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Rohrbaugh Products and Accessories => Rohrbaugh R9 (all variations) => Topic started by: PursuitSS on July 19, 2020, 03:22:59 PM

Title: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PursuitSS on July 19, 2020, 03:22:59 PM
Supposed to be virtually new.

Very late production, serial # 6058

 https://www.gunbroker.com/item/874119047 (https://www.gunbroker.com/item/874119047)
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: MikeInTexas on July 19, 2020, 06:47:56 PM
Congratulations, I think you got a pretty good deal on that one.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PursuitSS on July 19, 2020, 07:38:01 PM
Yeah, funny thing is the exact maximum bid I entered was $1,027.01 and another bidder ran it up to my exact maximum bid.

IIRC, this is below what Retail was for a Stealth back in the day.

I’m HAPPY!
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PhilZ on July 19, 2020, 08:22:47 PM
The other person must have entered the same max bid, but yours was first.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: ECR on July 19, 2020, 08:28:20 PM
Really nice deal there!
You even get a set of the, to me anyway and my favorite, VZ Grips that look like wood on the pistol.
Very classy setup. Great price! Congratulations!
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PursuitSS on July 19, 2020, 08:53:14 PM
Really nice deal there!
You even get a set of the, to me anyway and my favorite, VZ Grips that look like wood on the pistol.
Very classy setup. Great price! Congratulations!

Yeah I have VZ Grips on my other 3.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: MRC on July 19, 2020, 09:00:40 PM
Yeah, funny thing is the exact maximum bid I entered was $1,027.01 and another bidder ran it up to my exact maximum bid.

IIRC, this is below what Retail was for a Stealth back in the day.

I’m HAPPY!


The other bidder looks like a shill working for the seller to me.

He made four bids after you and ended on $1011.00.  He saw your bid was at $1027.01 so he knew that was your max.

If he really wanted to buy the gun he would have upped your bid by $25.00 to get it.

You did not get a bad deal, but $900.00 would have been a better deal.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PhilZ on July 19, 2020, 09:37:22 PM
Yeah, funny thing is the exact maximum bid I entered was $1,027.01 and another bidder ran it up to my exact maximum bid.

IIRC, this is below what Retail was for a Stealth back in the day.

I’m HAPPY!


The other bidder looks like a shill working for the seller to me.

He made four bids after you and ended on $1011.00.  He saw your bid was at $1027.01 so he knew that was your max.

If he really wanted to buy the gun he would have upped your bid by $25.00 to get it.

You did not get a bad deal, but $900.00 would have been a better deal.

One of the former forum members admitted to bidding up auctions to keep the resale values up.  He ended up having to buy a few.

I don’t think the buyer can see your max bid, just the highest you’ve bid up to.  $1027 for a like new Stealth sounds about right. 
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: MRC on July 19, 2020, 10:00:07 PM
Yeah, funny thing is the exact maximum bid I entered was $1,027.01 and another bidder ran it up to my exact maximum bid.

IIRC, this is below what Retail was for a Stealth back in the day.

I’m HAPPY!


The other bidder looks like a shill working for the seller to me.

He made four bids after you and ended on $1011.00.  He saw your bid was at $1027.01 so he knew that was your max.

If he really wanted to buy the gun he would have upped your bid by $25.00 to get it.

You did not get a bad deal, but $900.00 would have been a better deal.

One of the former forum members admitted to bidding up auctions to keep the resale values up.  He ended up having to buy a few.

I don’t think the buyer can see your max bid, just the highest you’ve bid up to.  $1027 for a like new Stealth sounds about right.

If Pursuit's max bid was higher it would have gone to $25.00 more than his bid or $1036.00.  $25.00 is the minimum raise.  Since he knew that it only went to $1027.01, that was Pursuit's max.

Maybe he did not want to bid the $1052.01 which was the minimum next bid.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: MRC on July 21, 2020, 04:22:38 PM

I am certainly not saying that the buyer got a bad deal, the bidding just looks fishy to me.

It happens all the time.  I bought a Smith PC 40 from Lewis Family Firearms one time.  I researched prices fairly well before the end of the auction and I found the same gun had sold about 6 weeks earlier.  The bidding was at a reasonable but somewhat low price and I notice that the Dealer who had bought the gun was bidding against me.  Next the guy who had sold the gun threw in a bid.  I ended up with the gun at a reasonable price.

I call Lewis FFA and told them what was going on and that I was not real pleased.  He acted kind of sheepish about the whole deal and denied that he knew anything about it.  He said if I did not want the gun, I did not have to take it.

The price was decent, so I took delivery but this stuff still irks me.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PursuitSS on July 23, 2020, 09:34:06 PM
The new addition...

(https://i.imgur.com/yB2Ql0g.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/7FNHXkV.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/sr2XWn3.jpg)

AND the Family album....

(https://i.imgur.com/icXvz5Y.jpg)
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PhilZ on July 23, 2020, 09:50:29 PM
Nice VZ grips
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: MikeInTexas on July 24, 2020, 10:12:53 AM
But, but, they all have those funny bumps on the top of the slide.  You ever consider getting a real one?   8)

Seriously though, that looks like an exceptionally clean example you just purchased.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: MRC on July 24, 2020, 10:43:45 AM

I agree, looks good.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: Griff on July 24, 2020, 04:41:44 PM
I also have the black checkered VZ grips on my R9 Stealth.
Previously had VZ carbon fiber ones that matched my edc Spyderco  knife grips, but the checkered VZs  are in a different world as to grippy-shooty goodness.
I highly recommend!
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: ECR on July 24, 2020, 05:05:01 PM
Hey Pursuit, nice catch. There doesn't seem to be many rounds through that R9 looking at the seating area in the frame where the barrel lug stops. Good Luck with her!
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: PursuitSS on July 24, 2020, 08:14:51 PM
I couldn’t be more happy with it, the problem is my wife has decided it’s HERS!

60xx Serial #, I really don’t know how some one could own it and not shoot it?

It’s a gorgeous pistol.
Title: Re: I just bought another Stealth R9S
Post by: ECR on July 24, 2020, 09:10:28 PM
Ya, funny how that happens.  lol