Just when i thought i coulnt get any worse

[airgunner.177]

My bad luck continues at the end of 2016 I got broken into and my lovely Honda CR250 MX bike and my sons Suzuki RM250 were stolen I was gutted as I cant afford to replace them due to ill health, then this week I`d sold quite a few of my collectable airguns as I`d decided to buy one last PCP as I just fancied another one after I sold my last PCP a few years back so I saw a nice Daystate Huntsman classic on here and bought it off Anwar who is a great guy to deal with he posted it on the 4/1 and it was due to be delivered today I tracked it this morning and the tracking handnt been updated since the day Anwar dropped it off at the post office so I phoned Parcelforce and they didn't have a clue what had happened to it and couldn't give me an answer they said phone back on Monday so its either been stolen as its not been updated or delivered or its gone to Belfast for testing either way not good but Parcelforce at the time didn't know anything about it, when using Parcelforce its at your own risk and the maximum compensation is only £100 so anybody else thinking about using this service please bear this in mind,
I`m absolutely gutted about this and has ruined my airgun collecting plus the earache ive had off my Mrs for throwing away nearly £500 and I cant blame her!

Andy

[TonyL]

Bloody hell, Andy.

Feel for you, buddy; that's some terrible luck that you're having.

Fingers crossed that the Daystate mystery is resolved to your satisfaction.

[airgunner.177]

Bloody hell, Andy.

Feel for you, buddy; that's some terrible luck that you're having.

Fingers crossed that the Daystate mystery is resolved to your satisfaction.

ive never felt so low Tony I too hope it does get sorted but I'm not holding my breath
thanks mate...Andy

[oldskoolzzz]

Andy, that's some terrible bad luck bud

I recently worked for a Junior MX company which mainly sold KTM 50,65,85 & 125 stuff.

So many conversations I had with customers about them having there kids bikes stolen and some heart breaking stories to boot.

As you know MX isn't a cheap sport and it's not even cheap at a junior level either

Feel for you bud having any bike stolen is just totally gutting

Fingers crossed the parcel force issue gets sorted out for you.

In this day and age I'm personally so reluctant to post anything of value the amount of times I've had a rifle for sale and keep getting asked to post it....buyers are like use parcel force they take guns and usually 48 hours etc etc never had a problem then you read threads like these and hmmm makes you think.

My obvious worry is the parcel being damaged or not arriving plus the insurance has probably got so many loop holes and hoops to jump through. I wouldn't fancy a stamp book as compensation especially if there's no shop receipt to prove the value etc.

Does somewhat always make me feel only ever deal face to face especialy when hard earned is at play.

Chin up bud hopefully you will have better luck and soon.

[Biker_Bob]

That's sh*ty news.
The biggest danger with RM/Parcelfarce is that they X-ray the package, spot that it's a gun with a pressure vessel (PCP) and then fly it to Belfast for destruction - this happened to me. I'd sold a gun and I had to pay the buyer his money back.
Well if things happen in threes, this sounds like your third.
FWIW most folks now go for face to face on these sorts of deals. I've done a few, meeting in motorway service carparks at early O'Clock on a Sunday.
Good luck for the rest of the year.

[airgunner.177]

That's sh*ty news.
The biggest danger with RM/Parcelfarce is that they X-ray the package, spot that it's a gun with a pressure vessel (PCP) and then fly it to Belfast for destruction - this happened to me. I'd sold a gun and I had to pay the buyer his money back.
Well if things happen in threes, this sounds like your third.
FWIW most folks now go for face to face on these sorts of deals. I've done a few, meeting in motorway service carparks at early O'Clock on a Sunday.
Good luck for the rest of the year.

That's my worry as well

[airgunner.177]

Ive been using Parcelforce to buy and sell airguns for over 10 years and ive personally never had a problem until now I did have an issue once with special delivery where a pistol ended up at Belfast but the buyer did get it after 6 weeks and loads of phone calls to get them not to destroy it as it was a low powered air pistol
the MX bikes were from years and years of buying and selling bikes until me and my lad had the bikes we were totally happy with but they are now gone