Am I being unreasonable?

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SauerGrapes

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Maybe I'm just getting crotchety in my older years. In fact I know I get PO'ed at a lot of things that never would have bothered me years ago.

Anyway I have been looking for a nice gently used O\U shotgun for a couple months now. I found one on March 30th on another gun forum from a private seller. So I sent him a PM that evening saying I'd buy it for his asking price. {Price included shipping to my FFL}
Gave him my e-mail and my phone #. He called me the next day and was very happy to do the deal. Let me say, the seller was very nice, and a gentleman to talk to. Just to expedite matters, I told him Monday morning I would mail him a certified check.
He received the check Thursday and cashed it on Friday. {I checked with my bank} He e-mails me Saturday he would ship the gun on Monday. {April 9th} I thought, good, I should have it by the end of the week. New toy, I'm excited! :D

Monday night I get an e-mail saying his car got hit, he's got a bad route canal and he's headed out of town on buisiness until Thursday. :(
I e-mail him back, sorry about your car and the tooth, just send it the end of the week.
He tells me Sunday, the lines were too long at the post office and it would be shipped Monday by his FFL. :rolleyes:
To wrap this up, the gun got picked up by FedEx yesterday and it should be at my FFL on April 26th! :eek: :mad:
Needless to say I'm pretty blanked off about now. My opinion is, if you can't hold up YOUR end of a deal, DON'T DO THE DEAL!

FedEx must have a guy walking it across the country. The guy holds me up for over a week and then has the nerve to have it shipped by Turttle!
Is it me or does this just suck? If that was me, I would have felt so bad about not shipping when I said I would, I WOULD HAVE STOOD IN THAT LINE AT THAT POST OFFICE ALL DAY IF I HAD TO!
 
Yeah, I''m old too and my patience (never really good) has gone down like the Titanic!

When the gun arrives, if it meets your approval, you got a nice gun in the end of the deal. True, you had an aggravation factor that you didn't anticipate ... but you do have a gun that you wanted.

If so ... chalk it up to life. You'ld be out the gun if you hadn't pulled the trigger on the deal ... right?

Just my 2 cents worth! Like we all used to say: "It don't mean nuttin'!"
 
If that gun arrives and it's everything you wanted it to be then just be grateful and all this aggrivation is just another bump in the road of life. I'm head'n for the last roundup and impatient myself, but never considered buying a gun from an unknown entity via mail, or internet. People, even on forums, can really suck and not be who they represent, or descibe honestly the item they're selling.

Any further real difficulties with this person should be reported to the feds even though supposedly he was using FedEx and not the postal service. It's against the law to defraud anyone thru the mails, which includes the internet. Did you get his email address and phone#, or who he was using with an FFL? Print out any communications that you had with him as proof. Was he a long time member of that forum, or recently joined? In addition, I'd also make sure all on that forum was advised to keep clear of this guy.

Hopefully the gun will arrive as promised. I wish you luck.
 
Having 4 different excuses sounds really fishy to me.

OTOH, if the gun gets there next week and it's what you wanted, you'll have a new gun *and* a great story -- that's easily worth a week delay. :D
 
Just one of the hassles of buying online. I sell on eBay and ship my items out the same day as being paid or the very next day. Sounds like this seller you were dealing with is very unfamiliar with good customer service. Next time got to a reputable site that provides feedback to sellers based on previous transactions.

There are billions of guns on the world and I bet you could have got the same shotgun from a more reputable person for about the same price somewhere else. Just my $0.02.
 
he likely just wants to go on one last shoot with it, the 26th isn't so far away, just make sure when you get it you inspect it and make sure you get what you were promised.
 
If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, and tastes like a fish, and then somebody tells me it's a cow, I tend to think they are full of it. If it's the person that sold me the fish, I'd probably feel they are lying
 
I made a deal with a guy on this board once for a rifle on a ?Friday?
That Sunday we got hit by hurricane Ike. I lived in OHIO. I was also working in an insurance agency.
I didn't have power or internet for something like 5 days.
The agency usually had maybe 200 claims a year. We had over 500 filed in the next few weeks and it was my job to keep them organized and moving.
I don't think I got the rifle shipped for something like 3 weeks and i didn't even get a notice off as to what happened for about a week as there was no electricity/internet.

If someone is selling a gun it might very well be because money is tight. maybe with their car damaged they had to share with a spouse or something so couldn't take it to the post office at lunch or such.

Life happens. Unless you were buying a gun to defend yourself during the impending apocalypse and it actually happens, I wouldn't get too upset over a delay of a few days, especially if something like a car accident is involved.
 
I just hope everything is legit. I have never bought anything from directly from an individual worth that kind of money online. You are more trusting than me.

Please keep us informed about your deal.
 
You didn't need that money, right?
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LOL, no I just like mailing money to people in need. ;)

I'm not to concerned about getting the gun. I don't think I'm getting screwed. {hopefully} He seems like a nice enough guy, I just think he should have put more effort into getting the gun shipped.
I did get a tracking # thru FedEx. I guess it's coming by ground ship. It's suppose to be in a fitted take down case and boxed, so I hope it survives the trip.
I generally won't deal with private parties unless it's FTF, but I decided to do it after we had a long conversation.

Funny thing is, I was at Miller's Gun shop in Delaware last weekend and found a really clean Browning 325 O\U with 30'' barrel, which would have been perfect...LOL. Oh well, like some have said, if the gun is as nice as the pictures, I guess I'll soon forget about the experience.
 
If that was me, I would have felt so bad about not shipping when I said I would, I WOULD HAVE STOOD IN THAT LINE AT THAT POST OFFICE ALL DAY IF I HAD TO!
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Same here, but all folks don't have the same conscience. That and having the money already in hand sometimes takes the desire to be prompt away. Hope the gun is all that you hope it to be. Odds are it is and the seller is just bad at managing his time.
 
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