I've gotten my best deals from auctions with horrible photos and/or bad auction titles.
Today one of the best deals so far arrived in the mail: some colt silver medallion stocks from an AA auction that had blurry photos. The final price was $31.25 shipped! In person they turn out to be excellent condition and exactly what I needed for a m357 that had no stocks. While silver medallion grips are not as pricey as the fully checkered gold medallion (python) grips ($250 to $300+) this is still much lower than the going rate.
A pretty good day.
Mispelled titles are great for low prices.
Or correctly spelled, but incorrect model designations. The best one I got was where the seller had written "officers model target" rather than "officers model special." Fortunately put the right year down so a google search of "officers model 1949" turned it up.
Or when they misclassify the piece. Recently, someone put a m357 in the single action part of gunsamerica. That has since been bought for way less than it should have been.
Of course, the big subtext in all of this is that if I just *worked* my normal job for those number of hours, I'd have made way more than the money "saved" by bargain hunting. But that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun...
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