Conman: The ratcatcher

[Gavlar]

one of the guys at our club has just sent his xr back for waranty work, it was shooting fine then started doing exactley what you describe, sure he said it was a valve issue with something sticking causing wild variations in power and shot placement,
fingers crossed Brocock sort it for you.

Two posts in 13 years. Is this a record?

[Jackel]

Aye, it's really terrible wading through new registrations checking out all the pornography sites that try to join to corrupt you lads --- terrible I tells you.

Take it from me, Mrs Sexymilfblowjob won't be joining us.




All the best Mick

Slight correction, she won't be joining YOU

[Trumpetier]

Two posts in 13 years. Is this a record?

Got to be, surely ?

[Shedder]

Two posts in 13 years. Is this a record?

It is worth waiting until you have something useful and helpful to say, and the contributor is to be applauded for having at least 50% of his postings not being in the sales section
Shootingdaft's contribution is genuinely interesting and relevant, which is more than can be said for some

[bighit]

Two posts in 13 years. Is this a record?

Maybe the Mods can answer but there is people that join up and never post. Maybe bots or they lose interest.

I wonder how many of them there is ?

[bighit]

Slight correction, she won't be joining YOU

[T 20]

Slight correction, she won't be joining YOU

She's all yours, Carl.

She may have a face like a bag of spanners but she can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

[T 20]

Indeed! There are other forums where the mods actually seem to encourage antagonism....

No there isn't


































Bugger.

[Shedder]

No there isn't






























Bugger.

Oh yes there is

[angrybear]

By & large I think sales on here is as good as it can get,
I have no idea how many sales there have been over the years but posts like this are thankfully rare.

The mods seem to keep sales policed quite nicely, thank you gents, and the only things I really don't like are;
1. Posts without photo's.
2. That how to post photo's in sales is not a sticky in sales.
3. Buyers who do not post on the thread, so post 1 is the ad, post 2 is sold by the seller.

[T 20]

Gary C tried to offer an escrow service where the item was sent to him and the money to him. That way there was no issue of the money or item not arriving .

It may have worked if the person offering the service could check it was working as claimed but it seems a lot of work but it could save incidents like this or worse.

Though a very good idea from Gary and a very generous offer I can still see a few problems with it.

If an item was sent to an escrow service and then posted on wouldn't it incure twice the postage costs ?

To be sure the article posted to the escrow service was as described then the parcel would have to be opened, checked for operation and then repackaged --- there have been instances where a different gun to that described has been allegedly been sent (Claud).
Another slight problem is that everyone's perception of condition is different, my idea of mint condition might not be the same as yours, so even if the escrow service opened the package and checked it out the new owner could still not be happy.
The escrow service would also have to cross reference each item checked with the description given in the sales section advert.

It's a minefield.



It's much easier to just ban anyone doing a dodgy sales deal --- in reality there aren't that many problem deals on here.




All the best Mick

[Sir_SwampThing]

By & large I think sales on here is as good as it can get,
I have no idea how many sales there have been over the years but posts like this are thankfully rare.

The mods seem to keep sales policed quite nicely, thank you gents, and the only things I really don't like are;
1. Posts without photo's.
2. That how to post photo's in sales is not a sticky in sales.
3. Buyers who do not post on the thread, so post 1 is the ad, post 2 is sold by the seller.

Point 3 I raised with the Mods only a couple of days ago and it was acted on immediately.
I think that in future (like other forums I frequent) ALL communications in sales should be in the open until a deal is agreed and then details exchanged in private.

Atb
Chris

[oldskoolzzz]

Must admit sales that go wrong and aired in public do seem very rare on here.

I’ve been here since 2008 and I was always under the impression that the first to say they wanted an item either on the thread or via pm if the buyer wanted to stay anonymous were the rules.

Ok granted it’s not good etiquette to be anonymous when buying via pm and I’ve seen it cause issues.

Same as someone that half says they are interested but needs to know x y and z or includes caveat’s then someone else pops a yes please straight afterwards

[T 20]

By & large I think sales on here is as good as it can get,
I have no idea how many sales there have been over the years but posts like this are thankfully rare.

3. Buyers who do not post on the thread, so post 1 is the ad, post 2 is sold by the seller.

Hi AB

If you bear in mind that the sales section rules allow a vendor to advertise elsewhere as well as here then there will naturally be some threads such as this when the item sells elsewhere.
Another scenario is that the purchaser doesn't want everyone to know their business so the deal is done via PM, which I'm also OK with.
There could also be vendors who post sold when in actual fact they've just decided to withdraw the item and don't want PMs asking if they'd reconsider.

If someone wants to sell, I say let them sell as unhindered by rules as possible.






All the best Mick

[Blackmax]

There was one down here much the same,
I forget if it was Tavistock or Launceston but he always had at least a dozen rifles from his "personal private collection" up for sale on freeads,
a mix of cheap tat or decent rifles that were horribly over priced

His name was Glynn something, he got reported to the Devon and Cornwall Firearms licensing department several times but they chose to do nothing, I’m not sure they’d do that now after the recent fatal shooting licensing debacle!