A few weeks ago I won an auction on Gunbroker.com for a French MAB Model D. The auction clearly stated that the seller would accept a C&R for it and in the initial email to me after I won the seller still said he would accept my C&R.
Well that changed when the seller (a licensed FFL located in New York) sends me another email saying that he had entered the pistol in his records in such a way that the transfer had to go through a 01 FFL. It wasn't worth the additional $35 and time it would cost me to go that route so we mutually agreed to cancel the sale and neither of us posted any negative feedback. He reposted the pistol still indicating that it could go to a C&R but changed it later to take that out. The pistol ended up selling this week (after being posted two more times) for $5 more than I bid for it.
I don't bid if the seller specifically states that they will not accept a C&R or ship it into the firearm unfriendly state of Maryland. If the firearm is posted in the modern firearms area and the seller doesn't specify if a C&R can be used I send an email to make sure.
Is it too much to expect that someone in the business of selling firearms knows how a transaction is supposed to be handled? Apparently so.
Well that changed when the seller (a licensed FFL located in New York) sends me another email saying that he had entered the pistol in his records in such a way that the transfer had to go through a 01 FFL. It wasn't worth the additional $35 and time it would cost me to go that route so we mutually agreed to cancel the sale and neither of us posted any negative feedback. He reposted the pistol still indicating that it could go to a C&R but changed it later to take that out. The pistol ended up selling this week (after being posted two more times) for $5 more than I bid for it.
I don't bid if the seller specifically states that they will not accept a C&R or ship it into the firearm unfriendly state of Maryland. If the firearm is posted in the modern firearms area and the seller doesn't specify if a C&R can be used I send an email to make sure.
Is it too much to expect that someone in the business of selling firearms knows how a transaction is supposed to be handled? Apparently so.