Buck USMC on e-bay

[pwcosol]

Mr Moon said he was surprised at the price of the bayonet, which he considers "Incredible for this " very used " M9". From similar examples I have seen, like the example Bill P. mentioned, the one pictured in Homer Brett's "Military Knives & Bayonets", and a couple of others, this bayonet is in very nice condition overall! I currently have two; one with a riveted tang & another with the hex locking nut on the pommel. The latter also has the plastic grip transfer on the scabbard. The first one is close to new condition & the second shows moderate usage. I paid between between $1,700.00 & $1,500.00 for each. I bet the seller, whom really had no idea what he actually had, was dumbfounded @ the final bid price! He probably thought the story about the M9 coming from a U.S. Navy Seal (factual or not) really paid off big. It is rumored the majority of the 1993 Buck USMC trials bayonets were destroyed during or after testing. Yet, it is good to see perhaps more escaped this fate than once thought...

[rexmeyer]

Nice to see you back Carlo, I was wondering who started driving the price of this really high and it was you... I wish I could have had enough money to buy it , but it just didn't happen.. My wife still thinks I am crazy for buying these because she says that they all look alike, and is under the impression that I shouldn't need anymore....I was lucky enough to pick up a rivet pommel one of these for 200.00 a couple of years ago..The only thing it didn't have was the correct scabbard. It had a new one that was the same scabbard as the 1991 usmc, so I am just happy to have one...Rex

[Carlo]

Originally Posted by rexmeyer

My wife still thinks I am crazy for buying these because she says that they all look alike, and is under the impression that I shouldn't need anymore....

At least your wife knows how many of them you have....my wife has been told that "I have only a couple of bayonets in my collection that I bought for almost nothing...."
Needless to say, I'm not in the position to actually be able to display my M9s in the house...they are all closed in a locker!!!
Edit: while writing this, I remembered a good suggestion that I read in the Jim Maddox book Collecting bayonets.
If you were going to keep a list of all the bayonets where you wanted to record the price you paid for them, you can just use a code instead of the real price...this way your wife will never know how much you spend for your "hobby"!

[porterkids]

Hiding the value of your better bayonets can be dangerous. What happens if you get hit by a bus tomorrow? Your wife will get rid of all that worthless junk you used to collect. Wouldn't you rather that she benefit from the sale of some valuable bayonets than pay someone to haul away the "junk"? Everyone should make sure that someone close to them has some kind of an idea what things are worth so if something happens the collection will be liquidated to the benefit of the surviving family members.

[rexmeyer]

Bill, you are absolutely correct on what you say about the worth of the bayonets...My wife keeping telling me I should write what I paid for them down so she will know what they are worth and which ones are worth the most, otherwise she probably would practically give them away for almost nothing.....Rex

[porterkids]

My wife always jokes that if she out lives me she'll have a tag sale and it will be $5 for the short ones and $10 for the long ones.

[Carlo]

You are both very correct!
But what I suggested to do was not to write down a fictional price (i.e. $ 50 instead of $ 1500) but just a code (i.e. A1).
You will then have a separate list, out of wife attention untill you-will-get-hit-by-a-bus-tomorrow , where is clearly written that, for example, code A1 = price between $ 1200 and $ 1500.

[M9A1]

Ask that what steel products M9 BUCK-USMC 1993 bayonets are make with? Thanks

[Carlo]

One more for sale on ebay, full tang/riveted pommell
http://cgi.ebay.com/SCARCE-1993-USMC...QQcmdZViewItem.
It will be interesting to see if the new M9 book will influence the ending price.

[porterkids]

I don't think the new book will have much of an impact on the auction price. Last one on ebay sold for $2150. Then we had the gentleman who posted one here on the forum. That one sold for $2000. I think those are fair indications of the "real" value. I think what will have a bigger impact is the state of the global economy. A lot of collectors simply cannot spend the money because of their current condition and others who may have the money are more careful because they don't know how things are going to go with their own situation. I'm sure many people will be watching this auction. Counter reading as of this post is 65.