Possible issue with GunBroker

[Airman193SOS]

I bought a box of Black Talon ammunition from this guy on GunBroker, and according to the terms of agreement I have 5 days to contact the seller. I contacted him about 26 hours after the auction ended, well within that time span, but the item has already been re-listed (see here).

Am I being cheated out of the item that I won by the seller? I sent an e-mail, but I haven't heard back yet. If I send money am I just throwing it away? How can he double-sell an item that's already been bought?

If I do get ripped off here, what recourse do I have except to leave negative feedback? I'm rather annoyed at the moment, as you might imagine.

 

[kolya]

The guy probably just has multiple boxes of the same item and is just selling them one by one. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Cannonball888]

Yeah, people do that on eBay too. Relisting is a way of avoiding a new listing fee when you're selling multiples of the same item.

 

[Airman193SOS]

So I have nothing to worry about?

 

[skinnyguy]

I don't think you have anything to worry about, just verify through the seller that though the item has been relisted, that you will get what bid on BEFORE you send payment.

You might want to re-title your thread though, you don't have a problem with gunbroker, you have a problem WITH A SELLER on gunbroker. Huge difference.

Good luck, hope you don't get burned.

 

[BigRobT]

I've had a lot of good luck with purchases through Gunbroker. I haven't been dissatisfied with but one purchase and that seller made good on the return. (of course, the return shipping fees suck. Nothing much can be done about that)

 

[hornadylnl]

Wow, you can buy surplus 50 bmg for that price.

 

[hotpig]

I do this with my Gun Broker auctions. It is handy so that you do not have to enter a new auction into the system.

You still have pay the listing fees and final value fees.

I sold some Ranger SXT ammo to a new guy and re listed as always. He hit the buy now button so I again re listed. It turned out that he only wanted one box but thought something was wrong with the system so he kept hitting the buy now every time he checked GB.

I let him off the hook for the other auctions and took the loss. It was kind of funny at the time.

 

[Airman193SOS]

Wow, you can buy surplus 50 bmg for that price.

Indeed you can. I bought it because:

1) Before I even owned a gun I wanted to piss off anti-gun people, and this really stuck in their craw in 1994,

2) I always wanted it for the novelty of it, and

3) It's a piece of history, however ignominious it may be (it pushed the anti-gun people about as far as anything ever has- remember the "cop-killer bullet" controversies?).

Incidentally, does anybody have any performance comparisons with newer ammunition? This stuff was the cutting edge when it was new, but it's now at least 13 years old. For that matter, is it safe to fire 13-year-old ammunition? Not that I would fire this stuff, of course, I'm merely curious.

 

[hotpig]

You can link off my web site to Winchesters Law Enforcement catalog. It will show the new SXT ammo(Ranger T-Series).

http://www.prestostore.com/cgi-bin/storefront.pl?ref=hotpig27&pg=2693