I acted real dumb at gun show today

[DT Guy]

For something at a gun show to qualify as 'real dumb', something has to have one more hole in it than it did when it came in.

Sounds like you both came to a gentlemanly agreement on allowing you to gracefully pull out of the deal. If more people acted that way, the world would turn much more smoothly, IMHO.


Larry

 

[Tom488]

Is it just me, or when reading the OP's story, was anyone else reminded of the scene in Lethal Weapon when Riggs was counting out money to buy the coke?

 

[skipjack]

I don't take deposits in my store. Mainly, because of the reasons many
have posted here. If someone comes in, puts, say $20 on a gun, then that
is his gun. A cash buyer comes in after the deposit guy, asks about said
gun, told it is sold. Deposit guy renegs...blown sale for my store.

I take checks, cash and most plastic, even Amex. If you are not interested in using any of those, oh well. Someone else will be. It's not personal, I am running a business to make a profit by selling items at a fair price in a business like way. The few times I have bent the rules, it invariably has bitten me in the butt.

 

[Erik M]

how long before they charge you at the table (they already do at the door) just to look at what they have for sale?

 

[kaferhaus]

with all the dumb things that go on at gun shows i don't believe you even start to approach the "real dumb" threshold.

amen to that!

 

[bobbidoll]

You know it has been years since we travled the gunshow circuit, the highest admission back then was abt $5.00 and that was at the great western(LA Co. fairgrounds) and the Huston Collectors show. and we didn"t get any of the entrance fee, we paid $75.00 per table, We generaly had 2 setups of 5 tables each. We sure didn't get rich, but we made a living.
Bobbi