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<blockquote data-quote="g54b16psi" data-source="post: 4107710" data-attributes="member: 49052"><p>I'm a former Army intel analyst. The Stacatto has already been relisted to scam someone else with and the scammer has no negative feedback yet. Oftentimes they will block the victim so they can't smoke their feedback. The best way to be safe on GunBroker is mainly to trust your gut. A $900 M1 Garand (they're so stupid, I've even seen them list a WWII battle rifle as 'New Old Stock')? A brand new $8,000 Barrett M107A1? C'mon!! Secondly, look at the profile of the seller...how long has it been around (a day, two days?). Sometime they hijack a profile that has been dormant for a very long time with no feedback posted for over a decade, then all of a sudden the seller rises from the dead and has a Stacatto, a Marlin 1895 and a gold tiger stripe Deagle all listed at half price. Yeah. Another good thing to do is at the top of the page of whatever you're looking at on GB, there is the search bar. On the right side it says 'Advanced'. Click on that and scroll down to where you can enter the sellers screen name and search for completed items. That will instantly tell you what's up, as you'll see the same gun has been sold 5 times in the last two days, etc. Sometimes the scammer hijacks an established FFL...don't assume it's legit just because it's an FFL seller. Use the same few due dilligence checks on these sellers, too. Another trick is to look at the way the pictures of the various guns they are listing look. By this I mean the 'style' of the pictures, the backgrounds, etc. Compare the item description, too. Often one description will be written in a completely style than another gun they are scamming. Note: They also scam other things frequently, like expensive optics, thermal scopes, binos. The bottom line is, don't pay the illiterate guy that called you 3 minutes after the auction ended over the phone with any kind of electronic payment or wire services. Immediately smoke their feedback and you might save someone else from becoming a victim. In fact, GunBroker gives you several days to pay for an item...wait a few days and I'll bet you you'll find that seller quickly racks up a bunch of F feedback and will become 'NLARU' under their name (No Longer A Registered User). If you have a few minutes, search GunBroker right now for either a Marlin 1895 or an M1 Garand and you'll find MANY active scammer listings. Be vigilant, OSA! Have a great Labor Day weekend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="g54b16psi, post: 4107710, member: 49052"] I'm a former Army intel analyst. The Stacatto has already been relisted to scam someone else with and the scammer has no negative feedback yet. Oftentimes they will block the victim so they can't smoke their feedback. The best way to be safe on GunBroker is mainly to trust your gut. A $900 M1 Garand (they're so stupid, I've even seen them list a WWII battle rifle as 'New Old Stock')? A brand new $8,000 Barrett M107A1? C'mon!! Secondly, look at the profile of the seller...how long has it been around (a day, two days?). Sometime they hijack a profile that has been dormant for a very long time with no feedback posted for over a decade, then all of a sudden the seller rises from the dead and has a Stacatto, a Marlin 1895 and a gold tiger stripe Deagle all listed at half price. Yeah. Another good thing to do is at the top of the page of whatever you're looking at on GB, there is the search bar. On the right side it says 'Advanced'. Click on that and scroll down to where you can enter the sellers screen name and search for completed items. That will instantly tell you what's up, as you'll see the same gun has been sold 5 times in the last two days, etc. Sometimes the scammer hijacks an established FFL...don't assume it's legit just because it's an FFL seller. Use the same few due dilligence checks on these sellers, too. Another trick is to look at the way the pictures of the various guns they are listing look. By this I mean the 'style' of the pictures, the backgrounds, etc. Compare the item description, too. Often one description will be written in a completely style than another gun they are scamming. Note: They also scam other things frequently, like expensive optics, thermal scopes, binos. The bottom line is, don't pay the illiterate guy that called you 3 minutes after the auction ended over the phone with any kind of electronic payment or wire services. Immediately smoke their feedback and you might save someone else from becoming a victim. In fact, GunBroker gives you several days to pay for an item...wait a few days and I'll bet you you'll find that seller quickly racks up a bunch of F feedback and will become 'NLARU' under their name (No Longer A Registered User). If you have a few minutes, search GunBroker right now for either a Marlin 1895 or an M1 Garand and you'll find MANY active scammer listings. Be vigilant, OSA! Have a great Labor Day weekend. [/QUOTE]
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