Webley Spares Prices.

[Sam99]

I was just looking at a certain Auction Website.
My usual searches :
Webley
BSA
Pellets tins and stuff.

No names etc , but someone is selling four Webley spares , which together total £250.00 , if they sell.
Im just a bit stunned to learn that four spares cost more than a complete rifle.

It's a shame really to break guns.


Sam

[Garvin]

I was just looking at a certain Auction Website.
My usual searches :
Webley
BSA
Pellets tins and stuff.

No names etc , but someone is selling four Webley spares , which together total £250.00 , if they sell.
Im just a bit stunned to learn that four spares cost more than a complete rifle.

It's a shame really to break guns.


Sam

I think this is sad as it translates to higher prices generally and unrealistic expectations among future sellers.

[thisisdonald]

If it's on that auction site. I would make a realistic offer based on something less than chambers or knibbs.
It might be someone breaking a fubard gun or , I hope not, someone breaking guns for profit... you'll fund out when you make an offer 🤷♂️

[Geezer]

I think this is sad as it translates to higher prices generally and unrealistic expectations among future sellers.

I agree. It may also reflect the fact that certain spares that used to be commonplace and cheap not so long ago are now hard to find.

I also think that in the internet/Amazon age, people have become impatient. It used to be that people would trawl through gunshops, spares dealers, auctions, fairs and so on in person in search of the elusive missing bit.

Increasingly, people want instant gratification.

In what feels like the distant past, but wasn’t actually very long ago, I used to enjoy physically hunting down or discovering out-of-print books. These days, a couple of searches, and there’s a “buy it now” or “add to cart” button. It is more convenient, but I think we’ve lost something special.

[Garvin]

In what feels like the distant the past, but wasn’t actually very long ago, I used to enjoy physically hunting down or discovering out-of-print books. These days, a couple of searches, and there’s a “buy it now” or “add to cart” button. It is more convenient, but I think we’ve lost something special.

This is very true. In my youth I would go each year to the Beaulieu autojumble in Hampshire to hunt NOS car parts I was looking for. We had fantastic afternoons meeting stallholders from all over Britain and Europe, ferreting through boxes of bits hoping for that elusive part. Happy days!

Nowadays you would probably try to find it ASAP on the auction site...

[Geezer]

Nowadays you would probably try to find it ASAP on the auction site...

And if you had to wait 48-72hrs to find it, you’d be happy to pay 2x or 3x what you’d expected.

We all need to learn to slow down a bit.

When I was a kid, all the shops were shut on Sunday and Wednesday. Even food shops. The only thing available on those days, during licensed hours, was the off-licence hatch on the side of the local pub, which was fine if you wanted alcohol, fags, nuts, crisps, or those little purple sweets called MoJos that I think were three for a penny. Despite the inability to buy a microwave curry at 2259hrs, we didn’t starve.

[Jerry Cornelius]

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In what feels like the distant past, but wasn’t actually very long ago, I used to enjoy physically hunting down or discovering out-of-print books. These days, a couple of searches, and there’s a “buy it now” or “add to cart” button. It is more convenient, but I think we’ve lost something special.

I used to like finding the second hand bookshop in any new town I was visiting. Nowadays it’s rare to find one, other than charity shops they are almost always rubbish. (Incidentally it was Oxfam not the Internet that killed second hand bookshops. Free stock and no taxes.)

On the other hand I just ordered a book via abe books from the states for £15 including delivery, so, swings, roundabouts I guess. It’s not the same as browsing in a real shop though.