Yard sale buy of the YEAR!!!!

[Setter Man]

Cabela's, what a joke. The stories of them screwing people, coming and going are many and truly frightening.

[Dean Romig]

FYI, from my experience KTP pays very fair wholesale prices . I know it's a long way from Hartford but for some here it may be worth the trip.

[Twoatlow8]

Dean,
Thank you, I have delt with KTP in the past and they are very good to deal with.
I was half interested in an AYA .410 at Cabalas and thought if they gave me a fair offer for my guns we could come to terms. They list an 1100 D grade on the website site $2600.00!
They had a Fox Sterlingworth on the rack that looked like someone dragged it there behind their car for $575.00! It was a lesson for my wife even she could not believe it!

[Larry the Gun Guy]

Wow, I love this site!

Everyone selling something has the opportunity to do their due diligence and if they don't then they get what they get.

The best I ever did was an ad in the newspaper for a Parker 20 gauge.
I checked the newspaper every morning as soon as it hit the step and finally found something to get excited about. I shot out of the house, headed 40 miles south to a small farm town, driving well in excess of the speed limit and sweating all the way there. Got there just before 7:00am and the nice fella that answered the door invited me in. There on the table was a 30" VHE in about 60% condition. He said, my wife doesn't want it in the house anymore because our son is getting to the age that he wants to start using it. I gave him the $800 bucks and on the way back home I felt bad for a young man that wouldn't have the pleasure of growing up shooting anything; much less a Parker. But that's the society we live in.

They told me they got their price from the local gunshop, so I don't feel one bit bad, that was their due diligence and they were happy with it.

One of my buddies called me about 10:30 that morning to tell me about the ad and I told him that it was already sold……to me.

Great BUY Alan!

[Chris T.]

Good for you Alan. Sure most of us wish we were the one who went to the yard sale first, but we should all be glad it didn't get turned in for a $50 walmart gift card!! The way I look at it is, you got a great deal and your happy, you saved another Parker.

[Gerald Majors]

I too am sorry that you received negative posts.
I am very excited for you.
Congratulations
Gerald

[Harold Pickens]

I have a friend that was given a Parker by an old family friend. He gave it to my friend because he could no longer hunt and was afraid that his son was going to sell it to feed his drug addiction. The gun ??-just an AHE 20, that he does carry grouse hunting each year in memory of the man that gave it to him.
Rich, I can introduce you to him and his AHE in Michigan this fall. He generally carries his BHE repro w/ 16/20 barrel sets.

[Mike Franzen]

I want to see pics of the Yard Sale Parker!!

[Fishtail]

There's nothing wrong with making a great buy, and I'm happy for Alan.

I find there to be a difference in buying a $20K gun for $500 from a 45 year old 'man' who's ascared of guns and too lazy to use the internet to do some due diligence, and the old "I screwed some 88 year old widow out her husband's Parker 'cuz she was too blind to read a book and hadn't even heard of the internet." That's just me, though.

[C.O.B.]

[QUOTE=Mike Shepherd;103918]If I knowingly advised a widow that the gun she was selling was worth 10% of its wholesale value and then bought that gun from her at that price I would be ashamed.]


Mike unfortunately its happened to me by a member here of all places. I was asked to look at some guns by a friend and there was a well known maker that I was unfamiliar with. Another member who is well versed in these told me it was worth x and sold it to a dealer mind you for 3x. I hope he sleeps well cheating a widow

Harold I'll look forward to meeting your friend. We can compare grades Only about 5mos to the opener but they still have snow measured in feet on the ground in Channing.