Thanks for the support, where there's a will there's a way, that and the stars and planets align just right. Already had a seller in TN contact me within an hour of my ad posting offering a Billistics RDIAS on form 4, but he said my $30k offer wasn't even ballpark, so this may not be happening. Then I asked to see his proclaimed list of 30+ transferable MGs that he wasn't attached to in case there was something else we could come to terms on, but was told, "based on what you think a Billistics RDIAS is currently worth, it would be a waste of my time". This feller has a talent for sniffing out tire kickers eh?
coolhand, didn't you just buy that $30k Billistics RDIAS from subguns this last month that was listed on Apr 18, 2016? As in the seller's full asking was $30k, not sure what you actually paid, could have been a bit less, often is. I mean, the last known full asking price was indeed $30k, and that was the only recent/valid price I had to go on. This seller who approaches me is the same guy who just sold a Norrell 10/22 thru sturm for $13.5k (which is thousands below what I just paid for one), so I figured an opening offer by price matching the most recent known full asking price of the exact same item was very much "ballbark" and not low-ball. I wasn't even given the opportunity to accept his counter offer since none was ever provided, instead I was given the finality of a 'Good luck." Alas, I'm new to this hobby, still learning the ropes and apparently pricing doesn't always follow any conventional rules or logic (its a seller's market they say!). I'd say live and learn, but I'm not even sure where I fumbled. Ha!
I know you (coolhand) just bought a DLO pack for a fair price. I tried to find the post about the RDIAS on HKpro but it probably got deleted, I'm thinking the RDIAS mention was in that DLO pack thread. I thought that item was just AR15 stuff until I just learned, as in yesterday, that you can use a RDIAS in an HK416! Now that would be a must have in a 10.5" barrel. Something to bridge the gap between MP5 and M4 but with HK reliability. I wish I knew this stuff months ago, about out of time here unless I find a motivated seller in TN, but thought I'd give it a try.
I even missed out on a Norrell 10/22 pack that sold for $13.5k (John Norrell told me this week that this was an average sale price for a pack with S&H sear) last month on here/sturm that was on a form 4 in TENNESSEE!!! (from the Billistics RDIAS seller), because I didn't realize it was a must have until recently. So, I just capitulated and overnighted a bank check to the highly revered Frank for his GB listing: http://www.gunbroker.com/item/556992959
He only asked for 50/50 but I made payment for 100% since he agreed to start the form 3 to my local SOT pronto. I'm offering the same courtesy for Billistics RDIAS btw, 100% upfront. I even checked with AutoWeapons.com, and here’s what they said, “Last Norrell pack we had was around 7 or 8 years ago. Of the 16,000 plus NFA items that have come and gone over the years if we had a dime for every email about a Norrel pack we can stop selling NFA and live off the dimes. Don’t have a clue where they all went.”
Crazy, because they have like a dozen+ M16s and a score of HK machine gun transferable listed, which supported my decision to buyeth from Frank. Anyways, I think this Billistics RDIAS will be the last big item on my WTB list now, then all will be right in the world before 41F. If I break down and buy after 41F, should I put on individual form 4 to myself and keep separate from trust in order to keep my gun trust more incognito? Or would that still make everything on my existing trust transparent since I'm the responsible person on the trust and also the same person collecting NFA stamps post 41F?
Update: As I suspected, the last Billistics RDIAS sold for < $30k off subguns. Click this link for proof of this past but deleted listing. Me: Curious. Was yours on form 3 or form 4? If form 4, at least I can tell myself it wasn’t a viable purchase anyway since I’m trying to get this in before 41F. Also, what was final sale price? Your asking of $30k, or a bit less? Seller: Yeah F4, just under 30...
Source being Steve Nugent for these other goodies currenlty listed from his collection on subguns: http://www.subguns.com/classifieds/index.cgi?website=&language=&session_key=&global_user_search=on&results_format=headlines&query=user&who_modified=stevenugent Conclusion: My opening offer of $30k was > a recent confirmed sold price that occurred within the past 30 days. Hardly grounds for such premature reproach.