My dealing with Sarah15 was as follows.
I had decided to sell 3 guns in mid 2022 — all very nice, not perfect but hardly anything is -- two 3.5” pre 27 pintos in their gold boxes: one formerly owned by & I purchased from Gary Garbrecht in 2004, one formerly owned by & I purchased from Harrison Carroll in 2005, and a 4” inch first year model 57 in its original velour lined case and about a dozen boxes of collector ammo.
Based on a recommendation from one of our long-term Forum and S&WCA members and a good and very trustworthy friend of mine, I sent them to this gunbroker seller in question for him to offer on his ‘for sale’ table at the S&WCA Symposium coming up in Concord, NC or on GB if needed. He acknowledged receipt of all of them bragged on how great they all were, and he did sell them fairly fast at the Symposium on or GB.
Some of the numbers he got for them were somewhat vague, but I didn’t question it, I trusted him, he was an elected officer with the S&WCA, which made me think he was trustworthy and my friend recommended him.
He was very slow to pay me, lots of excuses, health issues, etc., so I tried to be patient & work with him, believing I was dealing with a professional, as so far he had been.
At one point I envisioned never getting paid, I had no contract, was working from a position of weakness, good luck to me in front of a judge pleading my case. I finally called the friend that recommended him asking if he was aware of any of these alleged problems I was having to hear as to why I was not getting paid, then things started happening as I’m pretty sure he put some major pressure on him. He even said if JB never pays me, he would out of his pocket and get it from JB himself.
It was almost two months from the date initially he told me he had paid me until I actually got paid, it was in the range of $15,000, wasn’t much of an accurate accounting breakdown either like I’ve gotten from other online sellers I’ve used in the past.
I’m not owed any money now & glad that I’m not. I won't be sending him anything whatsoever to be selling for me under any name he uses to camouflage himself in the future.
I had decided to sell 3 guns in mid 2022 — all very nice, not perfect but hardly anything is -- two 3.5” pre 27 pintos in their gold boxes: one formerly owned by & I purchased from Gary Garbrecht in 2004, one formerly owned by & I purchased from Harrison Carroll in 2005, and a 4” inch first year model 57 in its original velour lined case and about a dozen boxes of collector ammo.
Based on a recommendation from one of our long-term Forum and S&WCA members and a good and very trustworthy friend of mine, I sent them to this gunbroker seller in question for him to offer on his ‘for sale’ table at the S&WCA Symposium coming up in Concord, NC or on GB if needed. He acknowledged receipt of all of them bragged on how great they all were, and he did sell them fairly fast at the Symposium on or GB.
Some of the numbers he got for them were somewhat vague, but I didn’t question it, I trusted him, he was an elected officer with the S&WCA, which made me think he was trustworthy and my friend recommended him.
He was very slow to pay me, lots of excuses, health issues, etc., so I tried to be patient & work with him, believing I was dealing with a professional, as so far he had been.
At one point I envisioned never getting paid, I had no contract, was working from a position of weakness, good luck to me in front of a judge pleading my case. I finally called the friend that recommended him asking if he was aware of any of these alleged problems I was having to hear as to why I was not getting paid, then things started happening as I’m pretty sure he put some major pressure on him. He even said if JB never pays me, he would out of his pocket and get it from JB himself.
It was almost two months from the date initially he told me he had paid me until I actually got paid, it was in the range of $15,000, wasn’t much of an accurate accounting breakdown either like I’ve gotten from other online sellers I’ve used in the past.
I’m not owed any money now & glad that I’m not. I won't be sending him anything whatsoever to be selling for me under any name he uses to camouflage himself in the future.
...Ben
