Looking at closed auctions on GB and old 38 Supers are selling for $1500 to $3000! Last time I checked (pre pandemic) you might see a nice one sell for $1,000 tops.
I have often thought of tossing my Hawes P220 in 38 Super for sale, but am afraid someone might just buy it!

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Originally posted by p08:
Looking at closed auctions on GB and old 38 Supers are selling for $1500 to $3000! Last time I checked (pre pandemic) you might see a nice one sell for $1,000 tops.

Yep. Not just the 38 supers either. I posted a thread a couple months ago about 3 W. Germans I sold, nothing fancy but got outrageous for Sig forum pricing. Like >$2K for a .45 P220.

What I find odd is if one posted a standard P220 for $2K here they’d likely be strung up for price gouging, sort of like the P239 mags that weren’t allowed to be put up at crazy prices. Yet I see ammo being posted here at GB prices, just seems strange to me

You have questions?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
You have questions?

I think maybe I poorly worded that. I guess just an observation that I found odd, but different times and things change I suppose. Sorry if that came across wrong.

Actually what always amazed me was Gen 1 Glocks that are going for $1,000 and higher. Damn near every Beretta 92 Vertec doubles or triples the wholesale cost shortly after they stop production. I had a Elite G1 Vertec that I bought for like $850 at the time, sold it for $2500 and this was maybe 8-10 years ago. Was always waiting for Sigs to be collectible.

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Originally posted by p08:
...but am afraid someone might just buy it!

I know what you mean. I was able to get a few of the 7.65mm P220s for about seven hundred bucks each.

Now they sell for over three grand.

I think the fact that SIG Germany shut down is causing a bump in prices for anything labeled “Made in Germany” or “ Made in West Germany”.

My most recent SIG purchase was a year ago I think. A really nice BDA in .45, somehow the lowest priced SIG in the shop. I don’t think that will happen again. West German SIGs get to move up to the collectible table with Pythons and P7s.

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Originally posted by sw4566:
I think the fact that SIG Germany shut down is causing a bump in prices for anything labeled “Made in Germany” or “ Made in West Germany”.

How about Made in Western Germany?

Wasn't it about twelve or so years ago that you could pick up 9mms and .38 Supers with the European heel-clip magazine release for about $425 to $450?

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Wasn't it about twelve or so years ago that you could pick up 9mms and .38 Supers with the European heel-clip magazine release for about $425 to $450?

Yeah kind of like a dozen or so years ago you could of bought the lot across the street for $20k and today it is $275k

I divested my more modern Sigs and bought clones of my first two duty weapons, the first generation P226 and P220. I've watched the prices rise since, and my uneducated opinion is there are guys who are nostalgic for the early generation guns.

Maybe folks are finally figuring it out that Sig got it right the first time around.

They get valuable as soon as I'm interested in buying them.

I've had a W German P228 for several years and was always passively looking for a P226. Found a couple here and there in 2019/202 and hesitated at $600-$650ish. Now... Well, now is not the time to be looking I guess.

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Originally posted by esh21167:
They get valuable as soon as I'm interested in buying them.

Ain't that the truth, lol.

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Originally posted by p08:

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Originally posted by sw4566:
I think the fact that SIG Germany shut down is causing a bump in prices for anything labeled “Made in Germany” or “ Made in West Germany”.

How about Made in Western Germany?

Being a child of the 1960's and 70's, anything marked "Made in West Germany" has the appeal as a mark of superior quality, even though that was not always actually the case.

I think we are seeing history repeat itself.
Extinct species:
1) HK P7
2) Colt Python in Colt Blue finish
3) Sig 226/228 West Germany folded steel slide
4) Sig P6 (225)
5) Walter P5

I still remember the police trials of the 70’s which led to the P5, P6 and P7 nomenclature.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Yeah kind of like a dozen or so years ago you could of bought the lot across the street for $20k and today it is $275k

If I'd bought the lot across the street twelve years ago I would've doubled but not tripled my money. At some point prices on non-.45 220s really took a flying leap.

seems to me SIG cut production of several models, and the price on what they did make went up a bit,
like a few hundred dollars or so IIRC,


then they concentrated on the plastic pistols when maybe the classics were still in some demand,



and at one time, again IIRC, the classics were affordable (relatively) used, since there were so many trade ins besides DAO 40's,,,

once they all dried up the pricing started to go up,

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if I'd bought the lot across the street twelve years ago I would've doubled but not tripled my money.

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-Sounds like you bought in the wrong neighborhood