Question about selling multiple guns

[dwtt]

I have two Walther P99 in .40 S&W which I don't shoot anymore. I tried selling off these guns as a pair before but noone seemed interested in buying two guns together. One is a QA trigger and the other has the AS trigger, and I thought selling the pair would be easy, but it turned out not to be. Are Calgunners hesitant to buy two guns that are externally identical but differ only in their triggers? I'm going to sell these guns next year when my current assignment ends and I can return to the US for some time, but I don't want to waste my time selling off only one gun and be stuck with the other one.

[keenkeen]

No.

[Treb5]

No, these are nice guns and should move quickly if priced correctly. Not unusual for a buyer to purchase two PPT firearms at one time.

Good luck

[keenkeen]

Price?

[Jet Setter]

It was probably your price that was putting off buyers rather than the thought of buying 2 similar guns.

I personally would buy two of the same if the price were right.

[MontClaire]

If the price is right - you'll sell them quick.

[DebitsAndCredits]

If I am not mistaken, PPT's are exempt from the 1 handgun per 30 day limit. However, maybe a portion of potential buyers don't know this and end up passing on it.

If the exemption if true, and you should check, adding it your ad can't hurt. Just my $0.02...

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[Calif Hunter]

I like variety so buying two guns that are virtually identical doesn't appeal to me unless I was into cowboy action shooting, and those wouldn't be acceptable there. If one was 9mm and one was .40, for example, or if the barrel lengths were different they would appeal to me more. Maybe others feel the same about buying two of the same handgun.

[TAS]

I like variety so buying two guns that are virtually identical doesn't appeal to me unless I was into cowboy action shooting, and those wouldn't be acceptable there. If one was 9mm and one was .40, for example, or if the barrel lengths were different they would appeal to me more. Maybe others feel the same about buying two of the same handgun.

Either this or if the guns had consecutive serial numbers. Otherwise, there are very few guns that I would consider having two that are the same. I do have guns that are similar but they're differences are more than just the trigger.

[Calif Hunter]

Sure - I have a custom Commander, a P-14 and a stock Series 70 MKIV from 1972, for example. Similar and all .45 but different.

[stix213]

In your original thread you only ever bumped it twice in over a month before you took it down. You also told people you weren't willing to transfer the firearms for two months, WTF??? Seemed like a fishy way to promote a sale, I would have skipped you even if I was looking for both of them. There is no way I would agree to a purchase then wait for two months just so you won't be inconvenienced with a no show. You realize you are insulting anyone who would want to buy from you with that, right? (insinuating any potential buyer of these pistols is a no good no show jerk) Insulting your buyer isn't a great way to encourage a sale.

If you want to sell them, then sell them, don't try to setup a situation where you drag out a buyer for 2 months on purpose and get confused when people don't want to put up with BS like that.

Willing to split? I have cash in hand and interested in the 1st gen but have no interest in the new model. Also not sure why you're posting now if you're not willing to transfer for almost two months...

The pistols are being sold together.

In the past, there were people who get excited when they saw the ad, then said they wanted it, but changed their minds after a few days or just didn't show up. This happened more often than not. I've decided to give people over a month to decide if they really want the guns this time.
The ad will come down when they are no longer available.

Not sure why you weren't willing to sell one of them to the guy who said he had cash in hand. What's your fixation on having to sell them together? I can understand trying to, but to turn down a sale just cause you want to do them both at once, then taking your ad down, seems strange. They aren't some type of collectable set.

[dwtt]

No, nothing strange at all about the first time I tried to sell both guns together. I stated clearly that both guns were being sold together because I'm getting rid of all my .40 S&W guns, which I don't shoot. Nothing strange about that. It doesn't make sense to me to just sell one and be left with the other gun which I don't shoot. I guess you don't understand that I'm not desperate for cash and this isn't the reason for the sale, so it's confusing to you why I would turn down an offer to buy half the package.

The guy who wanted only one gun was an example of how most buyers didn't want to buy two guns, which lead me to ask the question in this thread. If he had the cash to buy both guns, they would have been sold.

As for the 2-month wait, well it's really hard to do a PPT sale in the Bay Area where the guns were when I was in east coast for school. There are people who do a lot of buying and selling, and they want the gun tomorrow under their terms, but I'm not going to do that. These guns aren't for sale now, I'm just asking if there's any interest on Calguns for buying two similar guns together and it seems there's little.

[ke6guj]

I don't see why many people would be interested in buying 2 of the same gun, differing in only the trigger. If I like the version that has a glock-type trigger why would I also want to have to buy the other version as well.

had you sold one gun to cosmos, then you would have been able to just list the second gun and probably found a buyer who wanted the other one.

it is probably always going to be harder to find one person with $1100 that wants 2 guns, than to find two people each willing to shell out $600 each for the gun they want.

[I Swan]

Not everyone is a high roller that can afford more than one. Also some people probably don't want the multiple handgun sale form being sent to ATF.

[stix213]

No, nothing strange at all about the first time I tried to sell both guns together. I stated clearly that both guns were being sold together because I'm getting rid of all my .40 S&W guns, which I don't shoot. Nothing strange about that. It doesn't make sense to me to just sell one and be left with the other gun which I don't shoot. I guess you don't understand that I'm not desperate for cash and this isn't the reason for the sale, so it's confusing to you why I would turn down an offer to buy half the package.

The guy who wanted only one gun was an example of how most buyers didn't want to buy two guns, which lead me to ask the question in this thread. If he had the cash to buy both guns, they would have been sold.

As for the 2-month wait, well it's really hard to do a PPT sale in the Bay Area where the guns were when I was in east coast for school. There are people who do a lot of buying and selling, and they want the gun tomorrow under their terms, but I'm not going to do that. These guns aren't for sale now, I'm just asking if there's any interest on Calguns for buying two similar guns together and it seems there's little.

You may have had what seem like valid reasons for you, but you're discouraging sales. People looking for a firearm don't generally decide they want two of them, and people who decide they want to buy a firearm aren't planning this out months in advance. They want one of the firearm they want, and they want to get it settled this week. Finding a person in the market for two versions of the same gun two months from now is not very likely.