This guy who runs gunbroker.com wants you to register with a private isp or he charges $1/month. So I did that originally. Then I came back later and was confused as to why I had used my private email address so I changed it. As soon as I did that, I got a message telling me I was going to be billed $1 per month, so I immediately changed back to my private email address but then he billed me for $1. I wrote back and explained to him that I had misunderstood and the guy refused to do anything about it. He was actually very nasty and told me that I would not be able to work with gunbroker.com untill I paid my one dollar bill. I again explained to him how I had been confused. He didn't care. He sends me a bill every month telling me I have to pay the bill or I'm going to be cancelled. The guy is doing it simply to be nasty. There's something wrong with him. I am very suspicious of this website. I caution you to avoid this website. The guy is very, very strange!

A lot of places will not do business with you if the only email you have is a free public one like yahoo. Every IP that I know of provides free email address so all you have to do is use that. Most IP s will provide several free email addresses.

The reason is the auction site needs to do all they can to verify you are who you claim to be and that they have some way to track you if you take the money and run.

You cannot even register for this site using only a Yahoo address if memory severs me correctly.

I've never quite understood why some feel it's a measure of security for an online company to have a phone presence. Evil dooers can have phones just as easily as good guys. And thinking that I have some kind of magical sense of knowing that they're honest or not just by talking on the phone with them is silly. That's followed only in silliness by the mistaken belief that "If I could just talk to those guys, I'd DEMAND how I wanted it done". And next on the silly index is "The requirements are in the terms of service that I didn't bother to read but now that they're applying them I feel cheated".

There are absolutely zero companies that I'd rather do business with over than the phone than I would via email. Calmly composed, written record communications beats "I talked on the phone to someone with a first name that told me..." any time.


Call me...

Sgt Lumpy

Call me a sentimental old fool, but I can't imagine buying a gun I couldn't handle and carefully examine. From someone I could look at face to face. Even if I had money to buy guns now that I'm retired, this thread would steer me away from GB.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Never had an issue with GB. I've been a 'verified' user for several years, and registered with my hotmail address.

I had an MSN address and when it got hacked, MicroSoft was no help trying to get it fixed. Dropped them like a hot potato. Gunbroker is the only site that has ever questioned my Yahoo address and I have used it to conduct thousands of dollars in Internet transactions for a few years now. As far as tracking the money, that info will come up with the Credit Card registration. It's simply a way to generate revenue. His site, his rules. No hard feelings but I choose not to play.

This guy registered here last night at 9:46 pm.
27 minutes later he has found a 7 month old thread bashing GunBroker and made a lengthy post, and is gone.
Hmmmmmm.......... I wonder if he has an agenda?
We're done here.

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Regards,
Lee Jarrett