Why do people buy this?

It's one of the mysteries of the universe that even Stephen Hawking can't answer! A grungy Mauser enters a black hole in space and is propelled at the speed of light out the other end into a Mauser, alter reality universe as a shinny gem.
 
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Maddening for sure... but nothing new about this behavior. To the general public, the salty matched example, gets pooh poohs, while the shiny turd wins the ribbons. Walk a local GS with a matched rifle, and listen to the misinformation. Despite these quality e-forums, there remains considerable ignorance about milsurps...JMO.
 
Its Purdee , thats why it sold for that and to a STUPID UnEducated FOOL !!!!!! .
Buyer would have done themselves more benefit buying a copy of Kriegmodell at that price. Best Regards
 
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2 guys in a money fight. The winning (?) bidder has bought a lot of junk lately, including another MM, for which he paid only $475. Apparently he felt this one was worth 3 times as much. I would not consider this the new average price for "Collector Grade" MM RC's.:moon:
 
I still wondering if the buyer thought this piece was worth it because of the paper work with it and its Gold Seal of Premium Grade. To me that rifle stock is firewood, the metal and its parts scrap, and that stupid paper my toilet paper for a day. I'm sorry who buys this piece for that kind of money is a uneducated fool in K98k collecting. If something like this was brought to me at my table at a show I wouldn't even give $100 for the piece. I tell the new collectors all the time buy the books first and then buy the rifles in the future.
 
Unbelievable. Well, except for the fact that it HAS to be believed because it obviously DID SELL at that price. Ugh.
 
I've been thinking about this, and here's my thoughts on why people buy this:

Some guy sitting in his recliner reads American Rifleman. He's a good guy, probably older (60's-70's) and gets on a WW2 kick for a while. Anyway, sees an ad in American Rifleman for Mitchell's Mausers. They don't have WW2 ones in the ad but he remembers them from times back. He digs through his old issues and finds the ad for the Nazi Mausers Mitchells had tons of. Now he HAS TO HAVE ONE. Finds this one online at Gunbroker- Mitchells says the bnz ones were made by camp inmates, he believes it. In his mind anything made in extra evil camps HAS to be more valuable.

Viola! He buys himself a camp made bnz marked collectible from an upstanding business who advertises in the American Rifleman magazine.
 
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I've been thinking about this, and here's my thoughts on why people buy this:

Some guy sitting in his recliner reads American Rifleman. He's a good guy, probably older (60's-70's) and gets on a WW2 kick for a while. Anyway, sees an ad in American Rifleman for Mitchell's Mausers. They don't have WW2 ones in the ad but he remembers them from times back. He digs through his old issues and finds the ad for the Nazi Mausers Mitchells had tons of. Now he HAS TO HAVE ONE. Finds this one online at Gunbroker- Mitchells says the bnz ones were made by camp inmates, he believes it. In his mind anything made in extra evil camps HAS to be more valuable.

Viola! He buys himself a camp made bnz marked collectible from an upstanding business who advertises in the American Rifleman magazine.
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Agreed, which brings me to this point: I always thought that the Mitchell's ads were at least a bit fraudulent. I agree 100% about the "target demographic" too, and the fact that they advertised in good, reputable magazines adds to the lie. Those guns were yet one level BEYOND R/C guns, they ought to be referred to as M/C guns!!!

Broken record time: how many guns/parts did Mitchell's ruin? Just like the humpers, except Mitchell's created a whole new level of humpery, essentially humped scrubbed R/C style guns, and then sold them with papers that made them appear to be "premium grade" or whatever. But in what universe???

The "good guy" who saw the ads and didn't know better most certainly got screwed out of his money, which he will NEVER get back. Those guys at Mitchell's knew they were marketing those guns in a deceitful way, they had to have.

In the late 80's and early 90's when the Korean Garands and Carbines were coming into the country, along with lots of others like the Chinese k98's, Swedish m96's and a host of others, collectors were pissed about the import marks damaging the value of the rifles. I handled/saw/bought many of these back then, and the import marks NEVER bothered me because this was the ONLY way any of these were getting out of where they were. They sold like crazy.

Mitchell's wasn't content to just import guns like that, they had to go further. Why?!? Why scrub them and force match them and destroy any original value? Who cares if the barrels are plugged with cosmoline and numbers don't match, just sell them THE WAY THEY ARE!! The serious collectors would appreciate THAT far more, and you wouldn't be making turds.

Rant over....... For now.
 
I think all the advertising $$$ Mitchell spends in the Gunzines fools a lot of people into thinking they are a reputable seller. These aren't serious collectors, they're mostly guys who just want a WW2 German rifle and aren't concerned about the details, as long as it looks nice. I have to admit I own a Mitchells K98k and a couple of M48's. I bought them for about half what Mitchell's is asking, so I didn't feel too bad.
 
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