Let me ask you a serious question.
You are running a business. A Pawn shop.
A potential customer comes in with an item he wants to sell you. An antique gun. He wants $1500 for it.
You don't know that much about this gun's value so you bring in an independent expert whose opinion you trust to tell you what it is worth retail with the agreement of the seller.
In front of the seller this expert tells you this gun is an XYZ .42 caliber Fraxits and its in very good condition.
When you ask him what could it be sold for, the expert says it's worth between $1000 and $1200 on a good day.
You tell the seller. "You heard what the expert said. Now what would you take?"
The customer says "I want $1200."
OK, ozzymandus. What would YOU offer this customer? Be Rick Harrison. Make him an offer. . . and explain your reasoning.
I’d offer him $600, and tell him that he could do better selling it on a gun auction site. Now tell me where I’m wrong. And try to keep in mind that Pawn Stars is a TV show, and every transaction is arranged in advance. This all started with one throwaway remark I made suggesting that a pawn shop would be the last place I would try to sell a valuable firearm (or anything else), and the TV pawn shop on “Pawn Stars” would be the last pawn shop I would ever sell anything in. You seem to consider yourself an expert on Colt SAAs, I am not. I own 3, none of them older that the mid-70’s, a Cowboy, a 3rd Gen SAA, and a 2nd Gen New Frontier, the latter 2 NIB. The only gun I own made before 1900 is a Swiss Verletti rifle. My personal interests run toward WW1-WW2 military-type guns, but not being rich, I will never own a gun worth more than the $3500 I paid for my Ohio Ord. BAR. I have a CMP M1D that may be worth that someday, but I get nervous paying that kind of money for a gun.
And don’t ask me to pretend I’m Rick Harrison, I can’t do that. I can pretend to be a gun dealer, since I’ve worked for a couple of them in the past, but pawn shops prey on the desperate and stupid, even TV pawn shops.