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Can't wait to see how this auction goes
shootuadeal
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Ruger zytel stock guns have their own cult following nowadays and prices are pretty high on even beat up guns.
This one should go sky high. My guess is $2000-2500. Anyone else have a guess?
I'm selling it for a friend of the store, older gentleman that used to have the job I do now over 20 years ago. We won't be making a commission and hope it does well for him.
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Well, that escalated fast.
My comment was meant to say that around an hour in it was already above $1000, not to imply anything regarding your comment. I got what you were saying, we even called it "boat paddle" in our title as some of the collectors refer to it as such.
Yep, going good.
Dude, chill out.
I didn't and don't care, I would honestly be surprised if anyone actually cared enough to send you pm over a mostly unfunny joke. I didn't care so I don't see why anyone would be upset. I generally know the market of every item we put on here, so I have an idea what things will bring normally. We guessed $2300 on this but there wasn't enough examples to nail it down so thats whys I titled the thread "interested to see how it goes". We don't do consignments so when we run exclusively penny start no reserve auctions we can't lose too often or we won't be in business. This is a rare occasion where we basically have no skin in the game as we are just selling this for a friend of the store. The only one in the completed auctions was used and brought $1900 with a scope. This is 100% that a collector will be buying it as there is a large niche of people buying zytel Rugers right now.
If you actually got pms lets see them, I'd be interested to know who said what about your joke.
It is not a cataloged item because it was a 1998 distributor exclusive. See photo number 30 in the auction.
I'm sure my elderly friend i sold this for will be surprised.
When it went to $1575 I called him and gave him an update, he said "oh good gosh, I was thinking $1000 would be good"
This blew our guess away even.