HW55 on GB sold for 1248 plus. What's the deal?

Can you send a link to the auction? That’s crazy. Even with a beautiful walnut factory stock I’m thinking that’s high. 


mike

That would only be like twelve dollars (probably less) to some comfortable dudes like Don Junior.

Because serious collectors don't care.

Something is only worth what someone might be willing to pay for it. 
Try to sell me a SCBA that's perfect & DOT Approved for $400 even though they're going for over $700.00
I would laugh & buy a 6.8, 9, 12 Liter Acecare for $2-400because I don't need DOT Approved since I fill my own with this.


It's all about perspective. Everything is about perspective and whose boots, heels, or sandals you're standing in. 

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Like James already said, what a given gun goes for is what someone out there is willing to pay for it. I get bored now and then and watch auctions on both GB and Ebay (which seem to be crazier than GB btw) and the prices things go for amazes me at times.

Prime example: Ebay auction on a Beeman R10 .20 caliber. I get they're worth a bit more and I actually considered bidding (yes, someday want one) but when the bidding hit $500 , I said nope and just watched. When the dust settled, the winning bidder dropped $1075 plus another $70 in shipping for it.

Both sites with auctions on Sheridans that just a year ago were running $200-$250 and now bare minimum $300+. There's others and anyone that watches auctions can probably chime in with some of the craziness they've seen.

I was watching a couple of Sears branded Crosman 1400's on ebay within the past month. One was over $500 plus shipping and another was about $500 shipping included. Crazy, as I had just bought one for $95(including shipping) in December. It is a VERY clean and original unit with little usage. Just needed resealing and its up and shooting. 

That's an absurd price for an HW 55 IMHO...and I love the things.

If you think that's crazy, look up small pistol primers. They normally sold for $30-35 per thousand a year or so ago. I've seen reports of them going for 3-4 hundred dollars per K now.

I have to say I’m not that surprised it went for that much. It’s bound to happen. They are beautiful collectable useable. I think they’ll continue to go up. I think if you didn’t have one and wanted one you would understand the price. I know that’s a lot and top dollar but they are hard to find! 

Multiple, high quality, almost professional level photographs may have helped that sale? To sell an item try to photograph outdoors, in shade, with a non distractive background, and show all the gun but particularly the metal parts, emphasize closeups and try to use a better than cell phone type camera. Avoid direct sun (shows dust and too many defects in the metal parts), and do not use any out of focus pics. If you know how to adjust lens aperture, don't use too much depth-of-field. Try to clean the gun a bit, but don't oil it down too much. That HW photographed almost like a new gun?

Makes my pawn shop find HW55 MM even more special to me because I didn't spend 1/10 of this auction price, Crazy prices in crazy times, I tell people that creating the bubble only leads to bursting and it happens every time, soon enough the market will correct itself.

Here, is a picture of mine shortly after purchase, that cheap scope it came with is long gone.

I saw that one too-the wood looked a little nicer than average, but still?

It's the wood. Look at all the pictures. Very nice piece of walnut. You don't just run out and find one like that. Hard enough to even find any decent condition Weihrauch 55MM. This one would be very nice with the stock redone. That would be a keeper for sure. I'd love to put that stock on one of my 55's. Way prettier than the walnut on my own 55MM. I'm not really drawn to the Tyros. It also has the barrel weight FWIW

I paid "too much" for a 1907 BSA Air Rifle that has an outstanding stock once. Very rare to find wood like this one on a prewar BSA. It all came out in the wash. BSA prewar prices have skyrocketed now too. Keep going .

Blows my mind what Crosman 150's and Marks are going for lately.

China virus welfare checks are back. Up go the prices ........and taxes. 

Will the prices fall again in a year or two? Probably.