Wow! Holy Grail! Stupid price that without looking I'd opine is shilling. To get it right the new "winner" is going to have to at least spring for an E/214 safety. How much is one of those by itself?
Nah, it was just two dudes with deep pockets who pulled out the rulers to figure out who's was biggest.
It's pretty normal bid history up through ~8k or so, and then some 1 feedback buyer takes it to 10k but then gets out bid by another guy with a long history and some recent purchases from LSB. After that it's two other guys squaring off to fight up to the hammer price, and both of them are very active buyers with a lot of traffic going to SRiesel, LSB, Ancestry Guns, Carolina Gun Runners etc. One of them in particular looks like he's putting SRiesel's kids through college.
Two doctors/lawyers/computer programmers squaring off and over paying on an auction. Tale as old as time, I've heard greybeards gripe about the same thing happening at in person Civil War / cowboy gun auctions in the 60s when those got really popular with the doctor/lawyer crowd for a minute.
You see this a lot with these big "known shops" that certain kinds of buyers trust to have legit items (as much as they show up in turd alerts here)
edit: attached for posterity
edit: if you look at the history, 17mach4 there was playing footsie with the bid increments in 15 minute intervals. Probably hoping horned frog would get bored and not realizing that it was an auto-bid. Likely having another beer too to get himself in the mood to lay out real cash.
Which, by the way, is why you always end an auction after 7 but before 10. Give room for people to do some drinking and bidding.
edit 3: lol just noticed that one of them is a Gold Gunbroker member. LMAO 100% doctor/lawyer/well heeled IT guy.
