If you had purchased one share of Amazon stock in 1997 for $18, it is worth $45,000 today.
No problems with Glock quality control. Their plastic sights are awful, and I immediately replace them with either a red dot, or Trigicon night sights.what has not increased in price in the past 15 years?
New gun prices are higher and will continue to go up
New gun Quality Control is at an all time low.
Will not be purchasing anything new until quality improves.![]()
That's only a new incarnation, as silver has languished for years...The last ten months it has finally creeped up. It's really an awful investment overall.Purchase a $500 face value bad of silver JUNK coins will run $13000. That is the true effect of deficit spending, 37+ trillion debt, and the inflation that it causes. Even with Gold trading $3400 an oz and Silver Eagles $40ish+, in 10 years we will all be saying woulda, coulda, shoulda. When I started buying Gold it was $200 an oz and Silver Eagles at $10. I bought 3 kilos about 16 months ago. I'm up about 40-60%. This train ride isn't close to being over. Precious metals, collectable guns ( not the cheap ones) should be a part of everyone's financial plan. Funny that Financial Advisors will tell you it's a bad idea to buy gold. Since 2000 gold has outperformed the S&P500. Don't believe me, chart it out.
I see what used to be local pricing supplanted by whatever the highest current pricing is on gunjoker. The country gun shops used to have the faded fashions collecting dust and would dicker. Now it's collecting dust until they find a guy willing to pay gunjoker pricing. Granted you skip the fees but it artificially inflated the old regional market thing.I don't think most new guns are that expensive. It's the prices that collectors and cats around here are trying to charge for used guns that surprise me. Prelock revolvers routinly appear at my LGS for 20% less than what I see them posted for here.
No, I bought my radios about five years ago and haven't watched pricing. I would not be surprised thinking about it, it's all asian gear and we devalued the dollar. They're going to translate dollars to yen or whatever before they agree to a contract.It is hard to accept the overall face value of gun prices lately.
Used to pay a couple hundred for lever guns all day long.
Now it seems they are very collectable .
And many new ones seem getting away from the ole walnut and blued steel I grew up with .
On a side note my newly adopted hobby gets the same complaints.
Look into the price of Ham Radio gear lately ?
That is certainly a major problem on this forum.As I was told long ago, as you age you can be haunted by too many "I remember when...".
Hunt brothers? Man, that is far back. I remember when that happened as my dad had a coin shop at the time. Silver actually reached $50 again in 2008 or so. I sold about 50 ounces at $45 an ounce back then....It wasn't long it dropped back down to $14 or so.Way back when the Hunt Bros were trying to corner the market on silver I sold all my silver culls and some mediocre larger coins at $53 p/oz. I'm sure most of that was all melted down along with tea services, etc at that price. It may someday get back up to that.
It is hard to accept the overall face value of gun prices lately.
Used to pay a couple hundred for lever guns all day long.
Now it seems they are very collectable .
And many new ones seem getting away from the ole walnut and blued steel I grew up with .
On a side note my newly adopted hobby gets the same complaints.
Look into the price of Ham Radio gear lately ?