Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why Should A Seller Be Trusted More Than A Buyer

Nobody is suggesting you can't, or shouldn't, ask questions or ask for pics. Your 'I'll take it' hinges on those answers/pics, though. If the post after yours is a clear 'I'll take it' minus any stipulations, why shouldn't the seller take the sure thing ?

Sorry, but the expression is" buying a pig in a poke" a poke is a sack. The expression means buying something thing unseen, and relying upon the seller for the truth. Often times, the "pig" turned out to be a cat or puppy, and not the dinner item it was supposed to be. That would be WHY this expression relates to the trustworthiness of the seller.
Goods do not change hands, without an exchange of value. That widget remains the property of the widget salesman, until payment is rendered (the bill is paid), then property changes hands. If you send product without payment in hand, you are relying on faith, not fact.

I lost a little 308 Kimber Montana here one night with an i'll take it, only to be informed I was late, he had received a pm i'll take it just minutes before my post, it's all good, I didn't get bent.

There are people on here I wouldn't question, I'd ship right after an I'll take it. A newby with only a few posts I'm gonna wait for the money. As far as I'm concerned a personal check is the way to go. If you're not completely comfortable with the buyer hold the merchandise until it clears. I dont know what the big hang up about USPS money orders is, if one gets lost in the mail it's a big PITA, a personal check you just stop payment on the SOB and send another one.

It's only 'stuff'.
I've been lucky on both sides of the classifieds here: nothing but good folks buying and selling.

Same here my Friend, the squirrely ones go on ignore so I wont forget and try to buy from them, I don't want any damn trouble.

Now I understand.
Thanks.

This has absoulutely NOTHING to do with conditions. I posted an "I'll take it" followed up with an immediate PM, then got all the conditions. Even agreed to them, then was told I wouldn't be sold to because I had a bad attitude. You need to hold a money order till it clears the bank from a long time member here for 60 bucks, you don't need to be selling sheit.

Do you need 460 S&W or WBY brass buddy?

Well we all pay our money and take our chances. Put something up for sale and look for a decent buyer. Perhaps my thoughts and conditions are different than others.

I didn't bother reading your soap opera, but I'll fill you in on something. Mirage243 is a stand up guy that will do whatever he can for someone. He'll also spit in your eye if your a dick head, choose carefully . Cheers

Gunner, thanks for the offer. Another fine member has brass on the way to me as we speak. I appreciate it. I just got off the rails a little bit. There are such a fine group of people here, just struck me wrong tonight.

Yo welcome Buddy, no harm no foul here, the damn cv's got everyone wound tight, me included.

Because if I'm selling something, it's MINE, I paid MY good money for it, and will not release it until I have been paid for it, since it's STILL MINE.

AND, since it's MINE, I get to stipulate the terms of the sale.

AND, seeing how it's MINE, if I don't like you, you can't buy it for any amount. I sell it to whom I want, for what I decide I will sell it for, under terms I decide, since, IT'S MINE.

If it's YOURS, guess what? YOU get to decide all that sheit. But it ain't, it's MINE. So I decide.

And yes, I've shipped many itmes before the money arrives, but not to jackwagons.

Been crossed a couple times with bad checks, or folks not following through on a payment schedule. One has a little sway in a local community, but have a transaction that crosses state lines, and it has to be really big bucks for one to endure the expense of going through the legal system. I'm not struggling from one check to the other, but a loss of some hardware worth a couple hundred is still significant.

I'm sure many remember the good ole days when one filled his tank and then paid. Locally, with known entities, we still work that way here. If one is on the road, however, with cash, he pays and then they fill our tank. With our cards being inserted first, the seller always gets paid.

Sadly, being a long time member here is not a reference I'd put much faith in.

My saving grace is that mostly I don't sell stuff.

And so is the money, it's "Mine" also. Are you inferring that I'm a "Jackwagon"? And, are you inferring that I asked anyone to ship anything before it was paid for?

I've bought and sold stuff on this site and a few others. If I'm selling I mail the goods as soon as the buyer advises me that he mailed the funds. If I'm the buyer I don't expect that. The only place that I have been burned was when the Wife sold a beer mug on fuggin face book! I hope it got broke in shipping!!!

The "I'll take it" thing is a slippery slope. I would have a hard time selling something out from under a potential buyer wanting to ask a question or wanting more pictures. But I do say that the first "I'll take it" gets it.

Trolls never do want to read the true facts, that's why they're trolls, like you.

You can cover for your LYING friend all you want to, but "stand up guy" is not the description of somebody who outright lies about someone, like he has continually done concerning me, especially when he has zero evidence supporting his LYING.

That's not just a troll, that's a damn fool, who does not realize they are making a fool of them self.

Now go on and tell me I have no right to point out these lies made about me. That is you trolls / closet democrats next play in your book.

I just received a personal check from Bristoe without issue. He received the scope before I received the check, that arrived today. I have another check incoming from El Paso for a couple of bottles of Tabasco sauce that a member requested without worry. I have had one fail in hundreds of deals so have zero worries forward. With the one fail, well so it goes....

It's the same reason Mcdonalds only gives you your Big Mac AFTER you give them your money. Right or wrong, that's the world we live in.