Do You Buy Stocks ?

hoosier

Sitting at my table at the Gun Show an a slow Sunday. Guy walks up and asks Do you Buy stocks.. I look over my shoulder at a 300 or so, and said sure. Other Dealers were packing up

He pulls out 2 forearms a a butt sock. I look them over and ask his price. He says $ 10.00 ea. I stood still trying not to fall over. I said sure reaching for my wallet. He then, said I have 30 more in the car………

So I walk out and sure enough there were 10 butt stocks and 24 forearms. He just called it even at 30.

Then he showed me the 10 barrels. $ 10..ea. I said pull over next my van I'll unload.

He got these at a flea market and keep the rest of the pallet, of he wanted (not gun stuff).

So 'I'm set for some Franchi , and misc Wood and misc Barrels for a while. Some I'll have to figure out. (all new)

I't happens a time or two…….

Don McManus

I have once.

Was at a show and bought a complete Krag without stock for around $ 100.00, went to another room and bought a complete stock set for around $ 60.00. Once assembled, it functioned well, so after a couple of years of plinking with it, sold it to Cabelas for $ 450.00. Told them the full history as I knew it, but they looked up their price point and made the offer.

Junkballer

Haven't bought any in a long time but I did have a very nice Gentleman here on Gunbroker (Oakie) from New Jersey send me a nice set of brand new 870 wooden stocks free of charge after I placed an ad in the "wanted" section here on GB, since he was a known Georgia Bulldog fan I sent him 2 nice Georgia Bulldog pull-over hoodies.

asop

Gotta keep an eye on the market😎

jimdeere

Before I went from salary to staff, staff were offer to by stock in the company with a match of 2 for one. When a German company began negotiations to buy the company, stock went to 8x the purchase price.

Many good old boys and girls who were on salary at the time became instant millionaires

Junkballer

I had to go back to the first 2 post to make sure I hadn't misread this thread………..discovered that I hadn't. 😃

shootuadeal

I bought a bunch of stocks in a lot on here once, just so we could practice lasering on different real stocks to test settings and stuff.

montanajoe

Only time I needed to change a stock was on a Remington model 710. It had the grey synth. stock with the broken trigger guard. Remington replaced it free with the new nice looking black synth. stock.

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Ditch-Runner

Better to be lucky than good sometimes congrats

I use to do alot of gun stock and parts flipping on ebay

I bought a 870 factory police folding stock off a guy some what cheap as a BIN sale I think it was like 25.00 including shiping when it was cheap to ship

He then listed another so after the third one I ask how many and where .

I was honest with him about what he could be getting after the third deal told him by not posting so cheap with the BIN option and spread them out and do better

He was a office furniture dealer

he bought out closed and remodeled office stuff to resale

Said he bought a whole skid of the stocks said ball park guess he had 70 or 80 of them they were police turn ins at one time, he bought the skid full for $ 50.00

He said no one was bidding as it was office furniture sale so he took a chance but had no idea of what they really were or the value

I will always remember that . Dang why I had yo be a nice guy LOL

I could have just kept letting him sell cheap and flipping them my self or offer to have bought the whole lot dirt cheap but my inner self would not alow me to do so

So I sent him some info and email on what he had lucked into and also only list one or two at a time any more would take away the auction value that was back.when direct contact was commom on ebay

So he started selling them for apx 100.00 each What I was getting for them

I lost money but at lest felt better I was honest

Now granted I only did that once I always let the seller give me price first and did well on a lot of stuff

It kept my gun hobby going flipping parts

Rocky Raab

The #1 rule of buying stuff is to let the seller mention a price first. Because you never know…

The closest I can come to that was the day in the gun shop when a guy came in and wanted to sell "three old guns." One was a beaten up Mossberg shotgun, another was something of equal value I can't remember, but the third was a Win 1894. Octagon barrel, 32-40, first year of issue serial number, very clean. When asked, he said he wanted $200 for all three. The boss just about broke the sound barrier going for the cash drawer.

Gunswapper

Would you happen to have a buttstock for the Prowning 22 auto made in Japan?