right place at the right time

Just got home after spending the day at our local swap meet. In fact, I didn't feel like going. I just wanted to stay home and be lazy but the wife and kids wanted to go. So I got dressed and dragged myself out. Well, I was just trailing behind the family when something caught my eye. I saw a guy looking at a flashlight contemplating as to whether or not to get it. He decided not to and put it back in a bucket full of stuff. I hurried over and grabbed it. I asked my wife to ask the guy how much. He quickly said the flashlight was $2. Then he asked to see it. He opened it and saw the "expensive" batteries inside and changed the price to $15. I told him I would take it. He asked if I was sure I wanted it because he knows the batteries are like $10 each and they would cost more than the flashlight. I told him I just happened to have a few of those laying around, so yeah I'll take it. I gave him the $15 and as I walked away I overheard him say something to the other guy working with him and they started laughing. Well long story short, I just bought my very first Surefire....................................an almost mint condition M6 Millennium Series.:naughty:

You've gotta be kidding!! Hahaaa!! Very nice snag. Will you post some pics if you get a chance? That's cool man.

yeah, when my son gives me camera back. i just swapped out the batteries with the ones i just got from batterystation and it fired right up. i think it had the 500 lumen bulb in it. tho im not sure yet.

M6 for 15 bucks! Great find.

Gooooooooooooooooaaaaal!! What a SCORE! :thumbsup:

OMG!:wow: That's an amazing price for a amazing light.

Too bad the other guy didn't know what it was actually worth. You should have told them the actual price after you bought it, they would have been .

Do you have pictures?

That was a bargain, you almost got it for $2.00

I wonder how low you could have gotten the price with a little haggling... :laughing: Seriously, that's awesome. I should start going to yard sales.

Wow, if I could be so lucky.

rala said:

I gave him the $15 and as I walked away I overheard him say something to the other guy working with him and they started laughing..

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:laughing::laughing::laughing: Oh man, that's historical.

rala said:

I gave him the $15 and as I walked away I overheard him say something to the other guy working with him and they started laughing.

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It would have been fun to send the wife back a little later with a piece of paper saying "Thanks for the great deal on a SureFire M6... look it up online sometime..." or something to that effect.

HOLY CRAP! That's awesome. I've dreamed of stuff like this happening to me, but no luck yet. Congrats buddy, enjoy. If it were me, I don't think I could refrain from telling the guy how much the light is worth after I paid him, LOL.

Yeah, I thought about telling him what it was really worth, but I was thinking about going back next week to see if he had any other goodies to pawn off on me for a ridiculously high price.

rala said:

Yeah, I thought about telling him what it was really worth, but I was thinking about going back next week to see if he had any other goodies to pawn off on me for a ridiculously high price.

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You're a wiser man than I

i have NEVER been lucky. :wow:

here are some pics i just took. sorry about the quality i used my crappy cell phone. btw, i did try to bargain with him. it was obvious he didn't know about surefires so i tried to get him to lower the price because of the broken switch....."see it doesn't work, i pushed the button but it doesn't move." wink wink
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb210/rala_roco/SurefireM6007.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb210/rala_roco/SurefireM6008.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb210/rala_roco/SurefireM6005.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb210/rala_roco/SurefireM6004.jpg

In the pen world, they call that a "sumgai" as in [when the next person who asks the seller] "oh sure, I *had* a Surefire M6, but I sold it to some guy for $15 earlier



Francis

That story is brillant! If only those guys knew the real value of the M6... They were laughing, but in reality, you were the one! GREAT STUFF!

I can't express my sentiments.........:laughing:

I wouldn't rub the fellow's nose in it...I'd be humble & thankful for the deal. Like you say, he may have deals on something else!