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What would be a good price to sell my Registered Lightning Link? Should I even sell it or find a way to make it work with these new bolt carriers an high shelf lowers? Your opinons.

Depends on what you want...are you looking to stay in the F/A AR world? Would you sell it and buy a RR or RDIAS...or something else. How much do you shoot it?

No need to "make" it work with high shelf lowers and other carriers when it still works with off the shelf lowers like bushmaster and DPMS, and off the shelf DPMS carriers.

The market peaked at $7500-$8000 a couple years back, and I don't think has quite regained that level yet.

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There are a number of compaines that make low shelf lowers. If that was the only thing you had against it, I'd say do some shopping for a nice low shelf lower and be happy. Spikes make some nice low shelf lowers, LWRC are low shelf, as are a number of others.

One recently sold here for $7k (within a couple days of posting), including an upper and modded bolt and some extra paddles. I missed it by minutes.

That was mine

$7000 + tax in less than 24 hrs.

Sorry about you missing it. I kinda felt bad after talking back and forth.

I got my M16 RR for $8,250 last year.

WTF? Where? I check this site, sturm, and subguns daily. Never seen one that low before. Either way I'll have to keep looking.

It was posted on Sturm.

wow, probably up for all of 3hrs before you got to it.

Want one to even make you more happy? I won a sendra built as an A2, 20" colt upper, off gunbroker last June. Full 7 day auction, ending price? $7180. I did have to pay the $200 transfer tax, but I guess at that point I'm just splitting hairs.

That's the thing: If you want to get a really good deal, you need to first get the cash in-hand, do your homework on the type of MG you are seeking, and then watch the boards like a hawk: I've seen incredible deals posted, but they sell in hours if not minutes.

And it's not the dealers who are posting them, it's individuals, which carries more risk if they are flakes. (Rare to find outright fraud, but individuals can exaggerate condition, misrepresent conversions or rewelds as originals, take a long time to ship, etc.) You need to assess your own risk level, and decide if you are willing to send thousands of $$$ to a total stranger and hope that he completes the deal, and that what you are buying is exactly as represented.

Many times, it is worth paying a dealer $1k or more over what the deals go for, because they have a brick-and-mortar building and a reputation, and your comfort level is that much higher.

Then again, maybe folks with low risk tolerance should stay away from the transferable MG game.

YMMV.

Good points tony. Can't agree more. Sometimes its worth the risk. I guess I've gotten lucky with the ones I've bought. And the sendra I got off gunbroker had a seller with 500 some odd feedback. I'm not sure if it was just the dog days of summer, so no one was bidding, or what. But I got lucky.

I bought two items from a private seller a couple years ago, one was a MG and I was definitely apprehensive about sending $7200 to a complete stranger. But he was more than happy to provide verifiable references in his area and after making a few phone calls I felt a lot better about it. But I was still nervous until I could verify the transfer was pending to my dealer, and wasn't completely comfortable until my dealer had it in hand. I did get a pretty good deal compared to the prices a dealer would have charged, but nerve-racking nonetheless. When I bought my M16 it got a little too pricey for me to send money to a stranger so I bought from Ruben Mendiola. Probably paid a little more, but I know he's a straight shooter so it was worth the extra cash for some piece of mind.

I bought my second lighting link (never fired) from a decently well known dealer for $6800 a couple months back.

I think it was up on the boards for maybe 48 hours before I called and grabbed it.

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