I look at Gunbroker every day several times a day. I check the guns for sale section here every day. I hit the shops whenever I can. I always seem to be working when the gunshows come around lately. I never have money though. I only get to buy one or two a year out of the many I see and would like to buy, unless I come across a deal I can't refuse like the Marlin 1894 .357 I got from a friend of a coworker for $100 sunday.
do you shop when broke?
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Iggy..
I picked up one of those Red Ryder BB guns myself.. And it will be under the tree on Christmas Morning......( She made me
)
But I sure do wish I had some Homemade Waffles
I picked up one of those Red Ryder BB guns myself.. And it will be under the tree on Christmas Morning......( She made me
)But I sure do wish I had some Homemade Waffles
29aholic
Member
Iggy..
I picked up one of those Red Ryder BB guns myself.. And it will be under the tree on Christmas Morning......( She made me
But I sure do wish I had some Homemade Waffles
My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas last year, and I told her "A gun of course" she said "I cant afford a gun" I told her that I had always wanted a Red Ryder BB gun, and that's what I got on Christmas morning.
I'm having a ball with the Red Ryder. I can pester the cotton tails that insist on eating holes in my lawn without hurting them.
I built a cardboard box + newspaper backstop and I can shoot it in the garage without disturbing the neighbors or the city Gendarmes.
Then when I get serious, I move up to my Shiloh Sharps .22
Life is good.
I built a cardboard box + newspaper backstop and I can shoot it in the garage without disturbing the neighbors or the city Gendarmes.
Then when I get serious, I move up to my Shiloh Sharps .22
Life is good.
Sauron1959
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Well, as Spock said, "Having is not so pleasing as wanting. Illogical, but often true."
Perfect timing for this subject.
On Sunday, I found a S&W Model 520, exc condition, with the original box at Cabella's in Dundee, MI. $700. Love my NYSP Model 28, and always wanted a companion 520.
Didn't want to plunk down the evil credit card, especially at this time of the year. Went home to think about it, check some pricing, ponder a trade-in to cut the cost of the 520.
By 7 AM on Monday, the website showed it being sold.
Call it karma, fate, whatever, it just wasn't meant to be. Life goes on.
Endeavor to Persevere
Dave
Perfect timing for this subject.
On Sunday, I found a S&W Model 520, exc condition, with the original box at Cabella's in Dundee, MI. $700. Love my NYSP Model 28, and always wanted a companion 520.
Didn't want to plunk down the evil credit card, especially at this time of the year. Went home to think about it, check some pricing, ponder a trade-in to cut the cost of the 520.
By 7 AM on Monday, the website showed it being sold.
Call it karma, fate, whatever, it just wasn't meant to be. Life goes on.
Endeavor to Persevere
Dave
'Window' shopping can be fun to do and when you do find that one you want it's not hard figuring out how to get it once the opportunity is there. Layaway is becoming popular once again this time of season everyone needs money so just ask for a cash discount or try and barter something I'm also a computer guy and I have used this skill before to barter with.
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neighbors...???....
Iggy, where in the world in Wyoming are you, that you have to worry about neighbors and Gendarmes? When I lived in Wyoming, no such worries...
but I do envy you your cottontails, they are scarcer than hens teeth in Maine, seriously, I think they are on some endangered species list...not sure why. but the red squirrels more than make up for them...I use Colibri primer only .22s in my grandson's single shot youth rifle, neighbors are totally unaware.
PS- sticking to the thread, I try to sell or trade rather than buy when I am broke...doesn't always work out. Have passed on a few pretty pieces that I still think about, but there were generally reasons in addition to finances not to buy...like that beautiful Winchester Model 42 .410 pump that someone had lopped about two inches off the stock, I guess to fit to their kid...it was smart to pass on that....I think....
Iggy, where in the world in Wyoming are you, that you have to worry about neighbors and Gendarmes? When I lived in Wyoming, no such worries...
but I do envy you your cottontails, they are scarcer than hens teeth in Maine, seriously, I think they are on some endangered species list...not sure why. but the red squirrels more than make up for them...I use Colibri primer only .22s in my grandson's single shot youth rifle, neighbors are totally unaware.
PS- sticking to the thread, I try to sell or trade rather than buy when I am broke...doesn't always work out. Have passed on a few pretty pieces that I still think about, but there were generally reasons in addition to finances not to buy...like that beautiful Winchester Model 42 .410 pump that someone had lopped about two inches off the stock, I guess to fit to their kid...it was smart to pass on that....I think....
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Iggy, where in the world in Wyoming are you, that you have to worry about neighbors and Gendarmes? When I lived in Wyoming, no such worries...
I moved off the ranch about 10 years ago and turned it over to the younger generations. I now live in the thriving metropolis of Cheyenne.
They got all of the civilized laws that city folks need to protect them from Injuns and igernant cowboys.
I just ain't quite broke to lead yet.
It is the shopping that keeps me broke.
1gunsnotenough
Member
I always have a $$ stash for the Can't Live Without gun. And always have some trading material.
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lagavulin62
Member
hey thanks for the replies guys. just got back from work and really enjoyed the reading the ideas. funny I always ask about layaway on the internet but for some reason at pawn shops and gunstores never think of it, even though I know most have it. I hate credit cards myself and always pay off at end of month but this season got a little carried away. be back to cash in a month or two so if I do see that deal will have to be layaway as many suggest.
always shopping...
forever looking for that "good deal" the ones that you get and just put away for later.....maybe to sell or trade for a even better deal.....
Ok.....so it sounded good in my frame of reasoning.however since i NEVER want to rid myself of a S&W........ I'm always broke..
forever looking for that "good deal" the ones that you get and just put away for later.....maybe to sell or trade for a even better deal.....
Ok.....so it sounded good in my frame of reasoning.however since i NEVER want to rid myself of a S&W........ I'm always broke..
Jack Flash
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Even when I don't have any free cash, I like to go to gun shows and gun shops just to keep up on what's available and what prices are. I do have a strict rule for myself not to ask them to take anything out of the case for me to examine when I know there is no way I can buy it.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand wasting someone's time just pawing a gun that I know I'm not serious about. It's funny though, some vendors must think this is just a bargaining ploy. If I stare at one or get down where I can really see it through the glass (I am incredibly near-sighted) they will as often as not take it out of the case and forcibly place it into my hands, all the time telling me what a deal it is and that the price on the tag is not all that firm.
Ya know, maybe I should use this as a bargaining ploy when I am flush with cash. Who knows, maybe some day I will actually get a deal.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand wasting someone's time just pawing a gun that I know I'm not serious about. It's funny though, some vendors must think this is just a bargaining ploy. If I stare at one or get down where I can really see it through the glass (I am incredibly near-sighted) they will as often as not take it out of the case and forcibly place it into my hands, all the time telling me what a deal it is and that the price on the tag is not all that firm.
Ya know, maybe I should use this as a bargaining ploy when I am flush with cash. Who knows, maybe some day I will actually get a deal.
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akguy1985
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When times get lean, my first question to the seller is,
" Will you consider a lay-a-way?" I normally offer 1/3 down, 1/3 in 45 days and the final 1/3 in 90 days. I also suggest a 10% restocking fee if I fail to complete the transaction with the remaider returned to me. No penalty if I pay it off early. I have yet to find a seller unwilling to make a deal. I currently have 2 guns in process this way. Being self employed, my money comes in spurts. Some weeks I am busted and some I am flush. Hence the early pay off clause.
i have two S&W's on layaway at my local gunshop that are a good deal. one i have to get out before jan 2nd and the other before jan 30th. I try and not go in any gun shops if i am broke because then i might see something i want and then regret not having the $$ for it
