A Bolt II Micro Medallion

[Mckie Hollow]

I have one of these in a .284 Win., Bought it in 92. The Blue Book for this Rifle is between $5 & 600. I was @ a show trying to sell it, until I came upon a Vendor with a A Bolt I in .284. He wanted $1200. I asked Him why Mine was only worth $5-600. He slowly answered to give it 5 years. I cannot find any of these Micro Medallions in this caliber on any Broker Sites. Does Any Body have an input on this?

[1sourdough]

 I bought a slightly used 'Micro-Medallion' in 284win almost 2 yrs ago. It was a local FTF deal. It also came with a vari-x-III, case & a bunch of ammo. It is a very sweet 'like new' gun & I wouldn't sell it for almost anything. I have a fair amount of empties & dies so I'm all set. I also have the 80 or so factory rounds the seller provided. I look once in awhile but have not seen many for sale. I have the 'blue book' & look at the online auctions & the book lags behind the asking price on the auctions. The only thing I did was put the medium Timney trigger spring in to reduce the pull some. I took it deer hunting last year but passed on 2 smaller bucks since I had an earlier doe. It sure is a joy to carry for the way I hunt. Some gun vendors just leave their prices on the high side waiting for the impulse shopper to come by. How could he list his A-Bolt 284 at $1200 & say your Micro-medallion was half that? To trade up & make some profit I guess. The 284win was ahead of it's time. It does all the 7mm-08 can do & more.

[Graybeard]

A gun, any gun or for that matter anything period is worth whatever some uninformed fool is willing to pay for it. Sellers are free to over price their goods by as much as they wish to do so. I see it done all the time. Most times informed buyers will ignore such insane prices and the goods will either go unsold or the seller will lower the price to a more reasonable level.

But once in awhile some uninformed buyer will come along and plunk down the cash for them at insane prices. Then too some times someone will come along wanting that exact item and they've not been able to find one just like it anywhere for a long time and priced be damned they gotta have it. I've done that a time or two myself but knew I was being taken to the cleaners when I did it.

Sellers are ALWAYS going to under price your item and over price theirs it's just the nature of the game played between buyer and seller. Just because he has one and has it priced at a ridiculous price does not mean he has any more clue than the man in the moon of what your gun is worth and likely he knows his is not worth what he's asking but thinks/hopes some fool will come along and not know any better and pay the price.

The gun has little to no collector interest thus no real collector value. It's value is as a shooter only and as a shooter it is NOT worth that kinda price.