to it a little over 25 years I expect I can get my money out of it if I decided to sell it.

All of them, but I don't care. I'll just make more money...........

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JMHO-YMMV

I still think of gun prices from 1970, when I bought my first S & W. As I still prefer 1970's vintage handguns, I have paid a premium for everyone I've bought in the last few years. But what the heck it's only money and I ain't taking any of it when me when I go, so what the hell.

I am though having a hard time getting my head around the fact that if I want another M-19 2 1/2" it's going to be priced at over $500.00, ouch this is going to hurt.

I bought an "assault rifle" from a gunsmith I trusted. Never got screwed worse, he sold it to me as an investment, it didn't run and was a piece of junk with no value.

I've never paid too much for a S&W. In fact, I've sometimes felt a little (very damn little) guilty in some deals, i.e., a pristine Model 13 for $300, a NIB 4" Model 57 (again, no dash) for $500, etc.

The moral is, if you're a S&W handgun guy, don't buy a rifle as an investment; aka, as the pool hustler told me when I was 15, "Never take a chance on another man's game - you'll always lose."

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I paid too much for a ruger maximum, $750. It didn't have the box and was drilled and tapped. Didn't realize it was drilled and tapped unroll I got home because I'm an idiot sometimes. Got lucky and traded it even for a s&w 25-7 that is sitting at my ffl right now. Next would be my 629 carry comp, paid $1300. Was in rougher shape than I thought. Some scotch bright pads fixed that though. I could probably brake even or come out a little ahead on that one. Just about every other gun I own that was not purchased new I could sell for 10-30% more. I think I have done pretty well.

I've been watching the Barrett Jackson Auto auction from Scottsdale Az
The past few evenings when i get home from work. Watch what these dudes are paying for their "toys". This makes me feel good about collecting S&W wheel guns that are my passion. I too over pay alot for something i want but thats OK and the wife does'nt ask questions.
Like a previous responder said, I can make more money. They are'nt making anymore prelock, pinned, recessed, revolvers with S&W stampings.

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Boy... isn't that the truth. My first S&W (and my first handgun) was a 4" M28-2 that I bought in 1975 for $135 out the door.

Next to it in the display case was a new nickel Colt New Frontier, with a $165 tag. The salesman pointed it out, and I said "I don't want no "cowboy" gun". Seeing what those go for today... I cringe at the thought of passing it up.

I sold that M28-2 a year later for $150... I've wanted another one for the past few years and finally replaced it to the tune of $600.00, whihc made me cringe a bit. But it has made me happy to be able to go full circle after all of these decades and again have what I initially started out with.

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And that is why it's so hard for me to buy a new S&W revolver.

My 632 Pro, just after last Labor Day. I had forgotten I paid a CC premium over it's price - because I used a check card, having left my checkbook at home. It didn't bother me at the time - the little beast is pretty neat. Of course, cleaning out my desk drawer last week found it's receipt - $704 inc s/t and CC surcharge. I'll forget it again - shortly. My next month's find there - an ANIB '99 vintage 4" 651 - $579 w s/t - otd - made up for it (I found it's receipt, too... I need to put such papers up faster.).

As I was told years ago - and, of course, had to prove experimentally: You can't pay too much for a good firearm. The converse, ie, 'You can pay too much for a bad firearm!' is also true. The first corollary, ie, that the price paid for a good firearm is soon forgotten, is conditionally true. Just don't leave the receipts where you'll see them in a couple of months. Also, there is the problem of your CFO finding the paper trail...

"That old gun? I bought it from Bubba (... and use the name of someone you've never met at the range...)... he needed money for his baby's food."

Stainz

PS Of course, I get my CFO's, aka wife's, approval for every purchase...

For me it was a Lew Horton .40 Tactical Competition. I got carried away by the three-digit serial number and the Performance Center case.

I'm not a comp guy. Not a .40 guy. Not a red-dot guy. What was I thinking? I lost a couple hundred when I sold that one.

Me too. Dick certainly has a point about market shifts, but if you are not actually trying to sell the gun, I am not sure how much it matters. And if you think of the purchase and ownership rationally, shouldn't it cost something to own and use that gun for 10-15 years? Realistically, yes, but with guns and shooters, it is hard to get acceptance of that theory.

I can't count how many Model 58s, 3-1/2" Model 27s, Model 10s, Model 13s - you name it - all models that are considered "desirable" right now - I saw sitting around for months and months and months on dealers shelves when I was a young man. There was not a lot of disposable income and nobody wanted the dumb things! Look at the current prices on 3-inch 66s. I remember when they came out. No one wanted them because you could not readily find holsters for them. Now they are among the most sought after modern revolvers out there. Who would have wanted a Model 45 in the '60s and '70s? None of my friends would have given a high-quality .22 revolver that didn't have adjustable sights a second look.

Then along came the internet with the attendant fads and euphoria over odd models that most of the shooters I know had long ago dismissed as less than ideal for their needs. I guess before the internet we had TV shows and movies that influenced the market.

I was brought up in a "What is it good for?" environment, as far as my thinking when considering a firearms purchase. Nowadays, sometimes that concept goes right by me, too - just like everyone else.

But the bottom line, though, remains that if it something I want and I can stand to write the check, I consider it a done deal - like adopting a dog. As long as I am here, that dog has got a home for life. The only difference is that once in a while I decide a friend wants one of my guns more than I do, so I do sell off a few of them on those grounds. Nobody but The Good Lord ever gets one of my dogs.

It's not so much that I don't trust the sellers on GB. I hear 100 good reports for every bad one, it's just that to me those pictures I see there aren't "real" for lack of a better term. I want to hold it in my hand, feel the weight, hear the "clunk" as the cylinder closes, and the click of the hammer coming back. I want to feel how sharp the checkering is, and feel the trigger trip. Those are things that a picture and a description can't tell me.

My comment about the prices is just a reflection of the fact that I don't care how much I paid for something, there is always someone waiting to tell me that they know where they can buy a half dozen of them for half that price, and the seller will throw in free pizza and beer to boot. And they're in better shape. Those places are always a long way away, and usually a long time ago.

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I've always paid what the price was - not a penny more.

Who me? None; but I have bought a few that haven't realized their higher value yet!

I was perusing GunBroker one day (last year) and came upon a unfired, S&W PC 500 Hunter with a 6.5" barrel + 1" compensator. Only 500 were made in 2004. It has a tapered, full underlug, and tapered rib. I had to have it so I paid the Buy-It-Now price which was probably too high, but, as many have noted, I didn't buy it to resell it. My son will get it when I pass on.

On another note, I have a custom rifle which I stopped adding up the cost "improvements" I had my gunsmith make - after he delivered the rifle initially. I don't want to know how much I spent on my custom rifle. But, it'll shoot the lights out with just about any heavy 30 caliber bullet, and shoots bug-holes out to 200 yards with Berger's new 230 grain Hybrid.

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I NEVER overpay, sometimes I just buy too soon.

My brother buys beer, I buy Smith & Wessons, no matter how much I paid for them it's still a much better investment considering where it goes the next day!