Tesoro Silver Sabre Plus $75.00...Good Deal?

[Neil in West Jersey]

I have always been curious about the Tesoro detectors, but never owned one. Is this worth looking into buying? It seems there have been many developments and newer models since this one came out. How long ago were these made? Is it a good deal? Of course I would need to go see it and try it before buying.

Thanks!
Neil

 

[Hombre]

Howdy Neil

I have it's older brother, the Silver Sabre, it's a good beep-dig detector. These machines are some of the earliest Tesoros, they date to about 1984 or thereabouts. I like mine, it is a turn on and go machine and very quiet in the old rusty square naily tear downs, celler 'holes' and relic sites. When they are set at minimum discrimination on the dial they are well above nail rejection, and when they beep you can almost bet that the target is non-ferrous. They are very popular in the UK on the old Roman spoil heaps as they are about the only detectors that work well there! If you can buy it for $75 and you have a celler hole to work it at, I bet it would surprize you. Tesoro still has parts for these, and the uMax coils work well on them. There was a guy on the Classifieds on here that was looking for one awhileback , and he was from the UK.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Maybe it is worth looking into. I will see if I can get him down to $50. I will tell him I am looking for a lost piece of jewelry in my yard, so I don't want to spend a bunch. I never let them know I am an experienced user.

 

[Hombre]

Go get em!

 

[Sven]

They can sell as high as $125 or so on the e auction site.
Worth picking up

 

[just-dig]

Maybe it is worth looking into. I will see if I can get him down to $50. I will tell him I am looking for a lost piece of jewelry in my yard, so I don't want to spend a bunch. I never let them know I am an experienced user.

So you'll lie and say you're looking for a lost piece of jewelry in your yard? Sounds like kind of a shady way to do business.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Maybe it is worth looking into. I will see if I can get him down to $50. I will tell him I am looking for a lost piece of jewelry in my yard, so I don't want to spend a bunch. I never let them know I am an experienced user.

So you'll lie and say you're looking for a lost piece of jewelry in your yard? Sounds like kind of a shady way to do business.

I guess I should just be honest and say I am an experienced metal detecting enthusiast and that I think it is worth a lot more than he is selling it for.

 

[just-dig]

Maybe it is worth looking into. I will see if I can get him down to $50. I will tell him I am looking for a lost piece of jewelry in my yard, so I don't want to spend a bunch. I never let them know I am an experienced user.

So you'll lie and say you're looking for a lost piece of jewelry in your yard? Sounds like kind of a shady way to do business.

I guess I should just be honest and say I am an experienced metal detecting enthusiast and that I think it is worth a lot more than he is selling it for.

Naw, it's probably better to be deceitful so you can get it as cheap as possible.

 

[Country Boy]

They are a good detector for sure, and that is a good price. But cheap as possible is good to.

 

[marcomo]

I think that's an excellent deal at $75, even better at $50.

If you want to be honest, you could just say "I've got a yard I want to use one of these at, but I don't know that I'll use it much so I don't want to go more than $50"

Completely honest because "a yard" doesn't necessarily mean your yard, "one of these" doesn't necessarily mean a metal detector in general, and you really don't know that you'll use it that much.

 

[slowmotion]

I had one. Got it new in Laton, Utah. Ground there not to hot. Move to Phoenix Az. and went into the desert
place and though it was broke. Tesoro said it wasn't, he called the desert "mean ground". It has no GB to adjust so back to the big city to the "tot lots". My new one was "Toltec 100". It had "GB" on it and back to the desert. So the
ground might be a problem. So the "price is right" go for it.
Willard in Spokane.

 

[Sven]

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I guess I should just be honest and say I am an experienced metal detecting enthusiast and that I think it is worth a lot more than he is selling it for.[/quote]

He's probably happy with that amount. If your happy too, just buy it.

If you want to play wheel and deal like your at the flea market. Just ask if he is willing to take less and wait for an answer. Then buy it.