I have had two successful bids, everything went smoothly. The 18% commission is heinous. Don't use your credit card, send a (bank) check and you will get a discopunt on the commission.
Or do use your credit card, and take advantage of its payment protection in case there is a serious problem and you want to return the gun--returns are difficult, you bought it, you keep it. If at all possible go and examine the guns before the auction. One of the guns I won, I would not have bid on if I had seen it in advance. I managed to return it and get my money back, but only because the reasons and circumstances were ironclad.
Read the descriptions very carefully. If it seems that they are trying to weasel around the description of a gun's condition, they probably are.
Their suggested values are simply unreliable. It is clear that the people who price the guns and write the descriptions are not repositories of advanced Luger knowledge. The suggested values for the most part are absurdly low, and the guns generally end up going for much mopre than they are actually worth--remember the 18% commission!
All that being said, it is possible to score a good deal. As with any auction, determine how much you are willing to spend on a particular gun, and bid up to that amount. If it goes over by so much as a dollar, let it go and don't look back. There is always another Luger.
--Dwight
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