Beware of scammers

[Muratada]

If someone contacts you to offer you a gun at a price that seems to good to be true and they have zero feedback - for gods sake dont send them the money up front , gun unseen or unadvertised , if it seems too good to be true it probably is .

ask for thier full name and address a land line telephone number and demand to see pics of this gun with a copy of that days newspaper in one of them.

dont offer any money up front - they contacted you ,they are the unknown quantity - the onus is on them to prove legitimacy.

If they are genuine they'll understand you treading carefully - if they climb out of thier pram and get all weird on you then you've had a narrow escape and probably outed a scammer.

a fool and his money are easily parted - lets show these scammers our mothers didnt raise no fools.

thanks

Mick

[Borja1979]

ALSO DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM AIRSHOOTER.CO.UK they will keep your moneys and wont send the goods! or answer the phone.

[WILDAXBOXER]

Ask them for a photo of the gun with a peice of paper in the picture with your name on it.

Would never have thought off that one.Good advice

ATB Brian

[Johnny Fresh]

Thanks for the advice on this thread - very helpfull.
Does anyone have advice / guidance for the whole Mexican stand-off situation (Pay or post first).
Also if you buy S/H from a RFD and they ship it to your local RFD are they still governed by distance selling consumer laws?

thanks

[vince20]

we all have to start out with a frist post just because it is your frist post do not mean you are out to rip people of i am disappointed that people think frist time posters are out to rip people of

[Muratada]

we dont assume 1st post members are scammers - but if you have a zero post count its hard to establish a background or any credibility , a shame but the recent scams have involved 1st time posters it seems .

as for the pay first/send first stand off - well it depends on the parties involved - a first time poster selling to a buyer of longstanding membership with plenty of good feedback well I would think the onus is then on the seller as far as trust and credibility go.

[Johnny Fresh]

[QUOTE=as for the pay first/send first stand off - well it depends on the parties involved - a first time poster selling to a buyer of longstanding membership with plenty of good feedback well I would think the onus is then on the seller as far as trust and credibility go.[/QUOTE]

@Muratada - That's not a bad idea: whoever has more posts receives first. So if buying from someone with more posts, you pay first and wait for the gun. If selling to someone with more posts you send the gun and wait for payment. Probably not a prefect system but would stop the newbie scammer being able to pocket your cash and do a runner. Does mean you'd have to spent a bit of time on the forum first to build up some creds. but that isn't a bad thing either.