PARKER GH 20 GAUGE

[Dean Romig]

IMO, Wildwood is an OK place to shop for guns. As with just about any purveyor of old side-by-sides they're not going to point out flaws and inconsistencies so the usual "caveat emptor" always applies. Most experienced dealers will start high and allow a certain amount of haggling so that the buyer feels good about "getting the price down" and the seller makes his (very necessary) profit. Dick and Craig are members of the PGCA and friends of ours so I think it serves no purpose to speak ill of Wildwood or any gun seller unless of course, they intentionally misrepresent a gun or try to screw their customers.

[C.O.B.]

I must wonder at how these dealers or individuals for that matter come up with some of the priceing they use. Wildwood is asking in the range of $9800 for a GHE 20 Damascuss (wow!) and Julia's auction just sold a BH 12 for less than $4000.

The bottom line is as long as both buyer and seller are happy than it was a fair price.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Richard Anderson

The bottom line is as long as both buyer and seller are happy than it was a fair price.

Just a WAG Rich, but I'll bet the consignor of the BH at Julia's isn't happy. He probably never dreamed he's need a reserve on it and that it would easily sell itself, being such a great Parker.

Some people and dealers just hold on to decent guns too long and this practice does not show very good business sense in my opinion. Usually they could have sold the gun at a healthy profit and reinvested the money several times in the amount of time a gun has sat in their inventory gathering both dust an openly expressed opinions of the gun and the sellers on Internet sites.