factory reconditioned Sig ?

[Mr.Guido]

Does Sig recondition police trade in guns and then re-sale them ?
If so how would I know if it had been reconditioned ?

 

[Joe Williams]

Yes, they do. Nowadays, I believe they come in a red box instead of blue. Could be backwards on that, though. When I bought my P239 a number of years ago, it just had a little paper blue band around the grip.

Couldn't tell it apart from new, an awesome way to get the next best thing to new at a heck of a discount.

 

[Mr.Guido]

just curious , I have seen a couple on here with blue boxes and I have a Sig I bought new about 15 years ago , the plastic case it came in was black , so the blue one made me curious.

 

[Chippp1961]

Blue=New
Red-Reconditioned
Black=? I know law enforcement models came in black
Silver= wish I knew ,My P220 came in silver box

 

[turnandshoot4]

My x5 came in a small black box.

 

[Mr.Guido]

Blue=New
Red-Reconditioned
Black=? I know law enforcement models came in black
Silver= wish I knew ,My P220 came in silver box

My P-220 came in a black case and I am not an LEO , and I bought it new at PSS about 15 years ago.

 

[Colt556]

My old 228 and 220 came in silver and blue cardboard boxes respectively. My 229s came in blue plastic cases.

 

[mconley]

My P-220 came in a black case and I am not an LEO , and I bought it new at PSS about 15 years ago.

colors have changed over the years, I dont even think that 15 yrs ago they had different pricing for their leo market, Kinda like glock red sticker on the box or blue sticker on the box. one is LEO and comes blue sticker with 3 mags at a price of 398.00 for standard sights and 479.00 for trijicon night sights.
Where as the civilian glocks come with red stickers , 2 mags, 509ish for civilan standards and 598ish for glock night sights ( not trijicon ).

It usally a way to mark condition and or price seperation between civilan and LEO

 

[mconley]

sigs box colors are
blue=new
red=recondition
black=LEO
silver= who the hell knows . lol

anyway, that does not mean that you cannot pick up a used blackbox at your local gun shop. Alot of dept. allow their guys to buy their duty weapons when the dept upgrades, the officer retires or leaves due to injury on the job, or even is some cases when the dept has surplus. When this happens these guys get a heck of a deal, most of the time for half of what the dept paid for them, and they can usally buy more than one if the dept is upgrading or surplus. If a LEO buys 3 guns and has 200-300 in his glocks or sigs alot of gun shops will allow alot more trade value than what the LEO paid for the weapons, the shop owner is happy and the LEO is happy, its a win win

 

[sertboy354]

If it is a factory REcon you should be fine they made the thing to begin with lol i did not know sig did that been wanting a sig 357 will have to look in to that

 

[LawDog76]

Yes, they do. Nowadays, I believe they come in a red box instead of blue. Could be backwards on that, though. When I bought my P239 a number of years ago, it just had a little paper blue band around the grip.

Couldn't tell it apart from new, an awesome way to get the next best thing to new at a heck of a discount.

The recondition ones have a red wrapper around the grip instead of a blue one.

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[Joe Williams]

The recondition ones have a red wrapper around the grip instead of a blue one.

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Reckon it could have been, but I remember mine being blue, with an note about it being a refurb. It was 7 or 8 years ago, though, so they could have changed, or I'm mis-remembering. Either way, I paid somewhere between $400 and $450 for my P239, and it looked and functioned like new. I highly recommend this route for folks looking for a way to get into a Sig without spending the big bucks for a brand new one.

 

[LawDog76]

Alot of dept. allow their guys to buy their duty weapons when the dept upgrades, the officer retires or leaves due to injury on the job, or even is some cases when the dept has surplus.

Or when a department buys a new P220 non rail for every Deputy then three months later they decide they want their officers using a P220 with rails and sell the "old" ones off at $300 each. Great use of tax dollars there. Atleast some people got a hell of a good deal.

 

[jbhummer2]

I bought one that was gone through by them and I had to put all new springs in it and the mag springs were bad. I am still ahead on the deal but I wont do it again. I will say a plus one for Midwest gun exchange for the help on getting it fixed. They were a lot of help!

 

[mrw]

I am looking for 229 in 40 if anyone knows where one is locally.

 

[Colt556]

I just picked up a refurbished P226 in the red box. It looks new, has night sights, rail, new grips and 2 15rd mags. Very nice pistol. I just don't like the DA trigger. I wish it were like my other SIGS.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Blue=New
Red-Reconditioned
Black=? I know law enforcement models came in black
Silver= wish I knew ,My P220 came in silver box

+1

Silver is the old school box... most likely a gun in a silver box will say made in West Germany...

Black is LEO IIRC, and yes, civvys can buy LEO guns. I've bought a NIB LEO trade-in gun that came in a black-box before.

Sometimes they have a new one sitting on the shelf and they trade it in when they upgrade, and the dealer passes it along.

 

[Chippp1961]

+1

Silver is the old school box... most likely a gun in a silver box will say made in West Germany...

Black is LEO IIRC, and yes, civvys can buy LEO guns. I've bought a NIB LEO trade-in gun that came in a black-box before.

Sometimes they have a new one sitting on the shelf and they trade it in when they upgrade, and the dealer passes it along.

Silver Box=P220 with German proof marks
I bought my 228 from a Deputy that purchased it from his department when they updated,Black box MARKED Law enforcement

 

[red_zr24x4]

The referbed guns should have wrapper on the grip that says CPO- certified pre owend.

I posted this in another thread, I dont want to keep advertising for a different forum but if you have questions on a Sig the best place I've found is SIGforum.com --A discussion forum for SIG enthusiasts

 

[Colt556]

Just picked up this P226 Refurb in a plastic red box. It has a rail, NS and a DAK trigger. I can't tell it from new.