Buck1967 said
Here is a good one. $3,000 for a $20 book supposedly signed by John Wayne 13 years after he died!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/236514569634?_skw=on+board+with+the+duke&epid=1032593&itmmeta=01KS2ANPEYR4H2AACN5PZ4A0ZZ&hash=item37115deda2:g:6a4AAeSwe5ZpNve1&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBK3HBOHlwU0oFEL7WZFgjHg8mdLSSbRVz%2BomBBK1UIgH5ltPUxv%2B4eZcPciXKP6%2F5wBoVZIqPHG1SStbSCYPtthuUnY2Ferbo18kgqikNJXuhJsMecDBVMiD4PdF%2Be3r5WaSBA%2FXGC6EO04EBdKbKgYQfMUMRjofHZVxnVzUIS%2FYa%2B52%2B4kNHKB1bekqSRFVQAbVINNW6F2wQ1bj7r2%2FYRGVGyyAl8qt1eCiZ15DPRHytEgoyTLzW3lCydjwP5H88%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9Tn1srIZw
  

Yikes,

I don't know what John Wayne's autograph is worth, but $3K seems quite high. FYI, per the seller's description, the autograph is written on a separate piece of paper that is taped to the first page of the book. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/236514569634?_skw=on+board+with+the+duke&epid=1032593&itmmeta=01KS2ANPEYR4H2AACN5PZ4A0ZZ&hash=item37115deda2:g:6a4AAeSwe5ZpNve1&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBK3HBOHlwU0oFEL7WZFgjHg8mdLSSbRVz%2BomBBK1UIgH5ltPUxv%2B4eZcPciXKP6%2F5wBoVZIqPHG1SStbSCYPtthuUnY2Ferbo18kgqikNJXuhJsMecDBVMiD4PdF%2Be3r5WaSBA%2FXGC6EO04EBdKbKgYQfMUMRjofHZVxnVzUIS%2FYa%2B52%2B4kNHKB1bekqSRFVQAbVINNW6F2wQ1bj7r2%2FYRGVGyyAl8qt1eCiZ15DPRHytEgoyTLzW3lCydjwP5H88%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9Tn1srIZw

Bert

This video is a great piece of show-how. Well produced, geat pacing, understandable narrative, enough camera time on the mechanisms for the viewer to grasp what's being shown. I watched parts of it twice. A great thing about show-how videos. 

Steve, I think I actually understand enough about how the Ross action operates- after watching this video -- that I can now see just how slick a .280 Ross sporter would be!

[However, I passed on the Jackson Armory Mk IIII and bought another 99 EG - a 250.]

steve004 said
This is the best explanatory piece of information I have seen on the topic of the Ross bolt.  It hits all the points and at the end, you get to see a Ross fired with the bolt assembled incorrectly:
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/myth-and-reality-of-the-ross-mkiii/
  

Awesome video and explanation!

Bert

Mike

https://www.forgottenweapons.com/myth-and-reality-of-the-ross-mkiii/

Buck1967 said
I see this every day on ebay. You have sellers who think they are going to retire on an item. Even crazier is when you can easily search and see there are multiple of the same item for sale on ebay and you wonder how in the world did they come up with that price. One of their craziest was a guy trying to sell a  Chief Crazy Horse box and sleeve for $3,495 when you could buy the rifle, box and sleeve every day on Gun Broker for $1200 to $1500. I just don't know if they are stupid or insane?
  

This is why, frankly, eBay sucks.  It isn’t what it used to be.

At one time, eBay was an auction place, for sake to the highest bidder.  And, even guns at one time.  Then they became anti 2A and banned that.  Even worse, it’s now become just a marketplace for overpriced items, vendors hoping for the first sucker who comes along and an item is listed repeatedly.  Which is well over what the item would bring at auction.

And, when one item is listed overpriced then other similar items get listed at the same overinflated prices.  There’s a book I want to use for photographing a Winchester for the calendar.  It is of limited interest, has been listed again and again well over a year, and likely worth about $15 at best.  It’s for sake for $90.  Then another one pops up, this vendor now thinks his is worth at least $90.  And so it’s listed for )125.

The internet desperately needs a real auction site, penny start, an item hammers at what it hammers at.  GunBroker used to be like this and it, too, has largely become an overpriced marketplace.

The survey data that Michael has documented appears to very closely agree with the serial and date range in which Winchester discontinued drilling & tapping the upper tangs for a peep sight.  For Model 94, it was in mid June 1942 when the D&T hole in the upper tang was discontinued.  The first (lowest) Model 94 serial number verified thus far without a D&T tang sight hole is 1337730 (6/11/1942).

Bert

Or maybe he expects to get side-offers. 

And there's always the remote - but not impossible - chance that a slow-witted trust beneficiary may happen by and fall into the net. 

Or he's ignorant as dirt, as you say. 

Blue Ridge Parson said
That particular "seller" on eBay overprices everything that he has to sell at about 200% to 300% of actual real world pricing (In some cases, even more!)  Were  I in need of such a sight, I would bide my time; one will come up for MUCH less than that.
BRP
  

Buck1967 said
I see this every day on ebay. You have sellers who think they are going to retire on an item. Even crazier is when you can easily search and see there are multiple of the same item for sale on ebay and you wonder how in the world did they come up with that price. One of their craziest was a guy trying to sell a  Chief Crazy Horse box and sleeve for $3,495 when you could buy the rifle, box and sleeve every day on Gun Broker for $1200 to $1500. I just don't know if they are stupid or insane?
  

I agree with both post and yes, stupid and insane apply!