What Happens to the Defective C&B's?

[arcticap]

So thousands of folks all around the country buy C&B revolvers from Cabela's and other on line dealers with generous return policies, only to return them because they found some kind of undesirable defect. Sometimes the guns are even fired before the defects are revealed to the buyer and returned.
What do you think happens to these guns?
Even if most of them do get sent back to Italy, then what?
Does Pietta and the other makers try to fix them up and then turn around and sell them at a discount as factory seconds?
Do they salvage some of the usable parts to install in another gun which is then resold as new?
Do they send the unusable parts to the foundary to melt down and remake into new frames and parts, or is it just sold as plain old scrap?
What if they never get sent back to Italy at all, but rather they get shipped to some third world country or to a liquidation outfit to be sold at a significant discount where they might even mix and match parts in order to make it possible to sell them?
What does anyone think happens to these defective and sometimes used guns?
I've seen used BP rifles for sale in the bargain cave of my local Cabela's that were returned after being fired and they are sold as is. Some are even missing parts and look a mess.
But I have rarely ever seen a C&B revolver for sale in the local Bargain Cave. The only one or two that I've ever seen there looked brand new and unfired.
With the large number of returns, a lot more of them should be seen for sale in every Cabela's Bargain Cave. But evidently they're not being sold there.
So what does happen to all of them?

 

[madcratebuilder]

Good question. I doubt they go back to Italy, cost prohibitive. Places like Numrich may buy them for parts. I would like to buy a few for parts and projects.

 

[mpmillen]

The Universe provides only three possible answers to this query, and only one of them is the truth:

1) They all get sent to Bowen Classic Arms to be lovingly reworked and are then returned to inventory;

2) Defective cap and ball revolvers do not exist, so stop asking about them; and

3) They ship it off to the next person that orders one, hoping they will not actually try and use it, and eventually, all non-functional cap and ball guns find homes with non-shooters.

M

 

[Ratdog68]

Lmao !!!

"3) They ship it off to the next person that orders one, hoping they will not actually try and use it, and eventually, all non-functional cap and ball guns find homes with non-shooters."

Ain't America great? Even better... they get sold to Dems who are closet-owning-non-shooters.

 

[Geneseo1911]

or, most likely
4) They get destroyed, and the manufacturer writes Cabelas a check for the cost of the returned guns.

One of my favorite jobs as a highschooler working at Farm & Fleet was to destroy items returned as defective that were big enough that the manufacturer didn't want them returned. And we couldn't just throw them away, as some dumpster diver could get them, so a minimum wage kid was sent out back with a sledgehammer.

 

[DrLaw]

And we couldn't just throw them away, as some dumpster diver could get them, so a minimum wage kid was sent out back with a sledgehammer.

Oooohh, I gotta start hanging out behind Wal Mart before the kid gets to the dumptser!

The Doc is out now.

Hey, getting any rain up there in gun country?

 

[Jim Watson]

I don't know about C&B, but I had a lemon britchloader, one of the ASM Schofields sold by Cimarron. They kicked it around at the importer's gunsmith and then sent it back to Italy. When it hadn't returned in 6 months, they gave me a refund of the wholesale price. Since my dealer had ordered it on small markup, I was not out a whole lot. Presumably the gun was scrapped, they dropped off the market pretty soon after that. Almost broke Cimarron, so I spent the refund on a Model P.

 

[arcticap]

Someone reported elsewhere that a used C&B cylinder was for sale at their local Bargain Cave.

 

[BHP FAN]

I think I buy them all,at gunshows.