EE Rant (sort of)

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OK, so not really a rant against the EE. I actually like the EE. I've bought 4 of my last 6 handguns on there and I've been pretty happy with all of them but here's the thing....

While I'm very happy with my last two purchases (good price, guns easily as good as described, prompt shipping, good communication etc etc) both of them (a CZ75 from a store and an Browning HP from a private seller) were filthy when they arrived. What's with that??? You'd think if you were putting a gun on the market you would at least clean it. I got the BHP today and the feed ramp was absolutely black. It looked like it had about 500 rounds of especially dirty Russian ammo put through it before it was put away. I had to practically soak it in G96 gun treatment and then have at it with a brush followed by a ton of patches.

Has anyone else run into this? I guess it's not a huge deal but still....
 
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Personally, I always give the gun a cleaning same day as I pack it up. That way it gets a little extra layer of protection while it's rattling down in the back of a semi across the province/country..

Common courtesy, IMO.
 
Some folks are like that. Lazy buggers. I like to clean it and present it to the new owner just how I would like to get it if I was buying it.
 
The inside of a used gun covered in powder residue? Omg.
Sorry bro but I don't feel your pain.

"filthy"- more personal than dirty
"absolutely black"- black is black
"especially dirty"- dirty is dirty
"practically soak"- you soaked it, or didn't

When I read a rant, I look for chosen words, because embellishment takes away from credibility.
I read it as, you bought used guns. The end.

For the record, I clean my guns before I sell them. Not spotless, just clean, because clean is clean ;).
 
Once again feedback don't mean ####, Its like they take them to the range, and throw them in a box. My last 2 from higher feedback people came to me un acceptable. Brick of 22LR thru it and sent to me, no attempt to clean whats dirty, just clean the outside. T97 looked like it came back from a hunting trip.

If Im buying a car, I dont want to take a shoppers bag or garbage bag and pick up your fastfood wrappers, your empty cig packs and your coffee cups. SO I dunno how people get away with doing this with guns. Now im not saying I don't want to clean them once I get them, I dont want to take hours cleaning something because someone was lazy and only cared about the money.
 
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The inside of a used gun covered in powder residue? Omg.
Sorry bro but I don't feel your pain.

"filthy"- more personal than dirty
"absolutely black"- black is black
"especially dirty"- dirty is dirty
"practically soak"- you soaked it, or didn't

When I read a rant, I look for chosen words, because embellishment takes away from credibility.
I read it as, you bought used guns. The end.

For the record, I clean my guns before I sell them. Not spotless, just clean, because clean is clean ;).
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Fair enough.............They were pretty dirty (the BHP more so than the CZ) and I had to give them a thorough cleaning (more than a quick wipe and one pass with a bore snake)

OK?????

As I said before. Both guns are easily in as good a condition as expected and I'm happy with them. I left both sellers positive feedback and would buy from them again. I just find it a little odd that people would ship a gun that needed cleaning and wondered if it was a common thing.
 
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There's a level of dirty I'm okay with. When I get home from the range mine get a pass or two through the bore and a wipe down, then put away. I'd most likely ship them like that without tearing them down and scrubbing them clean. I've received pristine looking used guns and one nasty dirty one that I recall; annoying but part of the process of buying used.
 
Yep,its just common decency to someone who has just spent a fair amount of money buying a gun from you to send that gun in a clean,oiled condition.Its also reassuring to the buyer that the gun they have just bought has been well cared for.
 
Every gun I shoot gets stripped and cleaned within a day or 2 of shooting. All my guns in the safe are clean, lubed, and ready to go to the range.
I think as more and more people get into the sport the average shooters IQ gets lower and lower. I couldn't imagine buying a brand new rifle/pistol, not stripping it down to inspect it and clean/lube it appropriately. Yet there are threads on here constantly about people doing just that, sometimes resulting in a KABOOM like the guy that didn't realize Nork AR15's have little oiled patches in the chamber, bore, and bolt carrier....
 
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There's a level of dirty I'm okay with. When I get home from the range mine get a pass or two through the bore and a wipe down, then put away. I'd most likely ship them like that without tearing them down and scrubbing them clean. I've received pristine looking used guns and one nasty dirty one that I recall; annoying but part of the process of buying used.
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Yeah, I wouldn't do a detail strip and total clean on a sold gun but I'd certainly make sure it had been field-stripped, had the bore swabbed and the internals wiped down before shipping.

Heck, let's be honest...if i did a detail strip on some of my guns they might need a trip to the gunsmith to get put back together.:redface:
 
I clean to a functional standard, the same as I do for myself. I'm not going to do a detail strip and dunk degrease or sonic clean (because I don't have any of that stuff).

Clean enough to function as it should, and a fresh coat of grease on the slidey bits. If anyone wants it factory fresh spotless, that's their mental health issue to deal with - lol
 
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