George - Buds web site gives a good explanation of how they set their prices: "Bud's prices are based primarily on 'replacement cost' of buying another of the same item from the manufacturer. Here is their explanation of how their prices are set, copied directly from Buds web site: “Our website updates every 20 minutes, 24/7, with our current inventory and replacement cost. We do not price our guns manually based on our cost in each, rather we use a live download from manufacturers and distributors to set our price based on our current replacement cost. As our cost changes, the corresponding website price of each make/model will change up/down accordingly. Although our profit margin remains unchanged, our advertised prices will change frequently, sometimes several times per day.” Now on used guns, the prices are determined by how much Buds' has in the pistols of course - if they came from the manufacturers, from a large 'police trade in' or such, and they have several of the guns to sell, then the prices are based directly on how much Buds paid for the guns. In this case, with two models that are essentially the same, they could well have come from two different 'batches', and the manufacturers, based on gun condition and how much they have invested in them, would have probably sold the guns to Buds at different prices - hence the different selling prices.

same gun From Buds “Our website updates every 20 minutes, 24/7, with our current inventory and replacement cost. We do not price our guns manually based on our cost in each, rather we use a live download from manufacturers and distributors to set our price based on our current replacement cost. As our cost changes, the corresponding website price of each make/model will change up/down accordingly. Although our profit margin remains unchanged, our advertised prices will change frequently, sometimes several times per day.”

George the pistols are similar but the stock level is different. Buds prices are tied directly to stock level. A normally lower priced firearm can be more expensive than a normally higher priced firearm and vice versa depending on stock levels of each. If you purchase whenever stock is highest, you can save $ on many firearms.