Gunbroker sucks.

[GunsAmerica Fan]

Oh, and btw, this is not the only thread I have commented on, and my signature did show up on many of the posts. If I was trying to hide something why would I go and put my signature on my posts? I don't know why sometimes I have to check the box and sometimes I don't. Now I know to check the check lol.

 

[HammerheadSSN663]

Your money is better spent on yourself. By that I mean, you are paying yourself by buying from reputable online dealer or local gun shop. How much is your time worth in $$ considering the stress of the discount auction?

Time (the minutes of your life) is indeed worth something.

 

[Boba Fett]

If I choose defend classified ads over auctions in general (GA has auctions but we discourage their use for commodity guns) or my company mission to support the stocking dealers, and show people how we put our money where our mouth is...

Now we're getting somewhere. So you are affiliated with Guns America then.

As for the TSA comparison, how would it be not acceptable, under the rules of this website, for a competitor to get involved in a complaint discussion about his competition that he didn't start?

Um...I think you answered your own dumb question. "...for a competitor to get involved in a complaint discussion about his competition that he didn't start." So this isn't a complaint about your company. It isn't about you. So you involved yourself in a complaint that wasn't about your company so you could pump up your own company by fueling the "hate flames" against your competition.

And making derogatory remarks about our moderators isn't helping your case.

I am interested to find out why so many people have such hatred for GB. There are whole websites dedicated to it...

Well if there are all these websites out there dedicated to hating Gunbroker.com, you should have all the info you need, right?

I didn't start this thread and only came here to check it out because someone else mentioned GunsAmerica.

I believe my strongest argument has been to promote people buying guns through their local dealer.

No, you didn't start the thread. You're the one who dug it up after two years.

And you didn't start by promoting mom and pop stores. You started with a swipe at Gun Broker and Auction Arms.

I don't understand why people who dislike Gunbroker (or even those who like Gunbroker) don't just use GunsAmerica. It is so much easier to just go buy the gun, and you find deals that you don't see in the auctions, people who just want to get rid of guns. On the auctions, GB and AA both, you think you are going to get it for a certain price then someone outbids you and you wasted all that time. At least on GunsAmerica you can just email the seller and ask if he'll take your price. A lot of times they will!

I love GunsAmerica! I check it every day.
http://www.gunsamerica.com

 

[GunsAmerica Fan]

Check your timestamps bub. I didn't bump the thread. I didn't even know it was an old thread. I just got the thing on my google alerts, after someone else mentioned GA. You don't fan "hate flames" by arguing the virtues of the classified ad format lol. And no, I don't have all the info I need about why people hate GB. I know the dirt, but I have learned a lot from threads like these about practices that they have that we don't police very well either. You can learn something every day if you just look around and listen.

Oh, and as to who I am, one of the moderators emailed customer service tonight and confirmed who I am. I may look like a troll, act like a troll, have the manners of a troll, and after shooting all day at Trail Glades Range in miami in 90 degree 100% humidity, smell like a troll, but I am officially confirmed to not be a troll. This is living!

 

[Tim the student]

Check your timestamps bub. I didn't bump the thread.

Well, looking at posts #49 and #50 makes it look like you did, bub. #49 is from 2007, and #50 is from you recently. Hmmm, odd....

 

[Boba Fett]

Check your timestamps bub. I didn't bump the thread.

Check them yourself.


Bottom of this page. Post 50. It comes after post 49.
http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=293748&page=2

Post 49 by jawrat: August 7, 2007, 09:50 AM

Post 50 by GunsAmerica Fan: December 16, 2009, 10:57 AM

Glad I could explain it for you.

I am officially confirmed to not be a troll.

Confirmed, thus far, only by you.


I stand by my earlier remarks. Your conduct as an affiliate of Guns America has shown you are not a company I want to do business with. And your continued malarkey does not help to change that belief.

 

[GunsAmerica Fan]

Wow I guess I should have checked my timestamps sorry. I don't know why google alerts would just catch it now. I thought it was a current thread. Bummer.

 

[Boba Fett]

If you check online third party sources, GunsAmerica has much more than half the traffic of GB, and twice as much as AA and Davidsons.

Whoops....looks like that one's going to come back to bite you.

I took your advice. Great idea to look up your site traffic. Ready for the results? Wait for it...wait for it....



http://compete.com

(had to post two since I didn't want to register just so I could compare all 4 sites)

No satisfied with just one search, I did a few more:

Google Trends
http://trends.google.com/websites?q...s.com,+auctionarms.com&geo=US&date=ytd&sort=0
Sorry, image wouldn't post, but Gunbroker beats GunsAmerica. GunsAmerica beats the GalleryofGuns and AuctionArms.







http://www.quantcast.com/
Wouldn't call this as reliable since only gunbroker.com is directly measured (according to them).


Alexa.com - as I understand it, Alexa is less reliable since it only gathers info from people with the Alexa toolbar. But interestingly, people with the Alexa tool bar visit GalleryofGuns and AuctionArms a lot more than GunsAmerica and leave Gunbroker.com in the dust.





*EDIT*

Gunbroker actually was belly up, but they scored a 7 million dollar loan this year so they could keep their head above water.

Got a link for that? I looked and didn't find anything, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

Only thing I found was where Gun Broker was loaned 7 million for expansion by Bank of America.
http://topnews.us/content/24443-gunbrokercom-closes-7-million-debt-funding-round-bank-america

Didn't see anything in there that said they went "belly up." Looks like they are simply borrowing for expansion.

An interesting section from that article:

In terms of popularity of the site, HitWise found GunBroker. com - the biggest online auction site and community for firearms, accessories and hunting supplies - ranking among the leading three most-visited auction sites on the Internet; Quantcast found it ranking among the top 1000 web sites of any kind.

Actually is was ranked at 600. Pretty good!

 

[philobeddoe]

I've been very fortunate with Gunbroker and Gunsamerica

I've bought some quality firearms at respectable prices, I've dealt with some square sellers, and I've interacted enough with some to know not to bother transacting

I was contacted yesterday by a seller I bought from online about five years ago, regarding an investigation ... funny story, but only because they weren't looking for me

 

[wishin]

This thread makes for good reading, but I can't be the only THR member that finds the continued argument tiresome. I find both GunBroker and GunsAmerica useful when buying and comparing what-the market-will-bear regarding guns.