frankmako
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Sounds like a scam. Also sending anything firearms related to California these days is just to much trouble.
Postal money order. Once I have cash in hand I will ship. Funny how many “buyers” that runs off.
Suppose a person wanted to buy a gun from someone across the country: what payment method would you suggest the buyer use? What should the seller accept?Once the cash is in hand? Then you never see the purchase or hear from the seller again. That's why I'd avoid as a buyer.
If no one is willing to ship to CA, even legitimate deals, we are in reality helping the anti gun agenda there.
CA is a lost cause, and I'm not about to put my neck on the chopping block, risk getting sued into oblivion because of some minuscule, arcane detail of compliance for "importing" firearms into their state I wasn't aware of or able to find in double checking. CA gun laws are a minefield; one firearm is good to go, while an identical model with a different finish or some minor feature variation, are not approved.
Well if California is a lost cause you have to realize that Colorado is next.
It’s pretty easy to avoid the scam we’re talking about. The reason the scammers are successful with their scams is because often a bank will quickly clear a fake check or money order and the money will post to the seller’s account. That makes the seller think everything is legit so they send the scammer the item (sometimes along with the leftover extra money). Then the bank realizes the check or money order was actually fake and they take their money back.Thank you all for the insights into possible scams. Now I'm even more nervous about trying to sell other guns through armslist or gunbroker. Today I was fortunate to find a local buyer and sold the gun using the transfer service of a LGS for $20.00. Guess that will be my preferred method.
Suppose a person wanted to buy a gun from someone across the country: what payment method would you suggest the buyer use? What should the seller accept?
My point is that there is no risk-free way to do a private transaction between strangers.
Well, I have never thought about this, so. Since I am more of an impulse buyer and have only once bought a gun thru an internet ad which was a local F2F. No idea.
All this does is remind me of the father that lost his life selling his son's dirt bike to dirtbags.
ho, brah you still get em?I'm still waitign to every see a non-suspicious reply from armslist.
Postal money order. Once I have cash in hand I will ship.
USPS money orders can be counterfit too. You only find out after it's too late.
The PO in my small town doesn’t have the cash on hand to cash a big MO. They tell you to take it to the bank.But if the post office accepts it and pays you the cash, what’s going to happen? The post office comes after you?