I think the chances are good that they know gungal30. In today's world one post can kill a store, and one would do anything to try to make things better. Its all about [U]how[U] they try to make things better. Good people take the hit and feel bad for the guy and give him his money back. Shady people resort to other thing.
And this right here is probably why no response has been forwarded by Ellwood Epps. As soon as one customer posts a reply to the OP's complaint that counters the original claim, suddenly the whole of this message board lights up with conspiracy theories about whether or not Epps is somehow in collusion with Gungal30 to throw out a bone to salvage the situation. Or the legitimacy of this poster's comments is questioned because this is their first post in these forums. Heaven forbid Gungal30 just happens to be a new member to CGN (not the Join Date of February 2015?!?!), and felt compelled to express her opinion of the events relating to the OP's claims as she saw them -- an opinion that differs noticeably from the OP's account of those same events.
Does it matter that the OP himself has only 7 posts to his credit, including this thread? Does it matter that he, too, has a Join Date of February 2015? Does that information somehow make his claims more or less valid? No. The OP had an opinion to share about an event that occurred. Period. His number of posts or length of tenure on these boards makes no difference to his perception of the events of that day. Why, then, should those factors come into regard for Gungal30 to make her own statement on those same events?
What good would it do for anyone at Epps to respond to this situation? None whatsoever. If you feel otherwise, take a look at some of the other posts on these forums where customers have complained about service from Ellwood Epps. Read the company's responses. Then read on and on and on to see just how belligerent and detracting the counter replies from other posters become simply because Epps did not conform to Customer X's interpretation of what they expect a business to do on their behalf.
I was not at Epps when the event in question occurred, therefore I will restrain from offering an opinion on the matter. Perhaps some of you should consider indulging in that same measure of restraint instead of jumping on the lynching wagon with only the version of events provided by an impassioned customer who has determined that the service they received was somehow less than they deserved.
Last edited by Harrier .45; 02-16-2015 at 11:59 PM.
If gun owners in this country were truly a threat, do you really think our politicians would have lasted this long??
Disagree and I suppose all are waiting for Epps response.
Simple, customer bought what he thought was a new shotgun, perceived/identified it to be used and missing proper factory packaging. Brought it back to Epps for corrective action which they did not do using the excuse that the shotgun is used ... which clearly means they themselves admitted to selling him a used shotgun ...
"What we got here is a failure to communicate"
The Bee does not squander his time trying to explain to the Fly why honey is better than s**t. Each creature is content with the meal laid before them, so the Bee reserves his endeavor for those who know its worth.
What kind of shady business doesn't stand behind their product they sell. Every retailer I have ever encountered from firearms to whatever else I purchase has an exchange policy or stands behind the product they sell and tries to make it right. When I first bought my browning bps from my local gun shop I didn't strip it down in the store and inspect it. It was pulled out was covered in grease and oil wrapped up. As a matter of fact they gave me a lesson on how to strip it and clean in by using one of their floor models. And the sales staff said if I had any problems when I took it home and cleaned it and wasn't able to put it back together to bring it back and they would help me with it. It was my first gun purchase and the store was shooters choice in Waterloo.
How about you read other sponsor forums and see what good service is. I just read a thread in canAms forum where someone posted in response to the quality of ammo question they were having problems and canAm posted for this user to contact them and they will try to make it right.
Any quality business puts customers first. He didn't come back a few days later, it's a 1000$ purchase from a quality firearm maker like Baretta, and from the op's post its not what he agreed to purchased. They had a new one that was new packed and should have brought that out to begin with, or the very least instead of trying to pawn that gun off on him they should have made him aware of its new but not in factory box type of thing if that was the case. My opinion based off his post is the gun is used, I have fired hundreds of rounds through my bps and even when I first got it I never needed that many patches to clean it, I highly doubt 60 would make it that dirty.
they should have just exchanged it 120$ isn't going to put epps out of business. But I'm sure it's gonna cost them more in lost business.
Equally simple: Beretta A300 shotguns are shipped in plain cardboard boxes, without hard cases. They are wrapped in waxed/grease paper. That is all. Frequently, when a new firearm is shown over the counter, that paper gets torn or otherwise damaged and is discarded. Even more expensive guns, such as the A400s, come wrapped in tissue paper that is routinely torn and discarded the first time one of those guns is shown to a potential buyer to be handled and examined. This alone does not indicate that the firearm in question was a used gun, but simply one that had been viewed by another customer at some previous date.
Equally simple: The fact that the firearm was test fired by the factory does not in any way infer that Epps "admitted" to the firearm being used. When a new car rolls off the dealer's lot with 10-12 kilometers on it due to test driving, rolling on and off the transport truck that delivered it to the dealer's lot, and being moved about the lot itself, is that car now to be considered a used automobile?
Equally simple: By the OP's own admission he is new to the firearms world. How then, with his admittedly limited familiarity with the gun in question, could he rightfully determine that the firearm that is the cause of this situation was used rather than new, based upon observations about which by his own admission he knew very little?
Could the situation have been handled better? Perhaps. But again, I was not there, so I will leave any judgement on this case out of my response, and continue to suggest that there might be more to this story than meets the eye, and that perhaps Ellwood Epps is not the evil empire some posters here on GunNutz try to make it out to be. Take note that in this thread alone there are several customers who report that they have had no grand issues with the service received from Epps. And if you think we've paid every one of them off to make those claims, well I guess we'd better sell more than 10,000 guns this year to keep those bribes a-flowing.
If gun owners in this country were truly a threat, do you really think our politicians would have lasted this long??