Selling Dies and Brass with rifle.
I have several rifles that me or my estate will eventually sell that are in scarce obsolete calibers. Better to sell the dies and brass with the gun or separately? I am thinking they will bring more separately but may make the rifles easier to sell.
0
-
slumlord44
quote: I am thinking they will bring more separately but may make the rifles easier to sell.
I think you're correct. I see dies and brass being used as a negotiating point rather than a need to have in many auctions. But when you say 'obsolete', that should give the buyer pause to consider the hassle of locating this stuff in the future and buy what you offer as a package.
One way to make this work is to offer the rifle and state that dies and brass are available to the purchaser of the rifle before selling to any others.
Best.0 -
I would auction the rifle and the reloading stuff in two separate offerings at the same time, but with the reloading stuff ending sufficiently later than the rifle to give the rifle buyer an opportunity to buy it. I'd make an all caps reference to the reloading stuff in the rifle auction. 0 -
with some custom dies costing well over 100.00 i think they should be sold with the rifle or right after the firearm. i know if dies are with the rifle i would pay more for a package, firearm-dies.eastbank. 0 -
+1 for the dies and brass ending after the rifle auction.
added Some of that brass might date back to mercuric primers and will not really be useful.0 -
I had a very hard time selling a few rifles for a customer that were all wild cats from the 50's
he sold them first with all his reloading stuff.
would have made it alot easier to sell the rifles with the dies,0 -
From what I've heard hear and from the ASSRA site I am going to have my local FFL group the dies and brass with the guns. He will be listing them here on the auction side when the time comes, I hope many years down the road. I have some oddballs. .25-20 SS, .25-21 Stevens, .25-25 Stevens, .32-20, .32-40, .28-30 Stevens, .38-55, .44-40, and a few I can't recall at the moment. I have some .25 Stevens Rimfire ammo and .32 Rimfire ammo that needs to be sold separately. 0 -
Often at farm type auctions, a tractor(or other powered equipment) will sell "bare"(w/o the loader, duals, mounted cultivator, or other attachments)with the add-ons selling immediately after. The winning bidder on the powered equipment will usually bid higher on the attachments so they stay with the tractor. This is always plainly stated before/during the auction.
When I sold my 308 Norma, the prospective buyer balked at the initial price but willingly paid $200 more when I added dies and 120 formed cases. The extra value of the dies/brass will depend on the actual buyer's expectation. If it's strictly a collector, he may not intend to actually shoot the rifle so the dies/brass would be more valuable to someone else.0 -
That works fine on a farm auction but I'm thinking it won't work here on GunBroker which is where they will be sold. 0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
8 comments