I'm so tired of Gunbroker bidder/buyers.

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What is so hard to understand about your payment terms and openning bid? :banghead:

I'm not one of those imbeciles who wants full retail for used stuff. Payment options are clear. I don't do Layaway. I don't want to ship C.O.D. I don't want a hundred frickin emails from you as the transaction evolves. My openning bid price is exactly the lowest amount I'm willing to take at the time of the auction. It's so simple.

Guns attract retards. :cuss:
 
people are just fishing. low odds of getting a better deal, but it is also a low barrier so they are only out a few seconds of time to ask a question.

maybe put your rant in the gunbroker ads and it would cut down on the noise
 
A typical case is buyer's remorse. He wakes up morning after. He realizes that he has just entered a contract, and will have to send real money real soon to someone he doesn't know, and then hope for the gun to arrive, hopefully as described. Not that he needed it anyway. Now he will explore every nook and cranny to find an excuse to bail out. Asking questions that should have been asked before bidding.

I have terminated a pending transaction twice. I informed the buyer (one was fishing for excuses, the other deadbeat) that I was no longer comfortable selling him a firearm. I got my F's, described what happened in Feedback, and re-listed. Because I didn't take their money, I was able to sell again without any problems.
 
A female friend that knows I travel all over the world asked me yesterday where she could move to get away from stupid people. She lives in Florida.

There is no such place in my experience.
 
I've had very good luck with attracting great buyers on Gunbroker. All have been very professional and paid right away - except for the last one. I sold a beautiful M1 Garand this past spring. Auction ended at $1900, which I was very pleased with. But the buyer took 2 months to pay! I almost gave up and relisted it several times. He's lucky I'm as patient as I am.
 
SuedePflow said:
I've had very good luck with attracting great buyers on Gunbroker. All have been very professional and paid right away - except for the last one. I sold a beautiful M1 Garand this past spring. Auction ended at $1900, which I was very pleased with. But the buyer took 2 months to pay! I almost gave up and relisted it several times. He's lucky I'm as patient as I am.
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1900 bucks for an M1.

Without more details, that sounds to me more like you are lucky that you are as patient as you are. ;)
 
My one and only experience on GB was from the buyers viewpoint. To make a long story short, I got caught up in a scam whereupon the seller was listing guns he didn't have, accepting only credit cards, then was quoting huge delays in shipping time to the customer to the point that the buyer would just plain refuse to complete the transaction...then the seller would charge the seller a "restocking fee" of 20% for a gun they never had and never intended to ship. Or at least, that's how it went down for me. Since the gun was a Colt 6920, the seller made a tidy sum of $200+ for his "fee".

A lot of people have had nothing but good luck on that site, but there is literally NO buyer protection if someone like that decides to join the party.

I won't say what GB's response to that little scam was, but lets just say I will never do business on GB, and have been quiet satisfied with other auction sites and have perfect feedback.
 
GBExpat said:
1900 bucks for an M1.

Without more details, that sounds to me more like you are lucky that you are as patient as you are.
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The ending price definitely encouraged patience on my behalf. Without a doubt. I'm not so sure I would have pulled that amount again if I relisted it.

But it was a beautiful rifle. It was a never-fired Fulton Armory build with a match grade Krieger barrel. So clean, you could eat off the receiver. And the wood was flawless as well.
 
Gunbroker is the busiest by far. For auctions, Auction Arms also (just FYI, it is run by Mandy Cruz of Cheaper Than Dirt). For classifieds, Guns International and GunsAmerica (the latter has some auctions too)
 
Payment options are clear. I don't do Layaway. I don't want to ship C.O.D. I don't want a hundred frickin emails from you as the transaction evolves. My openning bid price is exactly the lowest amount I'm willing to take at the time of the auction. It's so simple.
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Could you explain your terms again? I don't understand them. :)

Really? Think it's just guns?

I have a neighbor always buying and selling stuff on Craig's List, mostly trucks, trailers, snow plowing equipment He can spell out firm in the price and get countless emails and calls asking if he will take less. Unbelievable what some people come up with. People can be a real trip and it isn't just guns.

Ron
 
A female friend that knows I travel all over the world asked me yesterday where she could move to get away from stupid people.
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I have found many places like this. They exist where ever there are absolutely no people at all. It's just a matter of knowing where to go.

People present = stupid people as part of the population

0 Population = 0 stupid people

And my lifestyle and career make sense to me all over again.
 
I recently made a bid on a pistol on GB, then as an afterthought I contacted the seller to make certain the pictured gun was actually the one being sold. No mention anywhere in the written description that it was not. Turns out it was a stock photo of a different model. Fortunately someone outbid me so I didn't get stuck with it. To the seller's credit he did amend the description to indicate the stock photo.

I can understand how annoying it is from a seller's vantage point to get a bunch of extraneous questions but in that instance I was glad I asked.
 
On the other hand I get sick of sellers with crappy pictures, outrageous shipping charges, refusal to do anything to expedite the sale, or who keep re listing the same mediocre junk with an astronomical reserve over and over. Usually I find that the most preachy harangues in the ad are people I don't want to buy from.
Oh yeah....the seller with a six page ad, of which 5.5 pages are disclaimers and fine print, one line about the actual gun, with a single dark, out of focus picture.

Also, when I search gunbroker, I check the box to exclude any auction with a reserve. I dont even look at them. Too many are retail prices for used guns.
 
Doesn't matter,
The chislers are everywhere & it doesn't matter how fair
the price is as they don't care. They only live to chisel your price
ever lower. I hate those bastards and I won't work for a chisler either
 
I don't sell on GB but I do buy.
Some of the best deals I have come across have been on GB.
Never been burned and my rating has nothing but praise from the sellers.
I refuse to bid on reserve auctions and look closely at the shipping charges before bidding.
And since I do not do Paypal I look very closely if they charge 3% or more for CC fees.
 
You sell things on an auction site and then complain that people don't want to pay a lot?

Why do you think people go to auction sites? Duh!
 
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