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Lost a gun today... Sad

leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I went to the Port Aurthor Gunshow today. As I was browsing the fresh tables, I saw a Mossberg 46 .22lr in the best condition I've ever seen one in, and it has a $225 price tag on it. It was mine, or so I thought. I didn't have the cash on me, so I got the sellers phone number, I was planning on getting in touch with him and buying it this week, but I didn't make my intentions clear enough. It sat back down on the table, and an elderly man picked it up right behind me, looked at it, and then pulled out a bank envelope and bought it. I CRIED and the rest of my day went horrible. I'll never see one in that condition again, it didn't have any missing parts, the front sight hood, aperature, and everything were there, and the gun had been kept very well. Thinking about it now makes me start crying again. I bet the elderly gentleman will probably give it to his grand kid and it will probably be demolished. If it were in my hands.... I'm gonna cry again... I'm such an idiot... I new I should have brought cash with me, but I'm so stupid... I'm going to get my girlfriend to beat me over the head with a rock...

If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That sucks, I know how you feel, I have had that happen to me too many times. That is why I always carry some cash with me.I was at a gun show today also. No one bought the gun I wanted out from under me, I just did not have enough cash. It was an Olympic Arms OA-98, mint condition, serial no. 0006. Anyone have one of these? What do you think they are worth? I will ask this question on the experts board as well, for the people that do not read and post here.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • marinebadgermarinebadger Member Posts: 115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry LeeB,

    Maybe it would help to think that you didn't get that one so that
    sometime soon you will find something you want even more and you
    can more easily purchase that one....
    just trying to ease the pain...
    I saw a BFR on this site in .444 for the lowest price I had ever seen
    but alas...not enough cash....it's good to dream

    "a Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean amother"
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  • EducatorEducator Member Posts: 27 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I work for a promoter...usually security. I was doing my stint checking firearms as they came in and was handed a belgium made Browning 22 takedown. Now, I am a HUGE fan of 22s and I was drooling at this rifle. Making small talk I asked the guy what he was going to do with it...He replied that he was going to sell it. I asked how much he was going to ask and he said...are you ready for this...$100. Now, ethically I didn't feel right about buying it right there so I told him that sounded fair and directed him to my partners tables and told him that he would buy it from him. Alas someone else was privy to the conversation and as soon as the guy turned around he whipped out a c-note so fast that Franklins hair came out of the pony tail. I too cry every time I think of it. Was it really worth the ethics? I don't know...at least I'm uncompromised so far. But if it happened again I'm not sure what would happen.
    D

    "When in doubt...whip it out!"
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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few years ago I was at a gun show and ran into a LEO I sold a
    customized Colt CC .45 too. He was wanting some new "all the
    rage" pistol, and wanted to trade the Colt or sell it. When I had the Colt worked, I had over $600 in it (1979).
    It was a competition accuracy job, complete with S&W rear sight.
    It would shoot under 2 inches at 50 yards (ransom rest). I was
    going through a monetary crisis at the time, and didn't have much
    cash. He wanted $300 for the Colt. Because he wanted to buy a new
    pistol he wouldn't take a check. I went home and cried. Now, if
    I don't have the cash, I go to my trusty banker and get a loan before
    a gun show. If I don't use the money I take it back Monday.

    Don't send flowers when I die. Send money now, I can buy more ammo.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    If I want something and dont have the cash on hand, but need to run to an ATM ... I leave a deposit to hold the item till I get back...or I will leave a deposit and get a phone number...At least with a deposit and receipt, it shows the seller that you are serious about buying it.


    One woman's opinion
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Because I had a similar experience years ago, I always bring much more money than I expect / wish to spend. Twice since I've stumbled across something that screamed "take me home!" and with the arm not twisted, I was able to reach my wallet in jig time. And I've gone the route BlackRoses advocates a few times also. If the opportunity is that obvious, it is only blind luck when one is the first to spot the bargain . . . that luck doesn't hold for long!
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  • trukrtrukr Member Posts: 104 ✭
    edited November -1
    Just like at yore favorite tavern, "money on the wood make the service good"

    trukr
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a similar concept in leaving a deposit if I dont have enough money. My son really likes going to the shows with me, when they have them locally. So if I see something I really like, but dont have enough money, I leave him at the table as a deposit and go get the cash. Works every time. I whisper in his ear, 'if anyone comes anywhere near this gun, scream until the dealer is forced to close his table'. Calm down, just kidding. But its tempting!

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sad. The guy behind you had nerve, if he overheard the conversation, but you should have heard alarm bells when the dealer set the gun back on the table. I would have asked him to put it on "layaway" and given him SOMETHING to seal the deal, then insisted he put the gun away. Too bad.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • michael minarikmichael minarik Member Posts: 478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    27 years ago I learned: NEVER GO TO A GUN SHOW WITH OUT CASH! Kinda like going to a 'fine' eatery and not eating. I have only one regret: bought a Belgium Browning 9mm with those funny sights, like on Quigleys down under, where you raised up a twin bars and a thing ya would slide a up or down for yardage...for $200 and sold it to a friend for $225...still have bad dreams over letting that go!
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  • dhdh Member Posts: 127 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went to the GRB in Houston last Saturday to the Hunting Show and then next door to the High Caliber Gun Show and unlike alot you I didn't worry about finding something and not having cash,I go every time knowing I'm too broke to buy anything,but I still have fun. My wife said "why do you look so depressed",and I said this is my normal look.But I do have a depressing story to relate close to the topic.In 1980 I owned a 1902 Colt Bisley and it was stolen from my apartment along with 7 lever action Marlins,3 shotguns,several .22 rifles,and an assortment of others,16 total,now that was depressing.That's when I learned to read the fine print on your insurance policy,only $2000 for loss of firearms.I still bring my list of serial numbers to every show.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I learned not to go to a gunshow when I don't have cash. Usually I come home with nothing but the stamp on my hand, but once in a while... Sorry it happened to you too Lee, now you know.

    A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
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