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I purchased a used shotgun from a pawn shop. He spoke highly of it, but don't they always? I got no warning of any issues or that, if there were any once I purchased it, it was not their problem, but "all sales final" is posted on the wall. He told me it worked fine. I let a friend look it over and he noticed a lot of pitting. They didn't have or offer a light at pawn shop, so I wouldn't have noticed, but that's not what bothered me. It wouldn't cycle, and wouldn't latch with a shell in the chamber, so it'd be extremely unsafe to fire. There was no way of knowing that in the shop, short of trying to cycle shells or snap caps, which I don't exactly keep on me or try to cycle in a shop. The scene from Terminator comes to mind.
I took it back to the shop, and the wench at the register just pointed to the "all sales final" sign and told me it was my problem, and it isn't their responsibility to know if the products they sell function or not. They look at it, and if it looks functional, they sell it. I told them they'd no longer have a customer of many years (I got in every few weeks, usually just buy DVDs and such, but I always check to see if anything decent comes in) and she shrugged.
Yes, I should have inspected it better, but other than trying to cycle shells through it in the shop, there was no way of knowing. It was a Stevens 67, so fixing it was basically pointless. There's basically no takedown of that one without metal work. Just a warning to others, I haven't seen an establishment that wouldn't assist a customer with a total defective item in years, so I was pretty astounded. Luckily I didn't spend much.
I took it back to the shop, and the wench at the register just pointed to the "all sales final" sign and told me it was my problem, and it isn't their responsibility to know if the products they sell function or not. They look at it, and if it looks functional, they sell it. I told them they'd no longer have a customer of many years (I got in every few weeks, usually just buy DVDs and such, but I always check to see if anything decent comes in) and she shrugged.
Yes, I should have inspected it better, but other than trying to cycle shells through it in the shop, there was no way of knowing. It was a Stevens 67, so fixing it was basically pointless. There's basically no takedown of that one without metal work. Just a warning to others, I haven't seen an establishment that wouldn't assist a customer with a total defective item in years, so I was pretty astounded. Luckily I didn't spend much.