Benchmade model 710 value needed

I'm new to the Blade forum and don't know for sure but I suspect that making offers needs to be done via private message and not publicly within this subforum.
 
Sticking my nose in where it was not asked and may not belong, but I did not see a request for an offer to buy but a request for appraisal.

There seems to be nothing wrong with his post. A friend of mine passed away a few years ago and his wife sold me his .41 Colt SAA. If you know anything about guns, this is not a particularly common pistol in .41 caliber. So I went on a gun forum and pretty much asked the same question the OP here asked other than it was obviously about this gun. I got a sensible answer. Actually several. No hassle.

Now because this was a good friend, and that gun is in remembrance of an old friend, it is not for sale for anything approaching a reasonable price. But it's nice to set a value on it. Maybe someone breaks in and steals it, or the house burns, it helps to have a third party give a starting point as to a fair sale price from a willing seller to a willing buyer.

One final point: Because of the -very- strict listing rules here, specifically not being allowed to advertise a knife for the highest offer, (not being critical, just stating fact) if I had a knife I wanted to sell and was unsure of its value, it seems reasonable to ask before we list. It is not as if you see BM M&W 710 knives come up frequently and even if one does, the seller may not know its value and price it much lower than it might reasonably sell for.

Seems that we are not allowed to ask what is is worth until we list if for sale, but at that point we need to include a price. WTF????

The normal inclination is that you buy a tool for, say, $100, use it a while, or even let it sit in the unopened box, then sell it for $60 or less. Many knives are not that way and double in value the day after the sprint run is sold out or it goes out of production. Someone unfamiliar with this might price, say, a Manix2 with S90v/CPM154 blade that they paid $220 for and, not knowing better, list if for $150. Good for the lucky one who sees it, but not really fair play. "If God had not wanted them shorn, He would not have made them sheep." Right?

Anyway, perhaps one of the moderators can clarify where the line is drawn.

FWIW, YMMV, etc.
 
RCFL said:
Sticking my nose in where it was not asked and may not belong, but I did not see a request for an offer to buy but a request for appraisal.

There seems to be nothing wrong with his post. A friend of mine passed away a few years ago and his wife sold me his .41 Colt SAA. If you know anything about guns, this is not a particularly common pistol in .41 caliber. So I went on a gun forum and pretty much asked the same question the OP here asked other than it was obviously about this gun. I got a sensible answer. Actually several. No hassle.

Now because this was a good friend, and that gun is in remembrance of an old friend, it is not for sale for anything approaching a reasonable price. But it's nice to set a value on it. Maybe someone breaks in and steals it, or the house burns, it helps to have a third party give a starting point as to a fair sale price from a willing seller to a willing buyer.

One final point: Because of the -very- strict listing rules here, specifically not being allowed to advertise a knife for the highest offer, (not being critical, just stating fact) if I had a knife I wanted to sell and was unsure of its value, it seems reasonable to ask before we list. It is not as if you see BM M&W 710 knives come up frequently and even if one does, the seller may not know its value and price it much lower than it might reasonably sell for.

Seems that we are not allowed to ask what is is worth until we list if for sale, but at that point we need to include a price. WTF????

The normal inclination is that you buy a tool for, say, $100, use it a while, or even let it sit in the unopened box, then sell it for $60 or less. Many knives are not that way and double in value the day after the sprint run is sold out or it goes out of production. Someone unfamiliar with this might price, say, a Manix2 with S90v/CPM154 blade that they paid $220 for and, not knowing better, list if for $150. Good for the lucky one who sees it, but not really fair play. "If God had not wanted them shorn, He would not have made them sheep." Right?

Anyway, perhaps one of the moderators can clarify where the line is drawn.

FWIW, YMMV, etc.
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It is quite simple. b5widebody b5widebody asked to purchase the knife in the OP, which is against several of the rules. The post was removed, so you can no longer see it. In order to ask anything about values here on BF, you must be a gold member or above. All of this is quite clear, once you've read the rules. ;)
 
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