AIMs $900 Finn Mosins?????

[RGRWJB]

:eek: This inflating the gun prices is wrong for the Mosin collecting community. Our community is not for the big boys with big collections or the dealers. It is for the present collectors and the collectors of the future. We are only temporary janitors of our collections. Then they will be passed on when we fad away. I was hoping that more of the bigger site owners would have stepped forward with this type of speech, instead of a guy from a little site like mine. But they must have had their reasons not to speak up.:confused:

AIM should be ashamed of themselves pricing guns this way. $900 Finn m/91s is just plain crazy.:confused:

[CoorsLightGuy]

You've GOT to be kidding!

[fr8dude]

Well I guess when you are used to getting a nice M44 or 91/30 for under a $100, $349 would seem like $900. But they are excellant and include a pair of WWII binoculars(SA marked).

[DOGolden]

I think the price is high and I would not pay that much for one anyway. For that kind of money I could almost pay off a credit card! But, someone out there will pay that price. Wait and see. The market will bear that price, for that rifle, on their website. Is it crazy? Perhaps.

[RGRWJB]

As W.C. Fields would say...."There is a sucker born every minute".

[RGRWJB]

I guess the collector market has spoken. They dropped it down half price....$495...which is still $150 over.

[RGRWJB]

Most mil surps go up in price. But for some reason there has been an element on the Internet that has tried to over inflate these Finnish rifle prices very very quickly. There have been many excuses thrown out there on the whys but it gets right down to simply ridiculous over inflation and greed. A good way to check the prices in your area is the gun shows, pawnshops and the gun stores. You can have these guns at a very low rate if you do a bit of shopping around. Granted it may take more shopping in some areas but you will save hundreds of dollars if you do so. Besides the hunt is half the fun. As for prices in your area, check some sites like gun broker and auction arms. That will give you a look at the higher end sales prices. But once again none of them came close to AIMs prices.

As Mil Surp site owner I have placed this on several sites. I fellt I had an obligation to the new Mil Surp collectors coming into the trade to let them know and what to watch out for.

[eaglescout1969]

I have no interest in a $900 mosin. I paid $39 for a Finn from the now defunct Federal Ordance company and long ago sold it for $75.

[Spuds]

:eek: This inflating the gun prices is wrong for the Mosin collecting community. Our community is not for the big boys with big collections or the dealers. It is for the present collectors and the collectors of the future. We are only temporary janitors of our collections. Then they will be passed on when we fad away. I was hoping that more of the bigger site owners would have stepped forward with this type of speech, instead of a guy from a little site like mine. But they must have had their reasons not to speak up.:confused:

AIM should be ashamed of themselves pricing guns this way. $900 Finn m/91s is just plain crazy.:confused:

I don't get it. You don't like the price, you don't buy. Who are you to speak for the "Mosin collecting community?" If it weren't for big boys and dealers, importers wouldn't bring these rifles in and we wouldn't have them in our collections.

And why should any "bigger site owners" say anything? Something going on here, why not say what's on your mind? The market is the market, it will take care of itself. Someone prices something insanely, only a fool will buy. More often it'll get marked down or it won't sell. No use whining about it.

[RGRWJB]

Ted

I love whining! Now do you get it? And one other thing this is a site that is about Mosins and AIMs overpriced Mosins is something we can talk about here.

And also I'm not speaking for the Mosin community, but I love to say when the Emperor walks by naked that he is in fact naked. You are the one that is saying that I am speaking for the Mosin community, when I'm really not. But I think you said that for the effect. I think its good for people to voice their mind about over inflated prices.

It seems the bigger sites have a lot to say about Mosins, except about how high these prices are, in fact I see in most cases agree and justify them. That strikes me as being very strange. AIM did lower their prices, so maybe calling a spade a spade worked? Good for AIM!

So much for their attempt to over price Mosins. But I think you will see something like this again down the road. Inflating these Mosin prices quickly is a very lucrative business.

[Spuds]

Where to begin? First, who is Ted? Next, nevermind next. Whatever you are smoking, I hope your employer doesn't test for it. But if you are seeing nekkid emperors, dude, you need to lay off of it.

[RGRWJB]

The old saying about naked Emperors I guess went over your head. It’s a very old parable that most have heard of. You list your website as 7.62.3x54R.com in your profile which is owned by Ted. I guess it’s not your site after all.

As far as asking my employer to test for drug usage is a little bit of a personal attack that I don’t know where it came from because we were talking about Mosin prices. Its sound to me you are a little bit more connected to this issue than what meets the eye.

Have a good weekend who ever you are. I'm sure a few can guess where you came from......

[comper]

How did we get from talking about ridiculously priced nagants to smoking drugs? Why the personal attacks now? And what is nekkid? Is that an animal in Russia?

[RGRWJB]

:duel:

[Mosko]

How did we get from talking about ridiculously priced nagants to smoking drugs?

That's a very good question, and I think the answer is, that the thread has fallen into the personal, "feather ruffeling" category.

Please gentlemen, lets keep the discussion on topic an leave the personal rhetoric out.

Please, don't make this the 1st topic to be locked or deleted on this new site.

Everyones opinion is welcome and infact the freedom of speech is protected here, but inflamatory statements pointed personally at someone else is not tasteful, and tends to envolve into something worse if allowed to continue.

So please, if a bit of individual restraint can be applied here, this thread can get back on topic without any further actions.

I'm thanking y'all for your co-operation in advance!

[RGRWJB]

I second that !

[7.62x54r]

I'm Ted.

[CoorsLightGuy]

I know Ted personally and he's the most knowledgeable Mosin guy that I've ever met and that includes some guys who are just as well known, perhaps better known. They're very knowledgeable too, but I'd still take Ted's word over any of them, hands down.

[DOGolden]

Well, if you are Ted then who am I? :dontknow:

All kidding aside guys we need to tone it down on personal attacks. We will not allow personal attacks of any kind. We will keep this forum a place to talk about guns and we will keep it on a professional and pleasurable level.


Please, don't make this the 1st topic to be locked or deleted on this new site.

Thanks for catching this Mosko! :grinning-thumbsup:

[TaosBob101]

I have 900 bucks worth of Finn Mosins :D More coming I hope....

And the 54R site is one of my favorite. How else could I find out where my Tikka round recv 91/30 was placed on the One to Ten scale.
It's almost Spring ,I hope WGA can get it together with their sales soon.


EDIT NOTE : Parallax Bills site did have a lenghty discussion very recently about Dealer prices being out of hand as of late. I think of them as one of the larger or big sites. When I surf, I go everywhere, stay out of trouble and read it all.

[Spuds]

The old saying about naked Emperors I guess went over your head. It?s a very old parable that most have heard of. You list your website as 7.62.3x54R.com in your profile which is owned by Ted. I guess it?s not your site after all.

As far as asking my employer to test for drug usage is a little bit of a personal attack that I don?t know where it came from because we were talking about Mosin prices. Its sound to me you are a little bit more connected to this issue than what meets the eye.

Have a good weekend who ever you are. I'm sure a few can guess where you came from......

I didn't list my website as anything, I listed my homepage as Ted's site. Good thing I didn't list disney.com or you might have called me Walt? :confused:

Sorry if you considered my comments personal. I thought your explanation was vague at best, and I thought I replied with humor to convey my confusion.

This whole subject is confusing. :confused: That AIM prices their rifles at a price someone doesn't like is one thing, but I don't understand, nor do I think i want to, why you expect any other sites to comment on it. Why should they? They may not feel the same way as you, or they may not feel its their place to comment. Your post would seem to leave the casual reader (me) to think others have some duty or obligation to condemn AIM. Why should Ted write something about AIM's prices when he's not involved with them, unless it's to buy a rifle?

I like AIM, AIM sells nice stuff. I like bargains, they save me money. If I see something I like, but I don't like the price, I don't buy it. I don't expect everyone else to feel the same way. Others may not be concerned with the price.

Where I came from, why would anyone want to guess? Again, something I don't understand.

[7.62x54r]

Please, leave me out of this. I only posted to clear up the confusion over who was posting on this thread. I don't have a dog in this fight and don't plan on entering one. I don't feel that I was attacked, slighted, misrepresented, or otherwise as the response wasn't to me but towards a response of someone that was mistaken for me. In light of this no one needs to "defend" me. I'm glad that everyone here appreciates my site and seems to respect my opinion. Also, I don't know that I was included in the category of "bigger site owners" anyway. I don't consider myself to be and didn't see the post as directed towards me.

[RGRWJB]

Ted

I think you have the best Mosin info location on the web and I often say so on my site. You are a respected person on the web and I know of no one that does not respect you and your site. You reap what you sow and you are a perfect example of that saying. Good job Ted!

[Stan in SC]

Enough of the argumentative stuff gentlemen.Discussion in a civil manner is acceptable.
Denegrating to less than that is not.Plain and simple.

Stan

[RGRWJB]

You have my vote on that Stan!