He's savvy enough to have changed his wording, though. In April, the 64 he was selling was "new in box", even though it had that super shine treatment. When I called him out on it, he got nasty, as usual, and then changed the wording to "as new in box". He uses the phrase "100% Finish", not 100%.
Using a postal money order gives you certain protections, as well. If you knowingly misrepresent an item you have for sale and accept a postal money order as payment, the postal inspector can nail your ***. If you wanted to screw him, you would simply have to get the letter from S&W detailing when the gun was made and where it was shipped. When they come back and tell you the gun was shipped to some police department in 1989, and he's selling them as "100% Finish", and "pristine", you could tell the postal inspector that he misrepresented the 22 year old gun you just bought for $850 as something it is not. Of course, he's counting on the new buyer NOT knowing these things.
If anyone else is pissed at this guy, head over to GB and find one of his auctions. he has dozens. Click the "ask seller a question", and ask him why he is billing these guns the way he is. Ask him why they needed to be polished so much, or where the original grips went. Tell him that buffing them to that degree removes metal, which could be dangerous when he's removing metal from the cylinder, increasing the cylinder gap.
My guess from his dopey screen name (fallen angel) is he's a kid, probably mid twenties, who grew up with Glocks and has no idea how a S&W should look. He probably has a father or uncle who got him into guns, and turned him onto flipping these older used guns for a profit. If you read his feedback, the last guy he BOUGHT from had a problem with him. Seems this crook wanted to return the gun he bought (probably to buff and flip) because he felt the "condition was mis-represented". Can you believe the balls on this guy! So the guy offers him a refund (something this crook won't do) upon receipt of the gun. He doesn't mail it back, and the guy had to call the ATF since his gun, which hadn't legally changed ownership yet, was still in limbo and registered to him. If you read the exchanges between the two, first he says he mailed the gun back but the POST OFFICE must have lost it! Then he comes back later and says "I didn't mail the gun, true. But I didn't know it hadn't been mailed" He insists on YOU paying for fed-ex, now somehow when HE has to mail it back, he goes the cheaper post office route, I guess through an FFL. So when it saves HIM a buck, he'll go through the hassle of using an FFL, but when YOU'RE paying for shipping, he's gotta ship fed-ex overnight because the use of an FFL is "difficult for him". And how do you NOT follow up with your FFL if you're shipping a gun?
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