Rifle Scopes 'Hide Optics Dealers that take trade in Scopes?
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You are vastly better off selling it and using the money for a new one, you get bent over on trade-ins.
This is what i figured. But thought I'd at least see what my scope would fetch on a trade.
Very true, they offered me $450 for a scope I had but I ended up selling it for $650 straight out.
EuroOptics will also do trade ins but as mentioned before you are going to be better off selling it outright for more money.
+1 on swfa carrying nf but I don't think trade ins are all bad. I had a mark 4 4.5-14 and with the Chinese copies out there etc it just didn't seem like it was worth the headaches to try to list it. Swfa online trade in form was as easy as it gets, had new products in hand the following week. Sure I might have been able to get 10-20% more but what about the hassle factor, chance of buyer bitching, etc? Swfa trade was headache free
Yup. But I wasn't in the mood to deal with all the hassle of listing it myself, possibly waiting a month etc just to try to make an extra $100 or whatever. Also people will be more confident buying used from SWFA or EuroOptics than from [email protected] so there's a little of their margin right there.
for anyone selling a scope, go ahead and fill out the trade in form to see what you'd get from SWFA then add 20% and list it yourself, interesting experiment to cut through all the speculation. don't forget to factor in your personal time.
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Of course you do.
Probably about 99% of the time.
But sometimes the convenience of a quick sale or trade outweighs the hassle of a long and drawn-out sale trying to milk the last $$ out of something.
Most of us on here have probably done both. I know I have.
I've been so broke-assed that I've taken less for something I didn't need any more so I could move up to something I wanted or needed at the time.
I've also been in the position of having something that other folks wanted, so I could wait as long as I wanted to get a fair price and move on to something else.
But I've never given anything away for pennies on the dollar, and I've never screwed anybody on something I had that everybody wanted at the time.
So, what exactly was your point?
You cannot buy that kind of piece of mind. Plus I have always enjoyed getting optics from SWFA.....I usually buy my optics but they do carry Schmidy and Bender...
Holy thread resurrection.
You revived a thread from Oct 2014.
I think you get a prize for that!
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