just missed out

[isobar]

someone got a bargain this morning.bsa mil pat £200 on freeads.not too far away from me either.

[Josie & John]

"Built 1940s for the armed forces according to the description."

Seller apparently doesn't know what he had and would probably be gutted to learn he could have added another 0 to the asking price!

John

[Garvin]

"Built 1940s for the armed forces according to the description."

Seller apparently doesn't know what he had and would probably be gutted to learn he could have added another 0 to the asking price!

John

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Can't say I have much sympathy with a seller who can't be bothered to search Google before putting something up for sale (or having someone else do it). I wonder if the buyer knew what he was buying, and what a bargain it was?

[le frelon]

I wonder if it was a simple typo and the missing 0 was just that? Perhaps it didn't sell after all.

Carl

[micky2]

lt just goes to show there are still bargains about if you are lucky enough to find them.

[isobar]

lt just goes to show there are still bargains about if you are lucky enough to find them.

and this would have been the only way for me to own such a rifle,i felt unlucky to miss out by a few minutes but the seller also misses out which is his misfortune,who knows perhaps he had just inherited it and wanted rid.to own a rifle like that would be a pleasure but the prices they go for puts them out of my reach normally.

[silva]

Usual drill is that the vendor will have had loads of emails from hurting, frustrated and disgruntled collectors.
Whereupon two things will happen - either he will sell it to the highest bidder, or he sells it for his original asking price
Then everyone else goes off and licks their wounds - wild, wild with all regret and another collecting myth begins !

[micky2]

and this would have been the only way for me to own such a rifle,i felt unlucky to miss out by a few minutes but the seller also misses out which is his misfortune,who knows perhaps he had just inherited it and wanted rid.to own a rifle like that would be a pleasure but the prices they go for puts them out of my reach normally.

l know how you feel. as l missed out on one of these a few years ago, having seen it in Airgunner mag and told he had just sold it when l rung up, but it was not such a bargain as the one you missed out on

[Airsporterman]

I recently missed out on a Mk1 Airsporter going locally very cheap on freeads!

Brexit!
ASM

[edbear2]

A bit like the .25 Imp D on Gstar a couple of years back that was £600 I seem to recall, the seller's phone went into meltdown!

I walked clockwise around a hall of tables at Malvern a couple of years ago, a friend went in the opposite direction and got the VGC complete HW55T for £70 ...life's like that!

If confronted with something with an asking price of less than a 10th of it's true value, I honestly don't know if I would feel 100% comfortable if the seller seemed a decent type who had no idea...Nice to get a bargain, but the conscience might be an issue.

ATB, Ed

[isobar]

A bit like the .25 Imp D on Gstar a couple of years back that was £600 I seem to recall, the seller's phone went into meltdown!

I walked clockwise around a hall of tables at Malvern a couple of years ago, a friend went in the opposite direction and got the VGC complete HW55T for £70 ...life's like that!

If confronted with something with an asking price of less than a 10th of it's true value, I honestly don't know if I would feel 100% comfortable if the seller seemed a decent type who had no idea...Nice to get a bargain, but the conscience might be an issue.

ATB, Ed

i whole heartedly agree,i did speak to the seller but as a buyer was on the way i felt i had no business indicating that it seemed cheap.so i was dammed either way.had i purchased it i would have felt uncomfortable.i'm not the sort of collector that is prepared to fork out huge sums of money for my hobby but would like to have a few shots with a mil.pat..atb