Poor little pawn shop Slavia 618

Would you have bought this and tried to restore it? They turned down $25.00. If I knew how to work on it maybe I'd give more but haven't been able to make a broken gun shoot yet. I have been able to make a gun that shot not shoot anymore though so you see my hesitation.

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There is a better one on eBay for $65. Add sales tax and shipping it would run $95+. If you watch eBay closely you will get one much cheaper. They have the one you are looking at priced as if it were in nice condition. They will come down eventually. The tag says bb’s only. Is the rifling gone? Maybe they don’t know anything about it. It’s worth $40 max. They are very easy and fun to work on. If you get serious about it bring a rod and patch and check the rifling for rust.
 
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Agreed, $70 seems to be typical high ask common at pawn shops. You can get lucky. I was on the hunt for a gun for my neighbor and found a Diana M34 in .22 complete with garbage scope and factory one piece mount, date of manufacture 2018, that looked almost new except for 3 bb sized spots of surface rust. Walked it out the door for $150 cash. Got it home and it was dieseling badly and all over the place. The oil burning off had that smell I remembered from 1998 when I bought my 34 new. Holy crap he got a new M34 on the cheap. You can get deals in pawn shops but $70 for that one, I would pass. Let it sit there a few months and offer $30 cash.
 
No worse than paying new retail for a beat-to-hell Yugo "automobile", I suppose. "To each is own"...

But to answer your question, "Are you nuts?"😉

For 25 bucks you can get almost five gallons of gas for your Yugo.😳

REAL TRUE STORY . A Yugo was parked on the lakeshore street parking in down town Chicago , window down 1/2 way . sat there two weeks with the key on the seat in plain sight . nobody stole it , nobody even took the new tires . Was on the nightly news