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Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

Now, really, was there any need for that?

LOL.

I won't even  ask how you had that link so easily to hand.

 
JinxDuh said:
They was only £100 when they was new... Sure, they're out of stock but given the state of it and it being galaxy I can't imagine that it's genuinely worth £100 or am I missing something?
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Reading the description was highly amusing; one issue after another appeared.

Enid_Puceflange said:
His grammar and spelling is as boneyard as the rif!
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Oh, the irony.

 
gavinkempsell said:
the condition put me off more than the price.
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About the only good thing i can say about the condition is at least he's declared it.

This seems like a perfect example of why secondhand prices in this hobby tend to be so low, you can have a gun that doesnt look that bad in photos, it may well shoot, but that doesnt mean it can't still have a myriad of horrors lurking under the hood.

 
JinxDuh said:
They was only £100 when they was new... Sure, they're out of stock but given the state of it and it being galaxy I can't imagine that it's genuinely worth £100 or am I missing something?
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He priced it based off of a TM that he saw, and thinks it's worth £70 in that state ? Maybe that price includes the hard drugs he's been ingesting prior to listing it?

 
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Too many to list, bit had a browse through Bespoke Airsoft's boneyard. Prices seem too high for 'mystery problems' / 'possibly missing pieces'. Personally I wouldn't want to pay more than 1/3 original RRP. Similar to PBs boneyard pricing, probably why they've had the same 12 RIFs for months.

 
Jaylordofwaargh said:
I couldn't help it, had to have a punt at it. Thought the £40 I offered was very reasonable....
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They are fun little plastic-fantastics. The gearbox is solid, the motor has speed but little torque so the auto is fine but semi is a bit comical[*], the short barrel and front end flex provides "area suppression" abilities, and the V3 trigger has a pull that spans postcodes.

In that condition, yeah, £40, I might have made an offer, but I'm after one with a non-mullered front end to sort my equally glued-and-taped one.

[*]Literally comical, a teammate and I had a good laugh out of me nearly friendly-firing him, but it took so long for the motor to audibly wind up that I actually managed to get my finger off the trigger first.

 
OTH21 said:
Too many to list, bit had a browse through Bespoke Airsoft's boneyard. Prices seem too high for 'mystery problems' / 'possibly missing pieces'. Personally I wouldn't want to pay more than 1/3 original RRP. Similar to PBs boneyard pricing, probably why they've had the same 12 RIFs for months.
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It escapes me why anyone would pay that much for non-functioning RIFs with no idea of what's wrong with them. Unless you have spare parts to hand, it's probably less or the same price to just buy new with a warranty.

 
Is it just me or is someone being a bit optimistic about how much their stuff is really worth?

 
Jaylordofwaargh said:
Most don't fully (or partially) realise the depreciation this is likely a 90-95% of new to recover the initial cost of a bad entry into the hobby. 
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Yup, that's the Buyer's Regret Starter Set.

With the current daft price of G&Gs it may not be too outrageous, depending on what what "GT" actually is and whether the "free" CM16 is functional at all.  Although I think the most likely case is that £550 is new price of the 3 guns.

Another lazy listing, bare minimum info, hasn't thought about postage or fees, and is expecting buyers to chase him saying "Pretty please, mister, tell me how much of a bargain I'm getting".  Best of luck with that.

 
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Rogerborg said:
whether the "free" CM16 is functional at all. 
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@Galvatronasked on the advert and got this reply

"it is in working order apart from when a mag is in, it just needs jolting back slightly to have no issues feeding. great for parts or starter project"

So that would be a no then.

 
Super64 said:
https://prefired.co.uk/ads/airsoft-bundle-complete-collection/
 

£5000!!!!!
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"Modified Honey Badgers" in what way? Just slapped on a PEQ box (are they laser & LED, LED only or battery box?), a hand grip and a 552 RDS to be "tacticool" or in addition to the previous ergonomic mods, a comprehensive list of internal upgrades were made to give some semblance of justification for the price?

"Canadian Colt M4 with scope, modified...450fps" Modified to make it a hot AEG that a buyer would have to go to further expense and/or effort to make it legal or modified to safe or semi-auto only for a DMR?

I won't understand those who want to charge what looks like a huge markup worth but they won't be clear about what they're selling and itemise the "modified" bits to inspire any confidence.  At face value, £2500 would be generous, never mind £5000.

 
Unless all of the accessories are genuine, real steel items, genuine Peqs and Eotech’s etc, which they clearly aren’t, there is nothing here to justify £1000, never mind £5000. I wonder if he meant £500 and added an extra 0 by mistake.

 
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