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Just an FYI to gun buyers. Last evening, a good friend of mine informed me that he was taken for one grand on gun broker. He does a good bit of business on GB and this was a first for him. Not a lot of detail yet but just wanted to give a heads up.
 
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flagaman1950 said:
Just an FYI to gun buyers. Last evening, a good friend of mine informed me that he was taken for one grand on gun broker. He does a good bit of business on GB and this was a first for him. Not a lot of detail yet but just wanted to give a heads up.
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Well, too bad that happened. Expect no help from GB
 
Talked to my friend, he said it appears that a legit seller was hacked. Said he talked to the seller over the phone and was given an address to send a cashiers check to so he felt it was okay as he had purchased before that way. Sent check, but no gun came. Called seller on number that he had called earlier and they talked. Still no gun. called again and finally got him. Questioned seller pretty "briskly". Ended up with no gun, no answered phone calls.
 
My experience there has been you are about as safe as you are going to get on an internet transaction IF you use some common sense, and do your due diligence. In this internet age, there is lots of information available at your finger tips if you take advantage of it.

Larry
 
Kittenpics,

Sir, you may well be right. I'm just going by what my friend thinks. I have spoken to him again and he feels it was a hack. This same seller offered him another gun just after he had sent the MO on the first. Sent him pics. He was curious as it was a very good deal so he started a search and found the same gun, pics and all, listed by another seller. He contacted this other seller and was told the pics were indeed of his (second sellers) gun, that he had it for sell and it was right in front of him as they talked. That 2nd gun incident is evidently what started the whole thing rolling. Just saying.
 
flagaman1950 said:
Kittenpics,

Sir, you may well be right. I'm just going by what my friend thinks. I have spoken to him again and he feels it was a hack. This same seller offered him another gun just after he had sent the MO on the first. Sent him pics. He was curious as it was a very good deal so he started a search and found the same gun, pics and all, listed by another seller. He contacted this other seller and was told the pics were indeed of his (second sellers) gun, that he had it for sell and it was right in front of him as they talked. That 2nd gun incident is evidently what started the whole thing rolling. Just saying.
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I caught somebody trying that gag on a car sales website. The giveaway was a PO box in a state hundreds of miles from where the car was photographed. The bad guy failed to notice the readily identifiable land/sea interface on the nav screen.
 
I can only offer my personal experiences on G/B . I've been a bidder/buyer since 2008 with 244 transactions and never had an issue of any type. I always ask questions, absolutely do a feedback search on the seller {very easily done} and if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is . If I get no replies from my asked question i drop them like a hot rock. Same thing if they have poor feedback or anything looks suspect in the listing. A while back GB was sold to a company in California, { they had been located in Ga.} and rules and fees were changed. Since that occurred, I have scaled back on my high dollar transactions somewhat.
 
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