Vent! Rant!

[pharman]

Thank You!!!

Thank you all for your comments...I feel better already!!!

 

[moosedog]

Interesting responses to your post.
That's what makes the world go around I guess.

 

[gunfighter48]

I quit using PayPal when someone in California charged a Iphone to my credit card, $798.00. It took 30 days to get my money back and that shot down our Christmas spending that year. PayPal's security sucks big time. I refuse to use them ever again.

As for paying by credit card, I'm always getting checks from my credit card companies to use. I don't use them because I refuse to pay the fees they want. But if you want something bad enough or you're getting a great deal that will offset the fees, then use the checks. Or you can get a PIN number for your credit card, take out cash and get a money order to send a check. If people refuse to send a check or money order it always makes me wonder if they are using stolen credit cards or trying to pull a fast one with the payment.

 

[quneur]

I'm not very trusting. I won't send a MO, personal check through the mail without some insurance if the amount is financially significant. It doesn't matter if the person has a lot of good references; to me he is still a stranger. If I am going to put up months worth of savings, I'm going to need concrete reassurances. If I were to buy a firearm from an individual, I'll have them send it to my brick and mortar FFL (I will make allowances if I recognize their FFL) then pay when the FFL receives it.

If the shipper isn't willing then I will simply shop elsewhere.

 

[Alpo]

So you have never bought a gun except at a brick-and-mortar store? 'Cause I don't know of anybody that will send you the gun without getting paid first.

Someone up the thread said something about "why should I have to send the money first, and trust them to send the gun? Why can't they send me the gun and trust me to send the money?"

If I send you 500 bucks and you don't send me the gun, I get the law involved. Eventually (hopefully) I get my 500 back, and it's worth the same as when I sent it to you. Five hundred dollars.

If I send you a gun and you don't send money, then I get the law involved. Eventually (hopefully) I get my gun back. But in the meantime you might have dropped it on the concrete floor. You might have bobbed the barrel or changed the sights You might have taken it deep sea fishing and not cleaned it. You might have taken an electro-pencil to the sideplate. You might have done many things that make my 500-dollar gun no longer worth 500 dollars.

That's why you would not get MY gun until I had YOUR money.

 

[Rule3]

Tuff Crowd

Read the fine print.

I promise I will not drop or shoot your gun before paying for it

 

[quneur]

Nope, I wouldn't and never have. Too much stress worrying about the sale. Better for both of us. I would hassle the buyer with too many questions.