[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Colt Python .357 mag. for 5k? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/27/2015 10:39:36 PM EDT
I am looking thru the local gun ads and seen this ad for a Colt Python for 5k! WTF  Are they really worth this much?
Cut from the ad, (not mine btw) Colt Python .357 mag. 5000.00 Item is Unused Title Colt Python .357 mag. Preferred Contact Method Description I am looking to sell one of my colts. I have a Colt python .357mag 6" nickel ! im looking for real offers on it the value of them keeps going up the older they get. no trades ... I know what the gun is worth so please no B.S. offers . I do not have the wood box it came in sorry. the gun is mint . 10 out of 10. p.m. or email for pic's ! |
| They are worth what you can get somebody to pay for them, not what a deluded seller thinks they are worth. I think it's high. I'd want the original box, the factory test fire target and the replacement factory hymen after the factory test fire for that price. Now if it has some special features that make it extra rare, who knows what an over-rich collector who needs just that last one to complete his collection might pay. |
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For the prices they sell for online, I don't doubt that someone is trying to sell one locally for $5k. The value on these has really been going crazy. In several years, I bet you might sell regular run of the mill unfired 4" and 6" models for $4k. But $5k right now, not special edition or anything? Hell now. |
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Quoted: They are worth what you can get somebody to pay for them, not what a deluded seller thinks they are worth. I think it's high. I'd want the original box, the factory test fire target and the replacement factory hymen after the factory test fire for that price. Now if it has some special features that make it extra rare, who knows what an over-rich collector who needs just that last one to complete his collection might pay. +1 Pythons have gotten seriously stupid , and dragged the rest of the Colt revolvers with um just a few years ago used to be we would have Python or Anaconda come though the shop once a month or better we'd give 300-500 and sell it for 500-600 add $200 if it had its box same with King Cobras for about $100 less They are not rare , people have just gone stupid |
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2.5" is these days commanding more money than the 6" stainless, or blued, but for 5K the only way I would pay that is if was the first or the last one of those specifications manufactured. Just to illustrate how the market for these have gone, I bought this SS from a gun store going out of business for $400 24 years ago.  |
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They are not to me, they show up used around here for anywhere between $1100-1800 and I still wont think about it, seller is hoping for a sucker. This. The prices are getting out of sight, but they're no where near that altitude. Seller is hoping for a mindless follower trying to get in on the cult following those guns seem to have. |
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I have a Jennings .22 cal, wood grip (sorry lost one of them), chrome plated, only shot about 1000 times, it jams about 3 times per magazine and Im only asking $3k. No BS and no low ball offers. I know what these things sell for. 
Will you consider shipping? I don't normally buy sight unseen but that gun, at that price, with those options...how can I pass that up? |
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My dad has one of those. hmmmm. Quoted:
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$1,400-$1,800 is the going rate around here. 6" blued model. My dad has one of those. hmmmm. I saw a nearly mint version sell for $1,650 (had cylinder ring, but nothing else showed wear). I passed on a well-used blued 6" for $1,200. I'd like to have one, but I'm not paying $1,600+ for it. |
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I have a 1979 NIB with all paperwork Colt Python, 6" nickel, one scorched chamber in the cylinder where it was test fired at the Colt Custom Shop and never fired again ("factory unfired") that I bought from a collector's estate about 10 years ago. No "cylinder ring", 100% flawless.
I'll sell it to the first person with $5k Feel free to IM me, price firm. |
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I have a 1979 NIB with all paperwork Colt Python, 6" nickel, one scorched chamber in the cylinder where it was test fired at the Colt Custom Shop and never fired again ("factory unfired") that I bought from a collector's estate about 10 years ago. No "cylinder ring", 100% flawless. I'll sell it to the first person with $5k Feel free to IM me, price firm. Auction it on Gunbroker............go there first and check out current and past auctions though. Set a reserve for a minimum acceptable price. |
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Auction it on Gunbroker............go there first and check out current and past auctions though. Set a reserve for a minimum acceptable price. Quoted:
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I have a 1979 NIB with all paperwork Colt Python, 6" nickel, one scorched chamber in the cylinder where it was test fired at the Colt Custom Shop and never fired again ("factory unfired") that I bought from a collector's estate about 10 years ago. No "cylinder ring", 100% flawless. I'll sell it to the first person with $5k Feel free to IM me, price firm. Auction it on Gunbroker............go there first and check out current and past auctions though. Set a reserve for a minimum acceptable price. I don't mess with GunBroke anymore...at least not with collector pieces. It's hard to keep something like this without ever firing it...kind of like living with a HOT (and legal) "perfect 10" virgin and not de-flowering her...
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.......... I don't mess with GunBroke anymore...at least not with collector pieces. Maybe try the for sale section of "The Colt Forum" site? There are a couple of (I think are very wealthy members there) who might just come close to $5K. Just a guess on my part but who knows. |
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Supply and demand. How does it work? They are going up in price, no doubt about that. 3K for a python is one thing, but let's not forget the outrageous prices on .22 ammo we just went through. People were paying four and five times as much as retail for .22 ammo and they still make that shit by the semi truck load nonstop 24 hours a day. |
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3K for a python is one thing, but let's not forget the outrageous prices on .22 ammo we just went through. People were paying four and five times as much as retail for .22 ammo and they still make that shit by the semi truck load nonstop 24 hours a day. Quoted:
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Supply and demand. How does it work? They are going up in price, no doubt about that. 3K for a python is one thing, but let's not forget the outrageous prices on .22 ammo we just went through. People were paying four and five times as much as retail for .22 ammo and they still make that shit by the semi truck load nonstop 24 hours a day. Yup. |
| Asking price on those things are high, but theres a whole lot sitting on gun broker with no bids on permanent re-list. Facebook gun groups are probably worse as far as price/condition. I will own a 4" blued Python one day, but Im waiting until one of those sellers gets tired of delisting for the 16th time and takes a reasonable offer. Until then Ive got a couple Smiths that will do just fine. |
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Don't FUCKING SELL IT. You keep that family heirloom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quoted:
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$1,400-$1,800 is the going rate around here. 6" blued model. My dad has one of those. hmmmm. Don't FUCKING SELL IT. You keep that family heirloom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I am not going to sell it. |
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$1,400-$1,800 is the going rate around here. 6" blued model. My dad has one of those. hmmmm. Don't FUCKING SELL IT. You keep that family heirloom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I am not going to sell it. 
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| A acquaintance got $4500.00 for a nickel Python unfired and in the box a few weeks back. He figured had he put it on a auction site he could have got another $500.00 easy but the same guy bought a couple other Colts from him at the same time so he went ahead with the deal. |
