Your best garage sale/pawn shop deal.

STAINLESS90

STAINLESS90

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Post up your best garage sale/pawn shop/back alley deal finds. I purchased these two in a used knife auction around 2021 from an auction house in Las Vegas, I paid $27 for a custom Dawson folder and a Spyderco Harpy along with a box full of cheap gas station folders.
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I bought this Buck 110 from an antique store for $9.50. It cost me an additional $8-$10 to ship it to Buck for a new blade and Spa treatment. Buck paid for the return shipping and charged me $10 for the new blade.

Total cost was less than $30.
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My brother bought me this well used D'Holder for 25 bucks. He had no clue what it was, but he had a feeling it was good.. I told him he should feel guilty for that one. Even in a well used condition, it was worth a lot more.
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I wish there were pawn shops, army/navy surplus stores, and more flea markets around me. I have fond memories of finding good bargains at places like that years ago, but it seems to be a dead market now.
Only one pawn shop anywhere close and they mostly sell electronics.

Quite a few junk stores selling overstock import crap for more than it sold for originally, but never anything of value at those.

Even the gun shows have far fewer bargains, with many of the tables being new goods that aren’t gun or knife related, i.e. crafts, jerky, purses, ect.
 
BJE said:
I wish there were pawn shops, army/navy surplus stores, and more flea markets around me. I have fond memories of finding good bargains at places like that years ago, but it seems to be a dead market now.
Only one pawn shop anywhere close and they mostly sell electronics.

Quite a few junk stores selling overstock import crap for more than it sold for originally, but never anything of value at those.

Even the gun shows have far fewer bargains, with many of the tables being new goods that aren’t gun or knife related, i.e. crafts, jerky, purses, ect.
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Ever since covid happened, our pawn shops have been much worse (not taking this political, just using it as a time reference!). Deals are still there, but much harder to find
 
BJE said:
I wish there were pawn shops, army/navy surplus stores, and more flea markets around me. I have fond memories of finding good bargains at places like that years ago, but it seems to be a dead market now.
Only one pawn shop anywhere close and they mostly sell electronics.

Quite a few junk stores selling overstock import crap for more than it sold for originally, but never anything of value at those.

Even the gun shows have far fewer bargains, with many of the tables being new goods that aren’t gun or knife related, i.e. crafts, jerky, purses, ect.
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crk1984 said:
Ever since covid happened, our pawn shops have been much worse (not taking this political, just using it as a time reference!). Deals are still there, but much harder to find
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I know what you guys mean. The Buck 110 that I posted above was purchased at an antique store in the fall of 2021. That store had been there forever.

I drive by that property occasionally on my delivery route and not only did the store close, the building was completely demolished a few months ago. 😔
 
Railsplitter said:
I know what you guys mean. The Buck 110 that I posted above was purchased at an antique store in the fall of 2021. That store had been there forever.

I drive by that property occasionally on my delivery route and not only did the store close, the building was completely demolished a few months ago. 😔
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I lucked out and bought a turkey model Mossberg 500 at a pawn shop in Lincoln a couple of months ago for $150 but that also took some haggling. Other than that though most places are asking new prices for used items.
 
Stationed at Ft Devens, MA we went to a swap meet in New Hampshire. My friend was Bird Dogging ahead of me looking for good deals. I am following and in the shadow of an old upright wooden record player I see a bone handled, large folder, which he missed. I pick it up and it is a Remington R1123, two blade Bullet. Both blades had been sharpened, but nor abused and the bone is fine. It is marked "4--". I asked the man whose area it was "How Much? and replied "4". I said "4$?" and he said "Yes". So of course I bought it. A few years later I sold it to Mel Brewster, who literally wrote the book on Remington Bullet knives for $125. John
 
John A. Larsen said:
Stationed at Ft Devens, MA we went to a swap meet in New Hampshire. My friend was Bird Dogging ahead of me looking for good deals. I am following and in the shadow of an old upright wooden record player I see a bone handled, large folder, which he missed. I pick it up and it is a Remington R1123, two blade Bullet. Both blades had been sharpened, but nor abused and the bone is fine. It is marked "4--". I asked the man whose area it was "How Much? and replied "4". I said "4$?" and he said "Yes". So of course I bought it. A few years later I sold it to Mel Brewster, who literally wrote the book on Remington Bullet knives for $125. John
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I got an R1128 for my son for scouts, same knife just with cocobolo scales.
 
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