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What?s fair. Seller double sold gun. Not a complaint
tsavo303
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Ok. Not complaining or calling out this guy. Just trying to find solutions
I won a nice ar used for $500. $1000 new .Seller is hard to get hold of. Finally emails me, ?sorry sold it in shop, forgot to pull when placed on auction.?
I told him, ?not ok. Can you give equivalent deal on something ?
He says, ? I?ll just charge you cost on a new one. That?s $900.?
Not a good enough deal. What other solutions can I suggest. I asked, ? give me a great deal on something that?s been sitting there too long.?
But don?t know what else is fair, just looking to see if yall have an amicable solution. Cheers!
I won a nice ar used for $500. $1000 new .Seller is hard to get hold of. Finally emails me, ?sorry sold it in shop, forgot to pull when placed on auction.?
I told him, ?not ok. Can you give equivalent deal on something ?
He says, ? I?ll just charge you cost on a new one. That?s $900.?
Not a good enough deal. What other solutions can I suggest. I asked, ? give me a great deal on something that?s been sitting there too long.?
But don?t know what else is fair, just looking to see if yall have an amicable solution. Cheers!
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Not the first time that has ever happened lOL
There will be another that will come your way if you stay vigilant. You could also give the seller a bad feedback and make it not happen again to someone else.
I would leave an F feedback with "seller listed an item he did not intend to sale at fair auction and refused to honor the sale". Then turn my back on the situation. His problem.
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Yes, yes my Brother.
We are on the same page.
Me too!!! Feedback is not enough...because they'll just give you an F too...complain to Gunbroker, they are violating the terms of the auction...you can bet the seller would stick it to you if you backed out. My reaction is the seller is lying...they got burned on a no reserve auction and don't want to deliver. I remember a seller on here burned a buyer on a high end 1911...the buyer publically shamed the seller's business on all the 1911 related facebook pages, which this seller was members and it worked..the seller ended up making the situation right after all the public pressure. If GB was run with integrity this seller should be immediately suspended from sales, and if proven true removed from the platform.
I would move on and don't look back and don't buy from him again. imo
otherwise no he can't put something up for auction and sell it out from under you. nonpaying bidders get an NPB, non-selling sellers should get an equivalent strike against them.
sold in the store first? too forkin' bad! he shouldn't have it for sale in the store the same time people are bidding on it at an auction!
I like the 'buyer' restocking fee idea... I think it is particularly fitting since you said the seller was hard to get a hold of. Any well run business would keep tabs on their auctions and any that were sold would be pulled from displayed inventory. It should have been this point at the latest that he seller realized his mistake and then been forward to you. I am MUCH more patient with people when they just come out and say they screwed up. We are human.
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Oh and post the auction here so we can let him know how we feel too :shock:
Simple brief complaint to auction cs
He had 8 auctions or so running. Now it shows 0.
I sent him an email saying that ,?they asked me if seller was trying to make it right!? Haha
I did ?steal? it but I?ve been pleasantly surprised for every true auction I was disappointed in
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/818344738
But it?s exactly what I want. I?m a Barnes fanboy. They are so well made. Us made in house. Very few of those and big supporter of us military.
Spot on!
Happened to me before and used to do nothing, but after the 3rd time I realized I was screwing other buyers here on GB.
Sellers make such a damn big deal in their terms of sale how they despise and will except zero excuses for NPBs. Then they go on telling NPB reports will be filed along with an F feedback. They go further to remind you how a bid is a binding contract.
Sellers need to be held to the same standards, report him and give as crappy a feedback as you can.
He has to follow the rules. And, so do you.
Neal
Once that firearm has received a bid it should have been removed completely out of view of walk-in customers, doing that would prevent what happened (if you believe the owners story ) which I find suspect. I say turn all the Info over to GB'ers, this hurts their reputation badly when things like this goes un-checked
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
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Bs. what rule did I break? Trying to come up with a solution, rather than get him bounced.
Iwas trying to come up with possible solutions. No demand was made. I even proposed to pay extra in first email,so he wouldn?t be out on shipping also (before he flaked.) I also offered him previous buy it now price. And in the flip side. When I?ve sold items here for twice what I expected, I refunded shipping completely. Done that several times.
So sorry you were butt hurt by this. That must be hard for you.😪 so sorry I got a repeat offender bounced for again failing to honor a legally binding contract by crawfishing.
I asked him for input. This was just the only solution I could come up with. And guess what. No reply. I filed a complaint!
I would. Perfect solution and competitive way to get$
While I'm not 100% up to speed on every single rule required by the auction side here, on other sites I frequent, that have WTS forums, if you as a seller don't hold up your end of the deal, short of death or long-term sickness, and honor it fully, you're gone, and you don't come back. The only thing out of line in all of this is the seller conveniently playing the part of a moron only slightly more intelligent than a mud fence. If it takes the seller ordering the exact firearm won in this auction, to make the sale complete, then the seller should eat every cent of it, up to and including shipping, and if there is a next time, perhaps such a learning experience will better keep their memory jogged in the future.
If the only option with this is to file a complaint, then make damn sure the complaint sees the seller doing further business somewhere else.
You want more than one strike? Go play baseball.