Since it is of such importance to at least one of you, I never really had the gun for sale and therefore did not have to advertise it at all. A shooter at a local club knew I had it, had not altered it in any way and had shot it very little. He made me an offer and became the proud owner. In case the amount of his offer matters to you as much as how I might have advertised the gun, he offered me every cent I paid for it, including sales tax. That was $1,349.95 plus $81.00 sales tax for a grand total of $1,430.95. I didn't make a dime on it; I was just glad to not lose anything on it as I no doubt would have had it been a ported 30" gun. I can provide the buyer's name and the club at which he made the offer if you need that info to feel all good again.
But since you brought it up, Bud, if you owned a gun that was unusual and wanted to sell it, are you expecting us to believe that that you wouldn't at least mention that there weren't many of them around?
What I dislike is when "rare" is misused and you see that a lot in ads, so much so that it is a red flag for a lot of gun shoppers. Scan through online auction ads and you'll see relatively common guns described as "rare" - and in fairness, it many times is because the seller doesn't know the product line well and really thinks it is. Good examples are the Remington Model 700BDLs made between 1997 and 2001 - they had scroll engraved receivers and you often see them advertised as being "rare" or Custom Shop guns because the seller assumes that any engraved Model 700 had to come from that department and accordingly, there can't be very many of them.
By the way, the older gentleman who purchased that Citori Plus from me bought it as an investment piece as he only shot Krieghoffs. Does that make me a bad guy for selling to scum who hoped to make money on it later?
Ed
