Has Anybody Sold Their AR15 Lately

[tradecraft]

In my experience, selling quality factory rifles is easy on here, but anything custom or homebuilt is a crapshoot.

[wisefire]

Just don't be one of those people that spent $1200 building their ar, shot about 2k rounds though it and expect to sell it for $1150

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[ChaneRZ]

I sold mine very quick when I separated the upper, lower, and optics.

[Norcalkid]

I think you would have a better market if you were willing to ship. You're limiting yourself. Personally if I'm going to spend $1200 I would rather spend $1700 and build an AR10 the way I want it. IMO a 7-800 dollar plinker will be fine for most guys. Saw one sell at the gun show last weekend for asking price $700. And I also just think there are a lot of AR's out there. I know guys with more receivers than they will ever use.

[speeedracerr]

Sold mine last week to a friend for $650. The rifle was practically new (MEGA Lower/DPMS Upper and extras) with only 40 rounds down the pipe to function test. All things considered... I didn't mind taking a little loss since I will probably get to visit her every now and then when my friend takes her out I think the difficulty is that lots of people own ARs now and as stated, custom rifles in the eyes of the consumer is just not the same as a factory built AR...

[Steve G]

I am asking because it seems there are quite a few in the Private Sales section including mine and just didnt know if anyone else was having a hard time moving their rifles.

With all due respect your rifle is priced to high. If the gun was priced right it would move QUICK

[FX-05 Xiuhcoatl]

nope, not me and never will.

[m03]

Hold onto it until the election gets closer. I imagine that it will be very easy to sell later this year

[xpbprox]

When someone can build a brand new, relatively good quality ar for around $700 (hell $550-600 w/ a new frontiers polymer lower) makes buying a run of the mill average used one for a similar price hard to justify.

I agree with this. I just finished building mine for $770 and it's pretty sweet!

[cannon]

You're selling a used AR put together for more than a brand new Colt. That would be hard for me to justify as a buyer.

With the glut on the market as has been said before. You may want to part it out.

[john.t.singh]

I find that name brand sells.

Custom ones are only good to part out. I've sold 2 custom ar part by part and is really the only way you can at all semi recover some money.

[daybreak]

In my experience, selling quality factory rifles is easy on here, but anything custom or homebuilt is a crapshoot.

This. I haven't tried to buy or sell an AR in the private classifieds, but Everytime I see a build for sale, I think, "why would anyone take a chance on someone else's build when there are so many good cheap new factory options."

[Cypriss32]

Custom rifles are built the way the owner wants them. The people purchasing it wont want it the same specs....... So less desirable.

[63 tango]

i`ve sold 2 in the last 2 months. Had to lower my prices on both. Sold them for $700 each. One was a Stag model 4. The other was a Sarco Colt M16A2 kit on a Stag lower.

[gemini1]

I wanted a new AR in different caliber, but I can only do that if I sell my old one. However, I got my one during the last election, so you can imagine how much it cost me to build it. I know it'll be next to impossible to sell it at a decent price. So I might as well keep it, and forget building a new one, for now.