How can auctioneers do this with a straight face?

[LVSteve]

My email got blown up by messages about a big, online only, gun and ammo auction, so I took a look. The number of guns listed as "caliber unknown" was disturbing, to say the least. Now I understand that not everybody is gun savvy and knows what they are looking at, especially when we get into milsurps. Saw an auction a few years back where a slew of unusual Mausers went cheap, not least of all because the auctioneers camera lens had been smeared with Vaseline or similar by the picture quality.

However, when "caliber unknown" appears relating to a multitude of modern firearms that I know have the caliber clearly marked on them, I have to wonder about the competence of the auction house.

Maybe I should start a consultancy service to help the auctioneers, or maybe the bargain hunters will pay me not to.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Who do you trust to auction off your services, should the need come about?I went to check out a pocket Sig that was "like new" on the shop's website. He's a good guy, but that gun rattled like a can of nails.

 

[old bear]

This is a perfect example of the current state of America, and that is sad.

I recently saw an add for a number of Full Auto weapons, that were listed as C&R. Does this mean that the buyer does not have to have the correct Tax stamp and assorted paperwork to buy one and take ownership?

 

[yaktamer]

Auctioneer in my town died recently. Obituary listed his age as 71, 72, 72, 73, 74, 74.

 

[tripledipper]

There is a John Peck Auctions, Gladwin, MI who has "online only" firearms sales a number of times a year. His team throughly examines each piece that's up for auction and you can believe the description of the item is factual. For buyers he is a good one, for sellers you have to ship to him at your cost and he takes 15% of the final sale, not so good.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

We have a local auctioneer that sells furniture, etc. She keeps 60%. Left to me by my Step-dad I called my Dad, we don't have room for it. About $333 a month to store it in a climate controlled environment for two years, it hurts. Best furniture I've seen, it is all book-matched burlwood. The table has two extra leaves, and each of the four have huge almost football shapes in them. I'll never see the thousands of dollars my Dad paid for this. My heart goes with it. We are having it looked at this week.

The shelves are underneath a four doored matching covers, while the piano-hinged windows for showing things is too heavy to move without taking apart. The wife is right, we should stop spending money to keep something we most likely will never use. I don't even know how to describe it.

15% is not bad to sell your guns if done properly. Wish I kept my FFL to do it myself, but time happens to all of us. Selling a family heirloom isn't so easy.

Would I be wrong if I said I don't care anymore? It's like watching a tornado trying to drop down over your property heading toward your dog pen. Kept my new GSD there to get used to my Jack Russell. I ran into the pen with my dog and held onto him. Came directly over us. It snapped telephone poles and tossed tree tops as it passed. Some things we just don't want to let go of.

 

[Golddollar]

We have a local auctioneer that sells furniture, etc. She keeps 60%. Left to me by my Step-dad I called my Dad, we don't have room for it. About $333 a month to store it in a climate controlled environment for two years, it hurts. Best furniture I've seen, it is all book-matched burlwood. The table has two extra leaves, and each of the four have huge almost football shapes in them. I'll never see the thousands of dollars my Dad paid for this. My heart goes with it. We are having it looked at this week.

The shelves are underneath a four doored matching covers, while the piano-hinged windows for showing things is too heavy to move without taking apart. The wife is right, we should stop spending money to keep something we most likely will never use. I don't even know how to describe it.

15% is not bad to sell your guns if done properly. Wish I kept my FFL to do it myself, but time happens to all of us. Selling a family heirloom isn't so easy.

Would I be wrong if I said I don't care anymore?

Think of it as re-homing a beautiful piece of old time craftmanship to a place where it will be appreciated.

I'm facing the issues of what to do with what I thought were items of quality that I've acquired over the years. I keep hearing that such things aren't appreciated anymore. I guess all I can do is keep an ear out. I just discovered that my cousin the caterer likes to cook with cast iron. So some day in the future she'll hear a big clang from the stack of Griswold cast iron cookware being dropped on her doorstep.