New gun with slight scratches. Take it back or live with it?

[Suicide*Ride]

Touch it up & enjoy it!

While reading your thread, I see in your post #24 what I was going to suggest. If it bugs you that much, & it's more cost to send it back, just touch it up w/ bluing paste & be proud of your new purchase.

I was 29 when I bought my 1st "NEW" truck (I still have it 14yrs later! )& after owning/driving $50 "fixer uppers" my whole life. Drove it 6 months before letting it get a single scratch. Took my father 4-wheeling on Jeep trails in the Rocky Mountains (it's a full size Dodge) & scratched the **** out of it & never worried about the paint job ever since!

Don't sweat "the small stuff" & go shoot your new toy!

 

[22-rimfire]

I've done that with absolutely brand new 4x4's (like one week old). I felt sick. But I got over it.

 

[nc76]

This reminds me of the story of the guy who buys a new Porsche and the first thing he does is take a ball bean hammer and dent the fender. Now there is no more worrying about the first blemish.

I would bother me only if I didn't get a chance to inspect it first. If I did and I missed it, my mistake. If I did notice it I could choose to live with it or not buy it. I scratched my Stoeger 8000 and it bothered me a little because it was a stupid mistake with a mini screw driver taking off one of those metal clips that are used for IWB in lieu of a holster.

 

[danprkr]

New means New folks

CSA 357
If i buy at a new price, i want a new gun....

shaggy430
I might be the only one to say this so far, but I would take it back. If there are scratches on my gun, I want to be the one to put them there.

I'm of this school of thought. If I pay full price I want it to be new. Now when I buy a used gun (mostly what I buy) I take those things into account when I'm dickering for the gun. But, when I buy new, and there is no dickering there had better be nothing to take into account.

At the least I'd contact customer service, and see if they won't give you some kind of adjustment or gift to make their mistake right. I work in the appliance business, and know that almost all manufacturers will give incentives when a unit is damaged in transit or installation. Anything from a gift card to a case of laundry detergent. It's just good business to keep the customer happy, and you did pay for a new gun. Maybe you can get an accessory that you want that you haven't bought yet for free.

 

[rmt22]

if you get your guns from the quick movers (bud's gun shop) they move so fast no wear and tear. IMO Just got a p239 on wednesday and I can smell the sig factory on it.

 

[Officers'Wife]

It's a matter of personal preference I suppose. Myself, if the scratches didn't go down to bare metal where corrosion was an issue and the weapon was accurate and comfortable to shoot I wouldn't worry about it.

My brother has an old army revolver that our great-grandfather brought back from WWI. It's old and the finish is worn, but each scratch and ding is a reminded of the history of the old weapon. From Great-Grandfather in the trenches to Grandfather dropping into Normandy in a glider, to Grandfather's brother at a place called Pusan to my Uncle Lee in a place called DaNang. Each scratch tells a story, yours has a head start is all.

Selena

 

[Jolly Rogers]

How will you prove to the gun shop that you didn't scratch it? I don't know if the store is responsible for the appearance of used (cause that's what it now is) guns. I vote for the live with it crowd. And I don't mean to implicate anything about how the scratches got there...
Joe

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I'd ask for a partial refund or store credit.

 

[rmt22]

my understanding is once you transfer the f/a it is b/n you and the manufacturer. I can tell you that my online purchase went through a rigorous inspection b/f I signed the paperwork at FFL and I paid an extra $7 fee to insure against damage during shipping.

When purchasing online you save the tax and get wholesale price BUT YOU BETTER cover yourself.

I purchased a Khar P40 around 2001 and the FIRST TIME at the range the mag clip broke. That was the 1st time I have ever had a problem with a gun and I thought that I could just get another one WELL THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. I raised hell with that dealer and he agreed to ship it back on his dime and it was fixed and no problems since then with THAT GUN.

A few years later I purchased a Kimber Pro Carry II s/s and it had that POS external extractor and OF COURSE it never functioned. After 2 months at the factory they gave me whole new slide with internal extractor and I was patient b/c I was just happy to get a gun that worked. I was reading so much bad press about Kimber I was worried about them NOT taking care of me.

Right now all my guns function appropriately