And then it just lowballed from there….

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Years ago,I accidentally bought a HiPower. How, you may ask, does one ‘accidentally’ buy a gun? Simple.

Me: Just outta curiosity, whaddya want for the HiPower?
Gun Show Vendor: Make me an offer!
Me: Oh, man, I don’t have any money. Im cheap. I don’t wanna offend you with a lowball offer.
GSV: Hey, you won’t offend me. Make me an offer.

Now, at this point, I just want to get out of this conversation gracefully. So, I figure I’ll throw out a stupid offer, he’ll make a comment about me being insane, I’ll laugh along with him and make a self-deprecating remark about me being a cheapskate, and that’ll be it.

Me: Three hundred bucks?
GSV: Sold!
Me: …..

And then I had to do a hell of a shuffle to come up with $300.

Soooooooo….cut to today……

Me: Whats in the ammo can?
Vendor: Thousand rounds of .223 tracer ammo. You want it.
Me: Whaddya want for it?
Vendor: Make me an offer.
Me: Oh no. I ever tell you about the HiPower I accidentally bought?
Vendor: Come on, make me an offer.

<dejavu>Now, at this point, I just want to get out of this conversation gracefully. So, I figure I’ll throw out a stupid offer, he’ll make a comment about me being insane, I’ll laugh along with him and make a self-deprecating remark about me being a cheapskate, and that’ll be it.</dejavu>

Me: Two hundred bucks?
Vendor: Sold!
Me: Dammit!

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Well, I guess twenty cents for tracer ammo isn’t bad when regular ball is going for twice that.

I gotta learn that when I try to lowball someone I gotta put some more low on that ball.

15 thoughts on “And then it just lowballed from there….”

  1. The ammo dealer was just trying to get away from lugging it back home, then putting it into storage until the next gun show, where he would have to dig it out and lug to the truck back to the show . . .

    That was a good buy, a lot of fun time with your guns there.

  4. I have demonstrated a buy high – sell low approach to guns and ammo. at least your lowball offers are in fact low.

    • Not low enough apparently since they were accepted. I really wasnt wanting to buy ammo at that particular moment!

  8. Isn’t there a pending EO to ban .223 ammo or at least make purchase more difficult?

    Solution: Reloading.

      • “Isn’t there a pending EO to ban .223 ammo or at least make purchase more difficult?”

        And here is how an internet rumor gets started. Talk like this is what causes a run on items that otherwise are not in short supply. The real facts are that there has been a glut of 5.56 on the market over the last several years. He is not the only one out there making this statement. This false information has already taken a conspiracy life of it own.

  9. Hah, I accidentally bought a truck!

    I thru up a ridiculously low offer on a surplus auction site, and won it. Had to ship it 300 miles too!

    It turned out to be a great truck. With some minor work and upgrades from the junkyard, I drive it every week. In fact it is now my primary BOV.

    I think of it as the universe patting me on the head and saying ‘good boy.’

    nick

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