Is This For Real?

[MarketHunter]

I buy and sell on eBay on a weekly basis, it makes me a big part my living and buys almost every gun or hunting trip I purchase. It has it faults and problems but for the most part folks are honest. I could count on one hand the serious problems I've had on there and have been involved in literally thousands upon thousands of transactions.

You can sell stuff on there for more money than you can dragging it around to flea markets and gun shows a lot of the time. Example: I bought 14 LL Bean cork black ducks from a guy awhile back for $15 each. I put some of them out three times at a flea market, and twice at gun shows for $25 each without even a tire kicker looking at them. Put a group of three on eBay and in a week I had $160 for the group, another group of three, same kind of money, until they were all gone and I'd made some decent cash. Tried them in other selling venues first because I didn't want to fool with shipping them but in the end it was eBay that got me the sales.

If you don't like it, don't use it. Those of us that do, enjoy the money it makes and the items it puts in our collections that we'd never find elsewhere.



Destry

[OLD GEEZER]

Francis: I have sold three collector cars and numerous other items and have nothing but good things to say about ebay. I think you should take another look and give it a try. Thomas

I mostly deal in used gun parts for double shotguns- I like to find old "parts guns" and salvage them for possible re-usable parts- sometimes you get some good parts, other times not. But like the guns I acquire (all used) I only buy from people I know and trust- a few dealers at shows, mainly from farmers.

You can't buy or sell guns on E-bay, but we can sell double guns and parts on the PGCA Forum. The $40 annual membership is a bargain- I have dealt with quite a few members here, every deal has been A-OK on both ends. To list on E-Bay, as on GI, Gun broker, etc- you must open an account, and that means both Pay-Pal and giving them a credit card- I'd cut off my right arm in a table saw before I would ever do that- too many fraud minded folks out trolling the choppy waters for me-

A PGCA Life member, whom I respect mentioned the term 'WARY" in his anaylsis of my "modus operandi" and he is as right as the mail on that- I do my business face to face, handshake and payment terms are those my Granddad taught me- CIF- CASH IN FIST-- For others here who have done well using E-Bay, I say "More power to you- go for it, I'll never get in your way" because Hell will freeze over and St. Peter will be pouring Michelob to go with the motza balls on rye before I ever take a step in that direction.

I wish I was smart enough to understand what my pal Luigi was telling me about the "rigged and dummy" false bids that drive up prices on E-Bay, but I am not- but I am cautious and possibly smart enough NOT to trust what I don't understand. My prediction- just as the Madoff Ponzi scheme finally saw the end, there will be a loud crash and burn on E-Bay and some folks will end up holding the short end of the stick--and the swindlers will be in some Bermuda island on a yacht, holding up a glass of champagne- like in the movie "Trading places"-- looking good!!!!!

[Pay Dirt]

One only has to reach back in time 3 replies for your latest pearl of not so thinly veiled bigotry.

Originally Posted by Francis Morin

... I paid $10.00 for this piece of Chink-made junk ...

And who could forget the ever popular,"... some big Bi-Polar spook ..."(gleaned from your thread, 7 Dead in Kent County (MI- Grand Rapids) massacre in the Misfire section on Doublegun.com).
Now would be a good time to tell me what your Chinese and African American marine buddies served you for dinner back in the day.

I'm sorry Francis (there, I said the words), but I can't hear who you're telling me you are, your actions are shouting too loudly.

[Bill Murphy]

I wonder how Francis missed the Model 21 that I bought on ebay within the last year, for $500.00. Yup, the gun people don't pay much attention to ebay any more. Works for me.

[John D.]

Originally Posted by Francis Morin

...n'ces pas????

I would invite you to post about things you have first hand experience. Such as "n'ces pas", which you wrote. Correctly it is "n'est pas", or more correctly "n'est-ce pas", unless you are quoting Bonaparte.

Second - you are not only wrong, but out of line - regarding ATF and eBay. That eBay now forbids what the ATF legally defines as "firearms" - it has ABSOLUTELY ZERO, nothing, nada, whatever - to do with an ATF transactions - legal or illegal. Until the recent policy change on eBay, tens of thousands of firearms were legally sold and purchased using the eBay auction site as a "storefront".

That you say - quote: "I'll send of copy of this to the closest BAFT office to MD" is ill informed (firstly - it is BATF - not "..BAFT.."), but moreso, to use this forum and posts within this forum to cast threats to other users, I find it particularly reprehensible, heightened by the fact that you are using your own ill-informed view, which has zero basis in reality - as the basis for those same threats.

My e-mail is admin@reutterwerk.com If you would like to post further in this forum, please e-mail to explain how this happened in this thread vis-a-vis your posting and as importantly - why it won't occur at ANY TIME in the future. Until that time, your posting privileges are suspended indefinitely.

I'll read your e-mail when I have the chance, but certainly won't feel rushed.

This thread is closed and two posts removed.

Have a great day, gentlemen.

John

[B. Dudley]

The bidders name being hidden is standard fare for Ebay. Only the Seller can see the names in full.
And I agree with Destry, the price alone says that someone thinks it is an antique. If the bidder is legit.

[edgarspencer]

They don't use a decal, they do a photo transfer. Actually quite good quality. So what if it's not genuine bona fide Charles Parker manufacture. Lots of people like having little things like that.
I had a 100 quartz watches done with the Land Rover logo photo transfered. The watches cost me $28 ea, in a stainless case too. I sold them on one of the Land Rover boards years ago. I don't think one of all 100 buyers thought for a minute that Land Rover made them, but they sold out in one weekend.
A local Ford dealer had a bunch of pocket watches made with a Roadster pickup picture and the Ford logo and gave them to new car customers. As they came in new plastic boxes, I'm sure no one thought they were 80 years old. I have one, same as the ebay Parker watch, and it keeps excellent time. Zero jewels. Will it last as long as a Patek Phillipe ? No, but who cares.
Not everything is a conspiracy.

[Brush Buster]

Edgar ,I agree whole heartedly with you ! Too bad the seller didn't make up a nice group of these watches and offer them to the PGCA ,I would make a guess at $28.00 ,he would have made much more from this Forum ,than he will make with only one watch ! It wouldn't suprise me much to see many more of these come onto e-bay ,one at a time or in small quantity also ! This happened a few years ago with Leather gun cases ,they were very nice and bid high at first and the last few were picked up very inexpensively ! I know ,I have one of the last few ! Russ

[B. Dudley]

I asked the seller about the watch. As to if he knew who made it. And I told him that I doubted it was old enough to have actually been associated with Parker or Remington directly. He said that he was not sure exactly. And that he had picked it up at a show about 8-10 years ago. He is a watch collector he says. I explained to him the connection of Parker to Remington, and being that they stopped Parker production by end of WW2. He said that the movement is deffinately not that old. He guesses more like 1950's.