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How much is my SKS worth? Did I get a good deal? Answered.

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amx4080:
How many times has someone posted "Did I get a good deal?" or "How much is my such-and-such SKS worth?"  How to you know when you got a good deal?  How do you know when to tell the wife, or sneak the new acquisition into the house later?  If you ever do sell (we never sell guns, right?), how do you know how much to ask?

I was faced with all those questions, so I wrote a program to scan the auction sites and follow the trends.  While I'm only covering a few types of collectible guns currently, I'll add more if you have suggestions and time permits.  I've posted this information a site I created at www.gunstockmarket.net (.net, not .com).  It's updated automatically every hour, and while it may miss a brand new auction and skip others because the spelling is atrocious (it runs automatically, so software reads the text not a human.  I'm amazed at how many misspellings bubba can come up with for Izhevsk!  It is truly impressive how many ways to misspell words that even edit distance algorithms can't pick up) I never intended it to replace looking at auction sites.

Hopefully, you can get some information that is useful.  I tried to format it so I could reference it on my 'droid at a gun show.  I hope this is useful to you.  I'm open to suggestions, so please feel free to pm/email or update here.  Enjoy, it's free.

www.gunstockmarket.net

Ghost225:
Just to assuage fears I am one of the ones that test the site for him. Its clean of viruses and in no way a trick

Mark75H:
Pretty cool

amx4080:
Thanks.  PM or email me any suggestions.  I wanted a program to do this, so I built it and figured others could use it.  Enjoy.

amx4080:
Wow, I just saw that this got put in the sticky section.  That's an honor, thank you.

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