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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Todd, you would need to know this "collector of 'as new' guns" before denigrating his uncontested experience in the field of rating a gun's condition. He is probably without peer.
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Was not denigrating the statement nor impugning the nameless collector. Sure they know their stuff, was just amazed by it on such a narrow marginal difference as described by the suggested guideline. If doing the math is perceived as a slight to someones sensibilities, then I apologize.
I am also amazed on some prices people pay for collector cars. How many times do you hear about some rare piece sold at record price at Sothebys and the pre-auction estimates are blown away. Its probably a pretty good description of a niche market of limited participants that plays at tip top end of values that might not have a ceiling.
It just goes to show that there is range of values on things depending on perspective. Mentality of some collectors/investors is a no holds barred wrestling match on price as opposed to someone that is maybe a user/investor more grounded to market. Two different mentalities with different motivations. My point is that it just hard to reconcile between the two approaches. They are two distinct markets and was amazed by the metric as presented.
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