Reasonably priced "modern" Marlin

[BrentD]

This is too modern for me, but I would think someone here would be all over this at the BIN price.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =428226217

Not mine nor anyone I know.

[bluesman423]

I think the price is at least $200 too high ............... especially drilled and tapped

[BrentD]

Really? Well, I admit, I don't know much about the price of these things but it seemed pretty cheap to me by about that much. D and T doesn't bother me and seems like most folks do it almost as a matter of course anyway.

Oh well, I guess I was mistaken.

[vancelw]

I think the price is at least $200 too high ............... especially drilled and tapped

Yeah, they can keep the scope and I would pick one up for $300 or less.

[Chuck 100 yd]

I agree, d & T`d that one is a $300 gun tops.

[BrentD]

And yet people on this forum pay what for a brand new rifle that has all the fit, finish, and function of a red ryder bb gun?

[bluesman423]

If you live close to NE Oklahoma I can show you the exact gun one year difference and in untouched 93% to 95% condition for an asking rice of $475 in a local pawnshop ............. it has been there for six months that I know of.

I would love to have it but I need one drilled and tapped because I have to have a scope mounted these days.

[6pt-sika]

If it hadn't been F'd with it might be worth the price !

Been drilled and tapped for the scope , the swivels are not factory and it's missing the factory rear sight and front sight cover .

[6pt-sika]

FWIW I sold a circa 1952 Marlin 336SC in 35 REM about 5 years ago . Mine was missing the front sight hood and it had a peep sight , if memory serves I got $500 .

[earlmck]

I'm with you, Brent. That is not out of line for one (apparently) fine rifle with a scope that should be worth a couple hundred itself. I can't believe he didn't get any bids on it: I considered it myself when he first listed it but I already have 6 rifles in 35 Remington including a 336A in virtually pristine condition. So I stayed away, but if I was needing a Marlin in 35 Remington I'd have given him a decent bid.

I'm sure he'd have got some bids if he had a better set of detailed photos to back his description.

[Blaine]

It's worth whatever someone will pay for it....I don't like the scope, and if it was ugly, it would still shoot good, and be half that....

[Pete44ru]

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While handsome & appreciated, IMHO it now carries only a $300-$400 "shooter" value, since (as noted above) it's been moved out of "original condition" (Which gennie condition would have made it appeal to a collector).

Considering that the scope, resold, could bring $150-$175 brings it's actual cash value at least $100 less than the seller's $650 "starting bid".


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[BrentD]

It is interesting that a Marlin 39a from the same era and in the same condition would bring at least what he is asking for this rifle and a new rifle of 1/10th the quality would cost another 50-100% more than he is asking. Yes, the market is a fickle beast.

[Blaine]

It is interesting that a Marlin 39a from the same era and in the same condition would bring at least what he is asking for this rifle and a new rifle of 1/10th the quality would cost another 50-100% more than he is asking. Yes, the market is a fickle beast.

I have a 62 (3?) 39 Mountie...so so cond....that I would not take 650 for.

[Old Savage]

Looks like a nice period piece. Apparently no one wants a period piece at that price.

[Pete44ru]

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Well........ there's more involved here, IMO - the seller's done gone & shot hisself in the foot.

Many prospective bidders will have nothing to do with a seller that makes his opening bid at/about his BIN (buy it now) price - which makes it a straight sale, and not really an auction.

That strategy also stops prospective bidders from working themselves up into the virtually unstoppable bidding fever/process that occurs when the opening bid is very low, thereby also killing most prospects of a sale before it has a chance to begin.



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[BAGTIC]

I can not figure out prices either. I have a NIB (1996) genuine Marlin 1895 SS GL 45-70 that I offered on another site at a price lower than any advertised RemLin version and no interest. Guess I'll have to post it on one of the internet auction sites.

[6pt-sika]

I can not figure out prices either. I have a NIB (1996) genuine Marlin 1895 SS GL 45-70 that I offered on another site at a price lower than any advertised RemLin version and no interest. Guess I'll have to post it on one of the internet auction sites.

I have bought and sold ALOT of firearms on the gun auction sites over the last ten years .

Nothing against forum sales but I find it to be in my better (monetary) intrest to sell on Gunbroker or some such site and pay the fee's .

Folks on forums are generally alot more into tire kicking shall we say . On an auction site it's a lot easier to be a name without a face .

[earlmck]

This is a great time to be a Marlin buyer: So many fine old weapons selling for way less than the newly made stuff!

And gunbroker has 3 of the old 336A's in 35 Remington right now, although one is too fancy and high priced for my use. A few years ago when I decided I had to have one of those I waited for months for just one to show up. And now I see a 336A in 32 Special: seems a little high for the condition but it is d&t'd which might be nice for these aging eyeballs!

Oh yeah, I guess that d&t is supposed to reduce the value. Dang!