For fun Holt's Wiscombe how much?

[ratshot5]

£2400

[ptdunk]

Went for £3300 + fees.

I think that’s around £4250.

[JSD]

hi, £3,300 was my final bid.. and the person who bid £3,400 won it.. + fees + postage.
not far off the £5,000 mark.. i was so looking forward to a nice jw50 tipper..
now i suppose i will never get one ! kind rgds.. J.S.D.

[RichardH]

Went for £3300 + fees.

I think that’s around £4250.

That learned friends is the power of a proper international auction

Selling privately that’s a £2000 gun and you would have to wait months for the right buyer.

Suddenly the sellers premium looks cheap

[Unframed Dave]

That learned friends is the power of a proper international auction

Selling privately that’s a £2000 gun and you would have to wait months for the right buyer.

Suddenly the sellers premium looks cheap

Not really.

Dave

[Garvin]

That learned friends is the power of a proper international auction

Selling privately that’s a £2000 gun and you would have to wait months for the right buyer.

Suddenly the sellers premium looks cheap

How much did the seller have to pay Holts, I wonder? And maybe it's a £2,500 gun privately these days.

Not such a great deal, I suspect, although in this instance Holts would seem to have been a reasonable choice. Pot luck really. Some Holts sales don't make a decent return at all.

[nurek]

How much did the seller have to pay Holts, I wonder? And maybe it's a £2,500 gun privately these days.

Not such a great deal, I suspect, although in this instance Holts would seem to have been a reasonable choice. Pot luck really. Some Holts sales don't make a decent return at all.

From what I have been told by Holts the seller fee is 15% on first £1000 and 10% on the remainder all +VAT, that's negotiable on how much you are selling, what you are selling and so on.

So as the gun sold for £3300 the fee would be (150+230)*1.2= £456, so the seller would actually get £2844, the buyer actually paid £4290 inclusive of 25% buyers fee and VAT on the fee.

I make that over £1000 of profit in this case...

[Garvin]

From what I have been told by Holts the seller fee is 15% on first £1000 and 10% on the remainder all +VAT, that's negotiable on how much you are selling, what you are selling and so on.

So as the gun sold for £3300 the fee would be (150+230)*1.2= £456, so the seller would actually get £2844, the buyer actually paid £4290 inclusive of 25% buyers fee and VAT on the fee.

I make that over £1000 of profit in this case...

That's a hefty seller's commission! In this case it seems that if the rifle had been advertised privately for, say, £2,995, BBS member JSD would have snapped it up, if he was willing to pay £3,300 plus fees at auction.

[Muskett]

So Holts makes a tad over 25% fee.
When you buy a sandwich at the petrol station they make a lot more than that. A lot of retail is 60% or higher. Some other suff 10%.

Auction houses have their place, as do on line auctions. Private sales sections too. As a seller the question to be asked is: "am I happy with the price I am getting?" How much time do I want to spend maximising my return and what confidence do I have actually finding the top value?

Someone has a fantastic rifle. More than one person wanted it, that day that was the going rate if you wanted it. Sadly not me