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    edbear2 Guest

    Pushing your luck.....

    261455599983 ....Now I have seen these on occasion make around the £100 mark, but I think this guy is wasting his time!!!

    On a similar note, a 1958 Parker Hale "everything for the shooter" catalogue (which of any year is an excellent reference for all sorts of things, including a comprehensive air section) has been on there for a year or so, It was originally at £95 I seem to remember, but has slowly dropped over the months to £45 or thereabouts, still twice what they normally fetch, and I have bought them for just over a tenner in the past.

    Do these folk never check the "items sold" pages to get a realistic idea

    The above are "Buy it now" prices

    ATB, Ed

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    I saw the Knibbs book and thought maybe he'd slipped and added a 9 by mistake or put the decimal point in the wrong place???

    Can be a strange place , I got a parker hale sight protector for £15

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    Quote Originally Posted by battyone View Post
    I got a parker hale sight protector for £15
    That's because I bleedin' forgot about it ....Was it stamped up as well?

    Well done on that one, I was expecting it to make at least £30-35.

    ATB, Ed

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    Quote Originally Posted by edbear2 View Post
    That's because I bleedin' forgot about it ....Was it stamped up as well?

    Well done on that one, I was expecting it to make at least £30-35.

    ATB, Ed
    Me too, I had my sniper set at £40

    Stamping is perfect, tis a lovely thing and I'll be making copies as soon as time allows

    When I've got 5 minutes I'll do some pics.

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    I once asked a seller why his price was ridiculously disproportionate to the other sellers prices!

    He said he listed the on some sort of auto and when stock ran out he simply upped the price to stop anyone buying it!!!

    Would have thought it better to stop the auto thing just in case!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by johnbaz View Post
    I once asked a seller why his price was ridiculously disproportionate to the other sellers prices!

    He said he listed the on some sort of auto and when stock ran out he simply upped the price to stop anyone buying it!!!

    Would have thought it better to stop the auto thing just in case!!


    John
    You see shops doing that on the bay. They x the price by 10. It's something to do with keeping their ads at the top of searches even when they're out of stock.

    In which case at £29.99 it's a bargain But I suspect in this case it's just greed.

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