Has the market for average Parkers bottomed???

[charlie cleveland]

i will have this to say there is very few parker guns in my area steve barrnet has all of them around here...i could not afford a high grade parker but those low dollar guns is the ones i m interested in...not to many 500 dollar parkers out there....charlie

[Richard Flanders]

I can only say that I've had three Parkers for sale at an Alaska gunshop for a year and have not heard a word from the shop. They're used to the "high prices for guns in Alaska" program and can't seem to figure out how to move them.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

I can only say that I've had three Parkers for sale at an Alaska gunshop for a year and have not heard a word from the shop. They're used to the "high prices for guns in Alaska" program and can't seem to figure out how to move them.

A tactic that worked very well for my mother who had an antique shop in the very high-traffic town of Newburyport, MA was if a nice piece of antique furniture sat in her shop for more than a few months she would change the price tag to double the amount she had been asking before.... within a week or so it would sell, without fail.

Maybe it was because word got around... "Oh that Grace Romig - better buy it now if you like it because pretty soon you won't be able to afford it."





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[Mike Poindexter]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

A tactic that worked very well for my mother who had an antique shop in the very high-traffic town of Newburyport, MA was if a nice piece of antique furniture sat in her shop for more than a few months she would change the price tag to double the amount she had been asking before.... within a week or so it would sell, without fail.

Maybe it was because word got around... "Oh that Grace Romig - better buy it now if you like it because pretty soon you won't be able to afford it."





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Had the same thing happen when I tried to sell an RBL Launch Edition that didnt fit me well. Listed it at what I paid for it and it just sat there.
The prior seller saw the listing and e-mailed me with a note to mark it up by $300. With some trepidation I did so, and it sold in a week. Go figure.

[todd allen]

Probably my fault. I got into the stock market in the 90s, the market crashed. Got into real estate, and construction in the mid 2000s - crashed em both. And now Parkers?
I jumped out of my office window, but the ground was only three feet below.

[BRDHNTR]

Ill take a clean vh or vhe any day of the week. Just as effective on game as any higher grade and for a lot less money. Dont need the fancy, smanchie ones

[JLoew]

One more thought on the gun situation. If you want an investment, please go to your local bank and buy a CD. If you want beef, buy a feeder steer. If you want something tangible that you can use and enjoy, that you dont have to feed, you dont have to worry about breaking its leg in a groundhog hole, you dont have to worry about it dropping dead for no reason at all, or you dont want to worry about it getting eaten by wolves, then consider buying a nice Parker shotgun.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Josh Loewensteiner

One more thought on the gun situation. If you want an investment, please go to your local bank and buy a CD. If you want beef, buy a feeder steer. If you want something tangible that you can use and enjoy, that you dont have to feed, you dont have to worry about breaking its leg in a groundhog hole, you dont have to worry about it dropping dead for no reason at all, or you dont want to worry about it getting eaten by wolves, then consider buying a nice Parker shotgun.

No you don't have to worry about those things but you do have to worry about tripping and dropping a nice Parker shotgun. You can never get away from all risk. Sometimes bad things happen to good guns

[Mills]

Yesterday I helped a young man, who is a senior in college and just bought his first Parker which is an early Damascus GH 12, measure his barrel thickness. He is all enthusiastic about it and was going to shoot it today. Says he is going to join PGCA and get a letter. He already checked and records are available

You get one, you get a few more and soon there are many.

[BRDHNTR]

A woman is a woman but a Parker is a gun.