Good thing this was an inexpensive auction win.
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My intention when I posted this thread was not to slag any particular auction site, but rather to give a heads up to potential bidders to make sure to not always take descriptions and pics of items for granted.
This is basically a project item for me and I bid accordingly on it. So a buggered up muzzle is more of an annoyance of sorts at this point for me as I'll clean it up at some later date I suppose.
Now if I had figured on using this as even a camp or truck gun I would have been really ticked off as the description and pics certainly didn't show a hack saw job on the barrel.
In future I'll be asking for more pics and better descriptions if need be in any future auctions I participate in and I would recommend the same to others.
This auction was by Riverside Auctions.
This is basically a project item for me and I bid accordingly on it. So a buggered up muzzle is more of an annoyance of sorts at this point for me as I'll clean it up at some later date I suppose.
Now if I had figured on using this as even a camp or truck gun I would have been really ticked off as the description and pics certainly didn't show a hack saw job on the barrel.
In future I'll be asking for more pics and better descriptions if need be in any future auctions I participate in and I would recommend the same to others.
This auction was by Riverside Auctions.
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- the chesterfield
The level of bs people bend over for from auction houses in this country is insane. It takes very little knowledge or effort to properly label things especially when you're charging seller commission, buyer premium, credit card fees, box, handling, and shipping fees plus whatever other costs of doing business you can come up with to fawn off on customers. But oh we bidders should bow our heads and be grateful. Any standards of business conduct are just too much. And apologists for this will defend this on open forums too. You read the fine print! No guarantees! Now Pay Up.
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- Kitscoty Alberta
one gets burnt by auction houses the responsibility is 100% on the buyer to make sure what they are buying
the auction houses are not legally oblidged
Should they possibly do you have recourse no
the new world it's always some one else's fault
i have bought auction items and been stung i just suck it up and don't make the same stupid mistake
Not necessarily, I recently bought some stuff at a auction , called for time to pick up , fine drove 3 hrs to pick up , was told no can not pick up too much stuff on the shelves yet , went home , called again few days later , wife went down too pick shelves , got them loaded , then was told that they could have been picked up on original date,
This was totally on the auction house, I’m done buying stuff from there auction , cost me 6 hrs driving time
the auction houses are not legally oblidged
Should they possibly do you have recourse no
the new world it's always some one else's fault
i have bought auction items and been stung i just suck it up and don't make the same stupid mistake
Not necessarily, I recently bought some stuff at a auction , called for time to pick up , fine drove 3 hrs to pick up , was told no can not pick up too much stuff on the shelves yet , went home , called again few days later , wife went down too pick shelves , got them loaded , then was told that they could have been picked up on original date,
This was totally on the auction house, I’m done buying stuff from there auction , cost me 6 hrs driving time
No problem there.
Last time I checked no one was being forced to bid at an auction. They rules are clear and you know them going in. You pays your money and you take your chances. If that doesn't suit you take your business elsewhere.
I have purchased and sold a small number of guns and ammunition at Karla’s Auction out of Springside, SK. I had noticed some of the descriptions of milsurp rifles was lacking (to put it nicely). I offered to help them identify and describe milsurp rifles. Might as well been talking to the wall. When I see what people will pay for beat up old Winchester levers, I realize that a decent description isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference to those buyers.
I am just more interested in seeing if it still shoots as good as when I first cut it.
Proberly had a few burrs worn off the muzzle by now and should be grouping really good?
If it's still good I might have another crack at it soon
Proberly had a few burrs worn off the muzzle by now and should be grouping really good?
If it's still good I might have another crack at it soon
hunter-4-life
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Just like when Yorkton Auction Center sold a prohib rifle, I called them and said "hey just a heads up you can't legally sell that rifle its now prohibited" and they told me no its not (it was a Mossberg 715T 22lr) I just said well good luck. Blows my mind that they don't even think "Gee maybe we should do a little research on what we're selling"
