I am old and have guns I dont shoot anymore and want to sell off. I have searched the on line gun auctions to try to find real life prices on sold guns. When its time for you to sell guns where do you look? This is not a post to try to drum up views in the wrong place. Thanks

GB is a good place to get a good idea of what the market will bear. Do an advanced search under sold items and come up with an average based on as many sales as you can make applicable. More obscure guns may not be found, however.

With a gun broker account, I look at the completed auctions in the search and feel that's the best way to see what market value is.

You can also use the blue book of firearms. I have the new one and it has about 500 pages.
I have found everything in there with values of grading.

Depends on what you have.

Gunbroker has most of the common stuff and a few scarce items to review.

The blue book has helped me. It says that a 7.65mm P220 is worth $100 less than the .45 because it has a heel release.
I have bought two 7.65mm P220s and one in .38 Super priced this way.

My buddy owns a gun store and looking on gunbroker is exactly how he prices stuff.

Some things get weird, but most times you can find what you have. A customer brought in a Winchester lever action 10 ga shotgun, like the terminator used in the movie. Model 1887...the customer was sure it was easily worth 8-10k. My friend told him he would consign it on GB but he didn’t think it would sell for anything over a grand.
Gun never sold because the customer wasn’t able to understand the market drives the price. Not some number conjured up out of the air.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
My buddy owns a gun store and looking on gunbroker is exactly how he prices stuff.

Some things get weird, but most times you can find what you have. A customer brought in a Winchester lever action 10 ga shotgun, like the terminator used in the movie. Model 1887...the customer was sure it was easily worth 8-10k. My friend told him he would consign it on GB but he didn’t think it would sell for anything over a grand.
Gun never sold because the customer wasn’t able to understand the market drives the price. Not some number conjured up out of the air.

that happens often , esp with older guys that collected when some items were hot, and now are not (Winchester shotguns in general)


I use Gunborker Completed auctions, making sure they had a bid (lots of 0 bids sometimes)

I usually use GB previous sold. I have posted right here on SF asking about weird or unusual guns that I wanted to sell but couldn’t find any recent sales.

There’s so much knowledge on this site that no matter what gun you are trying to sell there will be plenty of people who will know all about it and can give you a reasonable asking price. I think I have done that with 3 or 4 guns in the past.

My biggest fear is that my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them!!

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Originally posted by Windwolf:
My biggest fear is that my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them!!

No worse than letting our son's pick and choose which they want. Cherry pick the good ones and leave the dregs. Or separate pairs.

Even paying a dealer’s cut ( depending on the dealer it varies of course, mine took 15%) just putting my guns on gun broker or a couple times used my local auction house, I have always done real well price wise with no hassle on my end.
Before moving out west I did a purge and sold about 20 or so guns, all but one sold for more than I had in them easily, and some much more. A Remington 40x repeater ( iron sights 308 I used for national match style competition) I bought in the late 1980’s for around $300. When sold through gunbroker it brought almost ten times the money.
All I had to do was drop the collection off at the dealer and he did the pictures listing etc.
more recently I used a local auction house and even with the 15% sellers premium, all the guns I cut loose brought more than I expected.
My gun club has a for sale page on their website, and that has sold things pretty quick for me too.

Thanks, I have looked at Gunbroker but now I know where to look. I appreciate the help

New buyers get advice from neighbors, friends, and the internet. Pricing on the most often recommended guns are way up on GB. The collectors type or specialty firearms are not what the newbies are driving up, so a GB price on a Safari grade this and a pre-'64 that, can be good indications of market value when averaged with Blue Book.

Those "popular" firearms being recommended may be selling for 30-100 less than TOP GB prices in local shops who aren't gouging. However the supply is really poor, and no one can special order. It is a good time to sell unwanted hardware. Used in good condition can sell for the upper end of its range.

I hear good things about Dury's guns.. Probably worth a visit to their site.

FYI, there is no "new" blue book of gun values. The writer died several years ago and it has not been updated. At any rate, it would not reflect today's inflated values. You best bet is to auction them on several sites.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
With a gun broker account, I look at the completed auctions in the search and feel that's the best way to see what market value is.

This. Nothing beats using recent actual sales prices of similar guns exposed to the open market.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
FYI, there is no "new" blue book of gun values. The writer died several years ago and it has not been updated. At any rate, it would not reflect today's inflated values. You best bet is to auction them on several sites.

even before that it was only updated by sections, not the entire book, (sections are often done by collectors in that area)

best use for the BBGV is the descriptions and info,


the pricing is way off,

I go to Gunbroker unless it is a rare item, GB gives you an actual value of what most are willing to pay. You could also consign them to an auction house like Rock Island. So far everything I have bid on there went much higher than the GB prices.

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I go to Gunbroker unless it is a rare item, GB gives you an actual value of what most are willing to pay. You could also consign them to an auction house like Rock Island. So far everything I have bid on there went much higher than the GB prices.

Yeah, those of us who prowl the waters of gunbroker are cheap bastages....

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
My buddy owns a gun store and looking on gunbroker is exactly how he prices stuff.

I think that's how the local store here do it too. Go on Gunbroker, then add $300