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Take good advice but buy with your heart

When I worked in retail one of my mentors in the gun trade once said: “The secret of selling at a good price is buying at a good price.” Like all the best advice, it is deceptively simple and rather obvious, but there are so many factors to consider when you are buying at auction that having them reduced to a simple sentence is a benefit.

With the economy in stasis while we ride out the storm of COVID-19, anyone claiming to know what a good investment at an auction will be in the short term is a fool. We will have to fall back on the simple principles of buying well.

Buying a new gun will give you a warranty from the maker and there should be

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