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Buyers Please Take Note!
nunn
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Please, when you send your payment, take a minute and print out the winning bid confirmation email or the auction page and send it along.
If you can't print, write down the auction number AND a good description of the item you won.
Lots of buyers have a buyer name, and an email address, and a real name that have no relation. Gets confusing.
Here is how it works:
johnwayne, a bidder, bids and wins. He emails and gets the total amount and address. His email address is rambo99@ratmail.com. He never mentions his real name or address or transfer dealer in his emails. I stress in my email that I need an ITEM DESCRIPTION.
About a week later, I get an envelope from Mary Smith. In it is a check from Mary Smith, and a copy of her dealer's license. There is no mention of the item sought, no copies of emails, no clue as to what it is for. Then I have to try and figure out, with only the amount as a clue, which auction this was for.
The only thing worse is when the above happens except the check and the FFL arrive under separate cover, with no mention of one another.
I think some users only bid on one item, so they only look at one item, and then assume that the seller has only the one item to sell. I, like most sellers, may have as many as a dozen auctions ending on the same day.
This is not griping. Griping is not allowed here. This is an attempt to educate the new user of the site.
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
If you can't print, write down the auction number AND a good description of the item you won.
Lots of buyers have a buyer name, and an email address, and a real name that have no relation. Gets confusing.
Here is how it works:
johnwayne, a bidder, bids and wins. He emails and gets the total amount and address. His email address is rambo99@ratmail.com. He never mentions his real name or address or transfer dealer in his emails. I stress in my email that I need an ITEM DESCRIPTION.
About a week later, I get an envelope from Mary Smith. In it is a check from Mary Smith, and a copy of her dealer's license. There is no mention of the item sought, no copies of emails, no clue as to what it is for. Then I have to try and figure out, with only the amount as a clue, which auction this was for.
The only thing worse is when the above happens except the check and the FFL arrive under separate cover, with no mention of one another.
I think some users only bid on one item, so they only look at one item, and then assume that the seller has only the one item to sell. I, like most sellers, may have as many as a dozen auctions ending on the same day.
This is not griping. Griping is not allowed here. This is an attempt to educate the new user of the site.
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
To err is human, to moo is bovine.
I ship 400-500 items a week.....this is a daily occurance, even though I have it EVERYWHERE to include all the info.......99% of my negatives are from people who are too stupid to include their info.
In the last 6 years, I've had $5,000 in "unclaimed" money. 90% of that had NO return address, or name.
I donate most of it to the food bank.
Merc
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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