9mm American Eagle local auction result

alvin · 02-07-2010, 08:55 AM

Seller should go live auction, especially on nice guns. What astonished me was not another bidding war, but a bidding war on this gun:

"So much rust on the mag the mag spring was tough to work and hard inserting the mag, a quite dark bore, the eagle about 25% gone, about 60% finish left with some pitting. The sad part was the front sight was changed/modified into a bead sight and the entire 'v' notch rear sight was ground off an a 'peep' sight welded on. I though I'd might give it $800 and think of fixing it up. Boy was I off!"

Anything special on this gun? very rare variation? Hard to be replaced? If not, it's so easy to locate a similar one, there is no need to bid high.

For buyer, I don't know. But more than many times, I saw gun dealers resold their live auction winning items from their own 'storefronts' at 10-30% higher.

Anyway, waiting has some fun. There was a DWM Artillery with leather and matching stock board listed on FGS for quite long time. Since it's very expansive, I could not find extra money but occasionally visited their sites to see it ...."is it still there?"..... "will they lower the price?"...... recently I noticed it's gone.... I missed it.

[Edit] Missed too many for various kinds of reasons. There were two pieces that I missed that I cannot forgive myself. I could have been as lucky as Ed (of Mexico) but I was ....

02-07-2010, 08:55 AM	#8
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	Seller should go live auction, especially on nice guns. What astonished me was not another bidding war, but a bidding war on this gun: "So much rust on the mag the mag spring was tough to work and hard inserting the mag, a quite dark bore, the eagle about 25% gone, about 60% finish left with some pitting. The sad part was the front sight was changed/modified into a bead sight and the entire 'v' notch rear sight was ground off an a 'peep' sight welded on. I though I'd might give it $800 and think of fixing it up. Boy was I off!" Anything special on this gun? very rare variation? Hard to be replaced? If not, it's so easy to locate a similar one, there is no need to bid high. For buyer, I don't know. But more than many times, I saw gun dealers resold their live auction winning items from their own 'storefronts' at 10-30% higher. Anyway, waiting has some fun. There was a DWM Artillery with leather and matching stock board listed on FGS for quite long time. Since it's very expansive, I could not find extra money but occasionally visited their sites to see it ...."is it still there?"..... "will they lower the price?"...... recently I noticed it's gone.... I missed it. [Edit] Missed too many for various kinds of reasons. There were two pieces that I missed that I cannot forgive myself. I could have been as lucky as Ed (of Mexico) but I was .... Last edited by alvin; 02-07-2010 at 10:26 AM.