Using gunbroker sales to gauge prices

[clevolver]

It's easy to know what you're willing to pay for a gun, but harder to know what the market is paying for the gun you want on average.

For the last year or so I have been looking at asking prices in for sale ads. The problem with this is that asking prices are often high and you don't really know what the actual sale price is.

I recently discovered that you can search Gunbroker.com for closed sales, which gives you the ability to see the price at closing on the auction. This can give you a lot better idea what guns are actually selling for.

My new problem is that for a lot of gunbroker auctions, they close without anyone bidding the reserve price, or with no bids at all. When no one bids at all, you see the opening bid price, which skews my data. I'd like to filter the closed listings results to see only those listings that actually produced a sale. Is there a way to do this easily through their advanced search? If there is, I'm not seeing it.

 

[arjay]

You can filter out auctions that have a reserve which helps somewhat

 

[CHMW]

I use gunbroker and look at what people have actually paid for or are bidding at, not what asking prices are. Then I take into account my location, how bad I want to sell, and the attitude of the person wanting to buy. So GB is just one piece of information i use to come up with a final price.

 

[R. G. Amos]

Reserves or minimum prices that do not attract bids are actually informative in that they establish absolute upper limits on price. You must be searching multiple guns over a long period for this to be an issue. I usually look at sales over a period of a couple of days since this generally is enough.

You can also check GunsAmerica.

 

[vaskeet]

Is there a way to do this easily through their advanced search? If there is, I'm not seeing it.

Go to advanced search toward the top is a box that says compleated items click on it and it will ask you to log in. log in and enter your search terms. perform search scrool down looking at number of bids. If they have bids open auction and see if item sold. Hope this helps Randy

 

[ralph7]

Go to advanced search toward the top is a box that says compleated items click on it and it will ask you to log in. log in and enter your search terms. perform search scrool down looking at number of bids. If they have bids, then click on the auction and see if item sold. Hope this helps Randy

I knew what you were saying, but think this makes it easier for the op to understand.

 

[vaskeet]

I knew what you were saying, but think this makes it easier for the op to understand.

Not a problem sometimes what I am thinking and what I am typing are to different things Randy

 

[clevolver]

Go to advanced search toward the top is a box that says compleated items click on it and it will ask you to log in. log in and enter your search terms. perform search scrool down looking at number of bids. If they have bids open auction and see if item sold. Hope this helps Randy

I'm looking for a way to filter out the listings that didn't sell, so that I don't have to click on every single one just to see if it sold.

 

[Bekeart]

I'm looking for a way to filter out the listings that didn't sell, so that I don't have to click on every single one just to see if it sold.

The following method will not eliminate UNSOLD, but it will sort out many that were either hade very little or no bids.

Show Only: - select [ENDED within the last 30 days]
Sort By: select [Highest Number of Bids First]

Choosing Highest Number of Bids First will send all of the OVERPRICED items with ZERO bids to the bottom of the list.

This is the method I use ...

Bekeart