...is being packed and should be on the way to me soon. As Frank Fritz (RIP) of American pickers was ever so fond of saying, "The time to buy it is when you see it"; so, when I saw them on eBay, I submitted an offer. The them are three magazines for the Beretta 92FS Compact L, Type M, pistol. They are 8 round, single stack, magazines. While not impossible to find, it is not easy to find them very often. To find them at an almost decent price is next to impossible in my experience. I check GunBroker, eBay and some other auction sites now and again but if I do find any, the price is usually prohibitive. The one I found, maybe a month ago was listed on GunBroker for $125.00. I kept checking to see if the seller would come down in price but he did not.
Yesterday, I checked eBay. I found a seller who was offering six of them, all OEM, and lightly used, or so says the seller. The asking price was $115.00 each. I saw there was a 'make an offer' option and tried that at $75.00 each. I received an email, this evening, saying the offer had been accepted.
Under normal circumstances, such a magazine might sell for $35.00 or a bit more. By normal, I mostly mean them still being produced by Beretta or under license from Beretta. The thing is, they have not been made by Beretta, nor by Mecgar under license from Beretta, for several, if not many, years now. In addition, I do not think the Beretta 92FS Compact L Type M pistol was very popular, thus there were nowhere as many Type M single stack magazines produced as were the regular double stack 15 round mags. Being they are somewhat on the rare side, their price has gone up considerably, and that is true not only for ones in new condition but also for used mags. In fact, ones that are new old stock are quite rare indeed.
I was pleasantly surprised that the seller accepted my offer without making a higher counter offer. That made me wonder if I should have first offered a lower amount but as far as I am concerned $75.00 apiece is a decent and fair price all things considered. Now, if they actually are in the condition claimed in the item description, I will be ecstatic. Time will tell.
Once I receive them, I will have about three or four OEM mags for each of my two Beretta 92FS Compact L, Type M pistols, for a total of six or eight Type M mags, that is at least if I remember correctly how many I already own. I'd like to have purchased more, maybe all six the seller was offering, but buying more from the same seller right now would be a bit too much of a strain on my finances than I'd like to make right now. So, these will have to do, at least until the next time I see more being offered when I have some cash to burn.
All the best,
Glenn B
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