Has the market for average Parkers bottomed???

[BRDHNTR]

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

[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

[todd allen]

There is some good news, amidst all of this doom and gloom;
68 Ford Mustangs driven in a movie by Steve McQueen are still fetching good prices. So are Brando Rolex watches.
If you have any of these items in your collection, you're doing okay.

[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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[Phil Yearout]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

And that’s where Josh’s “uneducated buyer” enters the picture.....

But if uneducated buyers are running around buying up everything they can find, that should drive the price up, not down, no?

[Dean Romig]

No.... They are buying all the guns they can at depressed prices, so they are effectively supporting a down market





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[Big D]

Dean's mother's strategy was premiered by the Zippo lighter Company, as I understand it. When the lighters were first introduced at something like $.50, they were considered cheap, and poorly made. Doubled the price, and the rest is history. I suspect any of us who were (are) smokers had a Zippo at some point

[charlie cleveland]

i still got my zippo lighter it would light under extreme conditions if you kept her filled up with fluid and flint...burnt my leg a few times with over filling that zippo and fluid leaking out of it on my leg...but heh aint nothing perfect not even a parker...charlie

[Phil Yearout]

I've done that too Charlie; it huts like heck! I carry mine every day but it might be a week or more between uses. I finally put a butane conversion cartridge in mine because I was tired of it always being out of fluid every time I went to use it.

[Big D]

What was the brand of handwarmer that used the same fluid, and would burn your thigh like crazy when put in your pocket improperly?