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This is Moral Compass,what would do kinda thing

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bobehud

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Okay really pretty simple you and i grow to know each and you trade a rifle,a much abused rifle where the shoulder of the case is what stops it.
Now you knowing im a 'good' guy,stand up wouldn't stick you with a POS..you send me digital
pics of everything can see clear as day the last 4 inches are thrashed rifle wont hit the broadside of the barn your standing in..

DO YOU

A.) because you would never dump that on anybody and do the right thing you
the rifle back and i get my money
B.) offer to take the rifle back and give you something thats a shooter with an
apology

Or

C.) You make no effort to take care of the issue,you never do anything about
the rifle.Basic you are SOL..But wants to continue trading with you.


My case was C. and i have torch and i took an oxygen and acetylene torch to it and threw it away because me just me would not be able to look at myself in the mirror.

One of your upstanding good ol' boy members, long standing hella guy on this website did that.
 
I'm not sure your point has entirely come across. Are you asking for advice or ranting about a transaction gone awry?
 
I apologize if it came across as a rant.I grew up in the country before country was cool.I am a god fearing red neck been married forever (28 yrs) and have enjoy guns since i could stand.

If you did something like sell someone a rifle was as bad as this one was,there was never a long court or discussion you took care of it.

This happened almost three years ago and i am having very serious health issues and it kinda sticks in my gullet,i mean right and wrong have not blurred to such an extent that someone feels there is a grey area.

Want feedback from real gun people im one but not many of the people i deal are so this has always been a sane website as compared to others.Even when someone goes on a rant this place deals with it quickly which i respect.Also trying to see if any one else had been in the same boat and how they resolved it.

Thanks all
 
If I buy a gun and don't check it out properly and it is a dud, I eat it. If not, I try to get it back to the seller with some choice words. But the reality is normally I eat it and walk away. I refuse to intentionally misrepresent a gun in a sale. I'd rather take a cutting torch to it and be done with it. Not willing to sell my credibiliy for a few hundred bucks. Not even a few thousand.... Moral compass.... many of us still have one.
 
bobehud said:
This happened almost three years ago and i am having very serious health issues and it kinda sticks in my gullet
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After three years?!?!

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Wait, this happened 3 years ago and you're just now posting about how someone sold a junk rifle to you and wouldn't make good on it?

In theory, if the rifle were unsafe a complaint should have been lodged, the seller should have been outed in the "Rate Transaction" forum and the firearm should have been turned over to a legal authority for evidence in a claim or charge. If that wasn't worth the trouble then pulling the valuable parts for resale and destroying the dangerous ones seems like a reasonable course of action.
 
Ok
I was sold a rifle an AK RPK supposed to be in great shape got the gun was horrible,had to use a nylon hammer to get the bolt out and the last 4 in bore was gone.

I contacted my 'friend' as soon as i discovered these thing and nothing,nothing was done ever to be stand up about it.

So if i sell you a gun and the barrels bent you'd be okay with that..? Sorry going to have to call BS on that.

I am sick critically ill and i want to resolve some things and if most gun people are okay with spending 700 dollars on a gun you cant shoot the gun im in the wrong line of work.Even took digital pics and emailed my 'friend' and it was just a shrug of the shoulder and by the by hows the weather.

Foot note not quite three years 30 months and if you read my post im sick..kidneys going south and few other things what got me going was i approached him to make it right. I didn't want to..____ you know _and not give him a chance to set things right.Thats all.

If that's okay with the majority i feel very proud of owning a backbone.

This was not meant to be any kind of pissing match just wanted to see how other gun people would have reacted,and to be honest i find it tough to believe to if someone you trusted did it to you,youd be all good with.

It would be like buying a car with no tires..look there's the car yup but we cant drive it,eh that's ok.
 
I think that what everyone is saying is that the time to deal with things is when they happened. There's a reason the U.S. Code (and individual state codes) places statutes of limitations on civil and criminal offenses (with some exceptions). With this amount of time gone by, there's nothing to be done about it except learn from it. Should have made more of a stink back when the transaction was occurring or had just occurred.

It would be easier to get at what you are saying in your posts if you followed proper (or at least close to it) grammar and punctuation.
 
Sounds sucky but it is always a risk making a private buy over the internet. You can get a deal or you can get shafted, simple as. Personally the only guns I buy online are brand new from reputable dealer who takes credit cards. If they want to get funny, I can tell Visa to deal with it because I'm not paying for it.

Sure you pay more than that 'deal'. But $700 down the drain is just that.
 
Bob...this is more akin to buying a car, noticing the engine is missing, and then waiting 3 years to try to resolve it.

When you FIRST got the gun, did you try to resolve the issue? If not, I think MOST of us would kinda assume you were good with the deal after 30 months of owning it...
 
The OP did try to resolve the issue at the time to the point of attempting to settle the issue outside of court. The seller would not do anything about the issue at the time, and the OP chose not to pursue the matter in court. Now, 30 months later it's still bugging the OP. Quite frankly, to the OP, this kind of stuff is no good for your health anyway. Do you REALLY want to spend your last days on earth stewing over a bad gun deal that happened 30 months ago?!? Really?

Yeah, the guy that sold you the gun did you wrong. We can all agree on that. But 30 months later you're still this upset over 1 bad purchase?!? I think you might have more success talking to a therapist than posting on an internet forum. Maybe they can help you clear your head....
 
Yes,you were taken advantage of, but the money isn't worth 3 years of bad feelings. Let it go if for no other reason than the fact that carrying bad feelings will hurt your health.
 
Alrighty...

I don't think any reply so far suggests that anyone would be 'okay' with receiving a rifle that was in worse condition than described. But I do think what is suggested is that the opportunity to do anything about it has passed, being three years en pass.

If you would like to know what I would have done in that situation, refer to hso's post regarding proper recourse.

Yes, people's word of honor isn't as sacred as it once was, so we must not be naive sheep among cunning wolves. Let us take responsibility for our own fortunes. :)
 
bobehud said:
I contacted my 'friend' as soon as i discovered these thing and nothing,nothing was done ever to be stand up about it.
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But did you ASK him to do something about it? Specifically?

Or did you just hope that he would do it out of the kindness of his heart?
 
just a few things to clear up..The day i got the rifle i always break them down when the carrier had to be broke loose with a nylon hammer i called..When i noticed there was no rifling in the last four inch's i called and even sent pics.

Thats within 24 hours of having it my my hands..im a bit confused and somethings stick out.If the roles had been reversed i would have felt horrible and made it right asap.Not the case,the gentleman knew within hours the gun was toast.He lives several hours from here one way.

But the time line is a mess i know i suppose i just paced the floors so long it made me crazy and i posted this.I really do live by the golden rule_due unto
others as you would have them due unto you_

Im done guys,someone made a very good point i have had two major surgery's in the 6 weeks i need to heal not get mad all over again.damn painkillers.
 
I've been cheated so many times I don't even feel it going in anymore. All I can say is, with this latest jerk I'm dealing with, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore". With me now... "sellers" beware.
 
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