Posted: 12/22/2013 5:12:55 AM EDT
| When I bought my LE6920 11 years ago I paid 900$ Today I see prices range from 1200-2000$ My question is how can 1 rifle have a 1000$ difference in price from one that's the same as another? |
| It's on GB and listed as Last roll marked Carbines manufactured by Colt Defense during the first "Assault Weapons Ban". Wasn't Colt just Colt mfg at that time? Also I see one listed as RARE, If it's so rare why do I have one? I'm not interested in buying just curious about why the same gun has so many prices. |
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this, and advertising hype. if its important TO YOU to have a particular rollmark, then it might be worth the premium TO YOU. if a seller hypes it up. (last one, not made anymore, limited edition, get it before its banned, etc.) well, thats just retail sales. if a buyer pays it without doing research, shame on him. now this is just me, but the Magpul edition is all over (there's athread in here somewhere) right now for $895. okay (here's where I come in) for $895 i gotta take off the POS Magpul crap stock and POS BUIS, and replace them with a std stock and a carry handle, buy a sling, side sling mount, pitch the plastic mag and buy 2 USGI mags. maybe handguards if its the MOE. (i'll pass on the cleaning rod). now i'm way on the other side of $1k, but nowhere near $2k, not even $1200. but even IF a guy paid $2k for a 6920, he'll still get a carbine that'll last him the rest of his life. I agree "but even IF a guy paid $2k for a 6920, he'll still get a carbine that'll last him the rest of his life." Thanks for all the answers to my goofy question, I was just curious to know what made the same rifle have a 1,000$ price difference and the 6920 needs to be in the record book for only rifle that has way more then one price :) |
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Inflation but you could get a LE6920, same as you bought, for $995 up to the beginning of this year. Average price was closer to $1200 after the `04 sunset when the prices dropped around `11. Then they went for an average of $1100. When the great panic started is when you saw the standard LE6920 jump upwards of $2K. `13 models lost several features of older models but remain in the $995-1100 range. Now current pricing reflects different models - standard model is $995-1100, Magpul model $1100-1150, LE6920 SOCOM $1500, SOCOM II is a little more. I dare say Colt's pricing has remained VERY stable over the last 10 years or so; it's supply and demand at the wholesale/retail/resell level that have caused spikes. These numbers are on target for the Magpul variant. Just bought a LE6920-MP-B for $1130.00 I paid $1049 (shipped) for the same Magpul version a month ago...from Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore. Sportsman's dropped the price to $1019 a couple weeks later...and I have seen it as low as $955 recently. The base LE6920 is routinely available for $895 at GT. I have seen 6920's for several hundred higher at LGSes and gun shows, but nowhere near 2K. I wouldn't buy a stick of gum from a shop selling them at 2K. I got in on the $955 deal for the moe. The lgs quoted me 1100+tax. His pricing from his distributor was 1018. My pricing was better than his cost. Crazy. |
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this, and advertising hype.
if its important TO YOU to have a particular rollmark, then it might be worth the premium TO YOU. if a seller hypes it up. (last one, not made anymore, limited edition, get it before its banned, etc.) well, thats just retail sales. if a buyer pays it without doing research, shame on him. now this is just me, but the Magpul edition is all over (there's athread in here somewhere) right now for $895. okay (here's where I come in) for $895 i gotta take off the POS Magpul crap stock and POS BUIS, and replace them with a std stock and a carry handle, buy a sling, side sling mount, pitch the plastic mag and buy 2 USGI mags. maybe handguards if its the MOE. (i'll pass on the cleaning rod). now i'm way on the other side of $1k, but nowhere near $2k, not even $1200. but even IF a guy paid $2k for a 6920, he'll still get a carbine that'll last him the rest of his life. |
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The going price should be right around a thousand to $1100.
The $2000 prices were during the panic buying last winter. Some people are probably trying to unload the ones they paid that much for, and there might be a store still hoping to get rid of the rifle they paid $1800 for. |
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Inflation but you could get a LE6920, same as you bought, for $995 up to the beginning of this year. Average price was closer to $1200 after the `04 sunset when the prices dropped around `11. Then they went for an average of $1100. When the great panic started is when you saw the standard LE6920 jump upwards of $2K. `13 models lost several features of older models but remain in the $995-1100 range. Now current pricing reflects different models - standard model is $995-1100, Magpul model $1100-1150, LE6920 SOCOM $1500, SOCOM II is a little more. I dare say Colt's pricing has remained VERY stable over the last 10 years or so; it's supply and demand at the wholesale/retail/resell level that have caused spikes. These numbers are on target for the Magpul variant. Just bought a LE6920-MP-B for $1130.00 |
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Inflation but you could get a LE6920, same as you bought, for $995 up to the beginning of this year. Average price was closer to $1200 after the `04 sunset when the prices dropped around `11. Then they went for an average of $1100. When the great panic started is when you saw the standard LE6920 jump upwards of $2K. `13 models lost several features of older models but remain in the $995-1100 range. Now current pricing reflects different models - standard model is $995-1100, Magpul model $1100-1150, LE6920 SOCOM $1500, SOCOM II is a little more. I dare say Colt's pricing has remained VERY stable over the last 10 years or so; it's supply and demand at the wholesale/retail/resell level that have caused spikes. These numbers are on target for the Magpul variant. Just bought a LE6920-MP-B for $1130.00 I paid $1049 (shipped) for the same Magpul version a month ago...from Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore. Sportsman's dropped the price to $1019 a couple weeks later...and I have seen it as low as $955 recently. The base LE6920 is routinely available for $895 at GT. I have seen 6920's for several hundred higher at LGSes and gun shows, but nowhere near 2K. I wouldn't buy a stick of gum from a shop selling them at 2K. |
| My last Colt I spent $1349 USD for a Colt SOCOM I in July from Sportsman Outdoor Warehouse. Came with the side sling mount and the KAC RIS rail. The only things I replaced was the buttstock with a SOPMOD, trigger guard with a KAC version, and re-barreled it with a Colt 14.5" SOCOM Barrel. Other than that it is stock, and handles awesome. The Colt barrel it came with s going to be used for another project soon. |
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Quoted: When I bought my LE6920 11 years ago I paid 900$ Today I see prices range from 1200-2000$ My question is how can 1 rifle have a 1000$ difference in price from one that's the same as another? |
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Inflation but you could get a LE6920, same as you bought, for $995 up to the beginning of this year. Average price was closer to $1200 after the `04 sunset when the prices dropped around `11. Then they went for an average of $1100. When the great panic started is when you saw the standard LE6920 jump upwards of $2K. `13 models lost several features of older models but remain in the $995-1100 range.
Now current pricing reflects different models - standard model is $995-1100, Magpul model $1100-1150, LE6920 SOCOM $1500, SOCOM II is a little more. I dare say Colt's pricing has remained VERY stable over the last 10 years or so; it's supply and demand at the wholesale/retail/resell level that have caused spikes. |
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When I bought my LE6920 11 years ago I paid 900$ Today I see prices range from 1200-2000$ My question is how can 1 rifle have a 1000$ difference in price from one that's the same as another? 11 years ago the dollar was worth a hell of a lot more than it is now. You might as well as ask why gold was $400 ten years ago but it's $1200 now. |
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It's on GB and listed as Last roll marked Carbines manufactured by Colt Defense during the first "Assault Weapons Ban". Wasn't Colt just Colt mfg at that time? Also I see one listed as RARE, If it's so rare why do I have one? I'm not interested in buying just curious about why the same gun has so many prices. Gun Broker is rip-off central.com for ignorant people. Those ads are full of straight-up lies for stupid people to swallow. The prices on G.B. means just about jack shit. 6920s can be had for less than $1k today. The question is not "what is up with the prices of 6920s?", the question is why do you think Gun Broker.com is a legitimate place to price out firearms? |